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UMBC’s Shriver Center has partnered with College Gardens for 15 years to offer children in Southwest Baltimore tutoring, mentorship and supervised activities after school. This week, WYPR...

Kate Brown, associate professor of history, is giving a series of talks that are taking her across the country.  Brown studies and teaches Russian and Eastern European history, and is an expert on...

Meredith Oyen, assistant professor of history, will give a talk at the Center for Force and Diplomacy at Temple University on Thursday, March 29. Oyen’s talk is entitled “Crossing Borders in...

Kimberly Moffitt, assistant professor of American Studies, and Michelle Scott, associate professor of history, were guests on the “Marc Steiner Show” on Monday to discuss the case of Trayvon...

Lindsey Loeper ’04, American studies, acknowledges the futility of trying to keep pace with the hands of the watch and the rapidly turning pages of the calendar. No matter how quickly she and...

The English Department’s Christopher Corbett will be featured Saturday, April 14 at the CityLit Project at Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library in a panel discussion on the art of writing...

The GOP presidential primary is drawing more attention in Maryland than usual, AP reports, given the protracted fight for the nomination among the top candidates. Anticipating a low primary...

Robert Wardlow, a senior majoring in biochemistry and molecular biology, has received a Gilliam Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). The goal of the Gilliam program,...

George Stover ’73, interdisciplinary studies, answers the door at his production studio, Adventure Productions, looking like he’s on location in the wild. A tall man with a full head of silver...

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the graduate school, has published a new book of poetry, “Unacknowledghed Miracles.” In his review, Dr. Richard Berlin writes: “Once again, Robert Deluty’s poems...