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UMBC Magazine: See The Challenge, Be The Change

Written by: Megan Hanks Mastrola. Modeled after a national program, UMBC’s Grand Challenge Scholars Program was established in the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) in Fall 2016. Over the past six years, the program has expanded, drawing together students from various disciplines to address major challenges that the world is facing. Ranging from engineering better medicines and securing cyberspace. …

Posted: July 11, 2022

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Shawn Bediako receives inaugural Marilyn Demorest Award for Faculty Advancement

A message to the UMBC community from Provost Philip Rous: I am pleased to announce that Shawn Bediako, Associate Professor of Psychology, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Marilyn E....

Posted: November 13, 2015, 8:16 PM

Jessica Berman presents research at prominent international symposium in Sweden

At a recent symposium held at Uppsala University, Sweden featuring prominent international modernist research, Jessica Berman, director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities and professor of...

Posted: November 13, 2015, 11:57 AM

George Derek Musgrove’s research on gentrification in the nation’s capital featured in the Washington Post

In advance of the annual Conference on D.C. Historical Studies, the Washington Post highlighted research by George Derek Musgrove ’97, history, associate professor of history, that identifies four...

Posted: November 13, 2015, 10:09 AM

UMBC education department, CADVC partner with Arbutus Middle School on environmental art outreach

As part of an ongoing partnership with professional development schools, UMBC’s education department and Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) hosted Arbutus Middle School students and...

Posted: November 12, 2015, 4:47 PM

Kimberly Moffitt discusses GOP presidential debate and impact of social media on student activism

Following the November 10 Republican presidential debate on Fox Business Network, Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American studies, was a guest on the Baltimore Sun’s “Roughly...

Posted: November 12, 2015, 3:58 PM

WEAA’s Marc Steiner Show broadcasts UMBC Critical Social Justice Week keynote panel

The Marc Steiner Show aired a special two-hour broadcast November 2 that was a recording of UMBC’s Critical Social Justice Week keynote panel “Baltimore in Action: Always Rising.” Marc Steiner...

Posted: November 12, 2015, 3:57 PM

UMBC Theatre performs Voracious by Susan McCully

The Department of Theatre presents Voracious by Susan McCully, directed by Nyalls Hartman, running from November 19 through 22 in the Proscenium Theatre in the Performing Arts and Humanities...

Posted: November 5, 2015, 9:13 PM

John Rennie Short weighs costs and benefits of new “urban resurgence” in cities across the globe

On United Nations’ World Cities Day, School of Public Policy Professor John Rennie Short published a column in The Conversation about what he calls the “Third Revolution,” or urban resurgence of...

Posted: October 30, 2015, 3:51 PM

Kimberly Moffitt moderates GOP presidential debate panel on Marc Steiner Show

Following the October 28 Republican presidential debate on CNBC, Kimberly Moffitt, an associate professor of American studies, moderated a panel on WEAA’s The Marc Steiner Show analyzing the...

Posted: October 30, 2015, 3:51 PM

Christy Chapin analyzes evolution of American health care system over 20th century

Christy Chapin, an assistant professor of history, recently joined the Harvard University podcast This Week in Health Law for a discussion about the history of health care in the United States....

Posted: October 30, 2015, 2:06 PM

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