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Meyerhoff Scholar Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Meyerhoff Scholar Receives Goldwater Scholarship

Meyerhoff Scholar Carla Valenzuela, a sophomore with a 4.0 GPA, is one of 321 students receiving 2008 Goldwater Scholarships, considered the most prestigious U.S. award for undergraduates in mathematics, science and engineering. The Goldwater Scholarship program honors outstanding students committed to pursuing careers as research scientists.   
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Focusing on Climate Change

Filming the "Plight of the Puffins"

Puffins: the flighted, more stylish-looking cousins of the penguin. To the island nation of Iceland, they are as culturally significant as blue crabs are to Maryland. Now a Fulbright-funded documentary film made by Maria Frostic of UMBC's Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology (GEST) Center, to be broadcast nationally by PBS on July 23, may help spotlight how climate change could impact the unique birds' future.
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IRC Fellows Win Animation Competition

IRC Fellows Win Animation Competition

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 Orchestra's performances in New York in April.
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Spring Commencement 2008

Summer Session 2008

Shady Grove Campus

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