Policy & Society

Marie desJardins, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) to participate in NAE’s Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium. desJardins was one of sixty-five faculty members selected from all over the country to participate in the symposium. “I am very excited about having been selected to attend NAE’s symposium on Frontiers of Engineering Education,” says desJardins. At the symposium desJardins will be presenting the interdisciplinary approach that she uses for teaching students about complex systems and computational modeling in her Honors seminar on “Computation, Complexity, and Emergence.” desJardins says her… Continue Reading Marie desJardins, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Selected for NAE Symposium

Read Science this week and see what Erle Ellis, professor of geography and environmental systems at UMBC, had to say about the Anthropocene.  Ellis also participated in a chat on Science Live hosted by Gaia Vince.

Lafayette Gilchrist ’92, Africana studies, may be best known in Baltimore as the pianist and composer at the helm of the New Volcanoes, ever-evolving, avant-garde big band. But before he became a big name in the jazz scene, he could be found practicing his skills in UMBC’s practice rooms. “Gilchrist… describes himself as a ‘ghost’ in the music department. ‘My Grand-mommy said, ‘You’re going away to a fancy college; make sure you meet the people who scrub the toilets.’ I did. And they had keys to everything,’ Gilchrist recalls. He began to spend nights in the practice rooms, waving goodbye… Continue Reading Lafayette Gilchrist ’92 in Urbanite and on “The Signal”

Maryland Democrats currently control both of the state’s two U.S. Senate seats and six of eight House seats, “and now they’re looking to make it seven,” writes Thomas Schaller, professor of political science, in his latest Baltimore Sun column. Although the GOP controls the process of drawing Congressional maps across much of the nation, the reverse is true in Maryland. In the last ten years, the state population has grown 9% to nearly 5.8 million residents. Schaller writes, “That growth was anything but uniform statewide, of course. Continued population shifts away from Baltimore City toward the Baltimore suburbs, Washington suburbs… Continue Reading Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun