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UMBC is taking a holistic approach to its health services with additional preventative and new support resources for its students. Continue Reading Peace of Mind
UMBC is taking a holistic approach to its health services with additional preventative and new support resources for its students. Continue Reading Peace of Mind
Chew-MBC, a student cooking club, is helping Retrievers learn the joys of the culinary arts. Continue Reading Chew-MBC Aims to Help Students Eat Healthier
Senior and student athlete Emily Russo is majoring in biology and minoring in psychology. A guard and three-year captain on the women’s basketball team, Emily serves as president of UMBC’s Student Athlete Advisory Committee and as a member of the Athletics Policy Committee. She also works part time in Dr. Michael Summers’ HIV-1 Lab on campus. >> Back to Windows On Today
Junior business technology administration major Ayo Akindana is a marketing intern with MissionTix in Baltimore, and is involved in UMBC’s Alex.Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, as well as the African Students Association. >> Back to Windows On Today
Senior Navaal Mahdi, media and communications studies, is an Undergraduate Research Award (URA) Scholar, and is completing three internships this fall: social media intern for the Career Center; digital marketing intern for the Division of Professional Studies; and producer of the Compact Nation Podcast for Campus Compact. She’s also planning her wedding in December.>> Back to Windows On Today
Junior mathematics major David Atlas, who is also minoring in computer science and statistics, is an intern working on projects like data visualization and prediction models for T. Rowe Price. He is also an active member of UMBC Hillel. >> Back to Windows On Today
Junior Andrea Davis is majoring in sociology with a minor in Africana Studies, as well as a Sondheim Public Affairs Scholar. She serves as executive aide of the president for the Student Government Association and vice president for involvement for the Student Events Board (seb), as well as civic engagement and leadership intern for the Office of Student Life, and an Orientation Peer Advisor for the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Orientation. >> Back to Windows On Today
Graduate student Melissa Cormier is in her final year of UMBC’s Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA program. When she’s not working on her arts practice, she teaches an undergraduate drawing class and assists with the UMBC Photo Cage. >> Back to Windows On Today
Student Government President Bentley Corbett-Wilson is a senior majoring in music education. He also plays the trumpet in UMBC’s Wind Ensemble and the UMBC Symphony Orchestra. >> Back to Windows On Today
Media and communications major Ashton Greenwood has spent much of her senior year gaining experience in the field as a sports production intern for WBAL-TV, and with the New Media Lab, which produces campus television programming. She also holds down a part-time off-campus job, is a member of Bartleby, UMBC’s literary magazine, and hosts an NFL podcast for WMBC, UMBC’s student radio station. >> Back to Windows on Today
UMBC Students Offer a Glimpse into What it Means to be a Retriever in 2016. We all remember certain highlights of our college days no matter how many years — or decades — we’ve put between ourselves and Commencement day. But what about the moments in between those highlights we hold so dear? Thanks to smartphone cameras and social media, current students are capturing it all — unfiltered — every single day for the world to see. UMBC Magazine asked several current students to share moments from their everyday lives with us. No matter when you were a student, we… Continue Reading Windows On Today
Stroll near The Commons on most weekdays and you’ll see tables piled high with tasty baked goods. The students at these tables are asking for help – spare change, really – to fund their clubs’ latest and greatest pursuits in a way that hasn’t changed much since the university opened in 1966. But now these passionate student appeals are getting a boost from the power of the people . . . and the internet. UMBC recently unveiled a new crowdfunding website that allows students to harness their personal relationships to bring in support for their own projects on campus. The… Continue Reading UMBC Stands Out in the Crowd