News

Black and young in Baltimore: a roundtable discussion

featuring Dr. Kimberly Moffitt

For young people of color, growing up in Baltimore is often anything but Rockwellian. Most of the community lives below the poverty line and there’s a widespread distrust of law enforcement....

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:50 PM

CFP: 23rd Annual Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference

Submissions for Sessions under development

The Lavender Languages Conference. February 12-14, 2016 American University, Washington, D.C The Lavender Languages Conference is accepting paper submissions for the sessions that will take...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 9:41 AM

CFP: Narrative and Hypertext 2015

Papers Due - 12th June 2015

Narrative and Hypertext 2015 workshop on narrative systems To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2015, Cyprus This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 8:38 AM

Part-time job opportunity for Graduate Students

Copy editor for 2015-2016 academic year

Job description   Dr. Denis Provencher, editor-in-chief of Contemporary French Civilization (published by Liverpool University Press), seeks a UMBC graduate student to fill a part-time position...

Posted: May 2, 2015, 4:50 PM

Baltimore Matters! (Updated May 16)

UMBC CAHSS faculty react to recent events in Baltimore

In light of the recent events in Baltimore, many UMBC CAHSS faculty members have shared their perspectives and offered contextual understandings.  The following is a list of articles to which UMBC...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 8:34 PM

Jeff Halverson, GES, to Appear on Weather Channel

Appearance on "WX Geeks"

This Sunday, May 3, at noon, UMBC's Jeff Halverson will be appearing on The Weather Channel on a program titled WX Geeks.  He will be discussing how NASA has used technology such as satellites and...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 5:26 PM

Course offer for Fall '15: LLC 672 Bilingualism

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Shin

LLC 672 Bilingualism This course deals with the ways in which people use two or more languages in everyday life, and begins with an overview of a broad range of social and political issues that...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 4:22 PM

Congrats to the INDS Students Who Received an URA!

2 INDS students receive an Undergrad Research Award

Undergraduate Research Awards for 2014-2015 have been awarded for 49 student research projects involving 50 students in disciplines and departments across campus. The funded research projects are...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 1:22 PM

UMBC Alumni pin

Hello graduating political science seniors! Please stop by and get your UMBC alumni pin before the semester ends. See Ms. Sellers or Mr. Lessmeier to get yours (PUP 310 & PUP 357). ...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 12:58 PM