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The Door With My Real Name On It

by David Hoffman It was one of those rare moments when the past, present and future converge in a burst of energy and meaning. I stood at the rail above the Retriever Activities Center floor...

Posted: September 9, 2013, 8:49 AM

Real People Profiles: Annekia Harding

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: September 8, 2013, 8:28 PM

UMBC-Related Twitter Accounts

by Craig Berger and David Hoffman If you use Twitter, check out these UMBC-related accounts for news, opinions, ideas and opportunities, and to connect with the people behind them.  We know...

Posted: September 4, 2013, 2:18 PM

Imagining America: Calling Publicly Engaged Grad Students

2013 National Conference: A Call to Action, Oct. 4-6

Thanks to the support of Provost Rous, UMBC is joining Imagining America, a consortium that encourages and promotes scholarship in the arts and humanities and asks its members to translate this...

Posted: September 4, 2013, 1:03 PM

Job Posting: New After-School Partnership

FOUR paid fellowships

UMBC STEM Initiative (USI) is an out-of-school time program for 1st through 4th graders.  It was created with two things in mind: students’ academic and personal growth. Academic: While USI...

Posted: September 4, 2013, 12:58 PM

CFP: Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics

Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University Working Papers in TESOL & Applied Linguistics is an online journal (http://www.tc.columbia.edu/tesolalwebjournal) dedicated to publishing...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 8:17 AM

CFP: 35th Ethnography in Education Forum

Ethnographic Imagination AND Screening Scholarship Media

"The Ethnographic Imagination: Arts, Multimodality, and Pedagogies of the Possible"   February 28 – March 1, 2014 Center for Urban Ethnography University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 8:15 AM

Undercover Trombone Player

by Craig Berger I began playing the trombone when I was 10. I remember gazing at the shiny new instrument my parents had purchased and feeling surprised.  I couldn't stay up past 9:00, but...

Posted: September 3, 2013, 8:00 AM