Eyes on UMBC

UMBC Historian Wins First-Ever e-Lincoln Prize
In Anne Rubin's office sits a plaster bust of Abraham Lincoln, sporting sunglasses, a plastic bead necklace, and a UMBC cap on his head. The bust, a congratulatory gift from one of her students, is a humorous reminder of an extraordinary accomplishment: This winter Rubin, an assistant professor of history in her first year on the UMBC faculty, was awarded one of the most prestigious prizes in her field, the Lincoln Prize, for scholarly work in Civil War-era history. (more...)

Lessons for Academic Leaders: A Harvard Program Draws From UMBC
UMBC became a case study at Harvard this year, an object lesson in institutional advancement strategies for the Presidential Seminar at the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education (HIHE). College and university presidents from around the nation attended the presidential seminar "Leading Institutional Advancement" in Cambridge last January. President Freeman Hrabowski and Sheldon Caplis, vice president for institutional advancement, served on the seminar's faculty. (more...)

UMBC Moves Into Top Carnegie Foundation Rankings
UMBC has vaulted into the top tier of research universities, according to the Carnegie Foundation's latest classification of American universities. The new ranking, which moves UMBC into the rarefied company of such research powerhouses as Harvard, Stanford, and MIT, recognizes UMBC's research mission and the growth of its doctoral programs. (more...)

Making a Place For Women on the Web
Joan Korenman, director of UMBC's Center for Women & Information Technology (CWIT), has been honored as one of the Top 25 Women on the Web. The award, given by San Francisco Women on the Web, recognizes the achievements of women who have made a significant contribution to the advancement of technology and women in technology-related fields-recognition Korenman richly deserves. (more...)

Aiming High--and Succeeding
"I chose to attend UMBC because it was a place I could excel both in academics and athletics," says Kafui Dzirasa '01, and without question, he excelled at both--but his accomplishments extended well beyond even those lofty goals. (more...)

UMBC Chess in the National Spotlight
How many chess championships does it take to catch the attention of NBC's Today Show? For UMBC, the answer is: four Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships in five years. (more...)

U.S. Presidential Award for UMBC
The usually casually dressed Michael Summers put on a suit and tie for the occasion--he was, after all, going to the White House to receive an award from the president of the United States. (more...)

For UMBC Athletics, a Triple Crown
For the third consecutive year since joining the Northeast Conference (NEC), UMBC Athletics took home the Commissioner's Cup, awarded annually to the school that performs the best in the league's 21 sports. (more...)

Top Honors for UMBC Debater
Chris Kelly, president of the UMBC debate team, took home the "top speaker" honors from this year's American Parliamentary Debate Association National Championship Tournament. (more...)

"Death" Sparks a Writer's Life
For UMBC mathematics professor Manil Suri, it was a publishing debut that brought him attention in a host of national newspapers and magazines, including The New Yorker, Time, the Wall Street Journal, and the front page of The New York Times Book Review. (more...)

A Novel Idea to Swallow
It's the ultimate fast food, but an idea whose time has never quite come. (more...)

Ideas in Focus: Making Cyberspace Safer
Cyberspace can be a dangerous place--where information can fall into the wrong hands--but UMBC is in the vanguard of making our digital world more secure. This spring, the National Security Agency (NSA) designated UMBC a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education, one of only 23 universities in the nation to achieve this distinction. (more...)