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Reflecting national trend, former UMBC baseball players file defamation claims against woman who accused them of sexual assault

By Catherine Rentz

Jul 8, 2019

There were no injuries reported.

By Cody Boteler

Apr 26, 2019

UMBC student: Of course, if Teporary Protected Status for Salvadorans is not renewed, more than my career is at risk. If my parents and I were forced to return to El Salvador, we’d have to leave behind my 4-year-old sister and 14-year-old brother, who were born here and are U.S. citizens.

UMBC rolled out a new logo, home page and video to promote the school on April 3.

In a bid to ensure everyone at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County has “access to safe restroom facilities,” university officials are developing guidelines and implementation plans for the addition of multiple all-gender restrooms across the campus, according to a campus email.

By Cody Boteler

Feb 21, 2019

Almost a full year after first applying with the state to make Catonsville, Arbutus and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, part of the first designated Arts & Entertainment District in Baltimore County, county officials and community groups are still working on the process.

By Cody Boteler

Feb 7, 2019

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County, has hired outside consulting firm Grand River Solutions to help the university to better prevent and respond to sexual violence and misconduct, the university announced in a campus-wide email Monday.

By Cody Boteler

Jan 16, 2019

Baltimore County authorities seek dismissal of claims against them in class-action sexual assault lawsuit.

By Catherine Rentz

Jan 15, 2019

A 21-year-old student was arrested at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, for soliciting sex from minors. The Frederick County Sheriff’s Office says Jake Patterson of Adamstown was arrested following a investigation into a man sexually soliciting minors through Snapchat.

By Sarah Meehan

Dec 17, 2018

UMBC undergrads launched an effort to uncover just exactly who the Hogan Democrats are on Election Day. Here's what they found.

UMBC starts an initiative, called Retriever Courage, to address sexual violence and misconduct prevention on campus.

By Cody Boteler

Nov 2, 2018

On Nov. 15, two Baltimore County police detectives sat down at a Chick-fil-A to interview three University of Maryland, Baltimore County, baseball players accused of rape, according to investigative notes. The interviews, in total, lasted about an hour.

By Catherine Rentz

Oct 17, 2018

Robert Bradford Keigler, a University of Maryland Baltimore County student and lacrosse player, died Monday of a respiratory condition at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. The Timonium resident had recently celebrated his 24th birthday.

By Jacques Kelly

Oct 12, 2018

The president said Fridthat UMBC would start implementing mandatory training for students, faculty and staff on campus. The training would be in-person and live and not online, and would focus on areas such as trauma, prevention and what happens during the reporting process after an incide

By Cody Boteler

Oct 12, 2018

Police at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County said the campus was closed Friday because of a water outage.

By Sarah Meehan

Oct 12, 2018

UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski acknowledges that the school's previous efforts on sexual assault were inadequate. That's a good start.

In an announcement Thursday from a university leadership committee and several student organizations, the university affirmed plans to cooperate on several measures, including developing a scope of work for an outside expert to review sexual misconduct practices.

UMBC police chief Paul Dillon files a motion to dismiss in a class-action rape case.

By Catherine Rentz

Oct 8, 2018

A 56-page, class action lawsuit filed Sept. 10 in federal court alleges a culture in Baltimore County — extending to the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, suppresses sexual assaults.

About a dozen students worked to collect trash and clear invasive species as part of UMBC's Welcome Week of Service.

By Cody Boteler

Sep 10, 2018

A spotlight look at the Rolling Road Golf Club in Catonsville, a par 70 18-hole private facility featuring hilly terrain and small greens that was first opened for play in 1919. The club will be celebrating its 100th anniversary next year.

By Brent Kennedy

Aug 17, 2018

Students are working on UMBC's campus to prepare for a simulated argument in front of the Supreme Court.

By Cody Boteler

Aug 2, 2018

Called FISH (Feeding Individuals to Support Health), the project gives a formal name to the roughly 1,800 pounds of seafood donated annually from the Inner Harbor’s Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology.

