In his latest Baltimore Sun column, UMBC political science professor Thomas F. Schaller explores the causes of decreased class mobility in the U.S. Having just returned from a trip to Finland,...
February 22, 2012
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Judah Ronch, Dean of UMBC’s Erickson School, offers a pointed letter in today’s New York Times, responding to a report that some retirement communities are segregating their dining facilities...
February 21, 2012
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A film shot last spring about the research of Robert Provine, psychology, and his undergraduate researchers aired in France and Germany on Dec 30. The English version is forthcoming, but the...
February 20, 2012
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Robert Provine, psychology, has an essay in a newly published collection entitled This Will Make You Smarter. The book is the latest in a series by the website Edge.org, which focuses on an annual...
February 20, 2012
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Maryland State Delegate John Olszewski, a Ph.D. student in public policy at UMBC, spoke out about his vote on Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill in the Baltimore Sun this weekend. Olszewski, 29, a...
February 20, 2012
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From Marjoleine Kars, Chair of the History Department I regret to inform the campus that Robert K. Webb died on February 14. Born in 1922, Bob Webb was long the preeminent American scholar of...
February 20, 2012
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In an article about the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Washington Post mentioned For All the World to See, an exhibition organized in partnership...
February 18, 2012
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Michael Fallon, senior lecturer of English, will be a featured poet at the ninth annual CityLit Festival. Presented by CityLit Project and Pratt Library, the festival takes place on Saturday,...
February 16, 2012
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Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, is a consultant and writer on a new exhibit opening at Washington D.C.’s National Geographic Museum on March 7....
February 14, 2012
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The University of Michigan Press recently posted to their blog about the travels that Ellen Handler Spitz, honors college professor of visual arts, completed this winter. The post, entitled...
February 14, 2012
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