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“Building Understanding, Reducing Stigma”

7th Annual Disability Awareness Workshop Date:  October 16, 2013 Event Features:   Keynote Speaker – Bryan Adams, a military veteran will offer a unique perspective on living with a mental health disability.  He will share the story of his transition from being in the military to being a college student. Student Panel – Come and hear […]

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Redoubtable Dons

This academic year is the 25th anniversary of the Redoubtable Dons, a cross-disciplinary meeting of Towson professors.  We share our specializations or work in progress in a non-specialized way with people from accounting to zoology and help to make our large campus smaller and its collegiality stronger. Please attend any or all the fall meetings […]

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CLA Guest Lecture: “What we need to know about Syria,” with Rania Masri.

A Lecture and Q & A Session with Professor Rania Masri Rania Masri is an Arab American environmental scientist, university professor, human rights activist, and writer. Since 2005, she has been an assistant professor and Chair of the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of Balamand in Lebanon. From 2012 to 2013, she served as […]

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Conversations on Teaching and Writing

Faculty workshops offered through the CLA Writing Center Below is a preview of coming attractions for the CLA Writing Center’s third annual series of workshops, Conversations on Teaching and Writing.  Faculty from across the disciplines are welcome to attend. This semester we are focusing on teaching with technology, both online and on campus. Workshop #1:  […]

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Participants Needed: Qualitative Study on the Experience of International Students from China

Are you a Chinese International Student? Are you interested in helping support programming for other International Students? Do you have an hour to share your perspectives and opinions? We would love to speak to you! Please contact Dr. Andrew Quach (aquach@towson.edu) or Dr. Bethany Willis Hepp (bwillishepp@towson.edu) for more information or to set up an […]

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Join Us For A Free Afternoon Snack & Engaging Speaker

 Attend this FREE event: “Homeland Security Policy: What’s Next?” Join us on Friday September 20, 2013 in Towson University’s College of Liberal Arts Building for the Badolato Distinguished Speakers Series’ latest FREE event: “Homeland Security Policy: What’s Next?”. The event will be held in room 4110. The agenda is as follows: 12:30-1:30 p.m.: Networking Reception […]

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Dr. Kimberly Katz with Dan Rodericks

Professor Kimberly Katz, Department of History, appeared on a panel of experts from Maryland universities on Midday with Dan Rodricks on WYPR on Wednesday at 12:00. They  discussed the crisis in Syria and the Obama Administration’s decision to resort to military action. Here is the link for this discussion on Syria: http://programs.wypr.org/podcast/conflict-syria-wednesday-sept-4-12-1-pm    

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Faculty Kudos

College of Liberal Arts – English Department Katherine Attié had two articles published last year:  “Passion Turned to Prettiness: Rhyme or Reason in Hamlet” in Shakespeare Quarterly 63 (2012) and “Selling Science: Bacon, Harvey, and the Commodification of Knowledge” in Modern Philology 110 (2013). David Belz read his “Gift of the Cicadas” on WYPR-88’s “The Signal” on […]

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Dr. Kimberly Katz with Dan Rodricks

Professor Kimberly Katz will be featured on Midday with Dan Rodricks for a program on recent events in Egypt on Monday, August 19 at 12:00, at 88.1FM or at http://www.wypr.org/stationprogram/midday . A student in Egypt will be on at the beginning of the program to give her views as well.

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Radio Captioning Interview

For anyone interested in radio captioning –  we invite you to tune into WYPR’s Maryland Morning with Sheila Kast on Tuesday, August 13, from 9 – 10 a.m., to learn about Towson University’s and NPR’s captioning program. Dr. Ellyn Sheffield, Managing Director of the International Center for Accessible Radio Technology (ICART) will be interviewed. Captioning will be […]

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Earn $15: Undergraduate students are invited to Participate in Research on Teamwork and Decision-Making

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University invites undergraduate students to take part in research investigating group dynamics and team decision making! The studies are being conducted with researchers at the University of Iowa, and provide research participants with monetary compensation ($15 per hr). If interested please visit http://uiowa-soc.sona-systems.com/, create an […]

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“Earn $15-$20: Undergraduate students are invited to Participate in Research on Teamwork and Decision-Making”

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University invites undergraduate students to take part in research investigating group dynamics and team decision making! The studies are being conducted with researchers at the University of Iowa, and provide research participants with monetary compensation ($15-20 per hr). If interested please visit http://uiowa-soc.sona-systems.com/, create an […]

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Earn $15-$20: Undergraduate students are invited to Participate in Research on Teamwork and Decision-Making

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University invites undergraduate students to take part in research investigating group dynamics and team decision making! The studies are being conducted with researchers at the University of Iowa, and provide research participants with monetary compensation ($15-20 per hr). If interested please visit http://uiowa-soc.sona-systems.com/, create an […]

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Earn $15-$20: Undergraduate students are invited to Participate in Research on Teamwork and Decision-Making

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University invites African American male and female students and European American female students to take part in research investigating group dynamics and team decision making! The studies are being conducted with researchers at the University of Iowa, and provide research participants with monetary compensation ($15-20 […]

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Earn $15: African American students are invited to Participate in Research on Teamwork and Decision-Making

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University invites African-American students to take part in research investigating group dynamics and team decision making! The research is being conducted in conjunction with researchers at the University of Iowa, and provides research participants with monetary compensation ($15 for an hour of their time). If […]

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Emily Elizabeth Daugherty Award for Service and Citizenship

On Saturday, June 8, 2013, the Department of History presented the first Emily Elizabeth Daugherty Award for Service and Citizenship in the Department of History to Dr. Patricia Anderson.  Dr. Anderson has worked at Towson University for many years, teaching courses in the history of Baltimore and Maryland.  In presenting the award, Chairperson Ronn Pineo noted […]

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Share the Knowledge Tour

Towson University, SAP University Allicances and Interaction-Design Foundation (IDF) are pleased to announce the Share the Knowledge Tour stop at Towson University. We invite you to join us for this exciting event! Register now. Last month Max began a four-year, around the world, bike and canoe journey. Over the next six months, Max will bike […]

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Access to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research

Towson University is a member institution of the Inter- University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR).   The ICPSR data archive contains over 500,000 research data files on topics in the social sciences.  Students, faculty and staff of Towson University can download any of these files to use in their own research.  Most of the […]

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Anthropology By The Wire Recruitment

The third year of Anthropology by the Wire, a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates project at Towson University headed by anthropologists Matthew Durington and Sam Collins has just started! You can follow this innovative media anthropology research project at www.anthropologybythewire.com   and through twitter @anthrobythewire. Community college students recruited from the surrounding region will undergo […]

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Earn $15: African American students are invited to Participate in Research on Teamwork and Decision-Making

The Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University invites African-American students to take part in research investigating group dynamics and team decision making! The research is being conducted in conjunction with researchers at the University of Iowa, and it provides research participants with monetary compensation ($15 an hour). If interested, please visit http://uiowa-soc.sona-systems.com/, […]

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