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February
February 4, 2026 | 12pm | Virtual
Demonstrating your Impact Beyond Academia Series
Tate Steidley, PhD
Suicide Prevention Evaluator, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Office of Suicide Prevention
Friday, February 20, 2026 | 12pm | PUP 438
“Social Network Analysis: Building Web-Based Applications for Experiential Learning”
Steve McDonald, PhD
Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor of Sociology
University Faculty Scholar
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
North Carolina State University
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 |4:30pm | AOK Library Gallery
CAHSS New Faculty Microtalks
Meet recently hired tenure-stream faculty and learn about their research interests.
Hosted by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the CAHSS Dean’s office, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Center for Innovation, Research, and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA).
Thursday, February 26, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Psychology Distinguished Lecture
“Creating Inclusive Classrooms in Childhood: Theory, Research, and Applications”
Melanie Killen, Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
University of Maryland, College Park
Friday, February 27, 2026 | 12pm | PUP 438
“Social Network Analysis on Opioid Project Mobile Networks”
Brian Soller, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health, UMBC
March
Wednesday, March 4, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Mullen Lecture (Department of Economics)
“Investing in Children to Address the Youth Mental Health Crisis”
Janet Currie, Ph.D.
Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus
Princeton University
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 | 12pm | PUP 438
“Large Language Models for Enhancing GIS Workflow and Analysis”
Krishna Mummadi
Graduate Assistant, Geography & Environmental Systems, UMBC
Tuesday, March 31, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Low Lecture (Department of History)
“Out of This Strife Will Come Freedom: Free People of Color and the Fight for Equal Rights in the Civil War Era”
Warren Milteer, Jr.
Associate Professor
U.S. History, Early America, Nineteenth-Century U.S.
The George Washington University
April
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Amber Spry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Politics
Department of African and African American Studies
Brandeis University
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 | 3-5pm | Virtual
“LLMs and APIs”
Josephine Namayanja, PhD, Executive Director for iHARP
Monday, April 20, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Eckert Lecture on Health & Inequality (Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health)
Hannah Garth, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Princeton University
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 | time TBD | Virtual
“Equity in Algorithms”
Dr. Kayla Schwoerer
Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | time TBD | Virtual
“Evaluating LLMs for Credible and Rigorous Social Science Research”
Dr. Michael Overton, University of Idaho
May
Friday, May 1, 2026 | time & location TBD
“ML Models for Causal Inference Analysis + HPC”
Eric Stokan, PhD, Associate Professor, Poltical Science; Director, CS3
Roy Prouty, Assistant Director for Research Computing, UMBC DoIT; Director, UMBC Observatory
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science, UMBC CSEE
Thursday, May 7, 2026 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Lipitz Lecture
Erle Ellis, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geography & Environmental Systems
UMBC
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