Welcome to the Center for Global Engagement
Empowering global connections at UMBC.
Explore opportunities and resources for students, faculty, and partners.
For Students
We offer a variety of programs and services to aid students and scholars in these endeavors:
For Faculty & Staff
We are dedicated to facilitating global academic initiatives through collaboration with faculty and staff:
For Partners
We help partners connect with UMBC through robust collaborations and mutually beneficial programs.
English Language Institute
Develop your English skills with specialized programs and resources.
From UMBC News and Magazine
Ayra Sangi, current senior, receives prestigious Freeman-ASIA study abroad scholarship
Ayra Sangi, an Asian studies senior, has received the 2025 Freeman-ASIA Award. The semester-long education abroad award funds U.S.-based undergraduates up to $5,000 to study abroad in East or...
Posted: June 20, 2025, 2:01 PM
James Smalls’ efforts to restore Féral Benga’s place in 20th-century performing arts just might preserve his grave site as well
Art historian James Smalls, a professor of visual arts, researches the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality in both 19th-century art and the broader visual culture of the Black...
Posted: May 22, 2025, 5:34 PM
A class reunion half a world away
With such a large population of Marylanders at UMBC, it’s not that unusual to run into someone you went to high school with. But when that someone is from your high school in Canberra, Australia,...
Posted: May 21, 2025, 11:34 AM
Gathering a humanities research tool kit to understand a fascinating world
Sean Silverman began his UMBC journey as a computer science major. After taking several programming classes in high school, he was ready to pursue a career in data science while also enrolling in...
Posted: April 15, 2025, 4:34 PM
From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
Written by Margie Burns, assistant teaching professor of English, UMBC Most readers hear “pride and prejudice” and immediately think of Jane Austen’s most famous novel, that salty-sweet...
Posted: April 14, 2025, 10:56 AM
UMBC’s Virtual Tandem Conversation project with German universities is changing the way students see Germany and the U.S.
During a recent trip to Normandy, France, UMBC student Rebecca Smith hopped over to Lüneburg, a historic town in northern Germany, to visit Gertrud Krause-Traudes, her partner in UMBC’s Virtual...
Posted: April 1, 2025, 11:26 AM
UMBC delegates build international connections at prestigious science and technology conference in India
A six-person UMBC team built international connections at the “PIWOT – World of Technology” conference, held in late January in Mumbai, India. The conference is organized by the alumni association...
Posted: February 20, 2025, 10:37 AM
International exchange brings opportunities to question assumptions—in science and life
Making assumptions is a habit of life, a way to speed up decisions. Sometimes these mental short-cuts, however, lead us astray. Such was the situation when Lorenz Kopp, an engineering...
Posted: February 18, 2025, 4:07 PM
UMBC’s 2024 International Education Week celebrates globally-minded Retrievers
Now in its fifth year, UMBC’s 2024 International Education Week (IEW) hosted by the Center for Global Engagement (CGE), celebrated UMBC’s commitment to international education. Events throughout...
Posted: December 5, 2024, 3:51 PM
Intercultural conversations: Exploring politics in a global context, even at home
Middle school sweethearts, Ellyn Fennema and Joseph Patarini came to UMBC to pursue global studies (her) and geography and environmental studies (him). Despite their busy schedules, they were able...
Posted: December 5, 2024, 3:51 PM
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