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Spring 2024 Course Highlight

Anthropology of Gender

Course Description: The Anthropology of Gender concerns the wide range of meanings given to gender and sexuality in different settings. In exploring how gender and sexuality are culturally...

Posted: October 19, 2023, 1:47 PM

Roberto Zurbano Torres visits campus

on Monday, October 23rd

Meet Roberto Zurbano Torres and learn about his life and legacy in Cuba and beyond through a film and discussion with him. He has authored multiple books addressing topics such as racial...

Posted: October 19, 2023, 9:26 AM

Gallery Operations Specialist

Open Position at CADVC

Job no: 494323 Work type: Staff Full-time Location: UMBC Campus Categories: Other Department: Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture https://cadvc.umbc.edu/ Position Overview: The University...

Posted: October 18, 2023, 11:15 PM

EHS Graduate Seminar Series – Oct 25, Mike Ward, MS

Please join us for our weekly grad seminar!

Please join us October 25 from 3-5 pm for the EHS Graduate Speaker Seminar Series via WebEx. The speaker's information and seminar topic can be found below. Please help us welcome this week’s...

Posted: October 18, 2023, 8:38 PM

YOUR INPUT REQUESTED for spring FDC programming

What teaching topics are of interest or concern to you now?

Dear Colleagues (please share widely), The Faculty Development Center (FDC) supports all faculty and teaching staff in all aspects of their teaching role at the University through our...

Posted: October 18, 2023, 10:39 AM

Exhibition Designer and Coordinator

Open Position at CADVC

Job no: 494324 Work type: Staff Full-time Location: UMBC Campus Categories: Arts/Technical/Administration Department: Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture https://cadvc.umbc.edu/ ...

Posted: October 17, 2023, 9:14 PM

Design Project Survey: Saving Food on Campus

Please share with students to participate

A group of students in Professor Hamidi's Participatory Design and Community Engagement class are doing a project aiming to reduce food waste and increase access to food for students. Please...

Posted: October 17, 2023, 4:06 PM

Alyse Minter Successfully Defends her Dissertation

On October 13, 2023, Alyse N. Minter of LLC Cohort 20 successfully defended her dissertation and earned the title Doctor of Philosophy. Her hybrid defense went very smoothly and she gave a...

Posted: October 17, 2023, 9:30 AM

Prof. Emeritus Short publishes new book on cities

The Urban Now - Living in an Age of Urban Globalism

Public Policy Professor Emeritus John Rennie Short published a new book on cities titled The Urban Now.  "Drawing upon over a quarter of a century's worth of research, The Urban Now illuminates...

Posted: October 16, 2023, 2:18 PM

Livewire 13: Transformation

Join us for UMBC’s 13th annual Livewire new music festival, an exploration of new sounds presented in six concerts over four days, October 18 to 21. What is the role of music in our society?...

Posted: October 16, 2023, 11:40 AM