This Spring, Dr. Thomas Benson returns to UMBC to give the annual Petrovich Lecture in which he will talk about a remarkable life that includes…
Renaming UMBC's "Option II" program as "Interdisciplinary Studies," as part of a national debate over the role of interdisciplinarity in undergraduate education
Founding UMBC’s Honors Program (which went on to become today’s Honors College)
Serving as the president of the international Association for Interdisciplinary Studies (who come to UMBC for their 37th annual conference in 2017) and leading national debate about the place of interdisciplinary studies in undergraduate education
Becoming president of a Green Mountain college, VT which he led to win the Sierra Club’s prize for America’s number #1 environmental college in 2010
… and much, much more
When? 6:45 p.m. Skylight Room, March 15
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