Please join us in welcoming Dr. Singh to the Department of Psychology and the UMBC community. 

CoLab is a 4-week paid summer narrative-based research internship for UMBC undergraduates. Student interns will work on interdisciplinary project teams to conduct research, create effective narratives, and develop public-facing final products that support the goals of on and off campus community organizations and scholars. Open to all majors, this is an excellent opportunity for students in STEM fields to learn to tell effective stories and for students in social science and humanities fields to gain research and technical skills.

Participants receive a $3000 stipend and a tuition scholarship for a 3-credit internship course.

Program Dates
CoLab 2024 will be held during Summer Session One and meets in-person from Monday, June 3rd through Friday, June 28th. PLEASE NOTE: During these dates, student interns are required to dedicate Monday through Friday from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm to the in-person internship.

Summer 2024 Projects

• Entering Tola’s Room: Archiving Puerto Rican Presence in Baltimore
• FindingBlackGirlhood: A Digital Archive
• Ghosts in the Stacks: Exploring Spiritualism in the UMBC Special Collections Library
• The History of The Choice Program at UMBC, A Mentoring and Diversion Program
• Picturing Mobility: Photographs of Black Tourism and Leisure during the Jim Crow Era
• Podcasting Baltimore’s LGBTQ+ Baltimore History
• The History and Impact of the UMBC Center for Women in Technology (CWIT)

This year, the conference will be on April 3th from 11am to 1pm on the 2nd floor of the Policy Building. If you would like to participate, please fill out this application form with your name, paper title and a brief 4-5-sentence abstract by Wednesday March 6th.  Also, please feel free to reach out to Professor Forestiere forestie@umbc.edu or to Professor Anson at iganson@umbc.edu if you have any questions. 

We are set to hold our 14th undergraduate research conference for political science students on Wednesday, April 3th, 2024 from 11am to 1pm! All students who have written a strong research-oriented paper for any political science course or independent study are welcome to apply. Please note that it is not necessary for a student to be a member of Pi Sigma Alpha in order to participate. 

Conference presenters usually present research that they have completed as a poster that they display on an easel to their visitors. The posters are made in Microsoft's Powerpoint. It's a wonderful opportunity for you to disseminate your research and discuss your ideas to a larger audience. In addition, students often use this conference to prepare for their presentations at URCAD (Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day), which will take place one week later on April 10th. 

 Also, the UMBC Omicron Eta Pi Sigma Alpha group has received funding from the national organization of Pi Sigma Alpha to cover the costs associated with your participation in the conference, including the printing and mounting of your poster on a posterboard and lunch the day of the conference. Once we know who is participating, we will distribute information about how to make a poster in Powerpoint and if there is enough interest we will also hold a workshop. 

Please consider participating if you have a strong paper from a class or other research experience that you would like to present! It's a wonderful experience for everyone - for presenters and visitors alike. 

CAHSS majors of all class levels are invited to attend.

Don't miss this opportunity to connect and practice your networking skills!

Thursday, March 7, 2024 

5-7 PM

University Center: 3rd Floor

Registration is required

Here's what you need to know:

• You will have the opportunity to connect and practice your networking skills with amazing UMBC alumni and employers in a relaxed, no-pressure setting. 
• The format will be structured for "speed networking," so you'll know exactly when and who to approach.
• The alumni and employers will be arts, humanities, and social science grads now working in a variety of professional careers. They are eager to get to know you!
• Food will be provided.

You might even meet someone who can point you toward your next internship or job!

Seats are limited so reserve your spot ASAP.

Employer/Alumni Representatives will be announced closer to the event date.

1. Click this link to RSVP in Handshake
2. Click the RSVP button

Please notify us in advance if you sign up and can no longer attend to avoid a no-show fee. This will allow another student to take your spot.

Questions? Contact Jeremiah Sawyer, Assistant Director of Internships & Employment and/or Marykate Conroy, Associate Director, Internships & Employment at internships@umbc.edu.

Leonardo Swafford, English major and Honors Program student, has been awarded the 2024 Caroline Iannone Scholarship from the Medieval and Modern Studies Minor (MEMS). The award will fund research at Trinity College Dublin and the National Archives of Ireland, which Leonardo will use in his Honors thesis, a creative writing project including historical and contemporary fiction set in Ireland.

Congrats, Leonardo!

The English Department Reading Series will feature poet Taylor Johnson for the 2023/2024 series. This event is free and will feature books for sale with a signing and refreshments to follow.

Taylor Johnson
Wednesday, March 6th
4pm-5pm
AOK Library Gallery

Taylor Johnson is the author of Inheritance (Alice James Books, 2020), winner of the 2021 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His work appears in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Baffler, Scalawag, and elsewhere. Johnson is a Cave Canem graduate fellow and a recipient of the 2017 Larry Neal Writers' Award from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, and the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers from Lambda Literary. Taylor was the inaugural 2022 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. He is the Poet Laureate of Takoma Park, Maryland.

Click here for details or contact Denise Kedzierski:  kedziers@umbc.edu