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Summer Faculty Research Fellowships

Applications are now being accepted for the 2020 Center for Social Science Scholarship/CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship Deadline: Saturday, February 15, 2020 Download the Fellowship...

Posted: November 18, 2019, 10:53 AM

Bruce Walz Retirement Celebration

Bruce Walz, PhD, Professor in the Department of Emergency Health Services, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, will be retiring from UMBC after 32 years of service to the university....

Posted: November 18, 2019, 10:52 AM

URCAD 2020 is coming!

Applications will be available 1/2/20

Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) features research, scholarship, and creative work carried out by UMBC undergraduates. Student work is shared through oral...

Posted: November 14, 2019, 10:28 AM

Funding Opportunities

for Social Science Faculty and Graduate Students

Please see below for a curated list of upcoming funding opportunities. The Center for Social Science Scholarship and the Maryland Institute for Policy, Analysis, and Research (MIPAR) assist...

Posted: November 13, 2019, 4:15 PM

Media Training on November 20th

for Social Science Grad Students and Faculty

On Wednesday, November 20th, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., a panel will explore how social scientists can connect with media outlets and talk to the press to promote their research or to serve as...

Posted: November 13, 2019, 1:57 PM

Tonight! Rosy Keyser artist talk at CADVC

Distal's Musk: Rosy Keyser runs through Dec 14

Stop by the CADVC in Fine Arts at 7pm tonight, Nov 13 for a talk by the artist, Rosy Keyser. Free!  More info at https://cadvc.umbc.edu/ ABOUT DISTAL'S MUSK: ROSY KEYSER The haunting...

Posted: November 13, 2019, 1:09 AM

41st Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture

Dr. Nimi Wariboko

Consciousness, Citizenship, and Epistemology in Africa Wednesday, November 13, 2019 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM University Center : Ballroom 41st Annual W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture Nimi Wariboko,...

Posted: November 12, 2019, 4:29 PM

Research Opportunities Abroad

Thursday, November 21, 2019 · 3 PM - 4 PM Administration : 301 Students:  Trying to decide between research opportunities and study abroad? You don't have to! Learn about your opportunities...

Posted: November 12, 2019, 3:05 PM

NEW Spring 2020 - HIST 384 - Viewing History Through Maps

East Asia in Native and European Cartography

How does a map inform - and lie?  How did early modern Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans draw "Asia"? We will read, study and touch (literally!) antique maps made in the 1800s,...

Posted: November 11, 2019, 4:39 PM