“It is really important to me to have people of color that I can look up to, come to, and connect with me on that level. It can be hard to understand what you are capable of doing if you don’t see...
November 27, 2017
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“The Griffin sisters article was an opportunity for me to reveal the often forgotten women who did civil rights work," says Scott. What does it mean when you study WWII and you leave women off, or...
November 17, 2017
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"If we don’t serve children and we can’t get education right then we get more of the same. I think things can change for individuals, and if we can change things for individuals then that is where...
November 2, 2017
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“Our hope is that people of goodwill will look at the lessons of D.C. history and use them to guide some of their activism,” says Musgrove.“We think it is a good guide for future action for making...
November 1, 2017
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“My colleagues and I who are cultural developmental scientists are trying to expand, diversify, and challenge people to think critically about culture and behavior," says Cheah. "In the process,...
October 31, 2017
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UMBC lands within the top 1.9% of higher education institutions worldwide in latest Center for World University Rankings.
October 24, 2017
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UMBC professors share their research-based reflections on current events in popular media. Recently, humanities and social sciences faculty Derek Musgrove, Christy Ford Chapin, and John Rennie...
October 9, 2017
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UMBC’s profile in THE lauds the university’s commitment to innovation and impact by noting, “UMBC has always stressed innovation and interdisciplinarity. It has never been afraid to pioneer new...
September 27, 2017
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“Right now there are students being short-changed by the education system. They are not sitting in a classroom with a high enough quality teacher. They are not being provided the resources they...
September 27, 2017
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10:29 AM
Chapin loves how historians seek answers buried in documents, archives, museums, libraries, basements, attics and forgotten filing cabinets. “I was really intimidated by the research aspect early...
September 25, 2017
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10:23 AM