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Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic volume

Call for Chapters

Call for Chapters    Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic     Editors:    Melvin E. Thomas, Ph. D.  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina...

Posted: June 15, 2020, 9:36 AM

A statement in concern and support

From Susan Sterett, Director, School of Public Policy

Dear Colleagues, I am grateful to work at UMBC, with its commitment to equity and inclusion. Our leaders issued a superb statement about the inequality that videos of police and community...

Posted: June 10, 2020, 4:27 PM

Political history is being made

Dear UMBC Political Science Students,   Political history is being made: are you involved? Send us your posters, your photos. We want to amplify the political advocacy of our students.  ...

Posted: June 9, 2020, 10:28 AM

Dresher Center Statement on Anti-Black Racism

The Dresher Center for the Humanities stands in solidarity with members of our Black community and other communities suffering across the nation. We mourn and condemn the murder of George...

Posted: June 8, 2020, 9:22 AM

The Harry Appelman Trio to Present Livestream Concert

June 19, 8pm

On June 19 at 8pm, UMBC Music Affiliate Artist in Jazz Piano Harry Appelman will present a livestream concert from Blue House Productions with is jazz trio.  The concert can be streamed from...

Posted: June 5, 2020, 7:45 PM

Adam Dixon, GES PhD Student

published in Land — Open Access Journal

Check out Adam's article titled: Agricultural Landscape Composition Linked with Acoustic Measures of Avian Diversity

Posted: June 3, 2020, 3:33 PM

MCS Faculty checking in with you

June 3, 2020   Dear MCSers,   Your safety, health, and well-being have been much on the minds of the MCS faculty, especially in recent days, when the challenges posed by the pandemic and...

Posted: June 3, 2020, 3:32 PM

Elaine MacDougall and James Wright Receive Crandall Award

to develop peer-writing-consultant training

LLC Students Elaine MacDougall and James Wright, both from Cohort 22, have just been awarded the 2020 Jodi Crandall Fellowship for Research in Language, Literacy, and Culture. They proposed...

Posted: June 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

The Evolving World of Inclusive Language

Free event, June 10, 2020, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

You might want to attend part or some of this online conference on The Evolving World of Inclusive Language: How to Develop and Apply Best Practices. The event registration, for UMBC folks, is now...

Posted: June 1, 2020, 2:10 PM