From UMBC News and Magazine
International labor economist Tim Gindling is named UMBC’s 2021 – 2022 Liptz Professor
UMBC has named Tim Gindling, professor of economics, the 2021 – 2022 Lipitz Professor of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS). This endowed professorship celebrates,...
Posted: September 14, 2021, 4:04 PM
UMBC together: Graduating Retrievers reflect on building community through conversations
When listeners tune in to the Retriever Tales podcast hosted by Tirzah Khan ‘21, information systems, who is graduating this week, they’ll hear UMBC voices sharing their journeys of finding and...
Posted: May 18, 2021, 2:48 AM
Retrievers buck ‘traditional’ timelines and redefine success
Evangeline Kirigua—mother, grandmother, immigrant, community college transfer student, civic entrepreneur—might have felt like the epitome of a “non-traditional” college student, but as she got...
Posted: May 12, 2021, 8:39 PM
UMBC celebrates U.S. News Best Grad School rankings in engineering, public affairs
Announced today, 2022 U.S. News Best Graduate School Rankings name several UMBC programs in engineering and public affairs as among the best in the nation. U.S. News bases these rankings on a...
Posted: March 30, 2021, 12:00 PM
UMBC’s Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities is transforming early childhood education in Maryland
UMBC’s Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities is now in its third year of strengthening and expanding early childhood education in Maryland. The center was founded with the support...
Posted: October 27, 2020, 7:28 PM
UMBC celebrates 2020 – 2021 Fulbright recipients
Eleven recent UMBC alumni are recipients of 2020 – 2021 Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards, including seven from UMBC’s Class of 2020. Each year over 11,000 students apply and just over 2,000...
Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:13 PM
Making coronavirus testing easy, accurate and fast is critical to ending the pandemic – the US response is falling far short
By Zoe McLaren, associate professor of public policy, UMBC For many people in the U.S., getting tested for COVID-19 is a struggle. In Arizona, testing sites have seen lines of hundreds of...
Posted: July 24, 2020, 1:26 PM
What Is a Clinical Trial? A Health Policy Expert Explains
ByZoe McLaren, associate professor, public policy, UMBC A commonly used malaria drug was recently proposed as a treatment for COVID-19 during a White House press briefing, even though it...
Posted: May 13, 2020, 1:41 PM
Latest global and national rankings name UMBC a leading university, from engineering and biology to public policy
UMBC is again one of the top 500 universities in the world, according to the QS World University Rankings. In their recently released subject area rankings, UMBC is noted globally in the broad...
Posted: March 31, 2020, 7:47 PM
Is your city making you fat? How urban planning can address the obesity epidemic
by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC New disease outbreaks, like the novel coronavirus that recently emerged in China’s Hubei province, generate headlines and...
Posted: February 20, 2020, 6:21 PM
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