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UMBC Class of 2026: Ready to contribute their voices
With full hearts and eyes fixed on the future, the UMBC Class of 2026 stepped across the stage last week, crossing the threshold into life’s next chapter. Surrounded by family, friends, and mentors, UMBC’s newest alumni embody the university’s spirit of curiosity, resilience, and community.
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Meet a Retriever—Balmory Moran ’24 drew on his history major to coach his youth soccer team to league championships
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Inaugural “MyRCA” interdisciplinary faculty cohort empowers researchers to bring their work to life
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Bartleby is more than golden—50+ years with UMBC’s creative arts journal
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Revealing galactic history with cosmic rays
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2025 Issue
ARTS+YOU
Magazine
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The Charm Pack solves the case
Originally approached with a quilting mystery that began in 1846, a summer CoLab pulled a group of Retrievers together to examine the evidence. The detective pack expanded their search into robust research and,…
Quick Posts
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UMBC to honor faculty and staff at presidential awards ceremony
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Anupam Joshi named 2025 AAAS Fellow
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Senior Caly Ferguson recognized with National Society of Black Engineers’ ‘25 Under 25’ award
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Celebrating the misunderstood: Mercedes Burns featured in new book on North America’s overlooked critters
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UMBC physicist wins Amazon award to build AI-orchestrated scientific assistant
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UMBC’s Steven Caruso honored for leading authentic undergrad research in the classroom
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UMBC hosts 2025 IEEE Baltimore Technical Colloquium
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Chemical engineering professor Tyler Josephson chosen as Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow
Community
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Darter detective: Ph.D. student Payton Barry on ecosystems, outreach, and grant hunting
Payton Barry, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in biological sciences, is diving into the world of Maryland’s streams. Under Tamra Mendelson’s mentorship, he studies how introduced species of darters, a family of freshwater fish, are affecting native ones. Equal parts dedicated researcher and enthusiastic science communicator, Payton has creatively pieced together funding from organizations like The…
Policy & Society
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From Baltimore City to Bergen, Norway: Fulbrighter Shanika Freeman ’24 researches the reentry process of women in one of the world’s most humane systems
After Shanika Freeman ’24 walked across the stage, she had something on her mind—basic human rights. For the past four years, Freeman’s research has focused on the reentry experiences of formerly incarcerated women in the United States and Maryland. Basic human rights—including access to healthy food, education, housing, healthcare, clothing, and job skills development—are difficult…
Science & Technology
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How to Make a (Really) Strong Magnet
Ethan Bowers, a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at UMBC, is building a massive, one-of-a-kind research magnet. It weighs more than 2,300 pounds and will be capable of generating a magnetic field of 7 teslas (roughly 140,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field and more than twice as strong as the field in most…
Arts & Culture
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Humanities Books: A Room in Bombay
Manil Suri moved to the United States after spending the first 20 years of his life living in a 400-square-foot room in Bombay, India, with his father, Ram, and mother, Prem, to whom he dedicated his latest book, A Room in Bombay. The
