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Welcome to the tenth issue of UMBC Magazine. In a few seconds, the main image will change to reveal the current issue's feature articles. Please click the "Read more" link to get the full story.

When UMBC’s literary magazine published a series of nude photographs in 1969, the resulting firestorm... Read more.

Meet five UMBC staff members with jobs as unusual as they are essential to the workings of the campus and its researchers and students. Read more.

UMBC professor of political science Thomas Schaller’s provocative work has excited pundits and riled party officials. Read more.

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Monica Gallagher is a designer, illustrator, and comicker who lives in Baltimore with her boyfriend and two dueling cats. She graduated magna cum laude from UMBC in 2001, with a degree in visual arts, emphasis on animation. While at UMBC she learned Japanese, traveled to Greece with the ancient studies department, fainted in a yoga class, participated in film festivals, worked in the photo cage, stayed up way too late in the computer lab, got hit in the head with a volleyball, and has many, many other awesome memories.