UMBC’s student-athletes posted a record-setting semester in the classroom in the fall of 2011. Sixty-two percent (209) of Retriever student-athletes recorded grade-point averages of 3.00 or...
February 2, 2012
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On February 16, Nicole King, assistant professor of American studies, will present “Mapping Baybrook: Environmental Justice in Industrial South Baltimore” as part of a series of “Baltimore History...
February 2, 2012
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Jessica Berman, Associate Professor and Chair of English, has just published a book, Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism. In the book Berman explores how modernist...
January 31, 2012
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As GOP presidential candidates vie for support in Florida, immigration politics and the fight for the Latino vote have moved front-and-center, notes UMBC political science professor Thomas...
January 30, 2012
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Maryland’s Republican and Democratic senators have recently come together to support a group of bipartisan bills on education, tax and identity theft issues, but will this collaboration have a...
January 30, 2012
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UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller continues his commentary on the presidential election today with new columns in Salon and the Baltimore Sun. In “Obama takes his case to the swing...
January 25, 2012
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Is there water on Vespa? Timothy Stubbs and his colleague, Yongli Wang think so. In a NASA special Web feature Stubbs talks about their findings. “”Near the north and south poles, the conditions...
January 25, 2012
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At the November meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Robert Provine, professor of psychology, and his student co-authors presented a poster entitled “When the whites of the eyes are red,...
January 25, 2012
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All is not lost, at least when it comes to plant species richness, the number of different plants, in an ecosystem. Erle Ellis and his colleagues suggest in their recent paper, All is Not Loss:...
January 25, 2012
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UMBC political science professor and national political commentator Thomas Schaller appeared on CurrentTV’s “Young Turks” show last night, weighing in on the question “Should liberals root for...
January 24, 2012
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