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Black & Gold Rush 2025

Generosity in Action

The theme of Black & Gold Rush 2025 is “Generosity in Action.” Please join us March 5 – 6 by making a gift of any size to help fund students. Watch your generosity change lives! With...

Posted: March 5, 2025, 10:40 AM

Join the New IAEM Student Chapter on Campus!

Calling All Future Emergency Managers!

Are you passionate about helping communities stay safe and resilient? Do you want to gain real-world experience in emergency management, disaster response, and crisis planning? Then this is your...

Posted: March 4, 2025, 1:40 PM

Tipsheet: Encouraging Academic Integrity in the Era of Gen AI

Use best practices in course design & make AI policies clear

Dear Colleagues, Advances in generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) have complicated our efforts to foster and maintain academic integrity in instruction at UMBC. The FDC recently hosted a...

Posted: March 4, 2025, 10:16 AM

RTSS Episode 66: Financial Literacy

with Dr. Annamaria Lusardi

On today's episode we hear a rebroadcast of the 2025 UMBC Mullen Lecture, sponsored by UMBC's Center for Social Science Scholarship and the UMBC Department of Economics. This year's lecture was...

Posted: March 3, 2025, 1:54 PM

Nominate a student for the Mary Akaras Scholarship Book Award!

Nominations due March 14.

The Dresher Center for the Humanities seeks nominations for students eligible to receive the Mary Akaras Scholarship Book Award for $500 toward the purchase of texts. The student should have a...

Posted: March 3, 2025, 11:27 AM

Wed. March 5: AI Workshop and Talk with Virginia Dignum

Events take place at 12:00 and 4:00 PM

Please use the Dresher Center myUMBC event page links here to RSVP. Workshop space is limited. AI and the Humanities (workshop, 12:00-1:00 PM, PAHB 216) The AI Paradox (talk, 4:00-5:00 PM,...

Posted: March 3, 2025, 11:13 AM

PhD candidate Sifat explores the role of AI in policy-making

Commentary in Politics & Policy

Public Policy Ph.D. candidate Ridwan Islam Sifat has published a commentary article in the journal Politics & Policy. His piece "AI and Public Policy: Navigating the Possibilities and...

Posted: February 28, 2025, 7:40 AM