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Prof. Emeritus Salkever discusses reality of real wage rise

New Policy Brief available now

Public Policy Professor Emeritus David Salkever has released a new policy brief examining the reality of real wage rise over the past few years compared to economic reporting in national media. ...

Posted: January 22, 2020, 12:01 PM

Publ's Dr. Tormos-Aponte featured on SSN podcast No Jargon

Where climate organizing stands now: justice & equity

What does it take to sustain a global climate movement?  In the latest episode of the Scholars Strategy Network podcast No Jargon, Public Policy/Political Science Postdoctoral Fellow Fernando...

Posted: January 21, 2020, 3:29 PM

New faculty member arriving Fall 2020

Mir Usman Ali joins us from Indiana Univ's O'Neill School

The School of Public Policy at UMBC is excited to announce that Mir Usman Ali will be joining us as an assistant professor in Fall 2020. Dr. Ali's work on police accountability and citizen...

Posted: January 21, 2020, 2:51 PM

Faculty Member Dr. Lindsay DiCuirci Wins National Book Prize

Bibliographical Soc. of America Awards Prize Every 3 Years

Lindsay DiCuirci's book, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Print (Penn Press, 2019) has been awarded the 2020 Bibliographical Society of America's St. Louis...

Posted: January 20, 2020, 1:05 PM

Stata materials and webinars for faculty and students

With the start of the new semester, Stata provides several resources for faculty and students including: A Teaching with Stata resources page Various training webinars, and  Various "cheat...

Posted: January 17, 2020, 2:19 PM

The Museum of the Old Colony - Opens at CADVC Jan 30

Exhibit surveys the history of US involvement in Puerto Rico

The Museum of the Old Colony Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC Thursday, January 30, 2020 — Saturday, March 14, 2020  Opening Reception, Thursday, January 30th, 5 to 7pm...

Posted: January 17, 2020, 9:15 AM

UMBC English Alum Wins National Educator of the Year Award

UMBC English alum Sean Pang '09 has been chosen for the 2019 Claes Nobel Educator of the Year Award. Pang teaches English and media arts at Rockville High School in Montgomery County, Maryland....

Posted: January 15, 2020, 3:50 PM

Fund for Education Abroad Scholarship due 1/17/2020

Up to $10,000 toward Study Abroad

Apply for the FEA Scholarship by January 17th.  The Education Abroad office is happy to review essays and assist with your application! Eligibility Requirements: - U.S. citizen or...

Posted: January 14, 2020, 2:32 PM

UMBC Dept. of Education Equity and Excellence Lecture

Thursday, January 23rd at 5pm

Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz of Columbia University will be discussing an action-oriented framework which works against racial injustice.  Discover how racial literacy enables all of us to actively...

Posted: January 14, 2020, 11:07 AM

Happy New Year from the English Department!

Keep up with news and events on myUMBC and social media

Happy New Year 2020 from the UMBC English Department! Faculty and staff are preparing for another exciting semester in the spring. The best way to keep up with our news and events is to...

Posted: January 13, 2020, 1:13 PM