The Dresher Center invites proposals for new Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities. Dresher Center Faculty Working Groups are collaborative, interdisciplinary communities of scholars working on humanities projects, research concerns, or matters of public interest. The Center provides support for the formation of these groups in an effort to promote intellectual exchange and support research activity in the humanities among scholars across campus. Working groups meet regularly and can use their funds to travel to sites or archives, host speakers, explore technologies, create new resources or materials, or other similar activities.

Faculty Working Groups can apply for up to $1,000 in annual support ($500 per semester) for their first-year activities. Priority will be given to groups with at least one member from a humanities department.

Fundable activities include travel to sites or archives, speaker presentations, use/purchase of technology, creation of resources or materials, and support for regular meetings or workshops, etc.

Deadlines for best consideration are November 3rd for groups beginning in spring 2015 and April 1st for groups beginning in fall 2015.

More information and 2015 Application Form: http://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/scholarly-resources/faculty-working-groups-in-the-humanities/

Please join Dr. Charles
Eggleton and the Mechanical Engineering Department in congratulating Dr. Anne
Spence, winner of this year’s Outstanding Faculty Award.Dr.
Spence is a Professor of the Practice in the Mechanical Engineering Department
and our Undergraduate Program Director.

This award was presented
by the UMBC Alumni Association to Dr. Spence in honor of her outstanding track
record in Engineering Education, her commitment to our students, and her ability to help our UMBC/ME grads excel, achieve, and plot their path beyond our campus. Dr.
Spence consistently inspires our undergraduate students and has shown
dedication to our program and our University that stands out even among the
excellent Undergraduate faculty all over campus.

Winners of this award
must be nominated by alumni and chosen by a committee comprised of the alumni Board
of Directors and alumni leaders, and the recipient must show “extraordinary
teaching as demonstrated by effectiveness in motivating students in ways that
have a lasting influence on their lives.”

The award will be
presented on Thursday, October 9 at 6:30 pm in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery,
UMBC Main Campus.