UMBC News and Headlines

On Friday, March 9, Dan Ritschel, associate professor of history, and one of his Ph.D. students in the history public policy track, Rod McCaslin, will be on a panel together at the Huntington...

Anne Rubin, associate professor of history, has been elected president of the Society of Civil War Historians for 2012-2014.  The Society of Civil War Historians is committed to promoting both...

Alan Kreizenbeck, chair of theater, has been selected by the Japan Studies Association to be a participant in the 2012 Freeman Summer Institute on Japan. The Institute will operate at Hawaii Tokai...

AP’s latest coverage of Maryland’s same-sex marriage bill focuses on both Gov. O’Malley’s message in signing the legislation and the referendum effort now underway to repeal it. Donald Norris,...

“As Maryland and Washington join six other states in approving same-sex marriage, it’s clear that the era of politicians exploiting the issue for political game appears over,” argues UMBC...

EHS Search and Rescue Field Training 2011 When he retired this week from Howard County’s fire service, as the department’s deputy chief for operations, Charles Sharpe told the Baltimore Sun that...

Christopher Corbett, professor of the practice of English, laments the passing of one of Baltimore’s eccentric citizens in his latest column for the back page of Baltimore Style magazine. “…when...

“It’s the height of cold and flu season, with people coughing and sneezing and blowing their noses (not to mention their germs) every which way,” reports MSNBC’s “Body Odd” blog. But not all...

The “Children’s Lives at Colonial London Town” project, which was developed by UMBC’s Center for History Education’s “Making American History Master Teachers in Anne Arundel County” program, is...

UMBC political science professor Thomas Schaller appeared on MSNBC’s “Up w/Chris Hayes” on Saturday, February 25. Schaller frequently comments on national politics in his regular Baltimore Sun...