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Fall 2014 Registration Appointment Times

Appointment times are now posted!

It's time to start thinking about Fall 2014 classes! The Fall 2014 Schedule of Classes will be available in a few weeks, but the Registrar's Office has posted the times when you can register -...

Posted: February 27, 2014, 12:09 PM

Tom Beck, Baltimore Sun

Beck quoted on Jaffee and Lewis Hine

Tom Beck, Chief Curator, in the Baltimore Sun and Republican American Posted on February 18, 2014 by Tom Beck, Chief Curator, Library & Gallery, was recently quoted in The Baltimore...

Posted: February 24, 2014, 11:54 AM

Summer 2014 Class Schedule Available!

Search now and be advised on what to take this summer!

The Summer 2014 Schedule of Classes is now online! Registration begins March 24 and is first-come first-serve. You do not need clearance from your advisor to register for summer classes, but you...

Posted: February 24, 2014, 9:35 AM

Much Ado About Nothing: Feb 20-March 2

Directed by LLC doctoral student Shirley Basfield Dunlap

S/He loves me; S/He loves me not! is the sought after answer in the humorous meditations on honor, shame and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing is considered the best of Shakespeare’s...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 8:12 PM

Policing Bodies & Beings: The Politics of Black Womanhood

Erin Berry, Emerald Christopher, Latasha Eley

Congratulations to three LLC doctoral students -- Erin Berry, Emerald Christopher, and Latasha Eley, who presented to an overflow crowd at UMBC's Women's Center on "Policing Bodies & Beings:...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 4:40 PM

Interested in getting a graduate degree at UMBC?

Interested in getting a graduate degree at UMBC? Learn about the UMBC Master's Degree in Public Policy (MPP) at an information session on Monday, March 10 at 7:00 pm in Room 438 of the...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 9:36 AM

INDS Director in WIRED

Pre-date RNA?

Most scientist accept the RNA world hypothesis, which states that RNA was the first biological molecule due to its ability to copy itself and pass along genetic traits. However, Nicholas Hud, a...

Posted: February 20, 2014, 10:03 AM

Melanie Harrison on KQED

Melanie was one of our first Ph.D. graduates (MEES program)

Melanie Harrison was in our first cohort of IGERT students and was one of the first two IGERT students to complete the Ph.D. at UMBC. She worked with Drs. Miller (GES) and Groffman (Cary Institute...

Posted: February 19, 2014, 7:53 AM

Professor King's blog post

"How to be an AMST Public History Private Investigator"

Andrew Ross has famously framed the work of American studies (or at least his work) as “scholarly reportage,” by which he means the “blending of ethnography and investigative journalism.” In a...

Posted: February 18, 2014, 7:31 AM