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7th Annual Hill-Robinson-McNair Lecture

September 18 @4pm, UC Ballroom

Roots and Resilience Across Boarders:  Resisting Legal Death in and Across the U.S. and Mexico Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography & Environmental Systems,...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 3:21 PM

Graduate Research Assistant Opportunity

LLM Training Modules (R Programming)

The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) at UMBC is seeking a Graduate Research Assistant to support the development of training modules that integrate Large Language Models...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 2:54 PM

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Timeline Update: Vote for your GSA CNMS Senators for 2025-26!

Cast Your Vote -- Voting closes Thursday Night!

Dear CNMS Students, Please note the updated election timeline. Apologies for the consecutive emails. Voting Period: Opens Monday,   August 25 at 10:30 AM Closes Thursday, August 28 at 11:59...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 12:03 PM

Vote for your GSA CNMS Senators for 2025-26!

Cast Your Vote -- Voting closes Thursday Night!

Dear CNMS Graduate Students, It’s time to elect your representatives for the Graduate Student Association FY 2025-2026! The CNMS Senator elections are now open, and we invite you to cast your...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 10:46 AM

Announcing the 2025 AI Symposium! Post

Join us for our virtual series this fall!

Reposting! Access the original post here On the heels of the successful “AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium” of April 2024, we’re back with a new iteration! Please join us for this fall’s...

Posted: August 23, 2025, 11:42 PM

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Welcome to a New Academic Year, Graduate Students!

Your voice, your community, your year—welcome to GSA.

Dear Graduate Students, Welcome (or welcome back!) to UMBC. Whether you’re just beginning your graduate journey or returning to continue your work, I’m so glad you’re here. A new year means new...

Posted: August 22, 2025, 3:16 PM

Dr. Eric Stokan awarded Elkins Professorship

Congratulations!

The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) is proud to share that Dr. Eric Stokan, Director of CS3 and Associate Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the prestigious Elkins...

Posted: August 21, 2025, 4:17 PM

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Dept. of Education Research Seminar Series

Kicks off @noon on Sept 3rd w/ Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon

September 3 | 12-1pm | University Center, 310 UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar Series “Spirituality: How we define it, defines us” Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Professor, UMBC Dept. of...

Posted: August 21, 2025, 4:11 PM

Q Methodology: Mapping Shared Viewpoints

Adrian Lundberg, Malmö University, Sweden

September 9, 2025 | 3:00-4:00pm | Public Policy Building 451 | UMBC Main Campus Campus Map In this talk, I introduce Q methodology as a flexible approach for studying people’s viewpoints....

Posted: August 20, 2025, 3:02 PM

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