UMBC News and Headlines

In a new Baltimore Sun article on managing grief during the holidays, Professor Robert Rubinstein, sociology and anthropology, offers advice for mourning families on how to make it through the...

The online journal Aeon has published an excerpt from associate professor of history Kate Brown’s forthcoming book Plutopia, which is due out in 2013. “For the past seven years, I have spent a...

Rebecca Boehling, professor of history and director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, appeared in the international publication “Spiegel,” in a feature article about the International...

What’s Baltimore buzzing about? A fascinating community project from UMBC’s Departments of American Studies and Visual Arts. Students from the multidisciplinary BreakingGround course “Mapping...

The latest Baltimore Sun column by Thomas Schaller, professor of political science, explores critiques of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice’s potential nomination for secretary of state given her role in...

“As the growing season winds down, one Baltimore City school garden has harvested next to nothing. A project intended to enliven lessons or inspire healthier eating came down to four neglected...

Maryland State Delegate Jon Cardin ’96 has formed an exploratory committee for a potential run for Maryland attorney general in 2014, according to an AP article published in the Daily Record....

“Now that the governor’s proposal to expand gambling in Maryland has passed at the ballot box, some state senators and delegates who backed the controversial measure are looking to collect,”...

Political science professor Thomas F. Schaller’s latest Baltimore Sun column responds to the claim that “President Obama won re-election because Americans want ‘free stuff’.” He argues that...

In the wake of Maryland’s vote for Question 4, UMBC professors T.H. Gindling (economics) and Marvin Mandell (public policy) recently discussed their study, “Private and Government Fiscal Costs and...