News

Financial Literacy Spotlight: Erin Berry (PhD)

Erin in the Washington Post

"This stress can weigh heavily on students during their studies and impact their career choices afterward — and it can even dissuade people from graduate school in the first place. While financial...

Posted: May 5, 2017, 12:35 PM

Announcing the Jodi Crandall Fellowship Award Winner 2017

Kevin Wisniewski - Cohort 15

On April 26th, Dr. Jodi Crandall, founder of the LLC Program, presented to Kevin Wisniewski, PhD Candidate from Cohort 15, the Jodi Crandall Fellowship for Research in Language, Literacy and...

Posted: May 2, 2017, 4:30 PM

Relationship Violence Awareness and Prevention Advocates

Apply for Advocates!

Jacki Stone, Special Assistant to the Associate Vice President Student Affairs and LLC student (Cohort 18), is currently running the Relationship Violence Awareness and Prevention Advocates...

Posted: April 26, 2017, 10:12 AM

Sedrick Smith: Op-Ed in the Baltimore Sun

Sedrick Smith (cohort 18) has recenlty published an Op-Ed titled "Baltimore City College students 'crushed it'" in the Baltimore Sun. In the Op-Ed, Sedrick provides examples of how students in...

Posted: April 21, 2017, 9:38 AM

CFP: Moving from civil rights to human rights

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Oct. 25-28, 2017

The Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA) invites you to its 2017 Annual Meeting. As peace scholars, educators, and activists, we are challenged to rise up and present a new vision, a new...

Posted: April 20, 2017, 12:29 PM

Event: Day of Action at UMBC - May 1st, 2017

A day of celebration of our immigrant communities

Join us for a day of celebration of our immigrant communities! [We invite members of our community to share readings, spoken words, music, performance, or your own immigrant...

Posted: April 19, 2017, 5:40 PM

Women's Center's Event: "Women in Activism"

With LLC panelists: Dr. Bev Bickel and Jacki Stone

We invite our LLC Community to the roundtable discussion "Women in Activism", organized by the Women's Center. This discussion features Dr. Bev Bickel, Jacki Stone (cohort 18), and Iman Said...

Posted: April 18, 2017, 2:56 PM

Dr. Christine Mallinson: "The revelatory power of language"

Podcast for the Maryland Council for the Humanities

Dr. Christine Mallinson has recently produced a 5-minute podcast titled "The Revelatory Power of Language," for the Maryland Humanities Council's "Humanities Connection" series for WYPR 88.1. In...

Posted: April 18, 2017, 11:45 AM

Holocaust Remembrance Day Event on April 24th

Prof. Rebecca Boehling: "Remembering Holocaust Victims"

Dr. Rebecca Boehling, Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program and the Global Studies Program at UMBC and former director of the International Tracing Service (ITS), will...

Posted: April 18, 2017, 11:27 AM

Apply for a Dresher Center Faculty Research Fellowship

Applications for 2018 Residential Fellowships due on May 1st

Dresher Center Faculty Research Fellowship applications for Spring 2018 are due May 1, 2017. The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for two Residential Faculty Research...

Posted: April 17, 2017, 9:13 AM