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Carolyn Forestiere, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun

Mario Monti “may be just what Italy needs” to avert economic crisis, writes UMBC associate professor of political science Carolyn Forestiere in a letter to the Baltimore Sun. She notes, “Mr. Monti...

Posted: November 17, 2011, 4:38 PM

David Salkever, Public Policy, in the Post and Sun

UMBC public policy professor David Salkever delves into the University System of Maryland merger debate in a new Washington Post letter to the editor and Baltimore Sun commentary, published last...

Posted: November 16, 2011, 4:41 PM

Thomas Schaller, Political Science, in the Baltimore Sun

Thomas Schaller’s new Baltimore Sun commentary responds to Rick Perry’s recent debate gaffe, where he failed to recall the third cabinet agency he’d like to close, after naming the Depts. of...

Posted: November 16, 2011, 4:06 PM

Second Generation Scholarship Winners Awarded

Three students were awarded the Second Generation Scholarship on November 9 during the W.E.B. DuBois Lecture featuring speaker Carla L. Peterson of the University of Maryland College Park. The...

Posted: November 16, 2011, 2:53 PM

Kathy Scales Bryan, American Studies, in the News

Kathy Scales Bryan, American studies lecturer, recently commented on a California politician’s daughter who has publicly split with her father on a controversial issue. Briana Bilbray, the...

Posted: November 15, 2011, 8:31 PM

Celebrating True Commitment with The 1966 Society

UMBC honored members of The 1966 Society on September 19 — the 45th anniversary of the university’s opening day in 1966 — at a dinner hosted by president Freeman A. Hrabowski III celebrating the...

Posted: November 15, 2011, 4:18 PM

UMBC Researcher Proposes That Moon Dust is the Answer

According to NASA, for 40 years, what created the Moon’s ionosphere was a puzzle until Tim Stubbs an Assistant Research Scientist at UMBC working at the Goddard Space Flight Center published a...

Posted: November 15, 2011, 1:56 PM