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Congratulations to the new Council of Majors Officers!

From left to right: Deloris Abrokwa, Kathryn Hardy, Mariah Salcedo, Maniraj Jeyaraju, Markus Proctor, and Kameron Fielder We look forward to their hard work in INDS' Council of Majors!

Posted: May 6, 2015, 1:38 PM

Call for Participation - IARSLCE Research Fellowship

Project on Community Engagement Professionals

Campus Compact is launching a project to develop a better understanding of the competencies and professional development practices of community engagement professionals. The research aspects of...

Posted: May 6, 2015, 9:38 AM

The slow poisoning of Freddie Gray

by AMST lecturer Rita Turner

The life of Freddie Gray, and of so many others, was endangered many times over by numerous forms of systemic racism before it was finally taken in the custody of police – an event that has...

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

Black and young in Baltimore: a roundtable discussion

featuring Dr. Kimberly Moffitt

For young people of color, growing up in Baltimore is often anything but Rockwellian. Most of the community lives below the poverty line and there’s a widespread distrust of law enforcement....

Posted: May 5, 2015, 1:50 PM

CFP: 23rd Annual Lavender Languages & Linguistics Conference

Submissions for Sessions under development

The Lavender Languages Conference. February 12-14, 2016 American University, Washington, D.C The Lavender Languages Conference is accepting paper submissions for the sessions that will take...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 9:41 AM

CFP: Narrative and Hypertext 2015

Papers Due - 12th June 2015

Narrative and Hypertext 2015 workshop on narrative systems To be held in conjunction with Hypertext 2015, Cyprus This workshop aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum to bring together...

Posted: May 4, 2015, 8:38 AM

Part-time job opportunity for Graduate Students

Copy editor for 2015-2016 academic year

Job description   Dr. Denis Provencher, editor-in-chief of Contemporary French Civilization (published by Liverpool University Press), seeks a UMBC graduate student to fill a part-time position...

Posted: May 2, 2015, 4:50 PM

Baltimore Matters! (Updated May 16)

UMBC CAHSS faculty react to recent events in Baltimore

In light of the recent events in Baltimore, many UMBC CAHSS faculty members have shared their perspectives and offered contextual understandings.  The following is a list of articles to which UMBC...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 8:34 PM

Jeff Halverson, GES, to Appear on Weather Channel

Appearance on "WX Geeks"

This Sunday, May 3, at noon, UMBC's Jeff Halverson will be appearing on The Weather Channel on a program titled WX Geeks.  He will be discussing how NASA has used technology such as satellites and...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 5:26 PM