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Hilltop Awarded Contract to Estimate the Costs of Tobacco

News from UMBC's Hilltop Institute

The Center for Mississippi Health Policy has commissioned UMBC's Hilltop Institute to estimate the costs to Mississippi Medicaid attributable to tobacco. Using the best available evidence from the...

Posted: October 3, 2018, 12:46 PM

Transition to Kuali COI

Dear Faculty,     As announced in July 2018, UMBC is transitioning from the research management format in PeopleSoft to the cloud-based Kuali system. The Office of the Vice President for...

Posted: September 17, 2018, 8:53 AM

Lessons from Maryland's Community First Choice Program

Featured Work of UMBC's Hilltop Institute

In collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and with support from the Commonwealth Fund, UMBC's Hilltop Institute examined the experience with Maryland’s Community...

Posted: August 23, 2018, 12:38 PM

When did humans start to transform Earth?

UMBC’s Erle Ellis introduces the Anthropocene

This story was written by Catalina Sofia Dansberger Duque and first appeared on news.umbc.edu “Humans have emerged as a force of nature on this planet,” UMBC’s Erle Ellis says, as he begins...

Posted: August 13, 2018, 6:55 AM