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From UMBC News and Magazine
UMBC faculty discuss state of the presidential campaign in local and national media
With just three weeks to go before Election Day, UMBC faculty have been in the news discussing the state of the presidential campaign. Kimberly Moffitt, associate professor of American studies,...
Posted: October 14, 2016, 3:12 PM
Kimberly Moffitt analyzes the first presidential debate on WYPR and WEAA
Following the first presidential debate on September 26, Kimberly Moffitt was a guest on WYPR’s Midday program and WEAA’s The Marc Steiner Show to provide analysis and outline what the candidates...
Posted: September 30, 2016, 3:58 PM
UMBC community gathers to reflect on campus culture over the last 50 years
During UMBC’s 50th anniversary celebration weekend, alumni, faculty, staff, and students gathered for a lighthearted event to reflect on the student experience over the years at the university....
Posted: September 30, 2016, 3:21 PM
Stoop stories offer a glimpse into UMBC’s first days and rich history
On September 19, 1966, 750 freshmen arrived at UMBC and began taking classes in one of three building that made up the campus. Fifty years later, community members gathered together to share their...
Posted: September 26, 2016, 2:41 PM
Baltimore Magazine features UMBC in its 2016 College guide
Readers of this year’s Baltimore Magazine guide to popular colleges in Maryland opened the publication to see a full-page vibrant photo of UMBC’s campus, taken from a rooftop above the tree...
Posted: September 3, 2016, 1:14 AM
Kimberly Moffitt reflects on community responses and reactions to recent violence across the country
Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American studies, joined The Baltimore Sun’s “Roughly Speaking” podcast with Dan Rodricks on July 20 to discuss reaction surrounding recent shootings...
Posted: July 21, 2016, 7:45 PM
In groundbreaking move, NEH extends tour of acclaimed exhibit “For All the World to See”
For the past five years, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, an exhibition organized by UMBC’s Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) in...
Posted: July 2, 2016, 3:39 PM
UMBC’s 2016 Fulbright Scholars to serve as teachers and researchers around the world, from Moldova to Malaysia
After class one day in 2015, Brigitte May, senior lecturer in German, turned to her student, Matthew Kelly, to talk about his plans for after graduation. “Matt, I know what you are going to do...
Posted: July 1, 2016, 7:41 PM
Kimberly Moffitt weighs in on the presidential election and Gov. Hogan’s stance on Trump
Kimberly Moffitt recently joined The Baltimore Sun’s “Roughly Speaking” podcast with Dan Rodricks to discuss the state of the 2016 presidential campaign and Gov. Larry Hogan’s announcement that he...
Posted: June 23, 2016, 8:01 PM
UMBC students produce radio series “The World that Brought Us Freddie Gray”
A year after the death of Freddie Gray and the Uprising that followed, a group of UMBC students went out into the neighborhoods directly affected by the events of last year to interview residents...
Posted: June 3, 2016, 2:20 PM
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