[Event Tonight] Thrive On: Is What's On Your Plate Nourishing You?
Join us for an evening of connection and thriving
Welcome back to campus, UMBC! Tonight, the Center for Democracy and Civic Life is collaborating with Student Belonging to host
Thrive On, a dinner and conversation program focused on how we can support our individual and collective thriving. A catered dinner will be provided. The program will be from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the University Center, UC 312.
We still have spots available for the program, so if you were waiting to see what happened with the snow to sign up, now's your chance! We would appreciate if you could
RSVP in advance, but we will also accept people at the door.
To get the most out of the experience and support the group's learning together, we ask that attendees plan to arrive on time and stay for the full program. Consistent participation helps create the kind of thoughtful dialogue and connection that makes these gatherings meaningful.
If you are coming, bring a friend! If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Center for Democracy and Civic Life at
civiclife@umbc.edu.
Program Agenda
- [5:30 - 5:55 p.m.] Program Start, Welcome, and Introductions
- [5:55 - 6:10 p.m.] What's On Your Plate?
- [6:10 - 6:20 p.m.] Two Dimensions of Thriving
- [6:20 - 7:15 p.m.] Values Alignment and Well-Being
- [7:15 - 7:30 p.m.] Program Closing
Community Standards
- Respect others and their experiences and opinions.
- Listen to learn, including from people with whom you disagree (i.e. be open to hearing different perspectives).
- Lean into discomfort, and know that growth sometimes means engaging with ideas that are unfamiliar, odd, and new.
- Take responsibility for the quality of the conversation (e.g., participate but also provide space for others to participate). Be mindful of the time and space you are taking up.
- Speak primarily from your own experiences, not from others' experiences.
- Keep your contributions relevant to the topic.
- Treat personal sharing by others in the circle as confidential; the learning leaves with us, but the specific stories stay behind.
- Allow for ragged thoughts; it's okay if every thought isn't fully polished.
- Make room for clarifications, and lead with curiosity about what people are saying; accept that communicating can be hard.
Land Acknowledgement
UMBC was established upon the land of the Piscataway and Susquehannock peoples. Over time, citizens of many more Indigenous nations have come to reside in this region. We humbly offer our respect to all past, present, and future Indigenous people connected to this place.
Food Menu
- Grilled Chicken Breast topped with tender artichoke and sun-dried tomatoes in light wine sauce with a hint of lemon (Halal and GF)
- Macaroni and Cheese (vegetarian)
- Sugar snap peas, sliced mushrooms green beans, broccoli and carrots steamed with a splash of soy sauce (vegan)
- Rice pilaf (vegan)
- Black Beans (vegan)
- Dinner rolls
- Assorted Cookies and Brownies
- Canned Soda and LaCroix
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Spring 2026 Writing Group
Join us online on Fridays!
The Dresher Center for the Humanities is continuing our writing group into the Spring 2026 semester on Fridays from 10am to 11:30am online via WebEx.
This writing groups open to faculty, graduate students, and staff working on humanities-related projects.
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[REPOST] Thrive On: Is What’s On Your Plate Nourishing You?
Join us for dinner and good conversation
On Monday, February 2, we will host Dinner with Friends, an engaging, facilitated conversation that will connect you with other members of the UMBC community.
Our conversations will be focused on two interrelated questions:
"How do you live your values in community?"
"How do you live a life that sustains you?"
We
will explore challenges with thriving, share resources to support
thriving, and generate ideas about how we, as a UMBC community, can
improve thriving on campus.
This program, as a part of Winter Welcome Retrievers, will take place on February 2, 2026 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. in the University Center, UC 312. A catered dinner will be provided.
This program is a collaboration between the Center for Democracy and Civic Life and Student Belonging.
Please RSVP by January 28, 2026 to reserve your seat at this popular dinner program!
If you have any questions, please feel free to email the Center for Democracy and Civic Life at civiclife@umbc.edu.
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Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
Register now for spring sessions!
The Center for Social Science Scholarship is pleased to continue our workshop series on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods.
This series began with the basics of computing in R and how to use generative AI/LLMs in social science research workflows. Each session will be focused on getting faculty and students comfortable with deploying AI and generative AI models in their research, but with a deeper understanding of the ethical, equity, and environmental consequences of these models.
This series, which is supported through the Elkins Professorship, features several new speakers this spring.
