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CAHSS dean establishes a $400,000 education abroad scholarship
CAHSS students, are you ready to study abroad? Kimberly Moffitt, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and the Social Sciences (CAHSS), has established the CAHSS Dean’s Education Abroad...
Posted: April 23, 2024, 8:33 AM
For the third time in five years, UMBC is named a Fulbright Top Producing Institution
Within just a few months of living in Piątek, a small town in central Poland, Leah Michaels, M.F.A ’19, intermedia and digital arts, has already traveled to Romania, where many recipients of the...
Posted: February 13, 2024, 11:32 AM
Taiwanese election may determine whether Beijing opts to force the issue of reunification
Written by Meredith Oyen, associate professor of history and Asian studies, UMBC When the votes are being tallied in Taiwan’s presidential election, it won’t be only the 23.6 million...
Posted: January 9, 2024, 10:23 AM
The US invented shopping malls, but China is writing their next chapter
Written by John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC On a recent research trip to China, I wandered through the Oasis Mall in suburban Shanghai. Like many Chinese shopping...
Posted: January 5, 2024, 10:48 AM
Meet a Retriever—Brian Souders, Ph.D., globetrotter and study abroad champion
Currently, Brian Souders is the associate director for global learning in the Center for Global Engagement at UMBC. But Brian, who came to UMBC in 2000 to be the university’s inaugural study...
Posted: November 10, 2023, 3:40 PM
Transforming the future of healthy aging: UMBC event highlights leading practices, research from Kanagawa and Maryland
UMBC recently partnered with the government of Japan’s Kanagawa prefecture to host the seminar “New Frontiers in Healthcare Management,” examining innovative approaches to an aging society. The...
Posted: November 30, 2022, 3:22 PM
How to Bridge Your Two Homes
With Jess Presuel ’23, biological sciences, an international student from Mexico Jess Presuel’s route to UMBC was not a direct flight from Mérida, Yucatán—her home state in Mexico—to UMBC....
Posted: November 23, 2022, 1:23 PM
BBC at 100: a trusted international news source, but it’s important to remember whose values it reflects
Jessica Berman, Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, Professor of English; Gender Women’s & Sexuality Studies; and Language, Literacy and Culture, UMBC. As the BBC turns 100...
Posted: October 17, 2022, 1:08 PM
UMBC humanities faculty pursue groundbreaking archival research through over $135,000 in prestigious fellowships
Humanities faculty Elizabeth Patton, Mirjam Voerkelius, and Amy Froide have received prestigious research fellowships totaling over $135,000 to explore archives and reveal new findings about...
Posted: October 12, 2022, 8:33 AM
Biden again indicates that US will defend Taiwan ‘militarily’ – does this constitute a change in policy?
Meredith Oyen, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, UMBC. President Joe Biden has – not for the first time – suggested that the U.S. would intervene “militarily” should China...
Posted: September 19, 2022, 4:07 PM
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