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Allied Media Conference

June 19-June 22, 2014

ALLIED MEDIA CONFERENCE The Allied Media Conference cultivates strategies for a more just and creative world. We come together to share tools and tactics for transforming our communities through...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 2:04 AM

Campus War Machine: Sex and Debt

Call for applications- Fisher Center Predoctoral Fellowship

In keeping with the Fisher Center’s mission of supporting research and dialogue about gender through curricular, programmatic, and scholarly projects, the Fisher Center Steering Committee...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 1:43 AM

Rethinking Intellectual Activism conference

April 12, 2014

Registration for the Rethinking Intellectual Activism conference on April 12, 2014, is now open! This is the first annual LLC Graduate Student Conference and will be held at UMBC. Join us as we...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 1:27 AM

Advocacy Training Day in Washington, D.C.

August 6, 2014

SCRA and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) are considering holding a joint Advocacy Training Day in Washington, DC.  This training would take place on August 6, the...

Posted: March 5, 2014, 1:22 AM

Emerald/HETL Education Outstanding Doctoral Research Award

Recognition for the best doctoral research in education

Emerald Group Publishing and the International Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association (HETL) are delighted to offer a grant award for a doctoral research project in the field of...

Posted: March 4, 2014, 10:05 PM

Real People Profiles: Manpreet Suri

We're asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are...

Posted: March 3, 2014, 11:00 AM

PicUMBC #7: Who's Looking Up?

by David Hoffman and Craig Berger UMBC is full of treasures and oddities hidden in plain view. Here's one of them. Where is this person? Let us know by email at CoCreateUMBC [at] umbc.edu....

Posted: February 27, 2014, 8:44 AM

Real People Profiles: Dina Trembisky

We're asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are...

Posted: February 26, 2014, 9:28 AM

Real People Profile Mashup

by David Hoffman Have you ever used Microsoft Word's "Autosummarize" feature? It assigns a score to each sentence in a document (based on whether it contains words used frequently in the...

Posted: February 24, 2014, 10:54 AM

Much Ado About Nothing: Feb 20-March 2

Directed by LLC doctoral student Shirley Basfield Dunlap

S/He loves me; S/He loves me not! is the sought after answer in the humorous meditations on honor, shame and court politics. Much Ado About Nothing is considered the best of Shakespeare’s...

Posted: February 21, 2014, 8:12 PM