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Social Sciences Forum
Spring 2008 Lecture Series

The Social Sciences Forum presents topics and perspectives of vital interest to the social sciences community and beyond. Lectures are free and open to the public and will last approximately one hour, followed by a question and answer period and a reception. For more information, call 410-455-2916.

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Tuesday, February 12 at 4 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

"No Child Left Behind and Beyond: 
Educational Policy Issues for the Next President"


Michael Casserly, Executive Director of the Council of Great City Schools
Dylan Conger, Assistant Professor, Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University
Kevin Maxwell, Superintendent of Anne Arundel County Public Schools

   
 

 

Wednesday, March 12 at 4 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

"Social Entrepreneurship"

Keith Taylor, Founder of Modest Needs
Sponsored by the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship

     
     
 

Tuesday, March 25 at 4 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

"Climate Change and Energy Policy"

Chris Flavin, President of The Worldwatch Institute
Sponsored by UMBC's Public Policy Graduate Student Association
Click here for streamed video

     
     
 

Tuesday, April 8 at 4 p.m.
University Center, Room 312

"Health Care Policy Issues for the Next President"


Julie Rovner, Health Policy Correspondent for National Public Radio
Sponsored by the Center for Health Program Development and Management and UMBC's Public Policy Graduate Student Association
Click here for streamed video

     
     
 

Monday, April 28 at 4 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

"Making a Difference?  Evaluating the Complicated Process of Behavior Change"

Carlo DiClemente, Lipitz Professor of the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, UMBC Professor of Psychology
The Lipitz Lecture

     
     
 

Wednesday, May 7 at 4 p.m.
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th floor

"Confederate Emancipation"

Bruce Levine, James G. Randall Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The Low Lecture, sponsored by the Department of History