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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

Standing against structural racism and for racial justice

The Center for Social Science Scholarship stands with the University System of Maryland and UMBC leadership against structural racism and for racial justice, equity, democracy, and social action...

Posted: June 8, 2020, 9:52 AM

Dresher Center Statement on Anti-Black Racism

The Dresher Center for the Humanities stands in solidarity with members of our Black community and other communities suffering across the nation. We mourn and condemn the murder of George...

Posted: June 8, 2020, 9:22 AM

Elaine MacDougall and James Wright Receive Crandall Award

to develop peer-writing-consultant training

LLC Students Elaine MacDougall and James Wright, both from Cohort 22, have just been awarded the 2020 Jodi Crandall Fellowship for Research in Language, Literacy, and Culture. They proposed...

Posted: June 2, 2020, 11:02 PM

The Evolving World of Inclusive Language

Free event, June 10, 2020, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

You might want to attend part or some of this online conference on The Evolving World of Inclusive Language: How to Develop and Apply Best Practices. The event registration, for UMBC folks, is now...

Posted: June 1, 2020, 2:10 PM

Northrop Grumman FTL Program Virtual Information Session

Master's and Ph.D. candidates: science/tech/engineering/math

WHEN: Friday, June 5, 2020 · 3 PM - 3:30 PM The Career Center is inviting you to the Northrop Grumman FTL Information Session. This event will be held ONLINE at the following...

Posted: May 31, 2020, 10:45 PM

Ruken Isik publishes article in Ahval News

Ruken Isik (LLC Cohort 17) shared a link to an article she just wrote for Ahval News entitled, "Turkey cracks down on Kurdish women's rights activists despite COVID-19."

Posted: May 29, 2020, 5:24 PM