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Mobilizing Black Turnout with Celebrations of Community:

The Party at the Mailbox Project - an SSF virtual lecture!

Friday, October 29, 2021 · 2 - 3 PM Dr. Melissa Michelson Dean of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Political Science, Menlo College Mobilizing Black Turnout with Celebrations of Community:...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 2:51 PM

Social Science Spotlight

Mapping Juvenile Justice

Social Science Spotlight: Mapping Juvenile Justice Psychology’s Professor Erika Fountain and GES’s Professor Dillon Mahmoudi recently published research on how minors involved in the juvenile...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 11:57 AM

Dr. Schaller NEW BOOK OUT NOV 1st; COMMON ENEMIES

Georgetown, Miami, and the Racial Transformation of Sports

During the 1980s Black athletes and other athletes of color broadened the popularity and profitability of major-college televised sports by infusing games with a “Black style” of play. At a moment...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 11:44 AM

UMBC Livewire Event- October 23, 2021

Beuys 20th Anniversary Celebration & Arboretum

UMBC's Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership 20th Anniversary Celebration and Arboretum, by Robert Morris, Performed by UMBC's RUCKUS & Music Department, A UMBC Livewire Event On Saturday, October...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 10:59 AM

What's Your Story?

UMBC Community Read event on November 2nd

The UMBC Community Read for fall 2021 and spring 2022 is We Speak For Ourselves by D. Watkins, a Baltimore-based author, teacher, and speaker. All UMBC and surrounding Baltimore area...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 9:59 AM

Asian Studies News and Updates - Mid-October

Advising, Winter Session Options, ASCOM Meetings!

We hope you enjoyed celebrating Homecoming 2021 last week and this past weekend! The semester continues, and so does the approach of autumn leaves and weather. Advising is Coming! We've set up a...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 9:58 AM

FREE NIH online course!

Introduction to Principles & Practice of Clinical Research

FREE NIH online course! Registration for the 2021-2022 course year is open now through July 1, 2022. Welcome The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR)...

Posted: October 8, 2021, 9:05 AM

ISRC-invited talk: Dr. David Nemer - Oct. 11 @ 3pm

***Repost from ISRC***

Title: Technology of the Oppressed: Inequity and the digital mundane in Favelas of Brazil  Abstract: Nemer draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to provide a rich account of how favela...

Posted: October 8, 2021, 8:57 AM

$1,000 Scholarship Opportunity for INDS Majors

Bolton Family Scholarship now accepting applications!

The Bolton Family Scholarship was established in 2018 to honor Elinora Bolton, who at age 52, and after raising a family of 10, earned a BA as a member of UMBC’s first graduating class. Four...

Posted: October 7, 2021, 12:55 PM

$1,000 Scholarship Opportunity for INDS Majors

Zainab Damji Scholarship is now accepting applications!

The Zainab Damji Scholarship is a scholarship for an undergraduate student of INDS who has advanced beyond freshman year, has above a 3.0 on a 4.0 scale, wishes to pursue a career in some form of...

Posted: October 7, 2021, 12:41 PM