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Library of Congress commissions UMBC’s Daniel Pesca

The Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium, one of the nation’s leading performing arts venues, is typically busy year-round, bustling with performers playing to capacity audiences. Now, with...

Posted: June 26, 2020, 5:34 PM

Trailer for Documentary filmed in Concert Hall Released

The trailer for "Strings Attached", a documentary following the Dover Quartet, has just released! Parts of the documentary were filmed at UMBC when Shriver Hall Concert Series brought them to our...

Posted: June 26, 2020, 12:20 PM

A reflection on Maurice Berger's Race Stories

We will begin our retrospect of Maurice Berger’s Race Stories and reflection on black history and our current political and social climate by featuring, “Capturing the Struggle for Racial...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 11:08 AM

Dept. of Music Receives Charlesmead Award

(from left to right: Daniel Pesca, Janice Jackson, Jarl Hulbert, and Alethia Starke) The Department of Music announces the receipt of a Charlesmead award (in the amount of $33,725) to fund a...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 9:53 AM

Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap

A virtual reflection and celebration of our dear LLC Alum

We write to share the sorrowful news that we have lost one of our own LLC alums, Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap. Dr. Basfield Dunlap, a member of LLC cohort 16, graduated in Spring 2018, with her...

Posted: June 19, 2020, 2:11 PM

Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic volume

Call for Chapters

Call for Chapters    Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic     Editors:    Melvin E. Thomas, Ph. D.  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina...

Posted: June 15, 2020, 9:36 AM

A statement in concern and support

From Susan Sterett, Director, School of Public Policy

Dear Colleagues, I am grateful to work at UMBC, with its commitment to equity and inclusion. Our leaders issued a superb statement about the inequality that videos of police and community...

Posted: June 10, 2020, 4:27 PM