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Vote for your GSA CNMS Senators for 2025-26!

Cast Your Vote -- Voting closes Thursday Night!

Dear CNMS Graduate Students, It’s time to elect your representatives for the Graduate Student Association FY 2025-2026! The CNMS Senator elections are now open, and we invite you to cast your...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 10:46 AM

Announcing the 2025 AI Symposium! Post

Join us for our virtual series this fall!

Reposting! Access the original post here On the heels of the successful “AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium” of April 2024, we’re back with a new iteration! Please join us for this fall’s...

Posted: August 23, 2025, 11:42 PM

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Welcome to a New Academic Year, Graduate Students!

Your voice, your community, your year—welcome to GSA.

Dear Graduate Students, Welcome (or welcome back!) to UMBC. Whether you’re just beginning your graduate journey or returning to continue your work, I’m so glad you’re here. A new year means new...

Posted: August 22, 2025, 3:16 PM

Dr. Eric Stokan awarded Elkins Professorship

Congratulations!

The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) is proud to share that Dr. Eric Stokan, Director of CS3 and Associate Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the prestigious Elkins...

Posted: August 21, 2025, 4:17 PM

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Dept. of Education Research Seminar Series

Kicks off @noon on Sept 3rd w/ Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon

September 3 | 12-1pm | University Center, 310 UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar Series “Spirituality: How we define it, defines us” Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Professor, UMBC Dept. of...

Posted: August 21, 2025, 4:11 PM

Q Methodology: Mapping Shared Viewpoints

Adrian Lundberg, Malmö University, Sweden

September 9, 2025 | 3:00-4:00pm | Public Policy Building 451 | UMBC Main Campus Campus Map In this talk, I introduce Q methodology as a flexible approach for studying people’s viewpoints....

Posted: August 20, 2025, 3:02 PM

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Q Methodology: Mapping Shared Viewpoints

Research Methodology Talk

The Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) graduate program; Language, Literacy, and Culture (LLC) doctoral program; and the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) present a...

Posted: August 20, 2025, 12:52 PM

Dresher Center Fall 2025 Fellows

This fall, two UMBC faculty members and a graduate student were awarded fellowships from the Dresher Center. Jiyoon Lee, Associate Professor in Education, will work on two chapters of her...

Posted: August 19, 2025, 4:34 PM

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