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Peace has long been elusive in rural Colombia – Black women’s community groups try to bring it closer each day
Written by Tania Lizarazo, associate professor of Latin American studies and global studies, UMBC It’s been almost nine years since Colombia celebrated a landmark peace agreement between one...
Posted: June 6, 2025, 11:30 AM
Queer country: LGBTQ+ musicians are outside the spotlight as Grand Ole Opry turns 100
Tanya Olson, associate professor of English, UMBC. On March 15, 1974, the Grand Ole Opry country music radio show closed its run at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee, with...
Posted: May 30, 2025, 11:43 AM
James Smalls’ efforts to restore Féral Benga’s place in 20th-century performing arts just might preserve his grave site as well
Art historian James Smalls, a professor of visual arts, researches the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality in both 19th-century art and the broader visual culture of the Black...
Posted: May 22, 2025, 5:34 PM
Gathering a humanities research tool kit to understand a fascinating world
Sean Silverman began his UMBC journey as a computer science major. After taking several programming classes in high school, he was ready to pursue a career in data science while also enrolling in...
Posted: April 15, 2025, 4:34 PM
How ticket-splitting voters could shape the 2026 midterms
Written by Ian Anson, associate professor of political science, UMBC With the 2024 U.S. election over and done with, political analysts and both major parties are already turning their...
Posted: February 26, 2025, 2:08 PM
A fiscal crisis is looming for many US cities
Written by John Rennie Short, professor emeritus of public policy, UMBC Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many U.S. cities are still adjusting to a new normal, with more...
Posted: February 20, 2025, 11:02 AM
Political science students conduct 2024 UMBC Battleground Exit Poll, gauging attitudes of 1,119 Baltimore County voters
Elections can tell us the number of people who voted for a candidate or ballot initiative, but not how those voters made up their minds. To understand voting behavior, experts turn to exit...
Posted: December 13, 2024, 3:48 PM
Tasneem Khambaty mentors a new generation of doctoral students on novel research for the prevention of type 2 diabetes
On the fourth floor of UMBC’s math/psychology building, Tasneem Khambaty, associate professor of clinical psychology and behavioral medicine, meets with doctoral students Ashley Splain and Sumaiya...
Posted: November 20, 2024, 12:08 PM
Colonialism’s legacy has left Caribbean nations much more vulnerable to hurricanes
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC Long before colonialism brought slavery to the Caribbean, the native islanders saw hurricanes and...
Posted: October 22, 2024, 11:12 AM
Meet a Retriever—Ridwan Islam Sifat, international doctoral student in public policy
Meet Ridwan Islam Sifat, an M.P.P. graduate student pursuing a doctoral degree at UMBC’s School of Public Policy researching healthcare disparities among intersex individuals in the United States....
Posted: September 26, 2024, 4:20 PM
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