Global. Research. Innovation. Trends. Excellence.
GRIT-X is an annual series of presentations launched in 2016 to celebrate the passion and achievements of UMBC’s alumni, faculty, and graduate students, featuring invited speakers to convey compelling aspects of UMBC’s impact in the areas of research and creative achievement.
GRIT-X 2024 – Fine Arts Recital Hall – Oct 24, 2024
Followed by reception and showcase event
Making the Impossible Real – Homegrown Leadership and Violence Prevention in Baltimore |
Todd Pittman |
Guenet Abraham |
Tamra Mendelson |
G. Derek Musgrove ‘97 |
Takashi Yamashita |
Patricia Ordóñez ’10, ’12 |
Mehdi Benna |
Aryya Gangopadhyay |
GRIT-X 2023 – Fine Arts Recital Hall – Oct 14, 2023
Melanie Okoro ’11 |
Justin Webster |
Cynthia Matuszek |
Zhensen Huang ’00, ’04 |
Mercedes Burns |
Charles Ichoku |
Michelle Scott |
Carlos Romero-Talamás |
Irina Golubeva |
GRIT-X 2022 – Fine Arts Recital Hall – Oct 15, 2022
Delali Dzirasa ’04 |
Vandana Janeja |
Airi Yoshioka |
Alicia Lynn Wilson ’04 |
Minjoung Kyoung |
Matthew Fagan |
Kaitlyn Sadtler ’11, Sc.D. ’22 |
Sebastian Deffner |
Nkiru Nnawulezi |
GRIT-X 2021 – Proscenium Theatre – Oct 9, 2021
Letitia Dzirasa ’03 |
Erle Ellis |
Kathie Seley-Radtke |
Andrea Kleinsmith |
Belay Demoz |
Zoë McLaren |
Sankarshan Murthy ’06 |
Charissa Cheah |
Upal Ghosh |
GRIT-X 2019 – Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Building – Oct 12, 2019
Crystal Watkins Determination in Dementia – Perseverance through Memory Loss |
Kevin Omland Why Diversity Matters – Gender Biases and the Study of Female Bird Song |
Tinoosh Mohsenin Micro AI – When Intelligence Moves to Low Power Sensors |
Premal Shah F!@$ Cancer – Using Your Data to Kill It |
Lisa Moren What is the Shape of Water? |
Mustafa Al-Adhami The Quest – Finding Medical Answers from the Unknown |
Gregory Szeto The Frenemy Within – Mining the Wisdom and Ignorance of our Immune System |
Carolyn Forestiere See the World and find Yourself – Why Study Abroad Matters |
Yonathan Zohar More People eat more Fish – Can we Prevent Empty Oceans? |
GRIT-X 2018 – Dance Cube – Oct 13, 2018
Shawn Bediako Inscribing the Race – Sickled Cells, Science and Society |
Manil Suri STEAMy Videos and X’y Tales: Approaching Math through Narrative |
Nicole King Do Listen to Strangers |
Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, ’19 Robotic Journeys – A Quest for Independence |
Kimberly Moffitt The Princess and the Glass Cliff(er) – An Exploration of Gender and Race in Animation |
Eric Dyer ’95 Material Motion – Resurrecting Cinema’s Forgotten Ancestry |
Diane Bell McKoy ’93 Suicide Led the Way – A New Set of Lenses Creates the Change |
Richard Chisolm ’82 Catalytic Filmmaking – Embracing the Power of the Documentary |
Deborah Thompson Eisenberg The Four Superpowers Needed to create a Culture of Conflict Resolution |
GRIT-X 2017 – Black Box Theatre – Oct 14, 2017
Kafui Dzirasa ’01 Next Generation Psychiatric Diagnostics and Therapeutics |
Christine Mallinson The Social Life of Speech |
Nilanjan Banerjee When What You Wear Understands You |
Sean Pang ’11 The Fortune of Misfortunes: Finding Passion and What to Do With It |
Gymama Slaughter The Art of Powering Implantable Electronics |
Kate Brown The Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance Became Policy and Politics |
Corey Fleischer ’08 Building Founders the Old Fashioned Way |
T. Jane Turner Here Be Dragons: Investigating Black Holes in Galaxy Nuclei |
Doug Hamby Making Dance: Let the Body Show the Way |
GRIT-X 2016 – Earl & Darielle Linehan Concert Hall – Sept 17, 2016
Kiirstn Pagan and Katie Hileman When Your Art Becomes Your Business |
Lee Blaney Our Environment is on Drugs |
Tyson King Meadows Why the Color of Your Canary Matters for Democracy |
Rebecca A. Adelman Beyond the Checkpoint: Rethinking Citizenship and Surveillance |
Vanderlei Martins Reaching for the Skies – Sun, Pollution, Clouds and Climate |
Lee Boot A Grand Visualization Challenge: Putting Humpty Together Again |
Karsonya Wise Whitehead From ReSearch to MeSearch: Finding Ways to Add Your Voice to the Wind of Social Memory |
Govind Rao Inventing Tomorrow at UMBC |
Thomas Schaller Teaching Politics in an Era of Civics Decline |