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Baltimore Bonds
If you had the chance to interview someone you look up to, what would you ask? Sydney Fryer ’22, psychology, had the opportunity this fall when she sat down for a chat with fellow Sondheim Scholar...
Posted: January 8, 2020, 3:37 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
Convicts Are Returning to Farming—Anti-Immigrant Policies Are the Reason
By Stian Rice, visiting assistant research professor, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, UMBC Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim...
Posted: June 7, 2019, 1:24 PM
Hackers Seek Ransoms from Baltimore and Communities Across the US
By Richard Forno, assistant director, UMBC Center for Cybersecurity, director, cybersecurity graduate program The people of Baltimore are beginning their fifth week under an electronic siege...
Posted: June 5, 2019, 4:59 PM
Up on the Roof – Spring 2019
In 1989, Baltimore philanthropist Robert E. Meyerhoff sat down with then-UMBC vice provost Freeman Hrabowski with a bold vision for the University—to create a program that would offer...
Posted: May 28, 2019, 10:54 PM
A Quest to Reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘Reservation’
By Ashley Minner, Lecturer, UMBC A few years ago, I invited a group of students to go on a short walking tour of the Lumbee Indian community of East Baltimore. Lumbee are indigenous to North...
Posted: April 23, 2019, 9:17 PM
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