Two Paid Civic Engagement Opportunities
See below for two different opportunities for students.

LEADERSHIP, ENGAGEMENT & ACTION FOR DEMOCRACY 250 FELLOWSHIP

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge and Democracy House is inviting students to apply for the Leadership, Engagement & Action for Democracy (LEAD) 250 Fellowship, a new civic fellowship program for college students focused on nonpartisan democratic engagement and leadership.

LEARN MORE & APPLY

LEAD 250 Fellowship participants will:
  • Join a cohort of peers from across the US who care about democracy and are working to strengthen democracy in their communities.
  • Develop and enact a project in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
  • Participate in monthly cohort meetings in 2026 and receive:
    • Project support,
    • Leadership development,
    • Skills training,
    • Up to $500 in project funding.
  • Receive a certificate upon completion of the program and be part of an alumni community.
The priority application deadline is Sunday, Sept. 21 (final deadline: Sept 30). Contact Catherine Fish (cat@civicnation.org) with any questions.

UMBC PUBLIC STORIES LAB STORYTELLING SCHOLARSHIP

The Storytelling Scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year have been announced. The application, which can be accessed here, is intended for UMBC students (both undergraduate and graduate) to apply for a $500 scholarship to support storytelling research and praxis. The deadline to submit for the 2025-2026 academic year is Friday, October 17th; scholarship recipients will be contacted if further information about their project is requested and final scholarship decisions will be made by November 15th.

The Public Stories Lab engages and supports a broad variety of public storytelling research and praxis. We encourage applications from students across UMBC colleges (COEIT, CNMS, CAHSS, Social Work, Erickson School) and campuses (UMBC Catonsville, Shady Grove). Projects might include digital storytelling, podcasting, story mapping, oral histories, immersive storytelling, public storytelling performances, oral storytelling traditions, visual storytelling (animation, comics, zines), data stories, and more! 

Scholarship recipients will be expected to attend one mentoring session with PSL mentors and other scholarship recipients and share their storytelling project (finished or in progress) at the PSL Storytelling Mini-Fest at the end of the Spring 2026 semester. The Public Stories Lab (PSL) is a collaborative and innovative hub for faculty, students, and staff to co-construct knowledge and to bring relationships and stories to the center of research and pedagogy; proposals for this scholarship should align with the mission of the PSL. 

If you have any questions before you submit, please email Charlotte Keniston (ckenist1@umbc.edu), or Sarah Jewett (sjewett@umbc.edu). 

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Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Senator Smith will share insights from his leadership on key legislative issues shaping civil rights, criminal justice reform, and constitutional protections in Maryland. His work offers an important window into how state-level policymaking both reflects and shapes the principles of the U.S. Constitution in action.

You can find more information about the program and Senator Smith here.

This program marking Constitution Day, the 238th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787, is sponsored by UMBC's Institute of Politics in collaboration with the Center for Democracy and Civic Life, Center for Social Science Scholarship, and Department of Political Science.
A color photo of State Senator William C. Smith, Jr., Maryland Senate, District 20, accompanied by the title and description of this Constitution Day program and logos from UMBC and the sponsoring departments in white against a black field.
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Swing by the Breezeway on Monday, September 15 and Tuesday, September 16, 2025, from noon - 1 p.m. to register to vote, check your registration, and get information on upcoming elections in Maryland—all in one stop.


While you’re here, grab a free snack and share your voice on our interactive wall, letting us know how you plan to make an impact in your community.


Whether this is your first time registering or you just want to double-check your information, we’ll help prepare you to participate in elections in Maryland and beyond.


This event is hosted by the Center for Democracy and Civic Life. This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

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A message from our colleagues in the Center for Social Justice Dialogue. Original post here.

This fall, the Center for Social Justice Dialogue is hosting Interact, a series designed to help participants hone the skills to successfully engage in dialogue across difference. If you are a student within WILL+, ILE, any other Living-Learning Communities (LLC) or are just an undergraduate student interested in upscaling your dialogue, register now!

WHAT IS INTERACT?

Interact is a four-week program for undergraduate students focused on creating an introduction to the dialogue skills required to engage in difficult conversations, dialogue across difference, and intercultural dialogue.

The goal of Interact at UMBC is to develop foundational dialogue skills such as critical self-awareness, listening and sharing authentically, asking questions toward creating deep connections, and apologizing and adjusting appropriately, while creating opportunities for participants to become more self-aware. As a result of participation in Interact, participants will have the skills to engage in dialogue within any type of situation and any topic of conversation.

