CAHSS New Faculty Micro-Talks on April 5th, 4-5 P.M.
Six new faculty in the College will present short talks
Join us on Tuesday, April 5th, from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in the Imaging Research Center (ITE 108A).
The Dresher Center for the Humanities, in partnership with The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, invites you to attend an afternoon of short talks by new faculty in the College. Please join us to meet tenure-stream faculty hired in the last year and to learn about their research. A reception will follow.
Schedule of Speakers:
- William Blake, Assistant Professor, Political Science
- Eric Campbell, Assistant Professor, Philosophy
- Matthew Fagan, Assistant Professor, Geography and Environmental Systems
- Thania Muñoz, Assistant Professor, Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
- Elizabeth Patton, Assistant Professor, Media and Communication Studies
- Michelle Stites, Assistant Professor, Education
"Baltimore Stories: Narratives in the Life of an American City" is a year-long, grant-funded educational program examining narrative, race and power. The program will kick-off on Wednesday, March 23rd with a free public forum, led by the University of Maryland Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy and Maryland Humanities Council, at Westminster Hall in Baltimore. Morning speakers will include David Simon, author, journalist and writer of Homicide: Life on the Streets and The Wire, and Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad, historian and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. The afternoon session will be a response to the morning's ideas and will include University of Maryland historian Dr. Christopher Bonner and a panel of local humanists, public intellectuals, activists and the audience. For more information and to register (rsvp by March 20th):
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The UMBC Dresher Center for the Humanities will convene a public conversation and digital storytelling workshop, entitled "Multiple Communities, Multiple Stories, Multiple Modes," at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore on Saturday, April 23rd from noon-4:00 p.m. Information and registration is forthcoming.
Baltimore Stories is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Humanities in the Public Square Program and is a collaboration between the University of Maryland, Maryland Humanities Council, UMBC, Enoch Pratt Free Library and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
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UMBC Spring Research Forum on "Seeing Science"
Interdisciplinary Forum to be held on April 8th
The UMBC Office of Research will present the Spring Research Forum, "Seeing Science: Photography, Science, and Visual Culture," on April 8, 2016, from 8:00 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (registration is required) in the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery. The Forum will feature a keynote presentation by Sheldon Brown, professor of Visual Arts and director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California San Diego. He is also the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in Digital Media and Learning. This interdisciplinary Forum will also include faculty sessions on the "Art and Science of Human Imagination" as well as views and perspectives from "Outer Space" and "Inner Space." For more information and registration: http://bit.ly/1LuXOMc
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Importance of keeping participant data safe and secure
Improper disclosure of research participants’ protected health information results in $3.9 million HIPAA settlement
Feinstein Institute for Medical Research agreed to pay the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) $3.9 million to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules and will undertake a substantial corrective action plan to bring its operations into compliance. Feinstein is a wholly-controlled subsidiary of Northwell Health, Inc., formerly known as North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, a large health system headquartered in Manhasset, New York that is comprised of twenty one hospitals and over 450 patient facilities and physician practices.
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Dresher Center Graduate Student Research Fellowships
Application Deadline is March 15, 2016
For Doctoral and Master's Degree Candidates:
Applications Due: March 15, 2016
The Dresher Center offers two residential Graduate Student Fellowships that are open to all UMBC doctoral and master’s level students working on humanities-related research projects culminating in a dissertation or master’s thesis. Fellowships will be awarded for the fall 2016 semester.
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Updates to ORPC forms and documents
To continue our outreach and providing the most up to date templates for our investigators to use, please click on the ORPC Documents and Forms page to download the most current versions. These forms are for IRB (human participants), IACUC (animal care and use) and IBC (recombinant DNA and biohazardous materials use) as well as export control and conflict of interest disclosures.
Recent updated documents include:
If you have any questions about the forms, how to access or complete them, please contact us at compliance@umbc.edu.
The ORPC also schedules times to meet individually with investigators to discuss projects and assist with form completion. Click on our
schedule of events to register for time.
The Dresher Center invites applications for new Faculty Working Groups in the Humanities. Faculty Working Groups are collaborative, interdisciplinary communities of scholars working on humanities projects, research concerns, or matters of public interest. The Dresher Center provides support for the formation and first-year activities of these groups in an effort to promote intellectual exchange and support research activities in the humanities among scholars across campus. Working groups meet regularly and may also 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.
Apply by April 1, 2016 for groups beginning or continuing in fall 2016.
To download an application and to find out about current Faculty Working Groups, visit: http://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/scholarly-resources/faculty-working-groups-in-the-humanities/
Contact for questions: Jessica Berman (jberman@umbc.edu), Director, or Rachel Brubaker (rbruba1@umbc.edu), Assistant Director
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Dresher Center 2016 SFRF Applications Due February 15th
Deadline Approaching for Summer Faculty Fellowship Proposals
The application deadline for Dresher Center Summer Faculty Research Fellowships (SFRF) is February 15, 2016.
Full-time, tenure-track faculty pursuing humanities research in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences are welcome to submit proposals for a Dresher Center SFRF. Summer Faculty Research Fellows will receive support for research and assistance in developing extramural funding applications, book proposals, and grant project applications. Funding may also be used for the completion of book manuscripts, major articles, or projects of a similar stature.
For questions and application assistance, contact
Rachel Brubaker, Dresher Center Assistant Director for Grants and Program Development.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) offers tuition-free opportunities for college and university educators to study a variety of humanities topics in the summer. Stipends of $1,200-$3,900 help cover the expenses for these one- to five-week programs.
Applications (to the individual programs) are due by
March 1, 2016.
Visit the NEH website for eligibility requirements and links to the programs and directors:
http://www.neh.gov/divisions/education/summer-programs Contact
Rachel Brubaker, Dresher Center Assistant Director, for assistance.
The seminars and institutes for summer 2016 will address the following topics:
- Alexis de Tocqueville and American Democracy
- American Maritime History
- Beowulf and Old Norse-Icelandic Literature
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- The Commonplace Book and Its American Descendants
- Confucian Asia
- Ernest J. Gaines and the Southern Experience
- The History of Political Economy
- The Land Ethic, Sustainability, and the Humanities
- Mapping, Text, and Travel
- Modern Mongolia
- Moral Psychology and Education
- Native American Histories and the Land
- The Ottoman Empire, Europe, and the Mediterranean World, 1500-1800
- Presuppositions and Perception
- Problems in the Study of Religion
- Religion, Secularism, and the English Novel, 1719-1897
- Teaching the Reformation
- Tokyo: High City and Low City
- Urban Arts in Africa and the African Diaspora
- Veterans in American Society
- The Visual Culture of the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Westward Expansion and the Constitution