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HAPP Summer 2016 Courses: Check out what is HAPPening!

Registration for Summer HAPP courses starts March 28

Health Administration and Policy Program (HAPP) HAPP 100 Survey of U.S. Health Care System MWF 1:00 PM – 4:10 PM, 7/11/16 – 8/5/16, Charles Cange An overview of the health system in the...

Posted: February 23, 2016, 2:05 PM

Taking action with the Real Food Challenge Summit at Hopkins

HAPP major Maura Smith and other UMBC students attend Summit

From February 11th-14th, Hopkins hosted the Real Food Challenge Leadership Summit for schools from Virginia all the way up to Massachusetts to meet and learn about political strategy for campus...

Posted: February 23, 2016, 12:37 PM

Julie Rosenthal recipient of the Living the Dream Award

Founder of Food on the 15th

Congratulations to Julie Rosenthal, Program Management Specialist for Gerontology Ph.D​ and Asian Studies who is the 2016 recipient of the Living the Dream Award which honors an individual and an...

Posted: January 19, 2016, 3:12 PM

NEW Anthropology Special Topics Course for Spring 2016

ANTH 397: Environment and Culture

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology will be offering a NEW special topics course this Spring. Please see below for course details. Catalog Number: ANTH 397-01 Course Title: Environment...

Posted: January 19, 2016, 10:16 AM

Exciting Spring Elective: ANTH 367/GWST 367

The Anthropology of Gender

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is excited to offer ANTH 367 (The Anthropology of Gender) this Spring. Please see below for course details. Catalog Number: ANTH 367-01 (also listed...

Posted: January 19, 2016, 10:15 AM

Loren Henderson, SOCY/ANTH presents at UN Headquarters

Workshop/Conference on Poverty,Inequalityand Global Conflict

Drs. Loren Henderson and Cedric Herring were invited as a select group of approximately 25 leading scholars and activists from around the world to meet at UN Headquarters, NY, January 2016. The...

Posted: January 14, 2016, 4:11 PM

Leslie Morgan, SOCY/ANTH, receives distinguished AGHE Award

Mildred M. Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition Award

Dr. Leslie Morgan, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Co-Director of Gerontology Doctoral Program will receive the Mildred M. Seltzer Distinguished Service Recognition at the...

Posted: January 13, 2016, 10:33 AM

Leslie Morgan, Dept. of SOCY/ANTH keynote speaker for OAGE

2016 Ohio Association of Gerontology & Education Conference

Dr. Leslie Morgan, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Co-Director of Gerontology Doctoral Program, will give the keynote address at the 2016 Ohio Association of Gerontology and...

Posted: January 11, 2016, 1:39 PM

American Public Health Association Natl. mtg. features UMBC

HAPP faculty attend APHA with keynote President Hrabowski

National Priority American Public Health Association national meeting features UMBC leadership in social and policy dimensions of health research. UMBC took center stage as more than 13,000...

Posted: November 19, 2015, 2:40 PM

New book from Dr. Leslie Morgan, Dept.Sociology&Anthropology

Aging, Society and the Life Course

Aging, Society and the Life Course is a textbook in its 5th edition, co-authored by Leslie Morgan (UMBC) and Suzanne Kunkel (Miami University).  The book covers the sociological approach to the...

Posted: October 29, 2015, 2:53 PM