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GWST Black Lives Matter Statement

The faculty and staff of UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWST) department want to affirm our support for and solidarity with our Black students, faculty, and staff at UMBC and...

Posted: June 5, 2020, 3:25 PM

Reflections on a Challenging Era

It’s been a heartbreaking few months for many of us. We have all faced the uncertainty and confusion of the pandemic and what it means for the future. Some of our Asian and Asian American...

Posted: June 4, 2020, 2:13 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

Ruken Isik publishes article in Ahval News

Ruken Isik (LLC Cohort 17) shared a link to an article she just wrote for Ahval News entitled, "Turkey cracks down on Kurdish women's rights activists despite COVID-19."

Posted: May 29, 2020, 5:24 PM

Steven Dashiell Successfully Defends his Dissertation!

On May 27, 2020 Steven Dashiell of LLC Cohort 16 successfully defended his dissertation and earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy. His virtual defense went very smoothly and he gave an...

Posted: May 29, 2020, 12:25 PM

P/F Advising and Summer Connections

As we transition into the summer after a very unusual semester, here are a few things to keep in mind. 1.) The deadline to change your grade in a course to pass/fail or retroactively withdraw...

Posted: May 28, 2020, 4:21 PM