Profiles
Doctorate in Business Administration Program Launches with Spring Term
Bryce Adams, a cloud analytics specialist at technology company Oracle, was partway through his doctoral studies in management at University of Maryland University College (UMUC) when his professors presented an interesting option. Would he like to switch to a Doctor in Business Administration instead?
Adams’ response was a resounding “Yes.”Continue Reading
Alumna Lynice Thorpe-Noel’s Journey from Poet to Command Sergeant Major at Fort Knox
When Lynice Thorpe-Noel left high school in Nashville, North Carolina, on her way to Norfolk State University 30 years ago, her career goal was to be a poet—to perhaps write greeting cards for Hallmark.
In a January ceremony hosted by Maj. Gen. Jason Evans, she became the first woman to be command sergeant major of the Army’s Human Resources Command at Fort Knox.Continue Reading
UMUC’s Mary Ellen Schmider Presents Fulbright Award to Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel
Schmider to Speak on Visionary Women Champions of Nonviolence and Peace at UMUC Academic Center Auditorium in Largo, Maryland, March 15
Mary Ellen Heian Schmider culminated a history-making moment when she crossed the stage at the AXICA Congress and Convention Centre adjacent to the Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin on Jan. 28, to present Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel with the 2018 J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding. Continue Reading
UMUC Orkand Chair’s Book to Receive 2019 UPCEA Frandson Award for Literature
Peter Smith, Ph.D., University of Maryland University College Orkand Chair and professor of Innovative Practices in Higher Education, has been named recipient of the 2019 Phillip E. Frandson Award for Literature, sponsored by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), for his book “Free Range Learning in the Digital Age: The Emerging Revolution in College, Career, and Education.”
The award, given to the author and publisher of “an outstanding work of continuing higher education literature,” will be conferred at the UPCEA annual meeting in Seattle, March 27-29, according to the association’s announcement. In all, UPCEA honored 10 individuals and six programs with awards in 2019.Continue Reading
UMUC Field Study Students Take It to the Streets of Europe
As UMUC Europe celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2019, it heralds its state-of-the-art learning models and a unique program that for decades has immersed students in living classrooms to study history, literature and art in the very places where it was made, inspired or imagined.
Don’t Let Romance Scams Spoil Your Valentine’s Day
We don’t know much about the origins of Valentine’s Day, who St. Valentine was, or even why the day became associated with romance and love. But we do know this: the period leading up to Valentine’s Day—and the day itself—is the peak season for romance scammers.Continue Reading
Social Consciousness Takes the Field in 2019 Super Bowl Advertising
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
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
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
