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ISLS 2015 Founders' Emergent Scholars Award

Attention recent LLC Graduates!!!

This award is intended to promote critical language scholarship and to recognize and advance the academic work of emergent scholars who have completed their doctoral dissertations within the past...

Posted: December 1, 2014, 2:01 PM

Why study public policy?

Read this Baltimore Sun op-ed by Donald F. Norris

As we celebrate 40 years of public policy graduate studies at UMBC, Don Norris explains the importance of our program to the State, and why we need public policy leaders as much as we need...

Posted: November 25, 2014, 1:48 PM

Apply for a Dresher Center Residential Faculty Fellowship

Call for Proposals for Spring 2016 (due May 1, 2015)

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for two Residential Faculty Research Fellowships for spring 2016. Funding is intended to support and promote significant humanities...

Posted: November 25, 2014, 12:31 PM

Job Announcement: Two Positions at University of Maryland

Social studies, minority and urban ed. / Curriculum theory

The Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership (TLPL)at the University of Maryland is seeking to fill two positions at either the Assistant or Associate Professor levels. We seek...

Posted: November 23, 2014, 10:28 PM

Rubin, HIST, to Appear on WYPR, Receives WSJ Book Review

On Thursday, November 20, History Associate Professor Anne Rubin will appear on WYPR’s   Humanities Connection   to discuss her research and digital humanities project, “Mapping Memory: Digitizing...

Posted: November 21, 2014, 11:25 AM

Surdna Foundation Awards Grant to IRC for Lerman Residency

The Surdna Foundation, which is dedicated to fostering sustainable communities in the United States, has awarded $95,882 to the Imaging Research Center, in partnership with the College of Arts,...

Posted: November 21, 2014, 11:23 AM

CAS Researchers Present at National GSA Meeting in DC

Center for Aging Studies prominent at Gerontology Meeting

UMBC’s Center for Aging Studies had a strong presence at the 2014 Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting earlier this month in Washington, D.C. The conference brought together more...

Posted: November 21, 2014, 11:22 AM

PAHB Reviewed in Baltimore Business Journal

UMBC’s Performing Arts and Humanities Building received a positive review in the Baltimore Business Journal in an article published November 18. Written by Klaus Philipsen, president of ArchPlan...

Posted: November 21, 2014, 11:17 AM

Documentary videos by Vin Grabill at the Gugenheim Museum

"Group Zero" seen through the lens of UMBC Art Professor

Three documentary videos produced by Visual Arts Department Chair Vin Grabill will be screened at the Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of the "Zero: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s Film...

Posted: November 21, 2014, 9:56 AM

NEW COURSE! AMST 369 Filipino American Cultural Studies

This interdisciplinary course offers a survey of Filipino American experiences, including, but not limited to analyses of labor migration from the Philippines to various points of settlement in...

Posted: November 20, 2014, 7:26 PM