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Dresher Center Rapid Response Awards

Dresher Center Rapid Response Awards Purpose Dresher Center Rapid Response awards offer small grants of up to $1,500 to UMBC faculty (full- and part-time) and graduate students whose...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 9:45 AM

OAH Huggins-Quarles Award for PhD Students

Application Deadline: December 1, 2020

Huggins-Quarles Award DEADLINE: APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY DECEMBER 1, 2020 Named for Benjamin Quarles and Nathan Huggins, two outstanding historians of the African American past, the...

Posted: July 28, 2020, 9:20 AM

Promote Integrity through Best Practices in Online Learning

Workshop on July 29, 2020

                                Got You, Not Gotcha:               Promoting Integrity through Best Practices                                   in Online Learning                    ...

Posted: July 16, 2020, 12:33 PM

Ibrahim Er Successfully Defends his Dissertation

On July 7, 2020 Ibrahim Er of LLC Cohort 16 successfully defended his dissertation and earned the title of Doctor of Philosophy. His virtual defense went very smoothly and he gave an...

Posted: July 8, 2020, 4:09 PM

Fall Semester Opening Town Hall

Friday 6/26 5 pm on WebEx

Hi All, SGA and GSA will be co-hosting a town hall on Friday at 5 pm. to discuss plans for opening campus in the Fall. Speakers include Freeman Hrabowski, Lynne Schaefer, Janet Rutledge, GSA...

Posted: June 25, 2020, 11:03 AM

Research Writing Bootcamp

M/W/F July 20-31 - register now!

Research Writing Bootcamp   Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays July 20-31 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. On WebEx The Dresher Center for the Humanities, in collaboration with the Center for Social Science...

Posted: June 25, 2020, 10:32 AM

Announcing our 2020-2021 SS Undergraduate Research Awardees!

Congratulations to all!

The following students have received Social Science Undergraduate Research Awards for 2020-2021: Camille Blackford (ANTH) “A Proposal for an Ethnography on the Happiness of UMBC Students During...

Posted: June 22, 2020, 1:21 PM

Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap

A virtual reflection and celebration of our dear LLC Alum

We write to share the sorrowful news that we have lost one of our own LLC alums, Dr. Shirley Basfield Dunlap. Dr. Basfield Dunlap, a member of LLC cohort 16, graduated in Spring 2018, with her...

Posted: June 19, 2020, 2:11 PM

Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic volume

Call for Chapters

Call for Chapters    Race, Ethnicity and the Covid-19 Global Pandemic     Editors:    Melvin E. Thomas, Ph. D.  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina...

Posted: June 15, 2020, 9:36 AM