Learn, Connect, and Grow Together. · This discussion group is centered around experiences of students on the autistic spectrum and the unique challenges they may face as students in everyday life as well as on UMBC’s campus. This group is designed to allow students to learn from each other and find community. Some possible discussion topics are executive dysfunction, masking, life skills and self advocacy. This event is centered...
Come talk about the new class schedule for Spring 2027 with fellow GES undergrads! What you like about classes, what you didn't like, and honest professor reviews. Join us in the Cart Lab in Sondheim 001 Friday October 23 from 2-3pm!
UMBC Volleyball hosts Bryant in a battle between the top two teams in the America East Conference this Saturday at 1 p.m. inside Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena! Join us at the Peake and cheer on the Dawgs!
This past week, UMBC invited DEVCOM to recruit students into their genocide-complicit company. We cannot have that on our campus. Our university should not fund or have any partnerships with companies that profit off war and have committed numerous human rights violations. We demand job oppurtunities that serve the people, not oppression across the globe! UMBC MUST DIVEST AND END ALL PARTNERSHIPS...
It's the scariest time of the year!!!! Thank you to those who submitted to this year's HALLOWZINE! Come by commonvision for a zine, treats, and a Halloween photobooth! commonvision is located in Commons 309 - across from Skylight and the elevators! Questions? Email commonvision@umbc.edu --- Submissions to the Hallowzine are open until October 23 at 11:59 p.m. More information on our website below.
New this week, Plastic film recycling has been streamlined and relocated to a central drop off location in the AOK Library lobby. Anyone wishing to recycle plastic film such as plastic bags, bubble mailers, bubble wrap, case overwrap, and similar items that can NOT go in our regular recycling can drop off here at their convienience. This bin will be checked and emptied by sustainability...
Name: Monica D. Green Pronouns: she/her Title: Program Administrative Specialist, Student Conduct & Community Standards Years in Student Affairs/at UMBC: 1 year What is something you do as part of your position that people may not be aware of? One thing people may not realize is how much behind-the-scenes coordination goes into supporting the student conduct process. In my role with Student...
Dear Students, We hope you had a restorative fall recess! It is hard to believe we are at the mid-point of the semester. Around this time, we hear from some students that they experience a “mid-semester slump.” Worrying about grades and course load or a lack of motivation and engagement is normal, but remember, if you are feeling overwhelmed or stressed, it is more than okay to ask for help....
Update: Time of Status Update: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM Affected Service: UMBC’s Single Sign-On Services, Impacting Access to Downstream Systems Update: Please be advised that issues impacting UMBC’s Single Sign-On services have been resolved. DoIT Staff are still monitoring the situation closely to determine the root cause. If you continue to have any issues, please contact the...
B.S.: Astrobiology and Abiogenesis Major, Minor, Certificate, and/or Honors: Biology Chemistry Degree Mentors: Dr. Stephen Freeland| UMBC Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi| UMBC Graduate Program Director for Geography and Environmental Systems (GES) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Steven McAlpine| UMBC Individualized Study Assistant Teaching Professor...
The air in the room is cold. You walk in to see an abundance of officers scurrying around. Photographers take pictures of the crime scene; flashes of light scatter your field of vision. In the center of all the movement is the detective, who stands still and unphased by the disorganized nature of the crime scene. You open your mouth to ask a question, but the detective is already talking. "The...
A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding the original Word or PowerPoint file, or opening Adobe Acrobat, and then uploading the PDF again. Ally’s newest PDF quick fix makes this much faster. When Ally flags images in a PDF that have no...
Congratulations to Math and English major Ryan Supplee on receiving a $1,000 Undergraduate Research Award (URA) for his research project, “Reverent Ableism: Conceptualizing the Medieval Cyborg." His mentor is Professor McKinley. Supplee previously received a 2025-2026 URA for "Medieval Moralization, Dehumanization, and Demonization of the Disabled Body in Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer"...
Nominations are open Oct. 20–Dec. 4, 2026. Spots are filled first-come, first-served. re-IGNITE is the new foundational leadership program of the HRSTM LEADS Academy. Over one semester, a cohort of UMBC leaders at all levels builds two critical capabilities that matter most right now: leading yourself with emotional intelligence, and leading others by adapting your approach to what each person...
Dear UMBC Community, Last week, we celebrated 20 years of the Sherman Scholars Program and the 345 teachers it has prepared to serve children in and around Baltimore. It was a wonderful celebration that brought together alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and friends who have made this extraordinary work possible. What stayed with me most was hearing our current student teachers and...
Repost from UMBC News: UMBC joins super team to take on the “undruggable” misfolded proteins implicated in diseases from Alzheimer’s to some cancers. UMBC is contributing to a multi-institution research project, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) with up to $51.7 million, that aims to predict how disease-causing proteins misfold before irreversible damage occurs...
Hear from attorneys! See how aging and law intersect! Have you ever considered a career in elder law, or wondered how attorneys use law, policy, and advocacy to support older adults and their families? Join the Erickson School of Aging Studies and UMBC Pre-Law Advising for Careers in Elder Law: Where Law Meets Aging, a virtual career webinar featuring practicing attorneys working in different...
In this short UMBC Mic'd Up episode, Dennise Cardona shares her insights on how to embrace AI without becoming overly dependent on it. She explores the importance of keeping our critical thinking skills sharp, using AI intentionally, and maintaining our own voices at the center of what we create. AI can certainly help us do the work, but it shouldn't do all the thinking for us.
GESTAR II researchers have continued to publish on a variety of topics, with references to Gridded Innovations and Observations (GIO), Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC), Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI), North American Land Data Assimilation System Phase 3 (NLDAS-3), and Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, and ocean Ecosystem (PACE). Boukachaba, N. (618/MSU),...
Hello Everyone! We want to let everyone know that Retriever Essentials will tentatively be closing on October 21, 2026 for a large delivery and restock. We apologize for any inconviences. While there is a possibility that we will reopen later in the day. Nothing is set in stone regarding a reopening at this time, and we will update you the day of if anything changes.
