I wanted to make you aware of a lecture that that the School of Public Policy is hosting. The lecture will be given by Erin Dorrien, who is the Director for Policy at the Maryland Hospital Association (MHA), the state’s primary advocate for Maryland’s hospitals and health systems. In this role, she is instrumental in the development of MHA’s workforce and capacity strategies, including developing an approach to quantify the need for behavioral health services in the community. Erin also supports MHA’s strategies to increase physician and community engagement in support of Maryland’s unique Total Cost of Care Model. She will be speaking on the topic of “The Affordable Care Act’s Contraception Coverage Requirement and the Impact on the Unintended Pregnancy Rate”. The event will take place on Thursday November 7th from 4:30 to 6:30 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. 

All political science faculty and students have been invited to attend the lecture. If you are interested in learning more about the event, please see the attached flyer.  

Greetings Asian Studies students, 

The Spring 2020 course catalog is live and early registration (by number of credits) has begun.

Advising appointments with Dr. Oyen continue to be available. All meetings take place in her office, FA 549, unless you have made alternate arrangements directly with her. To sign up, sign in to your google account and access her calendar here: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/selfsched?sstoken=UUc1cHltUHhFSWJ0fGRlZmF1bHR8ZDY1MGM3NTg5ZmI2Njg1MjNlNDJjYmMxZTc4NWJkOTM

Dr. Oyen also has office hours on Mondays between 1:30 and 3:00.  Priority at that time goes to ASIA 100 students, but anyone can drop by for assistance then.

You MUST see Dr. Oyen if you are a senior trying to graduate in the next two semesters.  Otherwise, any Asian Studies students are welcome to sign up with Dr. Oyen.  You may also see Mr. Hamilton from 9:00-10:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays or make an appointment to see Dr. Song in the History Department.

Please note that the elevator is not working on the south side of the building. You can take the north side elevator to the fourth floor and walk across and up the last flight of stairs. If you would prefer to meet Dr. Oyen at an alternate accessible location, please email her directly at oyen@umbc.edu to make arrangements.

I am emailing you to encourage you to sign up for an advising appointment in the coming weeks if you haven't done so already. Please remember that you will not be able to register for Spring 2020 courses until you have had your advising appointment and received clearance to register from a faculty adviser. It is important to make sure that you have received clearance to register by the time your personal registration date roles around. This way you give yourself the best chance of claiming a spot in the classes you want or need to take. If you have any question about the advising process or who your adviser is, please feel free to send me an email (polisciadvising@umbc.edu) or stop by my office (PUP 357) and I would be more than happy to help you.

Have a good rest of your day

I am emailing you to remind you that we are having another current events forum this Wednesday, October 30th, at 12 p.m. in PUP 354! For those of you who may not know, the current events forum is a student led discussion where we talk about the current events that are going on in our society and world today. Pizza will be served on a first come, first serve basis. Please free to invite other students who may not necessarily study political science. 

Hope to see you there!

The session is on Sunday, November 3 at 12:00 PM at the Ivy Bookshop Stage, USM Columbus Center, 701 East Pratt St.

From the event website:

Baltimore is a city filled with remarkable universities and colleges, most of which include a vibrant creative writing program. We’re fortunate to have these hubs of creativity in our community. The University Writers’ Program, now in its fifth year, brings together student writers from a variety of area schools to share their work. The next generation of poets, fiction writers, and memoirists awaits you!

The UMBC Center for Democracy and Civic Life is hosting an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. 

The event will be on Monday, November 11th, from 5:30 to 7:00pm in the Commons Skylight Room.  It will feature a panel comprised partly of members of the LLC Community (LLC affiliate faculty, Marina Adler and Ed Larkey, and LLC alumna and Assistant Director of the Center, Romy Hübler).

Be part of small table conversations about the physical, metaphorical, personal, and societal walls that keep us apart.

I wanted to make you aware that the Political Science Department is co-sponsoring a panel discussion event called Wall Stories. The event is being hosted by UMBC's center for Democracy and Civic Life and will take place on Monday November 11th. The event will have a panel commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago, followed by small table conversations about physical, metaphorical, personal, and societal walls that keep us apart. If you are interested in attending the event, please see both the link below and the flyer that is attached to this post. 

Have a great week!