2025-2026 Membership Chair Nathan Bolima won 1st place in the Technical Research Exhibition at the 2026 National NSBE Convention.
2025-2026 Senator Jessica Slaughter and T.O.R.C.H. Chair Amir Walton-Irvin became 2026 Goldwater Scholars: https://goldwaterscholarship.gov/
2025-2026 President Caly Ferguson was recognized with a NSBE a 25 under 25 award: https://umbc.edu/quick-posts/ferguson-nsbe-25-under-25/
2025-2026 T.O.R.C.H. Chair Amir Walton-Irvin won 1st place at the 2025 Fall Regional Conference Technical Research Exhibition: https://umbc.edu/quick-posts/umbc-nsbe-conference-2025/
Class of 2019 Member Anna Gifty-Opoku-Agyeman became the youngest recipient of a CEDAW Women’s Rights Award by the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and published an original book called The Double Tax: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid: https://umbc.edu/stories/meet-anna-researcher-and-writer/
2024-2025 Finance Chair Caly Ferguson became a 2025 Goldwater Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/goldwater-scholarships-2025
2023-2024 Academic Excellence Chair Kayla Magruder led our team to 1st place at the 2024 Fall Regional Conference Academic Tech Bowl: https://umbc.edu/stories/nsbe-shines-at-regional-conference/
2023-2024 President Nelanne Bolima was honored as the Black Undergraduate Student of the Year: https://cbee.umbc.edu/news/post/142223/
2023-2024 T.O.R.C.H. Chair Joshua Dayie found a fruitful balance between art and science: https://cbee.umbc.edu/news/post/150126/
Class of 2025 Member Jayo Adegboyo was named the 2025 Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar of the Year: https://umbc.edu/stories/meet-a-retriever-arthur-ashe-sports-scholar/
2022-2023 Senator Tobi Majekodunmi became a Goldwater Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/four-umbc-students-receive-goldwater-scholarship-for-stem-research-tying-prior-record/
2022-2023 Secretary Rachel Meyers became a Goldwater Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/four-umbc-students-receive-goldwater-scholarship-for-stem-research-tying-prior-record/
2022-2023 President Christopher Slaughter became a Gates Cambridge Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/gates-cambridge-scholarship/
2021-2022 Vice President Nicole Attram became a Fulbright Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/retrievers-are-upping-their-research-game-in-the-2024-2025-fulbright-u-s-student-program-cohort/
2021-2022 President Joshua Slaughter became a Marshall Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/umbc-marshall-scholar-joshua-slaughter-seeks-to-advance-equity-in-personalized-medicine/
2019-2020 Conference Planning Chair Jordan Troutman became a Knight-Hennessy Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/umbcs-jordan-troutman-to-continue-algorithmic-fairness-research-as-knight-hennessy-scholar-at-stanford/
Class of 1997 Mechanical Engineer Kamili Jackson co-founded a project that helps high school students take off into careers in engineering – the Future Innovative Rising Engineers (FIRE), NSBE Junior Chapter in Greenbelt, Maryland: https://umbc.edu/stories/lift-off-kamili-jackson-97-m-s-99/
Class of 2018 Member Adrian Davey began a Ph.D. program in chemical engineering as a 2018 Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley: https://umbc.edu/stories/adrian-davey-to-research-renewable-energy-and-photo-electrochemical-synthesis-in-uc-berkeley-ph-d-program/
2017-2018 President and 2018-2019 Region II Vice Chairperson Naomi Mburu became UMBC’s first Rhodes Scholar: https://umbc.edu/stories/naomi-mburu-umbcs-first-rhodes-scholar-to-pursue-engineering-ph-d-at-oxford/