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Dawg Days Abroad! Lexi Smith Ambassador

Blog Post from a Freshman Humanities scholar

Lexi is an incoming UMBC Humanities scholar freshman who will be studying abroad this summer before fall semester even starts! She's participating in Education Abroad's first-ever Dawg Days Abroad...

Posted: July 30, 2019, 9:07 AM

Nailah-Benã Chambers work honored

Started the Diverse Hands at Work Club

Nailah-Benã Chambers shown center painting, lower right photo Courtesy of Powhatan High School Nailah-Benã Chambers (incoming freshman Humanities scholar) and Angel Rather, were honored for...

Posted: July 29, 2019, 10:32 AM

Anjali DasSarma to The Baltimore Sun's Readers Respond

BSO musicians are the ones who are suffering

Reprinted from The Baltimore Sun June 15, 2019 As a humanities student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, I feel a very close kinship with both Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony...

Posted: June 21, 2019, 11:49 AM

De'Jia Long-Hillie receives a Bridging Scholarship

Will Study Abroad in Japan

De'Jia Long-Hillie, a Humanities Scholar, Class of 2020 has been awarded a Bridging Scholarship for Study Abroad in Japan, the US-Japan Bridging Foundation announced recently. De'Jia will study...

Posted: June 18, 2019, 2:34 PM

Madeline Arbutus summer internship

The Liriodendron - historical 1890s mansion

Madeline Arbutus received Student Internship & Service funding from the UMBC Career Center, for an internship at The Liriodendron, an historical 1890s mansion in Bel Air, Maryland.  The...

Posted: May 22, 2019, 2:21 PM

“The Night My Mother Killed My Father" review by A Mansfield

A comedy directed by Inés París.

A review by Angelica Mansfield October 31, 2018 from retriever.umbc.edu  “The Night My Mother Killed My Father” (Spain 2016) directed by Inés París, is a comedic film focused on Isabel París,...

Posted: November 7, 2018, 12:46 PM

The future is bright for non-STEM majors by Sam Adebesin

Sam Adebesin October 10, 2018 Retriever Weekly

“Oh. You’re an English major? So do you want to be a teacher then?” I have grown so accustomed to hearing these words on this campus that now I can manage to suppress my eye roll completely, or at...

Posted: October 26, 2018, 11:56 AM

Welcome: De’Jia Long-Hillie, Education Abroad Intern!

AMIDEAST Education Abroad is happy to introduce our new intern, De’Jia Long-Hillie! De’Jia was born and raised in the Detroit Metropolitan area of Michigan and moved to Maryland at the start of...

Posted: June 15, 2018, 1:11 PM

Stop Wearing My Clothes

Educating yourself and being yourself: the dangers of cultural appropriation by Harini, a student intern.  I was the only brown kid at my school until ninth grade. Growing up in a town I once...

Posted: March 6, 2018, 1:31 PM