The Hrabowski Fund for Innovation – established in honor of UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, to help UMBC faculty pursue new approaches to teaching – made its inaugural awards in January....
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Pumping Up Their Math Muscles Coach Sory Kante, moves quickly across the gym. One of his students working out needs help. But what�s stumped the student isn�t a 220 pound bench press or a...
June 17, 2013
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World-Class Students Five UMBC students have been awarded Fulbright grants, and two additional students have been named alternates for the prestigious program that takes students around the...
June 17, 2013
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Teaching students how to write more clearly and powerfully in introductory writing classes is at the heart of the university’s mission. But technology is transforming the task, says James Polchin...
June 16, 2013
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To: The UMBC Community From: John Jeffries, Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Date: June 13, 2013 Re: Appointment of Professor Tim Nohe as Director of the Center for Innovation,...
June 13, 2013
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Robert Deluty, associate dean of the Graduate School, has published two poems—”Rejoinder” and “Higher Education”—in the “Poetry of the Academy” section of the Spring 2013 issue of The Faculty Voice.
June 13, 2013
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You May Now Kiss the Brides Even as other battles loom, the LGBT community stops to celebrate marriage equality at Pride 2013 On a warm spring evening, Carrie Hiers and Tonya Cook sit on...
June 13, 2013
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UMBC alumna Mary Slicher founded one of Baltimore’s leading advocacy groups for the homeless forty years ago. Now her organization is finding a new home of its own. By Elizabeth Heubeck ’91...
June 13, 2013
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UMBC professor of psychology Robert Provine’s “small science” makes big strides in explaining human behavior. By Chelsea Haddaway Twenty five right-handed UMBC students sit cross-legged in...
June 13, 2013
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America’s urban landscapes have long been a battleground in wars against bedbugs, roaches, rats and flies. In a new book, UMBC professor Dawn Biehler traces that conflict’s history across...
June 13, 2013
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