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Associate Professor of History Antoine Borrut Awarded NEH Fellowship about the role of astrological histories in early Islam.

Date of Publication: 
2023-01-26

In New Book, Professor Williams-Forson Over the Consequences of Food Shaming

Date of Publication: 
2022-08-17
8/24/21

TOME@UMD, a two-year pilot program of the national TOME initiative, is now accepting applications for three grants of up to $15,000 each that will sponsor the publication of open access, digital monographs by UMD faculty members. With a deadline of November 15, 2021, the process calls for applications from eligible faculty in all disciplines, but with preference given for those in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. 

“Scholarly monographs are a critical form of knowledge dissemination in the arts, humanities, and social sciences,” said Linda Aldoory, Associate Dean for Research and Programming in the College of Arts and Humanities. “Yet, these books are often expensive and not readily available to audiences without institutional access to academic libraries or research libraries. Publishing open access books is one way to disseminate this research freely to a wider audience.”

Funded monographs will be published by a participating university press under a Creative Commons (CC) license and will be made openly accessible through a digital repository, such as DRUM - the Digital Repository for University of Maryland.

TOME@UMD is made possible through a partnership with UMD’s Office of the Provost, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the Libraries. Learn more about author and manuscript eligibility and the application process at https://www.lib.umd.edu/about/deans-office/tome.

Questions about TOME@UMD? Contact Daniel Mack, Associate Dean of Libraries, at dmack@umd.edu.

Researchers across a broad range of disciplines at the University of Maryland are using their expertise to respond to the national crisis of racial injustice we are currently experiencing. The Division of Research is creating a Racial Justice Research Database & Resources Webpage for research relating to the underpinnings of, consequences of, and/or solutions to address systemic, institutional, and structural racism, racial and social justice, and other related areas. We seek to increase awareness about these important research activities and enable cross-campus collaboration.

 

Help us do so by filling out this form and sharing with your colleagues at UMD.

3/24/21

 

 

 

 

Dear Research Colleagues,

On April 5, 2021, we will transition to the next phase for on-campus research other than human subjects research. Researchers will be allowed to increase occupancy of all research spaces up to 75% occupancy provided they observe the following 4 Maryland guidelines within that space:

  1. Wear a properly fitting mask over your nose and mouth around others at all times, both indoors and outdoors
  2. Wash your hands often and clean and disinfect frequently used surfaces
  3. Practice physical distancing as per campus guidance (Current guidance: 6 ft)
  4. Stay home if you are sick

These restrictions apply for all researchers regardless of vaccination status.

As previously, human subjects research will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis through the UMD IRB process.

We have been operating in Phase 2 -- intermediate presence -- since August 2020. Over the past seven months, researchers have adhered to the 4 Maryland guidelines and demonstrated the ability to maintain safe practices in our research settings in order to prevent community transmission of the disease. This has informed our decision to move to increased occupancy at this time.

However, the pandemic is not over. We will continue to carefully monitor the situation, and may need to impose additional safety practices if we see any evidence of community transmission in our research spaces. The health and safety of our entire campus community is most important as we resume our critical research activities. As a reminder, all faculty, staff and students physically on campus must be tested for COVID-19 every two weeks throughout the spring semester.

We will continue to monitor researchers' health and safety and if all progresses well in this phase, we hope to be able to move to full occupancy of research spaces by summer 2021.

Thank you for all of your hard work to keep our research enterprise going throughout this difficult year. We appreciate everything that you do to make the University of Maryland a powerhouse of research and an economic engine for the state of Maryland.

Laurie E. Locascio Signature
Laurie E. Locascio
Vice President for Research

 

1/12/21

The University of Maryland has been invited to nominate early-career humanities faculty (received their doctorate between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2020) for the 2022-23 cycle of the Whiting Public Engagement Programs. Both TTK and PTK faculty are eligible. These programs aim to celebrate and empower early-career humanities faculty who undertake ambitious projects to infuse the depth, historical richness, and nuance of the humanities into public life. In brief, the two programs are:

 

  • Fellowship of $50,000 for projects far enough into development or execution to present specific, compelling evidence that they will successfully engage the intended public.
  • Seed Grant of $10,000 for projects at a somewhat earlier stage of development, where more modest resources are needed to test or pilot a project or to collaborate with partners to finalize the planning for a larger project and begin work.

The College of Arts and Humanities will be nominating a full- or part-time, early-career faculty candidate for either program or one for each. If you are interested in submitting an application and wish to be considered as the College nominee for this program, please submit all required application materials except the collaborators documentation to Linda Aldoory by March 5, 2021. ARHU will then invite up to one humanities professor for each program to submit their application to the UMD Limited Submission.

Click here to read the revised guidelines and eligibility criteria for the 2022-23 cycle

11/25/20

By Maryland Today Staff

Five University of Maryland faculty have been newly chosen as fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of journals such as Science.

The title recognizes important contributions to STEM disciplines, including pioneering research, leadership within a given field, teaching and mentoring, fostering collaborations and advancing public understanding of science.

The awardees are:

  • Charles Delwiche (Biological Sciences): For distinguished contributions to molecular systematics, particularly algal evolution and biodiversity. 
  • George Helz (Geology and Geography): In recognition of outstanding research, leadership, innovation, teaching and service to the community in aqueous and environmental geochemistry. 
  • William Lau (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences): For profound contributions to the understanding of atmospheric low-frequency oscillations, monsoon dynamics, aerosol-monsoon interaction, and hydroclimate variability and change, through original data analysis and modeling. 
  • Colin Phillips (Linguistics and Language Science): For outstanding contributions to psycholinguistics, advocacy for Linguistics and Language Science, superior mentorship and teaching, and a vision of what linguistic education should be. 
  • William Regli (Information, Computing and Communication): For his work at the interface between science and government, primarily at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 

The full list of 2020 Fellows will be published in Friday’s issue of Science.

12/8/20

By Maria Herd | UMIACS

A faculty member in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) and the College of Arts and Humanities has been selected as a 2020 Fellow by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the premier international scientific and professional society for those working on computational problems involving human language.

Philip Resnik, a professor of linguistics with a joint appointment in UMIACS, is one of nine Fellows selected by the ACL this year.

This significant honor is reserved for researchers whose contributions to the field have been the most extraordinary in terms of scientific and technical excellence, service to the association and the community, and/or educational or outreach activities with broader impact.

Resnik was specifically noted for his significant contributions to symbolic-statistical methods for natural language processing, multilinguality and the interdisciplinary study of language.

As a member (and, periodically, director) of the Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Laboratory in UMIACS, Resnik focuses his scientific work on challenges involving high social impact that can best be solved by integrating human knowledge and expertise with the automated analysis of human language.

Recent research by Resnik includes: developing computational models to better understand how political decisions are made; analyzing text responses in COVID-19 survey data and developing machine learning algorithms to help assess mental illness online.

“I'm honored to have been named an ACL Fellow,” said Resnik, who is also active in the University of Maryland Language Science Center. “Extra sweet is that this year's cohort also includes Noah Smith, who got his start in computational linguistics as my undergraduate advisee.”

Smith graduated from Maryland in 2001 with a double degree in computer science and linguistics. He is currently a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.

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