UMBC News and Magazine Headlines

In a new article in The Conversation, Political Science Professor Roy Meyers writes that President Obama’s final budget proposal highlights the growing divide between political parties and shines...

Following Monday’s Iowa Caucuses, former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley officially ended his bid for the presidency. WJZ-TV ran a story examining what’s next for O’Malley as he begins the next...

With the Iowa Caucuses just days away, UMBC faculty have been in the news weighing in on the current state of the presidential race. Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American studies,...

Justin Vélez-Hagan, a Ph.D. student in UMBC’s School of Public Policy and executive director of the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, has been in the news recently after Puerto Rico...

Tyson King-Meadows, chair of Africana studies and associate professor of political science, has been appointed associate dean of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS),...

F. Chris Curran, an assistant professor in UMBC’s School of Public Policy, has been named an Emerging Education Policy Scholar for 2015-16 by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American...

On Friday, December 4, Hilltop Senior Research Analyst and UMBC Public Policy PhD candidate Michael T. Abrams, MPH, gave the 2015 Judith A. Shinogle Memorial Fellowship lecture at UMBC. Abrams...

Is metropolitan governance, or the sharing of power and authority by jurisdictions, a good idea for Baltimore City and its surrounding counties? It’s been a topic that has been proposed many times...

Following up on the recent release of several education assessments for the state of Maryland, F. Chris Curran, an assistant professor in the School of Public Policy, wrote a Baltimore Sun op-ed...

UMBC took center stage as more than 13,000 public health professionals gathered in Chicago for the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting, November 1-4, 2015. President Freeman...