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Allied Media Conference

June 19-June 22, 2014

ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE The Allied Media Conference cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world. We come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 2:04 AM

Campus War Machine: Sex and Debt

Call for applications- Fisher Center Predoctoral Fellowship

In keeping with the Fisher Center’s mission of supporting research and dialogue about gender through curricular, programmatic, and scholarly projects, the Fisher Center Steering Committee...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 1:43 AM

Rethinking Intellectual Activism conference

April 12, 2014

Registration for the Rethinking Intellectual Activism conference on April 12, 2014, is now open! This is the first annual LLC Graduate Student Conference and will be held at UMBC. Join us as we...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 1:27 AM

Advocacy Training Day in Washington, D.C.

August 6, 2014

SCRA and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) are considering holding a joint Advocacy Training Day in Washington, DC.  This training would take place on August 6, the...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 1:22 AM

Emerald/HETL Education Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

Recognition for the best doctoral research in education

Emerald Group Publishing and the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) are delighted to offer a grant award for a doctoral research project in the field of...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 10:05 PM

Anne Brodsky, Psychology, receives SCRA Award

2014 SCRA Award for Distinguished Contributions

Anne Brodsky, psychology professor and associate dean of the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, has received the 2014 SCRA Award for Distinguished Contributions to Theory and...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 5:08 PM

Joan Shin & Jodi Crandall, Education, win Ben Warren Prize

Teaching Young Learners English

Education Professor of Practice Joan Shin has received the 2013 Ben Warren International House Trust Prize for her book Teaching Young Learners English (National Geographic Learning/Cengage...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 5:06 PM

Jason Hughes, M.F.A. IMDA '15, artwork featured in NYT

Artwork by Jason Hughes, IMDA, in the New York Times

This week, a project by Jason Hughes, IMDA, was included in a New York Times Education Life slideshow that highlights the work of students whose art creatively solves a problem. One of only 17...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 5:04 PM

Anne Rubin, History, class on Civil War aired on C-Span

Civil War and Reconstruction

A lecture by History Associate Professor Anne Rubin in her Civil War and Reconstruction class recently aired on C-SPAN3. The class was taped by C-SPAN as part of a series on Civil War Memory and...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 5:03 PM

Ken Corbett, MCS '14, produces WYPR story on Billie Holiday

Media and Communication Studies on WYPR’s Maryland Morning

American jazz singer and songwriter Billie Holiday has a Baltimore connection. She spent the bulk of her childhood on a block of South Durham Street in Upper Fells Point. Residents and artists in...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 5:01 PM