A Homecoming staple since 2016, this year GRIT-X is going to be bigger than ever before—so we had to move it to its own day. Join us on Thursday, October 24 from 4 – 6 p.m. as we celebrate the passion and accomplishments of UMBC alumni, faculty, and graduate students in the areas of research, scholarship, and creative achievement.
After the talks, you’re invited to join us for a special reception and showcase co-sponsored by bwtech@UMBC.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Stefanie Mavronis ’12, political science, media and communication studies
Director, Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement (MONSE), City of Baltimore
Making the Impossible Real – Homegrown Leadership and Violence Prevention in Baltimore
Todd Pittman
Professor, Physics
Director, QSI
Quantum Entanglement – From Fundamental Physics to an Information Revolution
Guenet Abraham
Professor, Visual Arts
Typography – The Elements of a Word
Aryya Gangopadhyay
Professor, Information Systems; Director, Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy (CARDS)
Where Humans Can’t Go – Human Robot Teaming
G. Derek Musgrove ‘97, history
Professor, History
From "Protest to Politics" to Protest and Politics – The Black Freedom Struggle in the 1980s
Takashi Yamashita
Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health; Gerontology Doctoral Program
When Does Our Education End? – Aging and Life Course Perspectives
Patricia Ordóñez, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, Computer Science
Associate Professor, Information Systems
Why Moms Should Be Leaders in Computing Education
Mehdi Benna
Research Scientist, Center for Space Sciences and Technology
Taking a New “Small Step for Man” – The Giant Leap of Our Generation
Tamra Mendelson
Professor, Biological Sciences
The Biology of Beauty – How the Peacock Got Its Tail
Sponsored by the Office of Research and Creative Achievement
For the full Homecoming event line-up, visit homecoming.umbc.edu