Department of Education and CADVC Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

Apr 3, 2013 / 2 minutes of reading

UMBC’s Department of Education joins the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) to celebrate their year long K-12 Educational Outreach Collaboration with an art exhibition by students from their partnership schools. After experiencing the CADVC gallery and/or virtual exhibition, For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, the students were invited to create visual artwork, poetry, or prose for display at UMBC as well. Their work is a creative interpretation of the interaction between visual culture and social justice. The exhibition is featured at the UMBC Commons Mezzanine Gallery beginning with an artist’s… Continue Reading Department of Education and CADVC Partner on Exhibit Highlighting Outreach to Area Schools

Constantine Vaporis, Asian Studies, Invited to Summer Institute

Apr 3, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, has been invited to attend “India’s Past and the Making of the Present,” a National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for college and university faculty sponsored by the Community College Humanities Association. This four-week institute, which will take place in Delhi, Agra, and Varanasi this July, is designed to be an intense, interdisciplinary engagement with Indian history and culture, providing participants with a rich interplay of resources, seminars, and site visits. It will introduce participants to the most current scholarly perspectives on India, broadening and deepening their… Continue Reading Constantine Vaporis, Asian Studies, Invited to Summer Institute

Dennis Coates, Economics, in the Tampa Bay Times

Apr 2, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

“How much do the Tampa Bay Rays boost their local economy?” asks the Tampa Bay Times. In arguments for building a new stadium, St. Petersburg mayor Bill Foster estimates the team’s local economic impact at $100 million a year, but experts, including UMBC economics professor Dennis Coates, question the assumption that stadiums have a notable economic benefit to their home cities. Coates explains that when a couple spends $100 for dinner and a movie, much of that money goes to waiters, ticket takers and other local workers and suppliers, who in turn spend their paychecks on rent and food, creating… Continue Reading Dennis Coates, Economics, in the Tampa Bay Times

Piotr Gwiazda in The Nation

Mar 29, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

An excerpt from Piotr Gwiazda’s translation of Grzegorz Wroblewski’s book of prose poems, Kopenhaga, scheduled for publication by Zephyr Press, is scheduled to appear in the April 1, 2013 issue of The Nation. Read a translated selection from Kopenhaga at the PEN America Center’s website: http://www.pen.org/poetry/kopenhaga. http://www.thenation.com/authors/grzegorz-wroblewski

“Plutopia” by Kate Brown, History, Reviewed in Nature

Mar 29, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

“Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters” by Kate Brown, associates professor of history, was recently reviewed by Nature. “A multitude of…harrowing accounts fills the pages of Plutopia, a ‘hidden history’ of two communities — one American, one Soviet — that fuelled the nuclear arms race. Unusually, historian Kate Brown interviewed dozens of frontline workers for her meticulously researched account of how these two remote towns became indelibly linked by plutonium, and by catastrophic radioactive contamination,” the reviewer writes. “Plutopia has important messages for those managing today’s nuclear facilities, arguing for caution and transparency,”… Continue Reading “Plutopia” by Kate Brown, History, Reviewed in Nature

Amy Froide, History, Elected President of the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies

Mar 28, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Amy Froide, associate professor of history, has been elected President of the Middle Atlantic Conference on British Studies (MACBS). The MACBS is the Mid-Atlantic regional affiliate of the North American Conference on British Studies, which is a scholarly society dedicated to all aspects of the study of British civilization. The NACBS sponsors a scholarly journal, the Journal of British Studies, online publications, an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate essay contests. The MACBS annual conference will be held at Lehman College of the City University of New York on March 23-24, 2013.

Gerontology Honor Society Gives Back to Local Seniors

Mar 28, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Sigma Phi Omega (SPO) is the national academic honor society in gerontology, for professionals who work with or on behalf of older persons. The UMBC chapter of SPO, Delta Lambda, has been tremendously active this year with volunteer activities, nurturing an ongoing relationship with Catholic Charities of Maryland, specifically two independent senior living apartment buildings near UMBC: DePaul House and St. Joachim House. Delta Lambda has been assisting Congregate Housing Services (CHS) with a project to interview residents about their personal journeys coming to live at DePaul and St. Joachim, as well as their experiences utilizing the CHS program. These… Continue Reading Gerontology Honor Society Gives Back to Local Seniors

Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni Receive MSAC Individual Artist Awards

Mar 27, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Several faculty members and alumni were awarded Individual Artist Awards by the Maryland State Arts Council this month. The Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards are monetary prizes given to a select group of artists each year. This year the Maryland Art Council welcomed applications from artists working in fiction, painting, media/digital/electronic arts, solo theatrical performance and works on paper. Recipients in the media/digital/electronic arts category include: Kelley Bell ’06, MFA IMDA, Assistant Professor, Visual Arts Carrie Fucile, Adjunct faculty, Visual Arts Agnes Moon ’99, MFA IMDA Phil Davis ’07, MFA IMDA Christine Ferrera ’10, MFA IMDA Recipients in the… Continue Reading Visual Arts Faculty and Alumni Receive MSAC Individual Artist Awards

Donald Norris, Public Policy, in the Baltimore Sun

Mar 27, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Former Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon will kick off the Associated Black Charities’ speaker series next month, sparking speculation of a possible return to politics. “This is the year I’m going to decide,” Dixon told the Baltimore Sun, of her desire to run for office again after having completed probation following her 2009 embezzlement conviction. “I’m not going to hide the fact that I enjoyed what I was doing during my 27 years in public office.” Donald F. Norris, professor and chair of public policy at UMBC, told the Sun that the substance of Dixon’s talk might signal, more definitively, her… Continue Reading Donald Norris, Public Policy, in the Baltimore Sun

UMBC English in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Mar 26, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

The UMBC English department’s composition course redesign was recently profiled by the Chronicle of Higher Education. “In an age when many educators are promoting active learning by “flipping” classrooms, instructors here are rotating them instead. In a novel twist, they are providing composition instruction in three distinct venues. Previously the classes, of 24 students each, met twice a week in a classroom for 75-minute sessions. The instruction was lecture-based, with time allotted for small-group activities. Now each section, of two dozen students, meets as a group only once a week. On the other day of class, a dozen students gather… Continue Reading UMBC English in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Robert Provine, Psychology, in New Scientist

Mar 26, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Robert Provine, professor of psychology, is a contributor to the recent “Body Issue” of New Scientist magazine. Provine’s piece, “It’s Only Natural,” discusses the curious behaviors of our bodies. “It’s your body, and you like to think you’ve got it under control. But underneath the calm exterior lurk unruly instincts and urges that are struggling to escape, putting you at risk of embarrassment or ridicule. These disreputable behaviours – the likes of the fart, hiccup, itch and yawn – are familiar to us all, yet they are also decidedly curious. Although they have been the source of folklore and puzzlement since antiquity,… Continue Reading Robert Provine, Psychology, in New Scientist

Christopher Corbett, English, in the Washington Post

Mar 26, 2013 / 1 minute of reading

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, recently reviewed a new book about Davy Crockett for the Washington Post. In “Born on a Mountaintop,” author Bob Thompson visits sites associated with Crockett to discover the man behind the legend. Corbett, who is the author of “Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express” and “The Poker Bride: The First Chinese in the Wild West,” used his own knowledge of the West’s legends to evaluate the book. “[Thompson’s] book also shows a fine appreciation of the truth, half-truth and no truth at all that connoisseurs of… Continue Reading Christopher Corbett, English, in the Washington Post

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