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Rotting sargassum is choking the Caribbean’s white sand beaches, fueling an economic and public health crisis
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC The Caribbean’s sandy beaches, clear turquoise water and vibrant coral reefs filled with an...
Posted: June 4, 2024, 2:59 PM
Peter Wilschke ’24, political science and economics, publishes empirical research as the sole author in the State and Local Government Review journal
Peter Wilschke’s weeks leading up to graduation have been filled with unexpected excitement. His article “Political Drivers of State Fiscal Cyclicality” has been accepted for publication in the...
Posted: May 23, 2024, 12:56 PM
Thirsty in paradise: Water crises are a growing problem across the Caribbean islands
Written by Farah Nibbs, assistant professor of emergency and disaster health systems at UMBC. In the popular imagination, the Caribbean is paradise, an exotic place to escape to. But behind...
Posted: May 14, 2024, 8:31 AM
How 19th-century Spiritualists ‘canceled’ the idea of hell to address social and political concerns
Written by Lindsay DiCuirci, associate professor of English at UMBC. Between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio, drivers pass a billboard on Interstate 71 that has achieved some internet fame....
Posted: May 8, 2024, 12:11 PM
UMBC’s first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence shares unique research on neurodiversity in language teaching and learning
Neurodiversity inclusion and representation have been at the forefront of Michael Canale’s 20-year career in the disability services and education field. Canale, M.A. ’24, intercultural...
Posted: May 7, 2024, 1:43 PM
Neediest areas are being shortchanged on government funds − even with programs designed to benefit poor communities
Written by Eric Stokan, assistant professor of political science at UMBC; Aaron Deslatte, assistant professor of public administration at Indiana University, and Michael Overton, associate...
Posted: May 7, 2024, 1:38 PM
Ryan Bloom, English, receives 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation
Ryan Bloom, senior lecturer in English, has received the 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship for translation to work on the first complete edition of the French-Algerian author Albert Camus’s notebooks,...
Posted: May 7, 2024, 9:33 AM
Students inspire William Blake’s paper on constitutional amendments in the prestigious ‘American Political Science Review’
The American Political Science Review, the leading political science peer-reviewed journal, published “Social Capital, Institutional Rules, and Constitutional Amendment Rates,” a new research...
Posted: May 3, 2024, 3:11 PM
The Mellon Foundation awards UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies department $100,000 as part of its ‘Affirming Multivocal Humanities’ initiative
UMBC’s Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies (GWST) department has received a $100,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to implement its Advancing Gender and Sexuality Studies in Community...
Posted: April 23, 2024, 10:49 AM
Domestic violence survivors seek homeless services from a system that often leaves them homeless
Written by Nkiru Nnawulezi, associate professor of psychology at UMBC, and Lauren Cattaneo, George Mason University About 1 in every 3 women, and 1 in 4 men, will experience domestic violence...
Posted: April 11, 2024, 8:58 AM
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