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Computing for the Social Sciences

The Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Department is offering a section of CMSC 201 Computer Science I exclusively for majors in the social sciences. •No programming...

Posted: October 23, 2017, 2:12 PM

Mary Laurents presenting her research at Dresher Center

Today at noon, Mary Laurents (cohort 16) will be presenting her research in the 3rd CURRENTS session at the Dresher Center for the Humanities. Mary is currently a graduate student fellow at...

Posted: October 23, 2017, 10:01 AM

Cocaine and the Cold War

Podcast #5 from Dr. Johnson's Music and Wartime Class

Podcast by Jon Campf and David Gleyzer   This podcast is about David Bowie's song "Heroes." Written while Bowie was in Berlin, "Heroes" became an unofficial anthem of resistance on both sides...

Posted: October 22, 2017, 2:34 PM

Shariece Johnson: CHPPD Excellence in Program Planning award

Two years in a row, Shareice chosen for planning award

Public Policy doctoral student Shariece Johnson was awarded the Community Health Planning and Policy Development (CHPPD) Section Excellence in Program Planning Award for the second...

Posted: October 20, 2017, 1:22 PM

CFP: ELO 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS - ELO 2018 Mind the Gap! Thinking Electronic Literature in a Digital Culture: Explorations and Interventions http://elo2018.org/   The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO)...

Posted: October 19, 2017, 8:15 PM

CFP: Showing Up, Making Space, and the Political Imagination

TU Communication Studies Symposium

Call for Papers: Towson University Communication Studies Symposium: Showing Up, Making Space, and the Political Imagination of Diversity - April 27, 2018 Sara Ahmed’s 2012 On Being Included:...

Posted: October 19, 2017, 12:30 PM

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