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Legal Internships Still Available

Earn academic credit working in a law office.

Two or Three Openings Still Available for Spring Legal Internships The legal internship program combines academic study with practical work experience with judges and attorneys.  Work 15...

Posted: January 7, 2015, 12:32 PM

INDS Senior Looking for Freshmen Students to Interview

Yoo-Jin Kang, a senior in INDS and MLL, recently received IRB approval to conduct interviews for an independent research project focusing on perceptions of intimate relationships and violence in...

Posted: December 23, 2014, 2:10 PM

Professors King & Shewbridge receive Hrabowski Grant!

Nicole King (AMST) and Bill Shewbridge (MCS) were awarded a grant from the Hrabowski Innovation Fund for their project, Emerging Media Across the Curriculum. “Baltimore Stories” is a collaborative...

Posted: December 23, 2014, 3:13 AM

NEH Division of Research Grants Workshop: February 20, 2015

Regional Workshop to be held at UMBC

Presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Research will conduct a...

Posted: December 22, 2014, 3:52 PM

Information Session on 2015 SFF and SRAIS Funding

Internal Research Funding Workshop on January 12, 2015

The Office of the Vice President for Research will conduct a workshop on internal funding opportunities for faculty on Monday, January 12, 2015, from 3:00-4:00 p.m. Two internal research programs...

Posted: December 22, 2014, 2:55 PM

Julie Rosenthal, Asian Studies, in Baltimore Sun

Discussing volunteer programs during holiday season

The Baltimore Sun  recently published an article about a series of volunteer opportunities organized by the Jewish Federation of Howard County on Christmas Day. Last year, 250 volunteers...

Posted: December 15, 2014, 1:35 PM

Christopher Swan, GES, in New York Times

Quoted about urban ecology in Manhattan

Christopher Swan, an associate professor of geography and environmental systems, was quoted in a recent New York Times article about an urban ecology study that found millions of tiny insects are...

Posted: December 15, 2014, 1:28 PM

Kate Brown, HIST, Named to Physics World Books of the Year

Latest in series of awards Brown has received for Plutopia

History Professor Kate Brown has been named to the Physics World 2014 Books of the Year list for her book Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium...

Posted: December 15, 2014, 1:26 PM

Roy Meyers, POLI, Inducted to National Fellowship Program

National Academy of Public Administration Fellowship Program

Photo Courtesy National Academy of Public Administration Earlier this month at the National Academy of Public Administration annual meeting, Political Science Professor Roy Meyers was inducted...

Posted: December 15, 2014, 1:23 PM