The University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC) is a public research university in Catonsville,Maryland named after Baltimore County. It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students,61 undergraduate majors,over 92 graduate programs and the first university research park in Maryland. It is classified among "R1:Doctoral Universities –Very High Research Activity".
Sylvester James Gates Jr.,known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates,is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry,supergravity,and superstring theory. He is currently the Brown University Theoretical Physics Center Director and the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics. He also holds the Clark Leadership Chair in Science with the physics department at the University of Maryland College of Computer,Mathematical,and Natural Sciences. He is also affiliated with the University Maryland's School of Public Policy. He served on former president Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is a program at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC) designed to prepare minority students for academic careers in the science,technology,engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The program has served as a model for developing and supporting minority students pursuing academic careers.
Science,technology,engineering,and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science,technology,engineering,and mathematics. The term is typically used in the context of education policy or curriculum choices in schools. It has implications for workforce development,national security concerns,and immigration policy,with regard to admitting foreign students and tech workers.
Enolia Pettigen McMillan was an American educator,civil rights activist,and community leader. She was the first female national president of the NAACP.
Howard Peters "Pete" Rawlings was an American politician and the first African American to become chair of the powerful Appropriations Committee in the Maryland House of Delegates. Rawlings served the 40th legislative district,located in the central,northwest section of Baltimore,from 1979 until 2003. His daughter,Stephanie Rawlings-Blake,is the former Mayor of Baltimore.
Anthony Michael Johnson is an American experimental physicist,a professor of physics,and a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC). He is the director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research (CASPR),also situated on campus at UMBC. Since his election to the 2002 term as president of the Optical Society,formerly the Optical Society of America,Johnson has the distinction of being the first and only African-American president to date. Johnson's research interests include the ultrafast photophysics and nonlinear optical properties of bulk,nanostructured,and quantum well semiconductor structures,ultrashort pulse propagation in fibers and high-speed lightwave systems. His research has helped to better understand processes that occur in ultrafast time frames of 1 quadrillionth of a second. Ultrashort pulses of light have been used to address technical and logistical challenges in medicine,telecommunications,homeland security,and have many other applications that enhance contemporary life.
John B. King Jr. is an American educator,civil servant,and former state and federal government official who is the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York (SUNY). He previously served as President &CEO of The Education Trust,a national civil rights nonprofit which seeks to identify and close opportunity and achievement gaps for students from preschool through college. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the 10th United States Secretary of Education from January 1,2016,to January 20,2017,under President Barack Obama. In April 2021,King announced that he would be running for the Democratic nomination in the 2022 Maryland gubernatorial election,but came in sixth place in the primary election,losing to Baltimore author Wes Moore.
Randolph Wilson ("Bill") Bromery was an American educator and geologist,and a former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971–79). While Chancellor,Bromery established the W.E.B. Du Bois Archives at the University of Massachusetts,and was one of the initiators of the Five College Consortium. He was also President of the Geological Society of America,and has made numerous contributions as a geologist and academic. During World War II,he was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen,flying missions in Italy.
Sabrina Nicole Thompson is an American aerospace engineer. As a Flight Dynamics Lead Analyst at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,Thompson has developed orbits and trajectories for various NASA missions and mission concepts. She founded a Baltimore-based fashion brand,Girl in Space Club,which garnered press coverage in 2022 on its projects to develop flight suits and space suits for female astronauts.
Catherine Clarke Fenselau is an American scientist who was the first trained mass spectrometrist on the faculty of an American medical school;she joined Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1968. She specializes in biomedical applications of mass spectrometry. She has been recognized as an outstanding scientist in the field of bioanalytical chemistry because of her work using mass spectrometry to study biomolecules.
Conservation and Environmental Research Areas (CERA) of University of Maryland,Baltimore County is a nature preserve on the grounds of the UMBC campus in Baltimore,Maryland. The wooded area is located on the southern end of the campus and is bordered by bwtech@UMBC Research and Technology Park to the north,UMBC Boulevard to the west,Selford and Shelbourne Roads to the south,and athletic fields to the east. CERA is used for education purposes for programs at UMBC such as the departments of Geography and Environmental Systems.
Valerie Sheares Ashby is an American chemist and university professor who currently serves as president of the University of Maryland,Baltimore County. She was the Dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University from 2015 to 2022 and formerly chair of the chemistry department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2015. With her research group,she holds ten patents. On April 4,2022,it was announced that Ashby would assume the position of president of the University of Maryland,Baltimore County.
Renetta Garrison Tull is an American electrical engineer,global policy strategist,and works to advance diversity and inclusion in science,technology,engineering,and mathematics (STEM). Tull is the inaugural Vice Chancellor of Diversity,Equity,and Inclusion at University of California,Davis and a founding Director of the National Science Foundation funded program PROMISE:Alliances for Graduate Education and Professoriate,which aims to increase the number of underrepresented students in STEM. Tull previously served as Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Maryland,Baltimore County (UMBC) and was also the Director of Graduate and Professional Pipeline Development for the University System of Maryland (USM) where she also served as the co-Principal Investigator and co-director of the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation. On a global scale,Tull was selected as the keynote speaker for the United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) event on the Commission on the Status of Women in Engineering Fields,and was the only American and only female finalist for the Global Engineering Deans Council Airbus Diversity Award in 2015.
Keith John Bowman is a materials scientist and dean of the University of Maryland,Baltimore County College of Engineering and Information Technology,working to advance research benefiting society and elevating student educational success. He is a Fellow of The American Ceramic Society. Bowman has worked extensively to advance diversity,equity,and inclusion across engineering disciplines and the science,technology,engineering,and math (STEM) pipeline. He is a member of 500 Queer Scientists. He is internationally recognized for his research on the property anisotropy and preferred orientation in ceramics and ceramic composites.
Mavis G. Sanders is an American research scientist studying education and Black families. She is senior research scholar of Black Children and Families with Child Trends.
