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Event: Power Speaker Series - Monumental Moments

MFA in Community Arts @ MICA Place

Join speakers for a community dialogue about these monuments and the removal process — examining the spaces where these monuments stood, gathering information about these sites and exploring...

Posted: October 19, 2017, 12:23 PM

Reminder: Spring 2018 Dissertation Fellowship Applications

Due Friday, October 27, 2017

The UMBC Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship Application Deadline:  Friday, October 27, 2017   The Dissertation Fellowship is designed to provide doctoral candidates at UMBC an opportunity to...

Posted: October 19, 2017, 12:17 PM

Sylvia Trent-Adams chosen for Florence Nightingale Medal

American Red Cross recognizes Trent-Adams, PhD. 06

Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N, Acting Surgeon General for U.S. Public Health Services, has been awarded the Red Cross Florence Nightingale Medal for her work in disaster...

Posted: October 18, 2017, 7:50 PM

Professional Item Writing Opportunity

Center for Applied Linguistics

The Center for Applied Linguistics is recruiting experienced Item Writers to develop content for a large-scale K-12 English language proficiency test. Item Writers will write original passages and...

Posted: October 18, 2017, 8:23 AM

Chris Haffer, PhD '93 joins Senior Executive Service

Chris Haffer to move to EEOC as Chief Data Officer

Chris Haffer, PhD '93 (Public Policy) After 25 years with CMS, Dr. Haffer will be moving in November 2017 into the Senior Executive Service and to become the first Chief Data Officer and Director...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 12:02 PM

The Literacy Lab: Receiving Applications 2018-19 school year

Full-time tutors

OPPORTUNITY WITH THE LITERACY LAB!   The Challenge Over 6.5 million US children from birth to 3rd grade are on track for reading failure. The Literacy Lab seeks to close the resource gap for...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 11:45 AM

Faculty offer context and analysis on major policy issues

As fall semester has kicked into high gear, UMBC professors have connected not just with students in the classroom, but also with the broader public through research-based reflections on current...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 11:04 AM

Christy Ford Chapin begins Library of Congress Fellowship

When Christy Ford Chapin, associate professor of history, began teaching at UMBC in 2012, she started by connecting curious students with the history of the American health care system. Her first...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 11:02 AM

2017 Alumni Awards celebrate impressive contributions

The UMBC community gathered for the 2017 UMBC Alumni Awards on October 5 in the Linehan Concert Hall to celebrate individuals who have made impressive contributions to society through their work....

Posted: October 17, 2017, 10:47 AM

History Prize

2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize

Prof. Michelle Scott has been awarded the 2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the best article in African American Women's History from the Association of Black Women's Historians (ABWH)...

Posted: October 16, 2017, 5:21 PM