Community Engaged Environmental Science & Social Justice
National Science Foundation
Research Training (NRT) Grant
Broadening Participation
Across the Environmental Sciences
In and Around Baltimore Harbor
2020-2025
The ICARE NRT master’s degree was a 2-year interdisciplinary degree program with a dual mission of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice combined with research focused on improving the health of Baltimore Harbor. Students were mentored by a UMBC faculty member and a non-academic scientist from a government agency, non-profit, or industry. That research team was embedded in a larger stakeholder team, meaning that each student and their mentors worked with one or more community members (non-scientists) that had a stake in the research, from development to completion. Students also enrolled in skills courses (community engagement, JEDI, oral and written communication) and disciplinary courses appropriate to their research project.
Students completed requirements for the program while earning a master’s degree from UMBC in Biological Sciences, Environmental Engineering, Geography & Environmental Systems, the cross-campus Marine Estuarine Environmental Science (MEES) program, or the UMBC School of Public Policy.
Applications
The ICARE Master’s Program has not been accepting applications since January 2023, but individual ICARE-adjacent faculty and departments still are! More information can be found under Application Information.
Students interested in pursuing graduate degrees in these subjects should directly contact potential mentors in each of the component departments. Faculty members may still be able to sponsor masters, or PhD students interested in these subjects.