UMBC News and Headlines

UMBC Language, Literacy & Culture doctoral student Kevin Wisniewski is publishing the lead chapter in the new anthology Kidding Around: The Child in Film and Media(Bloomsbury, January 2014)....

In an interview with George Mason University’s History News Network, professor Kate Brown shares her inspiration for her new book, Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet...

Kimberly Moffitt joins panelists on The Marc Steiner Show to continue the ongoing discussion on the mass shooting tragedy at the Washington, D.C. Naval Yard, last Monday. The panelists, who also...

Tyson King-Meadows, associate professor of political science and chair of Africana studies, will speak this afternoon on the panel “Protecting the Right to Vote” at the Congressional Black Caucus...

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...

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...

A panel discussion for the exhibition, Cyber In Securities, curated by Lisa Moren, visual arts, and presented by the Washington Project for the Arts will take place Saturday, September 21 at 3 pm...

The Baltimore Sun reports that Texas Gov. Rick Perry will hold private meetings with companies during a visit to Maryland next week as part of his “mission to rustle up business for the Lone Star...

Kimberly Moffitt, writer and professor of American Studies, will join other prominent leaders in higher education in a two-hour panel discussion on race equality, civil rights and policy change at...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded a 3-year, $750,000 grant the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR), The Hilltop Institute at UMBC, and the...