February 20 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
Social Network Analysis: Building Web-Based Applications for Experiential Learning
Led by: Dr. Steve McDonald, Professor of Sociology, NC State University
February 27 | 12- 1:30pm | PUP 438
A City in Motion: How Everyday Routines Channel and Control Crime in Baltimore
Led by: Dr. Brian Soller, Associate Professor of Sociology (SAPH), UMBC
April 10 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
Geospatial Analysis: Integrating GIS, R, and GeoAI
Led by: Krishna Mummadi, CS3 Graduate Assistant & GES Graduate Student
April 14 | 2-4pm | Walker Avenue, Suite 130 & Webex (hybrid)
Foundations of Large Language Models
Led by: Dr. Josephine Namayanja, Executive Director, iHARP, UMBC
Rhoda Nankabirwa, iHARP Research Assistant and PhD Student, UMBC
April 29 | 12-1:30pm | Webex
Evaluating LLMs for Credible and Rigorous Social Science Research
Led by: Dr. Michael Overton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Idaho
May 6 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
ML Models for Causal Inference Analysis + HPC Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan, CS3 Director and Associate Professor of Political Science, UMBC
Roy Prouty, Assistant Director for Research Computing, DoIT; UMBC Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, CSEE
Sai Vikas Amaraneni, iHARP Research Assistant and UMBC Ph.D. Student
Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Cosponsored by the Division of Information Technology, the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science, and CGC-SCIPE.
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Dresher Center Spring 2026 Fellows
This spring semester, two UMBC faculty members and a graduate student were awarded fellowships from the Dresher Center.
Please join us in congratulating these fellows!
Keeping the Girls in Stitches: Embroidering Biblical Narrative in the Seventeenth Century
Michele Osherow, Associate Professor, English
This project examines seventeenth-century women’s embroidered pictures of the Bible as a form of biblical commentary. Michele Osherow argues that women’s renderings offer alternative readings of biblical narratives and challenge dominant interpretations head-on. Scholars of early modern women’s writing increasingly recognize the intersections among women’s visual and verbal textualities. Nonetheless, these biblical embroideries have largely gone ignored, dismissed as “stifling shows of feminine piety” (Orlin, Renaissance Culture). Such thinking suggests that the women behind these canvases interpreted biblical narratives through a prescribed lens, that their readings are inherited and unremarkable. But the assumption is flawed and unfair. Early modern women knew their Bibles and their representations are provocative. Stitched renderings were not bound to scriptural accuracy: characters are placed unexpectedly in scenes, and various episodes were often worked into a single stitched piece. What emerges is a stunning complexity of material in keeping with the textual intricacies of the Bible itself.
Making Darwin Soviet: The Moscow Darwin Museum and Ideas about Nature in the Soviet Union
Mirjam Voerkelius, Assistant Professor, History
“Making Darwin Soviet” will be the first book-length study in English on the reception of Darwinism in the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks put Darwin on a pedestal. They drew parallels between Darwinism and Marxism as materialist theories of development and considered evolutionary theory a powerful “weapon” in their war on religion. However, Mirjiam Voerkelius' work intervenes in the existing literature to show that Darwinism remained surprisingly controversial in the Soviet Union. Darwin’s emphasis on gradualism and chance conflicted with the Bolshevik notion of history as advancing via revolutions. Moreover, Darwin conceptualized humankind as differing from animals in degree, but not in kind, which challenged the anthropocentric vision of our species as emancipated from and a conqueror of nature. Thus, although the Bolshevik revolutionaries made Darwinism the fulcrum in their revolutionary project, Voerkelius argues that Soviet scientists and ideologues struggled to reconcile Darwinism with their revolutionary worldview.
Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black
Women’s Writing
Neisha-Anne Green, Ph.D. Candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture
Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black Women’s
Writing explores how Black women authors use food as both metaphor and method to narrate
intergenerational trauma, memory, and resilience. Reading works by Toni Morrison, Edwidge
Danticat, Ntozake Shange, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Neisha-Anne Green traces how kitchens, gardens, and shared meals become sacred sites where silence, pain, and healing converge. Through a Black Feminist Critical Autoethnography, Green interweaves literary analysis with mirrors of my own personal narratives to consider how food practices such as cooking, eating, refusing, and creating carry legacies of both trauma and care. Having completed her comprehensive exams and initial analyses of each novel, this fellowship will allow Green to dedicate structured time for writing and deepening her analyses through participation in writing groups and retreats offered by Heart-Head-Hands, supporting significant progress toward completing my dissertation and sharing this work with broader audiences.
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Spring 2026 Community Leadership Skills Courses
Preparing aspiring and practicing leaders
The
Community Leadership program has openings in the following Spring 2026 courses. Taught by subject matter experts, the Community Leadership Skills
Courses emphasize practical skills, deep dives into crucial topics, and
take only 5 weeks to complete! Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome to sign up.
CLDR 410-01, Events & Programming as Inclusive Process with Ashley Bush (Baltimore City Parks & Recreation) and Katie Long (Friends of Patterson Park).
When/Where:
Wednesday nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm, 1/28/26 - 2/25/26 at the Lion Brothers
Building classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle
route).
Course Description: This
course will guide students through the steps of program development and
implementation that reflects community culture and priorities. "Events
and Programming as Inclusive Process" seeks to help students develop
programming which connects multiple communities through shared
activities and spaces, and addresses the importance of creating programs
and events which respond to community needs, feedback, and assets. The
course will equip students with an understanding of the concept of
inclusive programming and the value of community engagement to create
sustainable community programs and events.
CLDR 410-02, Asset Based Community Development with Jess Wyatt (UMBC Alumni Relations and Asset-Based Community Development Institute)
When/Where: Wednesday
nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm, 3/4/26 - 4/8/26 at the Lion Brothers Building
classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route).
