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Loren Henderson, SOCY/ANTH presents at UN Headquarters

Workshop/Conference on Poverty,Inequalityand Global Conflict

Drs. Loren Henderson and Cedric Herring were invited as a select group of approximately 25 leading scholars and activists from around the world to meet at UN Headquarters, NY, January 2016. The...

Posted: January 14, 2016, 4:11 PM

Amy Bhatt in Seattle Magazine on South Asian tech workforce

A feature published in the December 2015 edition of Seattle Magazine examines how Seattle’s South Asian population is becoming more visible in the philanthropic community. Amy Bhatt, an assistant...

Posted: January 14, 2016, 4:02 PM

Kate Drabinski discusses minority votes in the Sun

Black Girls Vote, a nonprofit organization designed to boost voter turnout in Baltimore, was recently featured in the Baltimore Sun. In the article, Kate Drabinski, a lecturer of gender and...

Posted: January 14, 2016, 3:55 PM

F. Chris Curran named Emerging Education Policy Scholar

F. Chris Curran, an assistant professor in UMBC’s School of Public Policy, has been named an Emerging Education Policy Scholar for 2015-16 by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American...

Posted: January 14, 2016, 3:51 PM

Leslie Morgan, SOCY/ANTH, receives distinguished AGHE Award

Mildred M. Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition Award

Dr. Leslie Morgan, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Co-Director of Gerontology Doctoral Program will receive the Mildred M. Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition at the...

Posted: January 13, 2016, 10:33 AM

Leslie Morgan, Dept. of SOCY/ANTH keynote speaker for OAGE

2016 Ohio Association of Gerontology & Education Conference

Dr. Leslie Morgan, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Co-Director of Gerontology Doctoral Program, will give the keynote address at the 2016 Ohio Association of Gerontology and...

Posted: January 11, 2016, 1:39 PM

ACLS Public Fellows Competition for Recent PhDs

Rachel Brubaker, Assistant Director of the Dresher Center for Grants and Program Development, will be happy to speak with any students who expect to finish their doctoral work in the spring and...

Posted: January 11, 2016, 10:55 AM

Candidacy - A poem by LLC student David Balosa (Cohort 14)

David Balosa has shared with us a poem which is a reflection on achieving candidacy. Candidacy (poem) My mentors—on diversity for human dignity, I honor you! My friends—in unity and fraternity,...

Posted: January 9, 2016, 8:52 PM