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INDS Fall 2025 Graduate Highlight Series

Akhil-B.S. INDS Minors, Certificates, and/or Honors  Minor In Physics Minor In Computer Science  Why did you choose INDS?  It was a perfect fit for combining my physics course work...

Posted: December 22, 2025, 3:05 PM

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Spring 2026 Social Sciences Forum

Mark your calendars now for these exciting events!

SSF lectures will be held at 4pm in the AOK Library Gallery. Thursday, February 26, 2026 Psychology Distinguished Lecture "Creating Inclusive Classrooms in Childhood: Theory, Research, and...

Posted: December 16, 2025, 3:41 PM

CS3 2026 Summer Fellowships

Applications due February 13, 2026.

Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship.  The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research by...

Posted: December 16, 2025, 3:36 PM

GES Faculty Publication: Responsible Use of Global Remote-Sensing Data

Responsible use and limits of global remote-sensing datasets

We are excited to share a recent publication by Dr. Matthew E. Fagan, Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems at UMBC, published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. In...

Posted: December 15, 2025, 11:45 AM

Winter 2026 Writing Group

The Dresher Center for the Humanities will once again host a writing group during the 2025 Winter Session. This would be a writing accountability group format where we come together and write....

Posted: December 15, 2025, 9:40 AM

Job Opportunity with the Smithsonian National Museum of American History!

Part-Time Educational Technician (Spark!Lab Facilitator)

This position is located in the Lemelson Center, Division of Public History, National Museum of American History (NMAH), Smithsonian Institution (SI). The Lemelson Center’s mission is to promote...

Posted: December 11, 2025, 4:16 PM

HDR Machine Learning Challenge virtual afternoon hackathon

2 to 5pm EST on Thursday, December 18, 2015 online

***reposted from UMBC AI*** As part of the 2nd Annual HDR Machine Learning Challenge, UMBC's iHARP project, along with other NSF HDR Institutes, is hosting a kick-off virtual...

Posted: December 11, 2025, 2:20 PM