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Library of Congress commissions UMBC’s Daniel Pesca

The Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium, one of the nation’s leading performing arts venues, is typically busy year-round, bustling with performers playing to capacity audiences. Now, with...

Posted: June 26, 2020, 5:34 PM

Trailer for Documentary filmed in Concert Hall Released

The trailer for "Strings Attached", a documentary following the Dover Quartet, has just released! Parts of the documentary were filmed at UMBC when Shriver Hall Concert Series brought them to our...

Posted: June 26, 2020, 12:20 PM

Research Writing Bootcamp

M/W/F July 20-31 - register now!

Research Writing Bootcamp   Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays July 20-31 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. On WebEx The Dresher Center for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Center for Social Science...

Posted: June 25, 2020, 10:32 AM

Congratulations to our Anthropology Students !

Social Science Undergraduate Research Awards !

Camille Blackford, “A Proposal for an Ethnography on the Happiness of UMBC Students During the Coronavirus Pandemic” Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (Anthropology program) Mentor: ...

Posted: June 24, 2020, 2:59 PM

Honors Student Tristan Heibel Receives Research Award

The English Honors Program is delighted to announce that Tristan Heibel has received an Undergraduate Research Award to fund his Honors project, directed by Dr. Gail Orgelfinger, Senior Lecturer...

Posted: June 24, 2020, 2:01 PM

Announcing our 2020-2021 SS Undergraduate Research Awardees!

Congratulations to all!

The following students have received Social Science Undergraduate Research Awards for 2020-2021: Camille Blackford (ANTH) “A Proposal for an Ethnography on the Happiness of UMBC Students During...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 1:21 PM

A reflection on Maurice Berger's Race Stories

We will begin our retrospect of Maurice Berger’s Race Stories and reflection on black history and our current political and social climate by featuring, “Capturing the Struggle for Racial...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 11:08 AM

Dept. of Music Receives Charlesmead Award

(from left to right: Daniel Pesca, Janice Jackson, Jarl Hulbert, and Alethia Starke) The Department of Music announces the receipt of a Charlesmead award (in the amount of $33,725) to fund a...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 9:53 AM

Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap

A virtual reflection and celebration of our dear LLC Alum

We write to share the sorrowful news that we have lost one of our own LLC alums, Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap. Dr. Basfield Dunlap, a member of LLC cohort 16, graduated in Spring 2018, with her...

Posted: June 19, 2020, 2:11 PM