Introductory Experience Helps Students Transition into College
The First-Year Seminars at UMBC provide students with an opportunity to connect around academic topics during their first semester on campus. With nearly 20 seminars annually, students are able to enroll in courses that fit their specific interests. While these credits fulfill general education requirements, students receive much more in terms of their education.
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Back-to-Back: UMBC Reaches NCAA Lacrosse Tournament with Second Consecutive AEC Title
After making history last year with its first NCAA Division I tournament victory, the
UMBC men's lacrosse team has punched its ticket into the pinnacle of its sport for the fourth year in a row
under
head coach Don Zimmerman, thanks to an 11-7 victory over Stony Brook for its second consecutive America East
Conference (AEC) championship on Saturday night.
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UMBC Mama’s Boys Celebrate Five-Year Anniversary
When they entered UMBC as freshmen, Jordan Hadfield ’07 and James “Jeeves” Murphy ’08 were searching for the right singing group. Both had performed in a cappella groups in high school and wanted to strengthen their backgrounds in singing. But there wasn’t a group on UMBC’s campus.
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A Tale of Two Nuclear Cities
Chernobyl is a household word for nuclear disaster; few Americans, however, know the story behind two fate-entwined cities in the U.S. and former U.S.S.R. which each emitted three to four times more radiation than the Chernobyl meltdown.
In April, UMBC history professor Kate Brown received a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship to complete her book “Enriched by Plutonium: the tandem history of the secret cities plutonium built,” which aims to put these cities in the cross hairs of human history.
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