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The Literacy Lab: Receiving Applications 2018-19 school year

Full-time tutors

OPPORTUNITY WITH THE LITERACY LAB!   The Challenge Over 6.5 million US children from birth to 3rd grade are on track for reading failure. The Literacy Lab seeks to close the resource gap for...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 11:45 AM

Faculty offer context and analysis on major policy issues

As fall semester has kicked into high gear, UMBC professors have connected not just with students in the classroom, but also with the broader public through research-based reflections on current...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 11:04 AM

Christy Ford Chapin begins Library of Congress Fellowship

When Christy Ford Chapin, associate professor of history, began teaching at UMBC in 2012, she started by connecting curious students with the history of the American health care system. Her first...

Posted: October 17, 2017, 11:02 AM

2017 Alumni Awards celebrate impressive contributions

The UMBC community gathered for the 2017 UMBC Alumni Awards on October 5 in the Linehan Concert Hall to celebrate individuals who have made impressive contributions to society through their work....

Posted: October 17, 2017, 10:47 AM

History Prize

2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize

Prof. Michelle Scott has been awarded the 2017 Letitia Woods Brown Article Prize for the best article in African American Women's History from the Association of Black Women's Historians (ABWH)...

Posted: October 16, 2017, 5:21 PM

Thurgood Marshall -50th Anniversary

Free screening of Documentary

The Judge AW Center, in partnership with the University of Baltimore School of Law, will hold a 50th anniversary event to celebrate Thurgood Marshall's elevation to the Supreme Court. Please join...

Posted: October 16, 2017, 5:12 PM

New director for McDaniel writing center

Vanessa Flora-Nakoski has joined McDaniel College as the new writing center director. In this role, she manages the day-to-day operations of the writing center and oversees McDaniel students who...

Posted: October 16, 2017, 2:41 PM

Mid-tenure Reviews: Dr. Anson and Dr. Blake

Input needed from POLI students

This year, two Political Science assistant professors—Dr. Ian Anson and Dr. William Blake—are scheduled for their mid-tenure reviews. The faculty have tasked two, two-person student committees to...

Posted: October 16, 2017, 1:34 PM

Of Note: Doaa Rashed (Cohort 11)

Doaa Rashed received the Achilles-Harper-Swenson Emerging Researcher Award for her research on “Investigating the Factors Influencing ESL Teacher Professional Identity in Higher Education: A Mixed...

Posted: October 13, 2017, 12:24 PM

Retriever Essentials

UMBC is proud to launch RETRIEVER ESSENTIALS: a new faculty, staff, and student partnership to tackle food insecurity in our university community. Across the United States, a large number of...

Posted: October 12, 2017, 9:48 PM