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Apply for a Dresher Center Faculty Research Fellowship

New! One Fellowship in Fall 2018 and one in Spring 2019

Dresher Center Residential Faculty Research Fellowship applications for fall 2018 are due on April 1, 2018. Applications for spring 2019 are due on May 1, 2018. Click here for the proposal...

Posted: February 21, 2018, 8:59 AM

Connect to UMBC's Career Center

By joining the myUMBC group "Career Center" you will learn of dozens of events happening every semester to help you land an internship or job placement. Some upcoming events you might find...

Posted: February 20, 2018, 10:01 AM

Grad Students: Counseling Center Groups & Workshops

Spring 2018

The Counseling Center has developed a series of workshops, and there are a few that the center wants to bring to the attention of graduate students.  The "Graduate Student Support" group, in...

Posted: February 20, 2018, 7:34 AM

Researcher of the Week: Ariel Poirier

Getting Her Hands Dirty: Assessing Traits in Plant Species

Ariel Poirier is a Geography and Environmental Studies major. She is  a Newcombe Scholar for Returning Women. To learn more about Ariel's research follow the website link below.

Posted: February 20, 2018, 12:27 AM

Chris Swan featured in The Atlantic

UMBC’s Chris Swan transforms vacant lots in Baltimore

Congrats to Chris Swan! To read the full Atlantic article follow the website link below.

Posted: February 20, 2018, 12:16 AM

Event: Embodying the Database: Race, Gender, & Social Change

The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins

The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins are hosting an installment in the Digital Diversity Seminar Series on February 22nd at 5:15pm EST. This time we will be welcoming Prof Dorothy Kim of Vassar...

Posted: February 19, 2018, 4:09 PM

Engaged Scholarship Brown Bag Lunch

Doing Engaged Scholarship? Join MIPAR for Organizing Meeting

Wednesday, February 28, Noon - 1:15 PM Engineering Building, Room 023 Last fall, Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR) had the pleasure to welcome Tim Eatman and...

Posted: February 19, 2018, 2:00 PM

Reconstructing the Chesapeake's Past

Exhibit by Heather Mortimer on Display in Library

Reconstructing the Chesapeake's Past, an exhibit by INDS student Heather Mortimer, will be on display in the AOK Library Rotunda until Friday, February 23.  We may not notice changes in the...

Posted: February 19, 2018, 8:45 AM

Sedrick Smith: 2018 Loyola Literacy Leader

Sedrick Smtih (Cohort 18) has been named as the 2018 Loyola Literacy Leader. This award honors Loyola University Maryland alumni for their contributions to literacy education in their teaching,...

Posted: February 19, 2018, 8:29 AM

Craig Saper's essay in "Making Modernism"

We invite to check out Dr. Craig Saper's essay that appears in Making Modernism, an exhibit featuring archival documents from the Newberry Library (Chicago, IL). Saper wrote the essay, titled...

Posted: February 19, 2018, 8:16 AM