UMBC has named its inaugural LaMont Toliver Scholar — graduating senior chemical engineering major Adrian Davey ’18, a member of the 26th Meyerhoff Scholars cohort.
Feeding A Need: Retriever Essentials Tackles Food Insecurity
In a first-of-its-kind survey released in April, researchers at the Wisconsin HOPE Lab at Temple University found that at 66 colleges and universities, 36 percent of students do not get enough to...
After the Storm – UMBC Community Volunteers Around the World
The fall of 2017 was marked by wildfires that burned most of Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino counties in Northern California, and a hurricane season with 17 tropical storms — 10 of which became...
Measuring the Early Moments
Psychology professor Susan Sonnenschein is on a mission to help the parents of premature or medically fragile babies make the most of their time in the neonatal intensive-care...
A Mother’s Day Gift will Support Arts at UMBC
Mother's Day came a week early for Donna L. Young when the campus celebrated the naming of the UMBC Scene Shop in her honor by her daughter, Nancy Young, Vice...
Wisdom to Share
UMBC welcomed back dozens of retired faculty and staff this month as part of the launch of the new Wisdom Institute, an initiative aimed at encouraging ongoing engagement by some of the...
Thank You, Retriever Nation!
This week UMBC made history as the first ever No. 16 seed team to best a No. 1 seed in an NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The Retrievers’ season...
Supporting the Next Generation of Retrievers
On March 14, donors and students gathered for UMBC's the annual Endowed Scholarship Luncheon. Endowed scholarships provide support in perpetuity, so a gift made today benefits generations of...
First #blackandgoldrush Giving Day a Huge Success
It is with great thanks to the UMBC community that the first UMBC Giving Day—Black and Gold Rush—was truly exceptional. We had more than 400 alumni, 240 faculty and staff, and 250 parents,...
One Million Acts of Good
It's easy for a single person to feel helpless in the face of really big problems. That's why UMBC students banded together this week as part of a national effort to tackle hunger.
In...