By Anna Muckerman

Jun 26, 2018

Howard County Community College celebrated its spring graduating class Tuesday with student commencement speaker Anya Welsh, a single mother, delivering a passionate speech about her own growth as an HCC student as well as the growth of all the students.

By Jess Nocera

May 22, 2018

Morgan Zepp, who attended Catonsville High School and held a part-time job at Objects Found, is headed to Lithuania to teach English after she graduates from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

By Cody Boteler

May 21, 2018

OCAMocha, a cafe and community meeting space planned by UMBC students, is closer to opening. It will be open temporarily during the Arbutus Arts Festival, but plans call for it to open with the start of the fall semester.

By Cody Boteler

May 4, 2018

Donna L. Harrington, associate dean and professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, died March 30 from cancer at her Hanover, Anne Arundel County home. She was 54.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Apr 5, 2018

Little Caesars vowed to feed America if a 16th seed beat a No. 1. The Retrievers made us all chowhounds.

By Colin Campbell

Apr 2, 2018

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County is seeking to capitalize on its unprecedented basketball upset by registering trademarks for “UMBC Retrievers,” “Retriever Nation” and “16 over 1.”

By Jeff Barker

Mar 19, 2018

For a university long considered something of a well kept secret, analysts said the brief tournament run could be a turning point.

Then the men’s basketball team at University of Maryland, Baltimore County stunned top-ranked Virginia and overnight this suburban research campus – a place where “brainiac” is a term of endearment – vaulted in the annals of college sports.

UMBC's upset over Virginia in the NCAA tournament may be the first time most people have heard of the school. But it's quite famous in nerd circles.

If you were among the blissfully ignorant Friday night wondering, “What’s a UMBC?” we at The Baltimore Sun are here to help after the Retrievers' historic NCAA tournament win.

By Jonas Shaffer

Mar 17, 2018

University of Maryland, Baltimore County students showered love on their mascot True Grit after upsetting Virginia in the NCAA basketball tournament.

By Tim Prudente

Mar 17, 2018

UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski III is receiving a lifetime achievement award from the American Council on Education.

Walter K. Sherwin Jr., a founding faculty member of the University of Maryland, College Park, who established the Ancient Studies Department, died Tuesday from pancreatic cancer at his Charlestown retirement community home. He was 79.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Feb 1, 2018

After two years of construction, the UMBC Event Center will make its debut on Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. with a men's basketball game against the Vermont Catamounts.

By Libby Solomon

Jan 31, 2018

The coalition of 10 universities includes UMBC and Johns Hopkins.

By Talia Richman

Dec 14, 2017

Two students with ties to Maryland have been selected as Rhodes scholars.

By Talia Richman

Nov 20, 2017

The following local students have graduated from LIM College, in New York: Imani Waldrum, of Mount Airy, Bachelor of Business Administration degree in fashion

Campus police at University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus and University of Maryland Baltimore County are investigating a spate of hate incidents, most involving drawings of swastikas.

By Sarah Gantz

Oct 12, 2017

UMBC campus police reported an uptick in swastikas being found drawn or etched on surfaces around campus.

By Libby Solomon

Oct 10, 2017

Carroll County Arts Council awards college scholarships

Representation matters. When Tanika Davis' son met UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski, it was "awesome" times three.

The Trump administration on Friday rolled back federal efforts to influence university investigations into sexual assault.

By John Fritze

Sep 22, 2017

UMBC student aims to make assistive robotics more accessible

By Jonathan M. Pitts

Sep 15, 2017

U.S. Naval Academy and Johns Hopkins high in rankings

The new U.S. Surgeon General, Jerome Adams, grew up in rural Maryland and was Meyerhoff Scholar at University of Maryland Baltimore County before he began his medical career.

By Andrea K. McDaniels

Sep 7, 2017

Several Maryland universities have begun pushing back and pledging to explore ways to protect “dreamers” on their campuses.

By Meredith Cohn

Sep 6, 2017

Julia B. Anderson, 66, special assistant to the director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, died June 25.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Jul 12, 2017