Meet Emmanuella Osei, a junior studying public health and sociology and the president of UMBC’s Public Health Council of Majors. She is passionate about health equity, public service, and...
Nancy Kusmaul, associate professor of social work, a scholar and advocate for the rights of older adults and professional caregivers, received the “Outstanding Individual in Academia” award from...
Written by Loren Henderson, associate professor of public policy, UMBC and Ruby Mendenhall, associate professor in sociology, African American studies, urban and regional planning, and social...
Meet Adeola Ojomo, a sophomore sociology major who started working on campus helping other students as an academic peer advocate (APA) after being inspired by another APA who helped her with some...
Camee Maddox-Wingfield, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, UMBC On May 22 each year, when the eastern Caribbean island of Martinique observes Emancipation Day,...
By Loren Henderson, associate professor, Sociology, UMBC I spent the 2020 spring break week setting up to teach my college courses online while helping to care for my 14-month-old grandchild,...
By Fred L. Pincus, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UMBC A conservative leader found fault with how “respect for our nation’s heritage” had been mostly stripped from the textbooks of public...
Corbett in the Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building on campus in April 2021. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11. Everyone who’s ever met Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and...
Katie Poteet, Shekinah Davis, and Nicholas Duy-Hoan Nguyen all came to UMBC grounded in their families’ unique journeys and deeply-held values, and seeking to find their own individual paths. Each...
Kizzmekia Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and sociology, is the lead scientist of the research team that developed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institute of Allergy and...
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