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Centering Thriving Immigrant Voices in Immigration Research
UMBC faculty are leading interdisciplinary, community-engaged immigration research that is shifting the relationship between higher education institutions and immigrant communities. Their...
Posted: December 5, 2022, 3:44 PM
Community-building in Baltimore through public humanities
Over the last decade Nicole King, professor of American studies and director of the Orser Center for the Study of Place, Community, and Culture, has worked with colleagues to develop public...
Posted: October 19, 2022, 10:52 AM
Rethinking collaborative public humanities research in New Orleans and Baltimore
If you were looking for Sarah Fouts in New Orleans, chances are you would find her at one of the many taco trucks or pop-up food vendors across the city, chatting with locals....
Posted: June 17, 2022, 7:52 AM
UMBC faculty and staff award recipients place community at the core of their success
At UMBC’s 2022 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (PFASA), Tamra Mendelson, professor of biological sciences and recipient of the 2022 – 2025 Presidential Teaching Professor Award, said she...
Posted: April 7, 2022, 10:12 PM
$21M Sherman Family Foundation gift supports UMBC’s bold commitment to PreK-12 research, teaching, and learning
The largest gift in the history of UMBC—a $21 million donation from the Sherman Family Foundation—will dramatically expand the reach and impact of the university’s K-12 and early childhood...
Posted: February 24, 2022, 6:00 PM
UMBC’s Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition winners focus on tech innovations, social impact
When Balaji Viswanathan’s grandfather was injured in a fall at a senior care facility a few years ago, he committed to seeing what he could do to prevent it from happening again, to his...
Posted: May 21, 2021, 3:41 PM
UMBC and Baltimore’s Lakeland Elementary/Middle School launch innovative online summer math program
UMBC’s Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars Program has launched an intensive virtual math incubator for Lakeland Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore City this summer. The free, voluntary five-week...
Posted: July 24, 2020, 6:55 PM
Baltimore Field School: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supports UMBC’s inclusive approach to community-based research
UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) is pleased to announce the launch of a fourteen-month initiative to promote diversity, inclusion, and social justice in the public...
Posted: January 23, 2020, 7:44 PM
UMBC’s Top Highlights of 2019
As UMBC welcomes 2020, we celebrate the student successes, athletic achievements, research breakthroughs, and community news that made 2019 a year to remember. Retriever Nation Whether it was...
Posted: January 9, 2020, 6:06 PM
In Baltimore Revisited, UMBC and community authors reflect on the city’s history of inequality and resistance
UMBC’s Nicole King, American studies, and Kate Drabinski, gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, have published Baltimore Revisited. The anthology, edited with the University of Baltimore’s...
Posted: October 22, 2019, 4:31 PM
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