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There’s more than one good way to teach kids how to read
By Kindel Turner Nash, UMBC and Leah Panther, Mercer University We are literacy professionals, former reading teachers who now prepare college and graduate students to teach kids how to read....
Posted: January 21, 2020, 6:36 PM
NPR Is Still Expanding the Range of What Authority Sounds Like After 50 Years
By Jason Loviglio, founding chair and associate professor of media and communication studies, UMBC From its start half a century ago, National Public Radio heralded a new approach to the sound...
Posted: December 6, 2019, 3:41 PM
Spinster, Old Maid, or Self-Partnered–Why Words for Single Women Have Changed Through Time
By Amy Froide, chair and professor, Department of History, UMBC In a recent interview with Vogue, actress Emma Watson opened up about being a single 30-year-old woman. Instead of calling herself...
Posted: December 2, 2019, 2:22 PM
3 Global Conditions—and a Map—for Saving Nature and Using it Wisely
By Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC, and James Watson, professor, The University of Queensland Nature urgently needs our help. Wild creatures, from songbirds...
Posted: October 25, 2019, 5:56 PM
What Is Ashura? How this Shiite Muslim Holiday Inspires Millions
By Noorzehra Zaidi, assistant professor of history, UMBC Tens of millions of Shiite Muslims from around the world will visit Iraq on Sept. 10 this year to see the shrines of Hussain, grandson of...
Posted: October 2, 2019, 3:03 PM
What Nigerian cities can learn from the rest of the world
By John Rennie Short, professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC Africa is the world’s most rapidly urbanising region. By 2050 more than one billion people will live in cities across the...
Posted: September 16, 2019, 4:23 PM
Don’t ignore serious nonmilitary threats to US national security
By Richard Forno, assistant director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, director, Cybersecurity Graduate Program, UMBC Almost two decades after thousands died in the attacks of 9/11, there remain...
Posted: September 10, 2019, 7:30 PM
Parents can help kids catch up in reading with a 10-minute daily routine
By Kindel Turner Nash, associate professor, early childhood education, UMBC Because I conduct research about reading, parents often ask me the same question: “What can I do to help my child...
Posted: September 3, 2019, 6:49 PM
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots of the human age, the Anthropocene
By Erle C. Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems, UMBC; Ben Marwick, associate professor of archaeology, University of Washington; Lucas Stephens, research affiliate in...
Posted: August 30, 2019, 3:47 PM
Not All Americans Have a Fair Path to a Good Death – Racial Disparities Are Real
By Jason Ashe, doctoral student in human services psychology, UMBC, and Danielle L. Beatty Moody, assistant professor of psychology, UMBC What does it mean to “die well”? The world got an idea...
Posted: June 24, 2019, 1:59 PM
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