News and Updates about UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Baltimore Magazine recognizes men’s basketball as “Best Upset” and Lisa Moren’s NONUMENT app as “Best Public Art” in this year’s Best of Baltimore edition. Continue Reading Baltimore Magazine’s “Best of Baltimore” highlights UMBC arts and athletics
“Public-engaged humanities are essential to UMBC’s vision, specifically its commitment to civic engagement and social justice,” says Nicole King. “It is essential for our students to show up and to listen to the neighborhoods and communities that surround the university in ways that are honest, respectful, and ethical.” Continue Reading National “Humanities for All” initiative features innovative work by UMBC scholars
“Researching school choice is challenging because there are so many stakeholders that are for and against it. But in the end,” she says, “looking at research across the United States allows us to identify what is working and help inform policy to help schools systems create equitable, successful, and safe learning environments.” Continue Reading UMBC education policy expert Jane Arnold Lincove helps launch national center for research on school choice
In piles on a table in the chilly back room of UMBC’s Special Collections office lie a science fiction lover’s dream: decades-worth of fanzines in all their hand-drawn, mimeographed glory. Compiled by amateur editors, they span topics from space travel to colonization to 1970s feminism. Fittingly, the students poring over the zines as part of UMBC’s new month-long Interdisciplinary CoLab research program are just as different as the titles they explore. One studies biochemistry, another computer science. The third has interests in communications and gender and women’s studies, and was thrilled to find connections in the sci-fi zine Janus. As… Continue Reading New CoLab Program Brings Interdisciplinary Approach to Summer Research
“When you are trying to solve a problem, you may be able to do it faster yourself,” reflects Haffer, “but the product a team creates is better because it represents the intersection of different views. It will be of more value to your customers, who will be as diverse as the team that created the product.” Continue Reading UMBC alumnus Chris Haffer becomes EEOC’s first chief data officer
Contest judge David Wegge, of St. Norbert College, said Evan’s entry, “demonstrated great policy depth, a keen understanding of the challenges millennials face, and creativity in devising solutions that are achievable for this age cohort.” Continue Reading UMBC’s Evan Avila wins iOme Challenge with ideas to help millennials save for retirement
UMBC’s Office of the Provost has launched a university-wide initiative to celebrate faculty who go above and beyond as educators, scholars, and leaders on campus and in their fields. This initiative strives to highlight tenure-track junior faculty, lecturers, and adjunct, research, and clinical faculty whose work is essential to UMBC’s success. Continue Reading New UMBC initiative celebrates exceptional faculty dedication to teaching and scholarship
UMBC’s Kelechi Nwanaga ’21 finished fourth in javelin at NCAA Track and Field Championships. Continue Reading Retrievers go the distance at NCAA Track and Field Championships
“We are changing Earth’s climate faster than at any time since the fall of the dinosaurs,” says Ellis. For scientists, he notes, “What’s controversial…is when did this begin? […] When did humans literally become the global shaper of the earth?” Continue Reading When did humans start to transform Earth? UMBC’s Erle Ellis introduces the Anthropocene.
On Saturday, June 9, the stage of Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., will be graced by the choreography of new UMBC alumna Maia Schechter, a Linehan Artist Scholar whose work was selected for the finals of the American College Dance Festival through a nationally competitive process. Continue Reading UMBC’s Maia Schechter lights up the stage at the Kennedy Center
“Confronting the barriers to health equity compels us to look across disciplines and toward collaborations among social scientists, scientists and engineers, and humanists and artists,” said Dean Scott Casper at the event. Continue Reading UMBC health justice research forum focuses on the value of community voices
Hrabowski commented further on how humanities have made possible his approach to leadership and building relationships. “I think of the humanities as having given me a context for living my own life, and for knowing how I would work with and be as supportive as possible of others,” he said. Continue Reading Maryland Humanities honors Pres. Hrabowski, James Brady, and Catherine Gira
