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About the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program is at the forefront of efforts to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields. The UMBC Meyerhoff family is now more than 1600 strong, with over 1400 alumni across the nation and 245 students enrolled at UMBC. Over 300 graduates are currently pursuing graduate and professional degrees in STEM fields. Read More >

Media Links

Meyerhoffs and Dr. Hrabowski at MIT

Simons Foundation and Stony Brook University Model Meyerhoff

Nothing Succeeds Like Success

We Know How to Diversify STEM Fields. The Challenge Is Spreading What Works

News Feature: Keeping Black Students in STEM

How to Actually Promote Diversity in STEM

Chan Zuckerberg Invests $6.9M to Diversify STEM – Using Meyerhoff Model

UMBC STEM Scholar Success Heads to the West Coast (WYPR 88.1FM Radio Interview)

Science Article on Meyerhoff Adaptation

Baltimore Sun Article about Gen Z Featuring Two Meyerhoff Scholars

New York Times Article on the Meyerhoff Scholars Program

President Emeritus Freeman Hrabowski’s 2015 Ivory Dome Award Video

NIH Record – Meyerhoff Scholars visit to the National Institutes of Health

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From UMBC News and Magazine

Marie desJardins, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, in the New York Times

UMBC and Marie desJardins appeared in the New York Times. The article, “Computer Science for the Rest of Us,” describes the idea that all students should learn how to ‘think computationally’ and...

Posted: April 2, 2012, 1:39 PM

C. Allen Bush, Chemistry and Biochemistry, in Science Studio

In Science Studio: “Carbohydrates – Keith & Russ talk to C. Allen Bush, Professor of Biochemistry, University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Bush studies carbohydrates, and in this program...

Posted: March 12, 2012, 12:18 PM

Building Engineers and Computer Scientists One Bit at a Time

Last week the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) held their annual event Bits & Bytes program for high school junior girls. The Bits & Bytes program is open to high school junior girls...

Posted: February 23, 2012, 7:27 PM

Two Years After the 2010 Haitian Earthquake: Observations by a member of JCET Faculty

Marko H. Bulmer is the Director of the Geophysical Flow Observatory, JCET at UMBC. On January 4, 2012, I traveled to Haiti to join the Brazilian Military Contingent contributing to the United...

Posted: February 15, 2012, 7:49 PM

Christine Routzahn, Shriver Center, in Diversity/Careers

Christine Routzahn, Shriver Center Director of Professional Practice, comments on the increasing value and popularity of internship opportunities in this month’s new issue of Diversity/Careers in...

Posted: December 2, 2011, 5:54 PM

UMBC Gains National Recognition for its Technology Programs

ABC2 interviewed UMBC’s Bill LaCourse, Interim Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences yesterday about UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program. Watch the video

Posted: November 9, 2011, 5:04 PM

Former UMBC Visiting Professor Wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Dan Shechtman, a former visiting professor at UMBC, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last week. Shlomo Carmi, then dean of the College of Engineering, recruited Shechtman in 1997, and the...

Posted: October 10, 2011, 4:01 PM

Highways to Healing – Omolola Eniola-Adefeso '99, ChemEng

Once upon a time, Omolola Eniola-Adefeso ’99, chemical engineering, was on track to attend medical school. But she became a chemical engineer instead – so she could better attack problems such as...

Posted: September 2, 2011, 4:50 PM

Highways to Healing – Omolola Eniola-Adefeso ’99, ChemEng

Once upon a time, Omolola Eniola-Adefeso ’99, chemical engineering, was on track to attend medical school. But she became a chemical engineer instead – so she could better attack problems such as...

Posted: September 2, 2011, 4:50 PM

Omar Bukhari ’13, Biochemistry, in the Gazette

Omar Bukhari ’13, biochemistry and EHS, will soon begin his junior year at UMBC, but for the last several weeks he’s been hard at work for another cause. Bukhari just finished a 4,000 mile bike...

Posted: August 17, 2011, 3:13 PM

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