Social Consciousness Takes the Field in 2019 Super Bowl Advertising

Posted on February 1, 2019 by Carole Mahoney in Events, News, Profiles and tagged Business & Management, Faculty, Graduate School.

Online conversation has the “big game” trending and some people like to watch the NFL’s biggest event of the year just for the commercials. In fact, data show that 70 percent of people are more likely to pay attention to advertising during the Super Bowl than to ads that appear during their “normal” TV viewing, according to Sandeep Patnaik, University of Maryland University College (UMUC) professor and program chair for the Master of Science in marketing.Continue Reading

UMUC Alumna Ann Darrin: Pioneer of Spacecraft Pioneers

Posted on January 10, 2019 by Gil Klein in News, Profiles and tagged Alumni, News, Profiles.

Ann Darrin is about as much of a pioneer in engineering management as the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft that is now “flying” around the sun or the New Horizons spacecraft that transmitted photographs of Ultima Thule, an object in the Kuiper Belt a billion miles beyond Pluto, on New Year’s Day.

From English Major to Environmental Steward: UMUC Alumnus Makes Clean Water His Mission

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Gil Klein in News, Profiles and tagged Alumni, Education & Teaching, Faculty, UMUC Europe, Veterans.

Berkeley County, West Virginia, is the fastest growing county in the state as new industry is attracted to the I-81 corridor and Northern Virginia’s exploding population spills into the Mountain State’s eastern panhandle.

As a result, an upsurge of houses, roads, parking lots, industrial parks and the like is creating new stormwater pollution problems in a state where water flows downhill quickly.Continue Reading

Hat Trick!

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Carole Mahoney in Commencement 2018, News, Profiles and tagged Alumni, Commencement, News.

A Trio of Commencement Achievements Cap UMUC Experience for Jermaine Montgomery

University of Maryland University College Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer Alan Drimmer knew what he was talking about when he introduced graduating student Jermaine Montgomery at the university’s morning Winter Commencement ceremony on Dec. 15 as a man of many talents.Continue Reading

From Capstone to Career: UMUC Alumna Helps Her Employer Go Green

Posted on August 15, 2018 by Mary Dempsey in News, Profiles and tagged Alumni, Faculty, Graduate School, News.

Melissa Ezzell-Maddy is unequivocal about how she ended up in her dream job. She credits her capstone project at University of Maryland University College (UMUC).

Ezzell-Maddy is an environmental health and safety engineer at Lockheed Martin in Colorado. She landed the job immediately after receiving a master’s degree in environmental management from UMUC. The capstone project that wrapped up her final term involved waste management at Lockheed Martin’s facility in Boulder, Colorado.Continue Reading

Teaching Took UMUC Adjunct Professor Around the World

Posted on July 12, 2018 by Mary Dempsey in Profiles and tagged Education & Teaching, Faculty.

If an artist were to draw Mary Ellen Schmider’s life, it might be a series of loops. That’s because the adjunct professor at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) keeps circling back to past interests and adventures.

Or maybe she never left them.Continue Reading

Peter Smith’s New Book Charts a Path Through the “Blizzard” of Higher Education Change

Posted on June 6, 2018 by Gil Klein in News, Profiles and tagged Academia, Faculty, News, Orkand Chair.

Peter Smith, educator and author, asks two questions.

How much of what you know did you learn in a college classroom?

How much of what you know did you learn from personal and on-the-job experience?

If the answer is—as he expects—that you learned far more from your experience outside the classroom, he then asks a third.Continue Reading

Navy Veteran Writes the Book on Information Security

Posted on May 17, 2018 by UMGC in Cybersecurity, Events, Profiles and tagged Alumni, Cybersecurity, Events, Military, Veterans.

A Navy Career and a Love of Computers Sparks Gary Hayslip’s Passion for Cybersecurity

For retired U.S. Navy officer Gary Hayslip, cybersecurity isn’t just his job―it’s his passion. Cultivated through his 21 years of service, and later in civil service, Hayslip’s love of information security has fueled his private-sector career as chief information security officer (CISO) at a leading cybersecurity company and co-author of a popular how-to guide for CISOs.Continue Reading

A Trio of Grads from Sicily Redefine Family Togetherness

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Mary Dempsey in Commencement 2018, Europe Commencement 2018, News, Profiles and tagged Alumni, Commencement, Faculty, UMUC Europe.

When Priscilla La Delfa crossed the stage to receive her MBA degree at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) graduation ceremonies in Ramstein, Germany, her father and stepmother were close at hand. Very close at hand.Continue Reading

Business Grad and Author Follows His Passion and Inspires Others to Do the Same

Posted on May 9, 2018 by UMGC in News, Profiles and tagged Alumni, Current Students, Military, Veterans.

Eric Konovalov understands effective leadership. He saw what it looks like during his eight-year career in the U.S. Marine Corps. He learned core leadership skills as a business management student at University of Maryland University College (UMUC), and he developed and honed his expertise over the course of his career in sales, executive coaching and leadership training.Continue Reading

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