A Global Classroom

Studying Land Use and Global Change in China
Erle Ellis will be carrying experience, and a new set of high-tech instruments, into the Chinese countryside, where he is analyzing how changes in traditional farming patterns have caused profound alterations to village ecosystems. In the process, he'll begin to frame questions about the earth's ecological future, and offer some UMBC undergraduates opportunities to join him in China. (more...)

An IT Education...Anytime, Anywhere
UMBC is expanding the reach of its information technology programs beyond a regional presence to a national--and international--arena. In a partnership with the U.S. Open University (USOU), a well-respected, non-profit, distance-learning university, UMBC now offers an online master's degree in information systems, designed to meet the needs of busy working professionals, wherever they may be. (more...)

Studying Abroad...in Cyberspace
The classmates of French 301 lived abroad last semester, at least virtually. They lived in an apartment building in the south of France, together with another class from Germany also studying French. They shared apartments, talked together, and dealt with the small hassles of everyday French life, from an irascible building concierge to noisy neighbors. And they made it all up--in French, on a website. (more...)

Fulbright Awards to Two Economists
Tim Gindling took his to Costa Rica. Brad Humphries is carrying his to Prague. Both are professors in the UMBC economics department who won prestigious Fulbright Scholarships this year, enabling them to teach and conduct research abroad. (more...)

Ideas in Focus: Beckett in Berlin
A significant portion of UMBC's theatre faculty could be found in Germany last September when the Maryland Stage Company (MSC), UMBC's resident professional theatre company, was invited to perform three works of playwright Samuel Beckett at the Beckett in Berlin 2000: International Festival and Symposium. (more...)