Policy & Society

Constantine Vaporis, History and Asian Studies, to Lead Workshop

/ 1 minute of reading

On Saturday, March 24, Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian Studies program, will lead a workshop for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) at the University of Pittsburgh, a NCTA National Coordinating Site. The workshop will be entitled “Japan and its World: Late Edo Period and Today.” The workshop will focus on the changes occurring in the late Edo period (mid-19th Century) especially the “opening” of Japan, and how this information relates to understanding Japan’s role in the world today. Vaporis’ presentation will deal with four distinct topics: Challenges from Within Danger from Without… Continue Reading Constantine Vaporis, History and Asian Studies, to Lead Workshop

Rebecca Boehling, History, Gives Lectures

/ 1 minute of reading

Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, delivered the 8th Annual Richard Yashek Lecture at Albright College in Reading, PA on Thursday, March 1st. More information about the talk can be found here. She and co-author Uta Larkey also spoke about their book, Life and Loss in the Shadow of the Holocaust, at the Myerberg Senior Center in Pikesville, Maryland on March 4.

Dan Ritschel, History, and Student to Present at Conference

/ 1 minute of reading

On Friday, March 9, Dan Ritschel, associate professor of history, and one of his Ph.D. students in the history public policy track, Rod McCaslin, will be on a panel together at the Huntington Library in California. The panel is part of the annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies. McCaslin will read a paper based on his dissertation research: “The Mysterious Traveler: Finding Edmund Spencer and his influence on Victorian policy-making.” Ritschel will give a paper entitled “The Missing Link: Proto-Keynesian Ideas within the Labour Party in the 1920s.” More information about the conference can be found here.

Anne Rubin, History, Elected President of the Society of Civil War Historians

/ 2 minutes of reading

Anne Rubin, associate professor of history, has been elected president of the Society of Civil War Historians for 2012-2014.  The Society of Civil War Historians is committed to promoting both scholarship and fellowship among historians, graduate students and professionals who interpret history in museums, national parks, archives and other public facilities.The SCWH seeks to promote the study of the Civil War era and to bring greater coherence to the field by encouraging the integration of social, military, political, and other forms of history. The Society publishes a quarterly newsletter, sponsors a biennial conference in even-numbered years (the 2012 conference is in… Continue Reading Anne Rubin, History, Elected President of the Society of Civil War Historians

Alan Kreizenbeck, Theater, to Participate in Freeman Summer Institute on Japan

/ 1 minute of reading

Alan Kreizenbeck, chair of theater, has been selected by the Japan Studies Association to be a participant in the 2012 Freeman Summer Institute on Japan. The Institute will operate at Hawaii Tokai International College in Honolulu from Sunday, May 20 thru Friday, June 8, 2012. The workshop aims to provide knowledge about Japan that faculty can use for curriculum development at their home institution. Kreizenbeck will be developing a course that focuses on various forms of Japanese theatre such as Noh, Kabuki, Kyogen and Bunraku.  Most expenses are covered by the Freeman Institute, and additional fees are covered by the Dean of… Continue Reading Alan Kreizenbeck, Theater, to Participate in Freeman Summer Institute on Japan

The Coolest Jobs You Never Knew Existed at UMBC: Rosie Mills, Lab Animal Technician

/ 1 minute of reading

The rat notices a new person in the room. Rosie Mills notices the rat nervously noticing, and pulls him from his cage, patting him gently on the head. She whispers to him: “I know who is a grump.” Mills has cared for and monitored the rats used in UMBC’s psychology research for more than 25 years, and has never changed her perfume so as not to scare the skittish creatures. “They’re used to their people. Did you know rats scare easier than birds, even?” Read more at umbc.edu/magazine.

Chase Plummer ’14 Selected to America East Second Team

/ 2 minutes of reading

Sophomore forward Chase Plummer was selected to the America East Conference Second Team, it was announced today at the University of Harford, site of the 2012 championships. At the end of the regular season, the 6’6″ Plummer was the only player in the conference to be ranked in the top five in both scoring (fourth) and rebounding (fifth). He produced one of the most prolific sophomore seasons in UMBC’s 26-year NCAA Division I history, scoring 446 points, one shy of the all-time record for a sophomore, set by Peter Mulligan in the 2001-02 campaign.

Donald Norris, Public Policy, in AP Article

/ 1 minute of reading

AP’s latest coverage of Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill focuses on both Gov. O’Malley’s message in signing the legislation and the referendum effort now underway to repeal it. Donald Norris, professor and chair of public policy at UMBC, suggests that liberal voters who come out to support Obama’s re-election could offset those who turn out in support of the referendum. He further argues that a weak GOP presidential candidate could fail to inspire conservative voters to show up at the polls, decreasing votes for the referendum. Read the full article via USA Today, The Washington Post, NPR or ABC News.

Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in Salon

/ 1 minute of reading

“As Maryland and Washington join six other states in approving same-sex marriage, it’s clear that the era of politicians exploiting the issue for political game appears over,” argues UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller in his latest Salon column.Schaller traces shifting positions on same-sex marriage over the last 16 years — among both voters and politicians — focusing particularly on conservative Ken Mehlman. A former Republican strategist who managed Bush’s 2004 campaign, Mehlman now argues in favor of same-sex marriage rights, which he sees as consistent with conservative beliefs in the economic freedom, personal responsibility and family values.Schaller concludes that… Continue Reading Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in Salon

Charles Sharpe, Emergency Health Services, in the Baltimore Sun

/ 1 minute of reading

When he retired this week from Howard County’s fire service, as the department’s deputy chief for operations, Charles Sharpe told the Baltimore Sun that his favorite part of the job was training new emergency responders on special-operations work, which he first studied at UMBC 20 years ago.Sharpe says his training in water and rope rescues “truly proved to be of tremendous value” during his work as a search manager responding to Hurricane Katrina. He still returns to UMBC’s Emergency Health Services department annually to instruct students in a three-day search and rescue training program, a tradition which he plans to… Continue Reading Charles Sharpe, Emergency Health Services, in the Baltimore Sun

Hilltop Releases New Brief on Community Health Partnerships

/ 1 minute of reading

The Hilltop Institute at UMBC — a non-partisan health research organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable populations — has released a new issue brief in a series examining hospital community benefits after the Affordable Care Act. The brief, titled “Partnerships for Community Health Improvement,” discusses a variety of options for collaboration in assessment, planning, priority setting and implementation of health improvement initiatives. It also provides examples of diverse collaboration models already in place among public health agencies, nonprofit hospitals and communities, and examines their efficacy as “powerful forces for promoting community health improvement and systemic change.”… Continue Reading Hilltop Releases New Brief on Community Health Partnerships

Christopher Corbett, English, in Style

/ 1 minute of reading

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, laments the passing of one of Baltimore’s eccentric citizens in his latest column for the back page of Baltimore Style magazine. “…when the bell tolls, it tolls inevitably for another Baltimore eccentric, a species more endangered than the blue crab,” Corbett writes of the passing of restaurateur Morris Martick. Corbett’s piece, “Last call,” appeared in the March 2012 issue of the magazine.

Want more UMBC news?

Get top stories delivered to your inbox.

Sign up for our weekly UMBC Top Stories email:

Join our List

Contact Us

Share a story idea and learn more about the news team.

More about UMBC News

© UMBC: A University System of Maryland
Member Institution
Scroll to Top