Course Description: This
course will address the fundamentals of Asset Based Community
Development (ABCD), how to practically implement ABCD in students' daily
professional practice while developing a community of practice using
ABCD, as well as, becoming ABCD practitioners in the field. Working
through an ABCD process, participants can move towards whole-community
mobilization through mapping the capacities assets of individuals,
associations, and institutions while building relationships.
CLDR 410-03, Budgeting for Community Impact with Candace Chance (Baltimore Nonprofit Strategist and Director of the Vision, Performance & Impact Firm)
When/Where: Wednesday
nights, 4:30 - 7:00pm, 4/15/26 - 513/26 at the Lion Brothers Building
classroom in Southwest Baltimore City (on the UMBC shuttle route).
Course Description: Have
you heard the saying, Put your money where your mouth is? If not, it is
a saying that means to follow through on something you said.
Organizations say a lot through their marketing, their grant proposals,
and ultimately through their vision, mission, and values. But there's
one major way to see if they're really walking the walk or just talking:
their BUDGET! An organization's budget is their accountability to the
things that they say. This course will teach students how to align their
values and their intended impact with their budgets so that they can
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Hanover Webinar: Engaging with Industry Partners
Thursday, January 29th @noon EST
Building strong relationships with industry partners can open new avenues for funding and collaborative research. In this webinar, we offer practical strategies for building successful industry partnerships, emphasizing the importance of understanding cultural differences and aligning goals for mutual benefit. Attendees will learn how to communicate effectively, initiate collaborations, and leverage a wide range of engagement opportunities.
Date: Thursday, January 29th
Time: 12pm ET / 9am PT
Speakers:
Rob Guroff - Managing Grants Consultant, Hanover Research
Clinton Doggett - Senior Grants Advisor, Hanover Research
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About Hanover Research: Hanover provides research development, grant writing, and strategic advising support to a wide range of organizations. Our professionals deliver customized proposal review, revision, and production support, while also helping to align strategic priorities to funding trends and opportunities at all levels. To learn more about Hanover Research, visit www.hanoverresearch.com.
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Upcoming Ethics, AI, and the Public Humanities Series
Hosted by the National Council on Public History
In four parts, this series presented by NCPH and the American Conservation experience (ACE) will ask experts to help public historians and public humanitarians tackle questions like: what do we mean when we talk about gen AI? How do we recognize it, and what AI tools have potential use cases for the public humanities? How can we ethically engage with generative AI tools as public historians, museum practitioners, writers, archivists, and educators?
For all four events, closed captioning and American Sign Language interpretation will be provided. Registrants will receive resource lists and recordings of the events for which they register. Register for all four events, or choose the ones that are most meaningful to you. This event uses our "pay what you can" model, which allows us to design programming for all members of our community regardless of their financial status; if you can afford to select one of the paid registration tiers, we are deeply grateful for your support in subsidizing free registrations for those who need it most.
Part 1: Defining and Demystifying "AI" and "Machine Learning"
Thursday, January 29, 2026 | 4:00 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Jessica Dauterive, Program Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, and Digital Humanities Consultant, ACE
Speakers: Zoe LeBlanc, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jeri Wieringa, Assistant Director, Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Part 2: The Ethics of AI: What's the Harm?
Thursday, February 12, 2026 | 12:00 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Jessica Dauterive, Program Manager, Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies, and Digital Humanities Consultant, ACE
Speakers: Adio-Adet Dinika, Research Fellow, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Institute
Adrienne Williams, Research Fellow, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research (DAIR) Institute; Public Voices Fellow, The OpEd Project; activist and organizer
Part 3: Ethical AI Use in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM)
Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 2:00 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Angela Fritz, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
Speakers: Additional speakers from the upcoming Collections special issue on AI, TBA
Part 4: AI and History Education
March 17, 2026 | 2:00 pm Eastern
Facilitator: Lindsey Passenger Wieck, Director of Public History, St. Mary's University
Speakers: Wendi Manuel-Scott and George Oberle, Center for Mason Legacies, George Mason University
Victoria Sanchez, 6th Grade World Cultures Educator, Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders
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Upcoming Free Webinar on 1/15 - Media Training for Academics
Hosted by the National Humanities Center
January 15, 2026 — 2:00 p.m. ET
Don Solomon, Vice President for Communications and Marketing, National Humanities Center
Many academics struggle with the desire to share their expertise with mainstream audiences, worrying about how they and their work will be represented. In this session you'll learn how to work with traditional media, including how to engage reporters and get them interested in your work, how to handle press inquiries, and how to make sure your version of the story gets written.
Don Solomon has over 30 years experience sharing stories about products, people, and organizations of all kinds, and since 2006 he has led communications and marketing at the National Humanities Center. Prior to joining the Center, Don was co-founder and principal of Distill Consulting, and has worked with a wide range of clients that includes Michelin, Hanes, IBM, Rhone Poulenc, CooperTools, and the March of Dimes, among others.
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