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GWST Major is BreakingGround!

Maureen explains how voting honors her family

Voting to Honor My Family Maureen Evans Arthurs ’13, Gender and Women’s Studies, was recently selected as one of just 10 U.S. college students to serve on the 2012–13 National Student...

Posted: November 7, 2012, 4:56 PM

Spring 2013 Registration Reminder

Undergraduate students began registering TODAY for Spring 2013! Because of the storm, registration times have been slightly altered. Click here to check your updated registration date and time....

Posted: October 31, 2012, 2:46 PM

Interdiscipilinary PAID Summer Opportunity

"Hands-On, Minds-On" Understanding & Preventing Violence

The "Hands-On, Minds-On" research experience for undergraduates (REU) brings together faculty and staff from a variety of different disciplines, departments, and offices at Virginia Tech. Ten...

Posted: October 22, 2012, 12:20 PM

GWST Affiliate Faculty to lead UMBC Dresher Center

Important leadership changes announced

As previously announced to the campus, Professor Rebecca Boehling, the Director of the Dresher Center, will become Director of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany, in...

Posted: October 15, 2012, 11:53 AM

2012 GWST Student Awards

The Gender and Women's Studies Coordinating Committee chose six outstanding graduating seniors to receive annual awards from the program. The awards were presented by Dr. Carole McCann, Program...

Posted: September 18, 2012, 10:57 AM

Attention INDS Science Students!

FREE Symposium 10/18

University of Maryland, Baltimore “Frontiers in Genomics” Symposium (10/18)   The University of Maryland, Medical School’s Institute for Genome Sciences will hold a free symposium this...

Posted: September 11, 2012, 12:38 PM

GWST Faculty is BreakingGround!

What Dr. Kate Drabinski saw riding her bike around today

"Kate Drabinski is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and director of the WILL Program at UMBC. One of my biggest frustrations as a student was writing papers that would be read only by...

Posted: September 5, 2012, 1:40 PM

GWST Student serves as delegate at DNC

Caitlyn Leiter-Mason reports on her experience

"UMBC’s Caitlyn Leiter-Mason ’14, GWST and political science, and Mitch Case ’11, MCS, are in Charlotte this week serving as delegates to the Democratic National Convention, reports Patch....

Posted: September 5, 2012, 1:24 PM

Congratulations Amy Fowler!

Congratulations to May 2012 graduate Amy Fowler! She just completed a summer program in Taiwan where she intensively studied Chinese. She has also accepted a full scholarship to a 3-years Masters...

Posted: August 31, 2012, 9:18 AM

Meet INDS Student Andres Camacho

Read about the good work Andres has been doing for children across the globe: http://www.umbc.edu/window/shriverinterns2012.html#pic1

Posted: August 28, 2012, 2:59 PM