UMBC’s Visual Arts Imaging Research Center (IRC) Fellows recently won an animation competition presented by the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra. The Fellows created a video to accompany a five-minute contemporary violin composition, Try to Believe, by Randall Woolf, that was screened during the Orchestraís performances in New York in April.
Posted by Rebekah Porter on December 17, 2008 6:28 AM
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Taking the Lead on Climate Change
Clean energy, green jobs and sustainable resources will be among the topics John Doyle ’09 will be advocating for with his peers at the UN Climate Negotiations in Poznań, Poland, as a SustainUS youth delegate. As one of 23 young environmental activists chosen through a competitive nation-wide process, Doyle and the U.S. youth delegation will meet before the conference with 70-80 international youth to strategize and unify their positions on climate change issues. While in Poland, the youth delegates serve as observers, meeting with representatives from the U.S. State Department and advocating for positions they believe best represent the interests of the world’s youth.
Posted by Rebekah Porter on December 17, 2008 7:54 AM
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UMBC Excels at National Student Research Conference
UMBC and the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences were well represented at the 2008 Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), the largest multidisciplinary student conference in the United States. UMBC students – including Meyerhoff, MARC U*STAR and HHMI scholars -- received nearly 10 percent of the overall awards given at the event.
UMBC students, staff and faculty pause for a group picture to celebrate their ABRCMS excellence.
Posted by Rebekah Porter on December 17, 2008 8:30 AM
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Lucia Zegarra ’11 Chosen as a “Leader on the Rise”
Challenging situations, encouragement from family and spirituality have all led Peruvian native Lucia Zegarra ’11, biological sciences, to a life of serving. And it was that life of serving that led her to winning the Hispanic Heritage Award sponsored by Governor Martin O’Malley’s Commission on Hispanic Affairs for being a “Leader on the Rise” in October 2008.
Posted by Rebekah Porter on December 17, 2008 12:37 PM
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President Hrabowski Named One of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report
What do Lance Armstrong, Dr. Benjamin Carson, Steven Spielberg, and UMBC President, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, have in common? They were all recently named America's Best Leaders 2008 by U.S. News & World Report.
Posted by Rebekah Porter on December 17, 2008 3:47 PM
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USDemocrazy.net Site Explores U.S. Electoral System
Confused about how an American democracy works? You are not alone.
A new Web site – www.USDemocrazy.net -- designed by Economist magazine cartoonist Kevin “Kal” Kallaugher, artist-in-residence at UMBC, aims to demystify and explore America’s crazy 50-state democracy in a fun and engaging way.
Posted by Rebekah Porter on December 17, 2008 4:15 PM
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UMBC Recognized as Top 5 Up-and-Coming School
The UMBC community is proud to be named an "Up-and-Coming" campus by college presidents and provosts across the nation - in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges Guide. UMBC is among the Top 5 national universities recognized as innovators, along with George Mason, Clemson, University of Southern California and Arizona State University. Other schools on the list include Drexel, Northeastern, University of California – Irvine and Ohio State.
UMBC students, staff and faculty pause for a group picture to celebrate their ABRCMS excellence.
The UMBC community is proud to be named an "Up-and-Coming" campus by college presidents and provosts across the nation - in