Participants meet weekly in small groups for 90-minute sessions that are co-facilitated by 2-3 facilitators. Each small group consists of 10-15 participants. During these sessions, participants learn and practice the necessary skills to become inclusive leaders and engaged community members.

Participants who attend at least three of the four sessions will be entered into a raffle to win prizes such as a PORTABLE PROJECTOR and WEIGHTED BLANKET!

To register, click this link!


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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 | 4pm | PUP 206

Public health researchers have become captivated with the idea of the long-outlawed practice of redlining influencing contemporary environmental and health disparities (mainly owing to the presence of a publicly available, geocoded dataset on the topic). But over the last 50+ years, a variety of discriminatory urban development practices have also marked our landscapes in ways that drive disparities. The deeper understanding of urban development known to geographers affords a meaningful consideration of these additional practices (which can include restrictive covenants, blockbusting, urban renewal, slum clearance, freeway construction, and gentrification). Much of my research as a medical geographer revolves around thinking about the patterns of disinvestment and decline experienced in American cities, especially via these processes. Doing so helps deepen our understanding of how environmental exposures are driven by a range of land use and planning decisions not just at one point in time, but over the course of many decades. In this talk, I will elaborate on this background and present research findings from earlier work in Flint and Baltimore. A major recurring finding in this work is that areas marked by high rates of white flight and blockbusting often fare even worse than formerly redlined neighborhoods, work which suggests a critical need to move beyond redlining in assessing the role of discrimination in the built environment.

Please visit GES's original event post to indicate attendance.  
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Dear Colleagues:

We are building our schedule of CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now talks for the semester. These will be at noon on Mondays and Wednesdays in a hybrid (in-person and WebEx) format. If you would like to present as part of this series, please let me know as soon as possible. More information on the format is below, but I’m also happy to be in touch with anyone who has questions. They are always fun and low key ways to share research and all faculty and advanced graduate students doing humanities research are welcome.

If you are interested in presenting, please write to our manager, Courtney Hobson, chobson1@umbc.edu.

All best,
Amy

The Dresher Center’s CURRENTS: Humanities Work Now noon series showcases exciting new faculty and graduate student work in the humanities in a dynamic and inter-disciplinary setting.  Designed to promote ongoing conversation and multi-disciplinary investigation, these works-in-progress meetings offer faculty and advanced graduate students an informal venue for presentation, conversation, and ongoing collaborative exchange. In general, two speakers will share the free hour with 2 short, informal presentations (10 min. ea.) and time for discussion.

CURRENTS presentations can take many forms:
Since conversation is at the heart of all CURRENTS events, faculty are not encouraged to pre-circulate materials or to present formal papers. Projects must be still "in progress" and not complete or published.

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Welcome, Retrievers! We hope you have been enjoying the start of the semester.

The Center for Democracy and Civic Life is hosting an open house today (Friday, September 5, 2025) from noon - 2 p.m. in The Commons 2B24. Join us to learn more about the programs and opportunities we will offer this year, and to make new friends or reconnect with old ones. The Commons 2B24 is at the top of the stairs going up from The Commons' main lobby.

This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.

We hope to see you there.
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The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) is pleased to present this workshop series on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods.  This series will begin 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 LLM models in their research, but with a deeper understanding of the ethical, equity, and environmental consequences of these models.  This series is being supported through the Elkins Professorship, will feature several speakers, and will continue into the spring semester.

REGISTER


October 3 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Introduction to R, R Projects, R Markdown and the Basics of LLMs
Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan

November 5 | 12 - 1:30pm | Commons 329
Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings
Led by: Dr. Dustin Stoltz, Lehigh University 

November 7 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Dealing with unstructured data (text, images), APIs, and API calls to LLMs
Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan

December 12 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Prompt-engineering and Fine-tuning in R
Led by: Dr. Eric Stokan


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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The Women's, Gender, & Equity Center will be open from 9:30-5 Monday through Thursday. 

Starting in October, the WGEC will also be open on Fridays from 10-3. 

The Women's, Gender, & Equity Center is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.


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Roots and Resilience Across Boarders:  Resisting Legal Death in and Across the U.S. and Mexico


Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and Alum from Eastern Washington University (EWU) McNair Scholars Program

Register here for the 7th Annual Hill-Robinson-McNair Lecture


Volunteers are needed for the 33rd Annual UMBC McNair & Undergraduate Research National Conference, which will be held at Sheraton Baltimore Inner Harbor from September 18- 20.  Click here for more information and to sign up.
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