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De'Jia Long-Hillie and Peri Johnson awarded scholarships

Humanities Scholars studying at Nanzan University, Japan

Peri Johnson '21 Asian studies and De'Jia Long-Hillie '20 global studies are recipients of the Tanaka and Green Academic Scholarship awarded by The Japan-America Society of Washington DC.  De'Jia...

Posted: August 27, 2019, 9:52 AM

Kelly Wan '18 Humanities Scholar and Fulbright recipient

"Anyone, regardless of physical appearance can be American"

Kelly Wan '18 became interested in the Fulbright program after studying abroad in Shanghai, China, her junior year. "As a Humanities Scholar and Honors College member, she was excited to use the...

Posted: August 9, 2019, 1:38 PM

Dawg Days Abroad! Lexi Smith Ambassador

Blog Post from a Freshman Humanities scholar

Lexi is an incoming UMBC Humanities scholar freshman who will be studying abroad this summer before fall semester even starts! She's participating in Education Abroad's first-ever Dawg Days Abroad...

Posted: July 30, 2019, 9:07 AM

Nailah-Benã Chambers work honored

Started the Diverse Hands at Work Club

Nailah-Benã Chambers shown center painting, lower right photo Courtesy of Powhatan High School Nailah-Benã Chambers (incoming freshman Humanities scholar) and Angel Rather, were honored for...

Posted: July 29, 2019, 10:32 AM

Anjali DasSarma to The Baltimore Sun's Readers Respond

BSO musicians are the ones who are suffering

Reprinted from The Baltimore Sun June 15, 2019 As a humanities student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, I feel a very close kinship with both Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony...

Posted: June 21, 2019, 11:49 AM

De'Jia Long-Hillie receives a Bridging Scholarship

Will Study Abroad in Japan

De'Jia Long-Hillie, a Humanities Scholar, Class of 2020 has been awarded a Bridging Scholarship for Study Abroad in Japan, the US-Japan Bridging Foundation announced recently. De'Jia will study...

Posted: June 18, 2019, 2:34 PM

Madeline Arbutus summer internship

The Liriodendron - historical 1890s mansion

Madeline Arbutus received Student Internship & Service funding from the UMBC Career Center, for an internship at The Liriodendron, an historical 1890s mansion in Bel Air, Maryland.  The...

Posted: May 22, 2019, 2:21 PM

“The Night My Mother Killed My Father" review by A Mansfield

A comedy directed by Inés París.

A review by Angelica Mansfield October 31, 2018 from retriever.umbc.edu  “The Night My Mother Killed My Father” (Spain 2016) directed by Inés París, is a comedic film focused on Isabel París,...

Posted: November 7, 2018, 12:46 PM

The future is bright for non-STEM majors by Sam Adebesin

Sam Adebesin October 10, 2018 Retriever Weekly

“Oh. You’re an English major? So do you want to be a teacher then?” I have grown so accustomed to hearing these words on this campus that now I can manage to suppress my eye roll completely, or at...

Posted: October 26, 2018, 11:56 AM