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Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun

Political science professor Thomas F. Schaller’s latest Baltimore Sun opinion column responds to the Western Maryland Initiative — an effort to organize Maryland’s western counties to secede and...

Posted: September 20, 2013, 7:28 PM

NSF PROMISE AGEP Grant Funded; UMBC is Lead Partner

UMBC is pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation grant for PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) has been funded. UMBC is the lead...

Posted: September 19, 2013, 3:44 PM

Akshayraj Kore Becomes New UMBC Chess Champion

Last weekend International Grandmaster Akshayraj Kore from India  (FIDE rating 2481) earned the title of 2013-2014 UMBC Chess Champion by being the top UMBC student to finish the UMBC Chess...

Posted: September 18, 2013, 7:29 PM

Joel Katz, Visiting Artist Lecture (9/25)

The Department of Visual Arts is pleased to present a lecture by Joel Katz, Wednesday, September 25 at 7 pm in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Artist and designer Joel Katz, University of the...

Posted: September 18, 2013, 4:00 PM

Erle Ellis, GES, in The New York Times

In a thought-provoking new op-ed in The New York Times, Erle Ellis argues that when it comes to global sustainability “overpopulation is not the problem.” Ellis, an associate professor of...

Posted: September 18, 2013, 2:48 AM