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UMBC receives $6 million gift from the George and Betsy Sherman Family Foundation for two urban education initiatives
UMBC has received a $6 million gift from the George and Betsy Sherman Family Foundation to establish a new Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities and expand the work of the Sherman STEM...
Posted: November 2, 2017, 9:54 AM
George Derek Musgrove launches book at the National Museum of African American History and Culture
George Derek Musgrove ’97, associate professor of history, launched his new book Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital, University of North Carolina Press, with...
Posted: November 1, 2017, 8:33 PM
UMBC’s Chris Curran receives major NIJ grant for research on law enforcement in K–12 schools
UMBC’s F. Chris Curran, assistant professor of public policy, has received a two-year $620,000 National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI) grant to lead a new...
Posted: September 27, 2017, 2:29 PM
Christy Ford Chapin begins Library of Congress fellowship, continuing history faculty’s trend of research achievement
When Christy Ford Chapin, associate professor of history, began teaching at UMBC in 2012, she started by connecting curious students with the history of the American health care system. Her first...
Posted: September 25, 2017, 2:23 PM
UMBC receives major award to support inclusive excellence in the humanities
UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities and College of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) are launching a major new five-year initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the...
Posted: March 30, 2017, 2:33 PM
Baltimore Sun highlights how UMBC is enhancing the student experience in and out of the classroom
Student success has long been a pillar of UMBC’s mission as a public research university, and the Baltimore Sun‘s latest special section on education highlights multiple UMBC programs focused on...
Posted: February 9, 2017, 8:30 PM
UMBC’s Cyber Scholars program stands out as a national model in “Diverse”
At a time when just 12 percent of information security analysts are black, Hispanic or Asian, and only 20 percent of information security analysts are women, successful student support programs...
Posted: February 3, 2017, 6:54 PM
New app Valuable Voices builds awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity in the classroom
A new iPhone app developed at UMBC is poised to change how students and teachers think about language in the classroom. Valuable Voices provides 12 ready-to-implement exercises for students and...
Posted: February 2, 2017, 8:52 PM
UMBC grad students talk STEM teaching, mentorship, and collaboration in South Korea
A UMBC delegation of Ph.D. students and their mentors traveled to Seoul, South Korea in early November to discuss with international colleagues how engineering and engineering education can...
Posted: December 13, 2016, 8:39 PM
UMBC support for STEM grad students from underrepresented groups featured as a national model
The Christian Science Monitor recently examined challenges that many graduate students from underrepresented groups experience, such as isolation, mentors who may not understand their perspectives...
Posted: November 10, 2016, 6:55 PM
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