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Much Ado About Nothing: Feb 20-March 2

Directed by LLC doctoral student Shirley Basfield Dunlap

S/He loves me; S/He loves me not! is the sought after answer in the humorous meditations on honor, shame and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing is considered the best of Shakespeare’s...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 8:12 PM

Policing Bodies & Beings: The Politics of Black Womanhood

Erin Berry, Emerald Christopher, Latasha Eley

Congratulations to three LLC doctoral students -- Erin Berry, Emerald Christopher, and Latasha Eley, who presented to an overflow crowd at UMBC's Women's Center on "Policing Bodies & Beings:...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 4:40 PM

Interested in getting a graduate degree at UMBC?

Interested in getting a graduate degree at UMBC? Learn about the UMBC Master's Degree in Public Policy (MPP) at an information session on Monday, March 10 at 7:00 pm in Room 438 of the...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 9:36 AM

INDS Director in WIRED

Pre-date RNA?

Most scientist accept the RNA world hypothesis, which states that RNA was the first biological molecule due to its ability to copy itself and pass along genetic traits. However, Nicholas Hud, a...

Posted: February 20, 2014, 10:03 AM

Melanie Harrison on KQED

Melanie was one of our first Ph.D. graduates (MEES program)

Melanie Harrison was in our first cohort of IGERT students and was one of the first two IGERT students to complete the Ph.D. at UMBC. She worked with Drs. Miller (GES) and Groffman (Cary Institute...

Posted: February 19, 2014, 7:53 AM

Professor King's blog post

"How to be an AMST Public History Private Investigator"

Andrew Ross has famously framed the work of American studies (or at least his work) as “scholarly reportage,” by which he means the “blending of ethnography and investigative journalism.” In a...

Posted: February 18, 2014, 7:31 AM

GRC (Graduate Research Conference) Updates

Register To Attend & Submit Abstracts By (3/1)

The official date of the 36th Annual Graduate Research Conference (GRC) is Wednesday, March 26th, 2014! The GRC (Graduate Research Conference) is an annual GSA event intended to showcase graduate...

Posted: February 13, 2014, 3:40 PM

Call for proposals for “What Went Wrong?" Conference

Reflecting and Learning from Community-Engaged Research

“What Went Wrong?" Reflecting and Learning from Community-Engaged Research Members of the Twin Cities metropolitan area (Minneapolis & St. Paul, MN) in conjunction with the University of...

Posted: February 13, 2014, 3:09 PM

Short-Term Residential Fellowship

Indiana University African Studies Collections

Call for Proposals Indiana University’s African Studies Program invites applications for a short-term residency to conduct research in IU’s Libraries/African Studies Collections. Indiana...

Posted: February 13, 2014, 2:47 PM