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Congratulations to the following faculty, students, and alumni for their recent accomplishments!
Michael Bass, Psychology ‘12, and Andre Crawley, Visual Arts ‘09, were named Baltimore Rising Stars by the Baltimore Business Journal.
Danielle L. Beatty Moody, Psychology, shared her research on how racial discrimination affects women's health in Everyday discrimination literally raises women's blood pressure, in The Atlantic.
Amy Bhatt, Gender and Women’s Studies, discussed family separations in the Trump era, in the Academic Minute.
Tim Brennan, Public Policy and Economics, will discuss The Consumer Welfare Standard in Antitrust Law at the November Hearings on Competition and Consumer Protection in the 21st Century.
Chris Curran, Public Policy, discussed law enforcement officers in k-12 public schools in “Academic Minute: School Resource Officers and Discipline,” in Inside Higher Ed.
Steven Dashiell, PhD student in Language, Literacy, and Culture, won the Best Student Paper in American Culture award at the Popular Culture Association of the South conference.
Rhiannon Dowling, M.A. ‘09 in Historical Studies (Advisor: Kate Brown), won this year's Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Brezhnev's War on Crime: The Criminal in Soviet Society, 1963-1982.”
Matt Fagan, Geography and Environmental Systems, conducted research which suggests tropical forests are rarely given a chance to fully regrow before they are cleared again, limiting their carbon-storage benefits, in the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Natural History of Ecological Restoration Blog.
Cathy Graham, Economics ‘81, was named to the 2018 Washington Business Journal's Women Who Mean Business list.
Nancy Kusmaul, Social Work, received the Distinguished Alumni Awardfrom the University at Buffalo School of Social Work.
Jane Lincove, Public Policy, discussed her research on understanding the link between school choice and transportation in How does school choice affect student commutes in New Orleans?, in EdWeek.
Christine Mallinson, Language, Literacy, & Culture, published the co-edited book Rural Voices: Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place.
Roy Meyers, Political Science, was awarded the Aaron Wildavsky Award for lifetime achievement, from the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management.
Erin O’Keefe, M.P.P ’10 and current Public Policy PhD student, will present at the October Coalition of Urban Metropolitan Universities conference on leading a place-based community engagement initiative. Her work is highlighted as one of five case studies in a new book, Place Based Community Engagement in Higher Education by Kent Koth and Erica Yamura.
Rebecca Postowski, M.P.P, received a fellowship to attend the Behavioral Energy and Climate Change Conference in DC.
Bob Provine, Psychology, weighs in on the lasting effects laugher can have on a person, both good and bad, in Christine Blasey Ford and the dark side of laughter, in the Washington Post, and in Beaumont Enterprise.
Susan M. Sterett, Public Policy, published “Data Access as Regulation,” in American Behavioral Scientist. She also co-authored “Symposium: Reflecting on the Profession” with Jennifer A. Diascro, in PS: Political Science and Politics.
]]>You are invited to a screening of the film, “In Their Footsteps: An American Muslim Civil Rights Journey,” on Thursday, October 11, from 8:15pm to 9:15pm, in Lecture Hall One. The MSA will co-host the screening in collaboration with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the UMBC Black Student Union (BSU).
Click here to watch the trailer. RSVP is requested at: intheirfootsteps.eventbrite.com Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.The goals of the screening are: 1) to get feedback from attendees and 2) to have the attendees go beyond being inspired, to sign up during/after the screening with actions they can sign up for to start doing racial justice work. For this last piece, we will be reaching out to other organizations as well as professors on campus who are involved with racial justice work.
Public TalkDesigning America's Face in the Cold WarBeverly Payeff-MaseyThursday, October 237:00 p.m.Fine Arts Building Room 306UMBCDesign historian Beverly Payeff Masey will document the intersection of post-WWII American Modernism with the international political and cultural realities of the Cold War through her talk, "Designing America's Face in the Cold War." Beverly will present the work of Buckminister Fuller, Charles and Ray Eames, Chermayeff & Geismar, and George Nelson as well as other architects and design professionals who worked on behalf of the United States International Agency in creating the American presence at international expos and World's Fairs beginning in 1958. This lecture is part of BaltimoreAIA's architecture month.Film Screening & DiscussionFace of a Nation: What Happened to the World's FairMina ChowThursday, November 157:00 p.mPerforming Arts & Humanities Building, Room 132UMBCThe CADVC will screen Mina Chow's film, "Face of a Nation: What Happened to the World's Fair" which explores the controversy surrounding American participation in World's Fairs. Mina's film has been presented at a number of film festivals so it's a treat to show this on campus. We're delighted that Mina will join us.
CLS, a program of the U.S. Department of State, is part of a wider government initiative to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to national security and economic prosperity. CLS plays an important role in preparing students for the 21st century's globalized workforce and increasing national competitiveness.Register for an October 9th, 3:30pm EST webinar about this exciting opportunity at: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cT8QQu_ITC-h9lMSLKGzfwApplications are due November 27th and can be accessed at: