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Mellon Foundation grants CAHSS $750K to establish Global Asias Initiative
Kimberly Moffitt, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Socials Sciences, and co-pi Tamara Bhalla, associate professor of American studies and director of the Asian American studies minor,...
Posted: April 3, 2024, 11:06 AM
Meet a Retriever—Aiman Raza ’22, applied environmental researcher in UMBC’s ICARE graduate program
Meet Aiman Raza ’22, biological sciences, and a current biological sciences master’s student in the Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) program. After...
Posted: April 1, 2024, 3:58 PM
Urban development simulation helps students learn how to balance growth, equity, and environmental sustainability
Urban development firms Future Roots and Team Elle Woods are competing to win the City of Yorktown’s Elmwood District urban redevelopment project. The teams hover over their LEGO-built cities...
Posted: March 27, 2024, 3:08 PM
James Clavell’s ‘Shōgun’ is reimagined for a new generation of TV viewers
Written by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis, professor of history, UMBC In 1980, when James Clavell’s blockbuster historical novel “Shōgun” was turned into a TV miniseries, some 33% of American...
Posted: March 25, 2024, 10:46 AM
Dean Moffitt interviewed about media and Black hair and body politics
Kimberly R. Moffitt, dean of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, speaks about the inspiration for and journey of her career in an interview with mastersincommunications.com,...
Posted: March 7, 2024, 12:44 PM
The Anthropocene is not an epoch − but the age of humans is most definitely underway
Written by Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC. When people talk about the “Anthropocene,” they typically picture the vast impact human societies are having...
Posted: March 7, 2024, 11:41 AM
UMBC fusion researchers get TV spotlight at world’s largest physics meeting
The American Physical Society, an influential professional society founded in 1899 to “advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics,” is highlighting the fusion research of UMBC’s Carlos...
Posted: March 4, 2024, 3:48 PM
National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences highlight Professor Upal Ghosh’s work cleaning contaminated waterways
The positive environmental and health impacts of work led by Upal Ghosh, professor of chemical, biochemical, and environmental engineering at UMBC, was recently highlighted by the National...
Posted: February 23, 2024, 3:53 PM
Turkey will stop sending imams to German mosques – here’s why this matters
Written by Brian Van Wyck, assistant professor of history, UMBC For decades, the Turkish government has sent imams to work in mosques across Germany. But the German Ministry of the Interior...
Posted: February 20, 2024, 1:07 PM
UMBC scientists and engineers celebrate launch of HARP2 instrument on NASA’s PACE mission
By Anne Wainscott-Sargent The third time’s the charm. Against a calm and crisp dark night sky on Florida’s Cape Canaveral last Thursday, February 8, just after 1:30 a.m., the Plankton,...
Posted: February 16, 2024, 10:36 AM
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