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Restoring tropical forests isn’t meaningful if those forests only stand for 10 or 20 years
By Matthew Fagan, UMBC; Leighton Reid, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Margaret Buck Holland, UMBC Tropical forests globally are being lost at a rate of 61,000 square miles a year. And...
Posted: March 20, 2019, 12:15 AM
The real women of ‘The Favourite’ included an 18th-century Warren Buffett
Amy Froide, Professor of History, UMBC One of the challengers at this year’s Oscars is “The Favourite,” a film set in the early 18th-century court of British monarch Queen Anne. Focusing on...
Posted: February 22, 2019, 2:16 PM
Why US cities are becoming more dangerous for cyclists and pedestrians
by John Rennie Short, Professor, School of Public Policy, UMBC As cities strive to improve the quality of life for their residents, many are working to promote walking and biking. Such policies...
Posted: February 20, 2019, 3:20 PM
Ivanka and her tower of crumbs
Preminda Jacob, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, UMBC For two hours each evening, an Ivanka Trump lookalike has been vacuuming a hot pink carpet at the Flashpoint Gallery...
Posted: February 13, 2019, 4:22 PM
Florence Knoll Bassett’s mid-century design diplomacy
by Margaret Re, Associate Professor of Graphic Design, UMBC The look, feel and functionality of the modern American office can be traced back to the work of one woman. Florence Knoll Bassett,...
Posted: February 8, 2019, 2:22 PM
Q&A: Robert Provine and the Science of Laughter
Have you ever tried to make yourself laugh – or make yourself stop laughing? According to Robert Provine, professor emeritus of psychology, these two actions are out of our control because...
Posted: January 11, 2019, 8:09 PM
Countering Russian disinformation the Baltic nations’ way
by Terry Thompson, Adjunct Instructor in Cybersecurity, UMBC As the new Congress begins, it will soon discuss the comprehensive reports to the U.S. Senate on the disinformation campaign of...
Posted: January 9, 2019, 7:08 PM
Who is responsible for migrants?
by Felipe A. Filomeno, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Global Studies, UMBC President Donald Trump tends to portray migrants as a foreign problem that has suddenly – and unfairly –...
Posted: December 18, 2018, 4:19 PM
How To Become a Fanzine Fan
With Susan Graham ’98, VPA & Anthropology, Special Collections Librarian at UMBC Since the early 1900s, fans of science fiction and fantasy have produced thousands upon thousands of...
Posted: December 17, 2018, 6:31 PM
Windows to the Past
When Scott Casper, dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, was asked to lend his expertise in 19th-century U.S. history to help understand a unique artifact found during the...
Posted: December 15, 2018, 5:28 PM
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