Tag: University of Maryland Baltimore County

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NASA Donates $64.1M to Fund University-Led Research Initiative

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded The Catholic University of America $64.1 million—the largest research grant in the school’s history—to establish the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER). Through a cooperative agreement between Catholic’s Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, George Mason University, Univ. of Maryland […]

July 13, 2021

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How Can We Increase Diversity in STEM? Support Students

As college students graduating in a world defined by climate crisis and public health emergencies, we strongly believe that supporting talented young people from underrepresented groups in STEM (like us) is essential for our generation to tackle the challenges ahead.

May 21, 2021

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AAC&U Report Highlights Results of Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Campus Centers Effort

As part of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers effort, 10 colleges and universities used TRHT’s framework to address campus racism. Now, in a new report from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), each of the 10 institutions describe the changes they made to address racial […]

July 2, 2020

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Professor Who Explored Race Inequities Dies of Coronavirus Complications

Dr. Maurice Berger, a research professor who explored the nature of art, race and image, died on Sunday from coronavirus-related complications reported the Los Angeles Times. Berger, curator of the Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County’s Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, lived in New York City and died in Craryville, New York. He was […]

March 25, 2020

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Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Invests $6.9M to Replicate Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego

Due to a newly announced $6.9 million investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) will enhance their efforts to successfully recruit, retain and graduate more underrepresented students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

April 9, 2019

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Tenure Denial, Work Climate Spark Growing Bias Complaints By Women and Minority Faculty

Associate professor Dr. Patricia Young is trying to resuscitate an academic career that she said has flatlined at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and she has filed a discrimination complaint against the school alleging a pattern of being denied resources, promotion and career mobility on the basis of her race and gender.

November 19, 2018

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Saint Augustine’s University Professor Wins National Award

Saint Augustine’s University professor Erin L. Berry-McCrea was recently awarded the 2018 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award. The award supports early career teachers of color who are working to build accomplished teaching careers in literacy education, according to NCTE. Berry-McCrea will be recognized during the 2019 […]

October 1, 2018

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Asian-American Scholars Honor SFSU’s Pioneering Ethnic Studies

The Association of Asian American Studies celebrated a major diversity milestone at its national conference, 50 years after a student strike at San Francisco State University birthed ethnic studies as a model for the nation.

April 2, 2018

Students

Yoga Utilized to Assist Young Girls on Coding Path

HowGirlsCode “Mind, Body, and Coding” summer camp, held on the campus of University of Maryland Baltimore County, is a computer science and coding camp for girls ranging from the 3rd to 9th grades.

July 20, 2017

Students

Programs Aim to Open Doors to Diversity in Cybersecurity

ACES and Cyber Scholars are credited with transforming the way industry and higher education work to bring much-needed diversity to the field of cybersecurity.

January 11, 2017

African-American

Drastic Fix Offered for Maryland Higher Ed

HBCU backers call for the merger of the University of Baltimore and Morgan State University as one step to end program duplication and the maintenance of unequal segregated systems.

May 8, 2015