Leadership Montgomery recognizes UMBC’s Annica Wayman and Sunil Dasgupta
Wayman and Dasgupta are the first members of the UMBC community to be selected since the program's inception in 1990, an indication of UMBC’s growing presence in Montgomery County through the...
View ArticleUMBC’s Erickson School celebrates new grads as innovators in aging services
“Our ceremony provides an opportunity to reflect upon the tremendous personal growth of each of our graduates,” explains Dana Bradley, dean of the Erickson School. “We celebrate the amazing...
View ArticleJessica Berman is named the 2019 UMBC Lipitz Professor for her global radio...
“Jessica Berman's new book will be an important contribution to the growing academic literature on a previously ignored medium,” shares Jason Loviglio, “pushing radio studies and modernist studies in...
View ArticleUMBC’s Mejdulene B. Shomali receives Woodrow Wilson Foundation fellowship for...
“Most people don’t know there are twenty-two countries in the Arab league. These countries share Arabic as the primary national language. Many are Muslim-majority nations,” shares Shomali. “Many, but...
View ArticleSix Baltimore City Schools in UMBC Math Project partnership see math test...
Maryland PARCC test results, released last week, reveal that Baltimore City schools partnering with UMBC have seen dramatic growth in student math performance. The Baltimore Sun has called this trend...
View ArticleUMBC partners with Latino Racial Justice Circle and Maryland Humanities in...
“Our goal as researchers was to use dialogue and digital stories as two ways to bring different communities together around religion, race, and immigration,” explains Felipe Filomeno, professor of...
View ArticleSherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities hosts literacy-focused...
UMBC’s Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities recently welcomed to campus early childhood educators from four Baltimore City public schools. They gathered for a Summer Teacher Institute...
View ArticleUMBC’s Erle Ellis crowdsources global archaeological research to trace the...
“Our hope is that this is only the first achievement of what will become a new, massively collaborative scientific approach to understanding the global environmental changes caused by humans over the...
View ArticleNew UMBC study shows powerful effects of road salt and urban infrastructure...
The relationship between urbanization and water chemistry was "more complex than we thought," Matthew Baker says. Overall, though, he says, "We need to pay closer attention to the materials we’re using...
View ArticleUMBC receives $2.8M from NSF for master’s program to prepare a diverse...
“The primary mission of UMBC is inclusive excellence, and our program applies that mission to the environmental sciences,” says Tamra Mendelson. “Our main objectives are to bring a diversity of...
View ArticleIn Baltimore Revisited, UMBC and community authors reflect on the city’s...
King and Drabinski recognized the need for an updated history of Baltimore, written by and for scholars and community members alike, so they took up the task. “We wanted our work to reach beyond the...
View ArticleUMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity explore who has a...
“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...
View ArticleUMBC’s Erickson School celebrates new grads as innovators in aging services
“Our ceremony provides an opportunity to reflect upon the tremendous personal growth of each of our graduates,” explains Dana Bradley, dean of the Erickson School. “We celebrate the amazing...
View ArticleUMBC’s newest Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity explore who has a...
“UMBC is giving me the ultimate opportunity of time and support to think, write, and teach about what matters to me the most—conducting research about my community,” says Fernando Tormos-Aponte,...
View ArticleThe Future of W.E. B. Du Bois: Nimi Wariboko presents UMBC’s 41st annual...
“W.E.B. Du Bois’s foundational work on black consciousness, citizenship, and racial inequality is as relevant today as it was in 1903,” shares Maleda Belilgne, assistant professor of Africana studies...
View ArticleUMBC broadens international learning opportunities: Stories from five continents
“It is one thing for international partners to hear how UMBC is diverse and inclusive, it is another to actually see how it works in person,” reflects Rashed. “The success of this program, one we hope...
View ArticleUMBC’s Evan Avila, advocate for equal access to financial services, is a...
April Householder, director of undergraduate research and prestigious scholarships, shares that Evan Avila emerged as such a strong candidate for multiple national awards "because of his exemplary...
View ArticleUMBC welcomes European Union ambassadors to the U.S.
Ambassadors from the European countries of Slovenia, Estonia, and the Czech Republic convened at UMBC this month as part of the first joint European Union State outreach trip outside of Washington,...
View ArticleUMBC’s Jason Schiffman and his YouthFIRST lab advance early identification...
“On average, life expectancy for someone with schizophrenia is twenty years less than someone without schizophrenia,” says Schiffman. “We are changing the paradigm by moving away from...
View ArticleUMBC researchers work to support first responders through NSF-funded...
Through a $370,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, UMBC researchers are using a wristband to collect stress level information from first responders during simulations that mimic on-call...
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