Work done by Robert Provine, professor of psychology, was recently featured in a film shown on the European television station ARTE. The film, ‘Une Histoire Naturelle du Rire’ was broadcast in...
January 5, 2012
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While a student at UMBC, Hasina Jamal Stearns ’09, computer engineering, founded the publishing company Fred & Barrel, Inc. Now, the company’s first book, Guy, a philosophical play by Cinna,...
January 5, 2012
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Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, wrote about books and New Year’s resolutions in his latest column for Style magazine. Corbett has not resolved to get a Kindle, nor has...
January 4, 2012
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Kathleen Wilson, who received her Ph.D. in health policy from UMBC in 2003, is the new deputy director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Division of Nursing Homes. In a...
January 4, 2012
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Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and director of the Asian studies program, has been invited to become an advisory panel member at the Walters Art Museum. Vaporis is part of an...
January 3, 2012
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UMBC has again made the Kiplinger’s Personal Finance list of the 100 best values in public higher education. The list ranks four-year colleges and universities that “combine outstanding education...
January 3, 2012
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The UMBC chess team came in second place on December 30 in the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, advancing to the 2012 President’s Cup, known as the “Final Four” of chess. The UMBC...
January 3, 2012
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Congratulations to Eric Zeemering, assistant professor of public policy at UMBC, on receiving a research award from the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Through this grant Zeemering and...
December 23, 2011
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Baltimore’s Pratt Library has announced that UMBC’s Tyson D. King-Meadows will read from his new book “When the Letter Betrays the Spirit: Voting Rights Enforcement and African American...
December 23, 2011
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“This is the moment [Obama] and his presidency promised to deliver,” writes UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller in Salon, of the fight over the payroll tax cut extension. “This is,”...
December 22, 2011
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