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Tech drive for Baltimore City students to be able to study

Do you have tech tools you could donate?

Teachers’ Democracy Project invites all concerned citizens to donate their used but still functional laptops, tablets, phones and chargers to support our students. Everyone in the country right...

Posted: April 9, 2020, 11:17 AM

Coping with COVID

Presented by the Counseling Center

How can we as individual FACE COVID and cope with the uncertainty associated with the outbreak? Join us for an interactive, 1-hour webinar as we discuss the unique stressors of living through a...

Posted: April 9, 2020, 7:53 AM

Prof. Lincove publ. article on racial & ethnic difs in apps

Article published in Education Finance and Policy journal

Public Policy Professor Jane A. Lincove has published an article in Education Finance and Policy's Spring 2020 issue titled "Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application."...

Posted: April 8, 2020, 1:30 PM

INDS COVID-19 Updates

INDS Students and Community: Please read through this letter from INDS Director Stephen Freeland regarding COVID-19 updates.

Posted: April 6, 2020, 9:22 AM

Polis Spring Online Classes in Ancient Greek and Latin

Polis – The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities is offering online courses in Ancient Greek and Latin. If you have always wanted to learn the classic languages, but never had the...

Posted: April 3, 2020, 6:27 PM

Challenges & Suggestions for Balancing Teaching & Self-Care

Shared by colleagues at a virtual FDC session!

On Wednesday, April 1, 22 faculty joined the 5 FDC staff to virtually crowdsource best ideas about balancing teaching and self-care during a Bring Your Biggest Challenge/Bring Your Best Idea...

Posted: April 3, 2020, 11:04 AM

Ruken Isik publishes article in Ahval News

Ruken Isik (LLC Cohort 17) shared a link to an article she just wrote for Ahval News entitled, "Political prisoners set to be kept behind bars despite Turkish coronavirus amnesty."

Posted: April 2, 2020, 2:56 PM

Coronavirus Chronicles Archive

Sharing Stories Through Isolation

The Coronavirus Chronicles Archive is a publicly sourced, transnational database of stories about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on everyday life. Based out of the University of...

Posted: April 1, 2020, 5:09 PM

New Data Visualization course offered Summer Session 1

Data Visualization Concepts - open to students of all areas!

This summer, the School of Public Policy is offering a special topics course in Data Visualization. We are partnering with Lee Boot, director of the UMBC Imaging Resource Center (IRC), to offer...

Posted: April 1, 2020, 11:57 AM

Sedrick Smith Successfully Defends his Dissertation!

On March 30, 2020 Sedrick Smith of LLC Cohort 18 successfully defended his dissertation and earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy. His defense went very smoothly, despite its being the...

Posted: March 31, 2020, 1:47 PM