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<Title>An event featuring Asian American Jazz &amp; Activist Jon Jang!</Title>
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    <p>Join us for the inaugural event of UMBC’s Asian American Faculty Council</p>
    <p>A Lecture and Performance with Musician-Activist Jon Jang</p>
    <p>Thursday • 6 April 2017 • 6:30PM<br>
    UMBC Music Box • PAHB 151<br>
    Free and open to the public<br>
    Information: <a href="mailto:theo@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">theo@umbc.edu</a></p>
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<Summary>Join us for the inaugural event of UMBC’s Asian American Faculty Council   A Lecture and Performance with Musician-Activist Jon Jang   Thursday • 6 April 2017 • 6:30PM  UMBC Music Box • PAHB 151...</Summary>
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<Title>Charissa Cheah Awarded an SFRF for 2017! Congratulations!</Title>
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    <span>Dear colleagues,</span><br>
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    <p><span><br>I am pleased to announce the recipients of the CAHSS/CAHSS Research Centers Summer Faculty Research Fellowships (SFRF) for Summer 2017. Many thanks to the Centers, Center Directors and Staff, and fellowship review committee members for their hard work in making these possible. Thanks as well as to the Office of the Vice President for Research for its support of these awards, along with the College and its Centers.  </span></p>
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    <p><span>Congratulations to this year's recipients! We all look forward to seeing the innovative and important work that will result from your summer activities.   </span></p>
    <p><span><br>Cheers,</span></p>
    <p><span>Scott</span></p>
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    <p><strong>2017 CAHSS Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (SFRF) Recipients</strong></p>
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    <p><span>Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA)</span></p>
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    <span>Stephen Bradley, Visual Arts:</span><span> </span><em>Water’s Edge, Biome Tells</em>
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    <span>Corrie Parks, Visual Arts: </span><em>Black Butterfly</em><span> </span><span> </span>
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    <p><span>Dresher Center for the Humanities<br></span></p>
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    <span>Nicole King, American Studies:</span><span> </span><em>Baltimore Revisited: Rethinking and Remaking a Right to the City</em>
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    <span>Michele Osherow, English:</span><span> </span><em>Keeping the Girls in Stitches: Embroidering Biblical Narrative in the Seventeenth Century</em>
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    <span>Meredith Oyen, History:</span><span> </span><em>Shanghai Survivors: World War Two's Displaced Persons in Asia and the International Politics of Refugee Resettlement</em>
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    <p><span>Imaging Research Center (IRC)<br></span></p>
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    <span>Charissa Cheah, Psychology</span><span>:</span><span> </span><em>Creating a Virtual Experimental Environment to Study Food Choices and Other Behavioral Processes</em>
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    <p><span>Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR)<br></span></p>
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    <span>Christelle Viauroux, Economics</span><em>: The Sources of Inequalities in Higher Education Choices and Outcomes</em>
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    <span>Susan McDonough, History:</span><span> </span><em>More than Sex? Prostitutes as knowledge brokers in the Medieval Mediterranean</em>
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    <span>Christine Mair, Sociology:</span><span> </span><em>Neighborhood environment and risk of cardiovascular disease in Baltimore City</em>
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<Summary>From the Dean of CAHSS:     Dear colleagues,     I am pleased to announce the recipients of the CAHSS/CAHSS Research Centers Summer Faculty Research Fellowships (SFRF) for Summer 2017. Many thanks...</Summary>
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