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Arts+ initiative at UMBC uplifts the arts and creates new avenues for student showcases
With the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performance kickoff, UMBC’s Arts+ initiative is now in full swing. The program uplifts the arts and creates new avenues for student showcases.
UMBC Magazine
Fall 2025 Issue
ARTS+YOU
Magazine
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The streak continues—Connie Pierson celebrates 300 black and gold Fridays
It should come to no surprise that numerary luminary Connie Pierson, AVP in IRADS—UMBC’s primary source for official campus statistics to comply with government reporting requirements and support decision-making—is good at keeping track…
Quick Posts
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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
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UMBC sophomore wins first place at NSBE fall regional conference technical research exhibition
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Hrabowski Fund for Innovation awardees continue to drive new approaches to teaching and learning
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Living the mission—UMBC recognized for 16 years as a ‘Great College to Work For’
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Following where curiosity leads them—COEIT celebrates student summer research
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Building on years in archeological trenches in Greece, Robert Barry ’25 will keep digging at the University of Oxford
Community
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Leadership Announcement
Dear UMBC Community, I am delighted to announce the appointment of D. Paul Monteiro, Jr., as our new vice president for government relations and community affairs. Paul is an experienced administrator and lifelong public servant who has held leadership roles in local, state, and federal government and in higher education. He served most recently as…
Policy & Society
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Weissmann ’06, appointed secretary of Maryland Department of Budget and Management
Maryland Governor Wes Moore has appointed Yaakov “Jake” Weissmann ’06, social work and psychology, as acting secretary of the Maryland Department of Budget and Management (DBM). Weissmann, UMBC’s vice president of government relations and community affairs since December 2023, joins an impressive group of UMBC alums serving in state and federal leadership roles. In a…
Science & Technology
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Students in the Center for Women in Technology succeed by lifting each other up—and are spreading the model around the world
Carolyn Seaman, the director of the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) at UMBC collaborated with colleagues in Brazil to establish a set of programs and activities, modeled on CWIT, to support undergraduate female computing students at the Brazilian universities. Four UMBC CWIT students accompanied her on the trip to Brazil.
Arts & Culture
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Laughing in the dark—UMBC’s Erin Hogan writes about Spain’s cinema after Franco
Asking Erin Hogan, an associate professor of Spanish, to choose her favorite film is like asking her whether she prefers to study Iberian or Latin American films—both of which she researches and fell in love with as an undergrad. The real answer is that Hogan’s favorite film is whatever film she is studying at the…
Previous Stories
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Students in the Center for Women in Technology succeed by lifting each other up—and are spreading the model around the world
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UMBC’s Seneviratne to study how HIV and cancer drugs harm the brain
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Arts+ extravaganza hits a high note
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UMBC discovery opens door to broad-spectrum antivirals against dozens of dangerous viruses