UMBC will take part in the National Teach-in on Global Warming over two days next week.
The event will be marked by programs and displays starting at 11 a.m. in The Commons on Thursday, Feb. 6. A full event list can be found here, which includes a global warming solutions fair featuring UMBC organizations and local [...]

UMBC has again succeeded in failing to put the safety of its student body first. Walking to class tonight at around 7 p.m., I noticed that Academic Row was uncommonly dark, even for nighttime. It seems that the powers that be did not see fit to pay the electric bill for certain parts of campus [...]

UMBC is not known for their particular attentiveness to bad weather. In fact, UMBC notoriously does not close school, close early or open late even when the weather poses a particular threat to students. In the past, The Retriever has received no shortage of letters from students lamenting that the school seems to pointlessly ignore [...]

At 8 a.m. on Monday, UMBC’s long-awaited Chick-fil-A began serving customers. The new location fielded long lines throughout most of the day with quick service considering the high volume of traffic. The quality of the food was on par with any other Chick-fil-A in the area, causing some students to purchase more than one meal [...]

BY Nyonsuatee Kollue
Contributing Writer
Happy New Year Retrievers! Over the winter break, TRW bloggers were hinted about a new column coming to the News section of the Retriever weekly in spring 2009. It is a pleasure to bring to you the first edition of the Passion to Profession column!
Passion to Profession is an interactive, student-oriented column [...]

Looking for something to get you amped up for another spring semester at UMBC? Check out these upcoming games:
Thursday
Men’s Basketball @ Boston U 7:00 P.M.
Saturday
Men’s Lacrosse vs. Navy (scrimmage) TBA
Swimming and Diving vs. Marist 12:00 P.M.
Women’s Basketball vs. Binghamton 7:00 P.M.
Sunday
Men’s Basketball @ Albany 4:00 P.M.
Live audio, video, and stats are available for many games. [...]

BY Corey Johns
Senior Staff Writer
It was a much needed win for the Retrievers.

Not many things have been working out for UMBC this season. The team is very thin with three players leaving during the season, while others have underperformed.

But through it all UMBC still manages to have an even record with a 2-2 conference record, [...]

A basketball doubleheader will hit the RAC Arena this Saturday, January 17. The excitement begins at 4:30 p.m., when the women host last-place Maine. At 7:30 p.m. the men will take on fourth-ranked Hartford. Both UMBC teams look to improve to .500 in the America East Conference.
UMBC basketball has had difficulty on both sides of the gender divide [...]

Unlike gas prices in recent times, tuition cost and other college expenses are not getting any lower and students are beginning to feel the effects of our recent economic downturn. John Merrow of PBS’s News Hour reports that “the national student debt now tops $550 billion. That’s just what’s owed to the government. Nobody knows how much
students owe [...]