We will be having our first GBM (general body meeting) this Friday (9/13) @ PUB 208 from 12-2pm.
Amy Bhatt, Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies, sheds light on what can be done to close the gender pay gap in the U.S.2019’s Best & Worst States for Women’s Equality (WalletHub)
Jason Chang '19, Geography and Environmental Systems, is beginning his first year of teaching and will teach second grade at a charter school in Woodlawn. ‘The first day is about promise’: Maryland students return to school excited for new challenges (The Baltimore Sun)
Erle Ellis, Geography and Environmental Systems, and Lucas Stephens, former postdoctoral fellow and current senior research analyst at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, share results of a survey of over 200 archaeologists from around the world about how early humans began to have an impact on the earth. Humans Dominated Earth Earlier Than Previously Thought (The New York Times)
Jeff Halverson, geography and environmental systems, looks back at the devastating storm that rocked Nelson County 50 years ago. Why the disaster of the century hit Nelson County (WVTF)
President Freeman Hrabowski and Joshua Michael '10, Political Science, Assistant Director of UMBC's Sherman STEM Teacher Scholars Program, explain UMBC's partnerships with city schools to boost math skills. What’s going on with Maryland’s math PARCC scores? (Baltimore Sun)
Kimberly Moffitt, American studies, discusses how adults can help engage children in discussions about race, identity, and cultural competency. It Takes A Village — And A Diversity Course — To Drive Out Hate In Anne Arundel County (WAMU)
Kindel Nash, education, discusses how including families in the process of learning to read can increase children's reading skills. Noted are education doctoral students Joshua Michael and Kris'tina Ackerman for their contributions to the research for this article.
Parents can help kids catch up in reading with a 10-minute daily routine (The Conversation) (My Plainview)
Donald Norris, Public Policy, and Laura Mateczun, Ph.D '20, Public Policy, discuss their cybersecurity research, and what local governments can do to prioritize cybersecurity and protect their data. UMBC: prioritizing cybersecurity critical for local governments (The Baltimore Sun)
Baltimore County executive John “Johnny O.” Olszewski, Ph.D. ’17, public policy, is making changes in Baltimore County government. A change agent in a place where change comes slowly (Maryland Matters)
Tiffany Robinson ’97, Political Science, was appointed by Governor Larry Hogan as Maryland’s new Secretary of Labor.
Sean Woolums ’20, financial economics, is entering his second year as a member of the Maryland Youth Advisory Council, which provides perspective to lawmakers. Three area teens appointed to Youth Advisory Council (TheBayNet.com)
Briana Yancy ' 19, Geography and Environmental Systems, is a new member of the Chesapeake Conservation Corps. She will spend the year working at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources to improve the environment and local communities. A new class of Conservation Corps members welcomed at Camp Letts (The Baltimore Sun)
Noorzehra Zaidi, HIstory, recently published a piece in the Conversation about the Shiite holiday Ashura.
Auditions are open for Baltimore Shakespeare Factory’s 2020 Performance Internships!
An ideal candidate should be willing to approach the text openly and have an interest in theater, literature, rhetoric, or performance. Additionally, they should have a reliable ability to attend rehearsals at our theater in our space in the Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore. Rehearsals are held evenings and weekends.
]]>This semester Event & Conference Services is rolling out a series of Event Planning Roundtables! We wanted to provide a space where student organizations with similar missions and interests can come together to plan and execute events for the Spring 2020 semester based on the timeline for SGA Finance Board budget proposals in tandem with the Large Scale Event Planning Timeline. This may seem like planning too early but please keep in mind that Spring 2020 budgets are due in October.
The dates are:
Hobbie & Intellectual Sports- Monday, September 16th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons 329
Academic/ Departmental, Career/ Professional, & Honors Societies- Tuesday, September 17th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons Skylight Room
Fraternities/ Sororities, Service, and Political- Wednesday, September 18th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons Skylight Room
Cultural/ Ethnic- Thursday, September 19th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons Skylight Room
Arts, Performance, and Media- Monday, September 23rd 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons 331
Sign-ups will close on Sunday, September 15th at 11:59 PM, space is limited so act fast! The sign up link is below. Also, you do not have to be a scheduler to attend! Anyone involved with the planning process is encouraged to come. Please only sign up for the date that corresponds with your organization type, if you do not you will be politely reassigned. Please reach out to bspears@umbc.edu if you have any questions. It is encouraged that at least three but no more than six leaders from your organization attend. If all can not attend please come anyway! A full dinner will be served, so get excited!
Fred L. Pincus, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, will read from his forthcoming memoir, Confessions of a Radical Sociologist, on Thursday November 21 at 4pm in the AOK Library Gallery on UMBC's campus.
Professor Pincus came to UMBC as an instructor in the turbulent year of 1968 and was involved in the movements to end the Vietnam War and to oppose racism on and off campus.
He helped build the Sociology and Anthropology Department in the 1970s and was also a founding faculty member of the Language, Literacy and Culture PhD Program.
Christine Mallinson, Professor of Language, Literacy and Culture and Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship, will serve as emcee.
Sponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Health Administration and Policy, and the Language, Literacy & Culture Program.
Light refreshments will be provided.