Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship.  The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research by tenure-track or tenured faculty in the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, resulting in a submittable product by December 2026.  Up to two fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2026. 

CARAT, the CAHSS Creative Achievement & Research Administration Team, invites CAHSS faculty to participate in an individual Mini Consultation on Wednesday, February 18 or Thursday, February 19. CARAT's Research Development team will be available to discuss your research/creative achievement project ideas (at all stages). 

Reserve a mini consultation session by February 13: https://forms.gle/SJ83nfWvqyumUfL7A. 

We will confirm with a time and Webex link (if online). Consultations will be scheduled in the order in which they are received, and a waitlist will be available.

You can make a consultation appointment (15 minutes, one person per slot) on either February 18, from 11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (virtual or in person in Public Policy, room 451), or on February 19, from 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (virtual only). Arts faculty should request February 18 only. Humanities and Social Science faculty may request either day.

• February 18: 11:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences) Meeting slots: (1) 11:30-11:45; (2) 11:50-12:05; (3) 12:10-12:25; (4) 12:30-12:45). Indicate a first and second time preference, and whether you would like to meet in person or on Webex.

• February 19: 1:15 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. (Humanities, Social Sciences) Meeting slots: (1) 1:15-1:30; (2) 1:35-1:50; (3) 1:55-2:10; (4) 2:15-2:30). Indicate a first and second time preference. All sessions will be on Webex.

Questions? Contact Rachel Brubaker, Associate Director for Research Development   rbruba1@umbc.edu

Not available for a mini session? Contact Sara Qureshi, Sr. Specialist for Grants and Research Development, saraq1@umbc.edu or visit our Pre-Award Services page to complete a consultation request form.  

Note: If you have already identified a funding opportunity and would like to begin an application, please complete a proposal development form on the Pre-Award Services page to request pre-award support. We look forward to working with you at all stages of your research and creative achievement process.

Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship.  The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research by tenure-track or tenured faculty in the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, resulting in a submittable product by December 2026.  Up to two fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2026. 

Co-sponsored by the Office of Faculty Affairs and the Graduate School
Supported by the Office of the Provost
In Collaboration with Dresher Center for Humanities, CS3, and CIRCA

What is Write@UMBC?
Write@UMBC is a campus-wide writing initiative designed to help scholars and scholar-practitioners build sustainable writing habits through protected time, light accountability, and community support.

Who can participate?
Faculty, postdocs, graduate students, researchers, and administrators/staff across UMBC.

How it works

• 30 minutes of writing per day for two weeks

• Any scholarly writing or part of the writing process counts

• There will be no need to share your writing content

• Optional community check-ins for light accountability and reflections

When is the challenge?

March 2–15, 2026

How do I participate?

Register for Write@UMBC using this registration form. You must have a NCFDD-account. To activate your free account using your UMBC email here: https://members.ncfdd.org/institutions/umbc 

***Registration Deadline is February 22***

Wednesday, February 4 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445
"Multimodal and Monomodal Feedback in Second Language Writing: Issues in Research and Practice"
Ana Oskoz, Ph.D.
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs & Professor, Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Click here for details and to register.

The UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar kicks off the spring semester with a presentation by Dr. Ana Oskoz, Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication.  Dr. Oskoz's presentation focuses on the integration of monomodal and multimodal feedback in three important areas of investigation: (1) how to provide monomodal or multimodal feedback to monomodal and/or multimodal texts either during the writing process or to the final products, (2) how to use different tools and their affordances (e.g., screencast software, ChatGPT) to provide feedback, and (3) whether multimodal feedback influences the nature of learners' revisions.
All members of the department, partners/collaborators, and students/faculty from other departments and institutions are invited to attend.  Lunch will be provided by the department.  Please RSVP as soon as possible.
Save the date for future talks:

Wednesday, March 4 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445"We Ain't New to this, We True to This": Teaching Democracy and Citizenship: Through Black Educator Oral and Life Histories.Brandon Beck, Assitant Professor, Department of Education

Wednesday, April 1 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445
"Cultivating a Rightful Presence: Inclusive Early Childhood STEM"
Michele Stites, Associate Professor of Early Education, Department of Education
Jonathan Singer, Professor, Department of Education

Wednesday, May 6 | 12:00-1:00pm | Sherman Hall 445
"A Multilingual Perspective on Literacy: Monolingual Bias in Reading Instruction and the Positioning of Emergent Bilinguals"
Laura Ascienzo-Moreno, Ph.D., Professor, Childhood, Bilingual And Special Education, School of Education, Brooklyn College

The Center for Social Science Scholarship is pleased to continue our workshop series on generative AI, LLMs, and computational social science methods.

This series began with the basics of computing in R and how to use generative AI/LLMs in social science research workflows. Each session will be focused on getting faculty and students comfortable with deploying AI and generative AI models in their research, but with a deeper understanding of the ethical, equity, and environmental consequences of these models.

This series, which is supported through the Elkins Professorship, features several new speakers this spring. 

REGISTER

February 20 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438 
Social Network Analysis: Building Web-Based Applications for Experiential Learning
Led by:  Dr. Steve McDonald, Professor of Sociology, NC State University

February 27 | 12- 1:30pm | PUP 438
A City in Motion: How Everyday Routines Channel and Control Crime in Baltimore
Led by: Dr. Brian Soller, Associate Professor of Sociology (SAPH), UMBC 

April 10 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
Geospatial Analysis: Integrating GIS, R, and GeoAI
Led by: Krishna Mummadi, CS3 Graduate Assistant & GES Graduate Student

April 14 | 2-4pm | Walker Avenue, Suite 130 & Webex (hybrid)
Foundations of Large Language Models
Led by:  Dr. Josephine Namayanja, Executive Director, iHARP, UMBC
Rhoda Nankabirwa, iHARP Research Assistant and PhD Student, UMBC

April 29 | 12-1:30pm | Webex
Evaluating LLMs for Credible and Rigorous Social Science Research
Led by:  Dr. Michael Overton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Idaho

May 6 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 438
ML Models for Causal Inference Analysis + HPC Led by:  Dr. Eric Stokan, CS3 Director and Associate Professor of Political Science, UMBC
Roy Prouty, Assistant Director for Research Computing, DoIT; UMBC Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, CSEE
Sai Vikas Amaraneni, iHARP Research Assistant and UMBC Ph.D. Student

Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Cosponsored by the Division of Information Technology, the Center for Scalable Data and Computational Science, and CGC-SCIPE.

Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Social Science Scholarship Summer Fellowship.  The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research by tenure-track or tenured faculty in the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, resulting in a submittable product by December 2026.  Up to two fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2026.