New Media Studio Captures Leadership Award for Digital Storytelling Efforts
UMBC’s New Media Studio has won a Centers of Excellence Award from the New Media Consortium (NMC), the highest honor bestowed by the NMC. Given annually, the Studio received the award for “leadership in capturing and disseminating digital stories across the institution.” Read
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Can a Parking Lot be Good for the Chesapeake Bay?
The answer could be yes, if it’s made of
pervious concrete, a ‘green’ building material and the subject of a recent how-to workshop hosted by UMBC's Center
for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE).
Pervious concrete allows stormwater to slowly
drain through it like a sponge. Traditional concrete causes runoff that erodes waterways and carries pollution into
the Chesapeake Bay.
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Alumni Mentor UMBC Interns in the Workplace
When UMBC students stepped out of the classroom this summer to begin their internships, many had the University’s alumni looking out for them. For mechanical engineering major Yehuda Baumer, that someone was Zozscha Bomhardt ’94, who served as a mentor in her role as an engineering quality leader at GE Healthcare.
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We're Here For a Reason
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.
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