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STRiVE is a highly regarded, 5-day student leadership retreat, but none of those words really conveys the wonder of the thing.  I've been a facilitator at each of the annual SGA- and Office of...

Here are the rest of the life lessons I mentioned in a previous post: Things I had not yet worked out or did not feel confident about when I was in college, but began to gain clarity about later...

Over the next few weeks, UMBC will host two organizations that are looking to fill postdoctoral positions in the Biomedical Sciences.  Gladstone Institutes, affiliated with the University of...

I was a sensitive young man, sometimes confused by social situations and dynamics, trying hard to understand.  In the years after college I finally started to see patterns in circumstances that...

UMBC junior Collin Wojciechowski is many things: a student, a writer, an active participant in Maryland politics. But when he travels to any other campus in the University System of Maryland...

I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are...

Very soon I'll be traveling to my hometown.  I haven't been back in more than six years.  I'll see my family, and one or two old friends who still live within a few hours' drive, and I'll take...

We are increasing our professional development offerings so that we can assist with preparing you for careers both within and outside of academe. As part of our “PROF-it: Professors-in-Training”...

I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are...

The first of them all was 'Little Hoffy.' I was 7 years old, and had been placed in a class full of older kids: 3rd and 4th graders, most of whom seemed world-wise and, relative to me,...