You've probably heard about the wage gap. You know, the part where men and women often get paid differently for doing the same job? The gap is even bigger for people of color and people with disabilities. What can you do, besides wringing your hands and hoping you don't fall in?

Learn to negotiate your salary, that's what! Women Involved in Learning and Leadership (WILL) is bringing another edition of Start Smart to UMBC. We will learn how to ask for what we're worth, even in this tight job market, and help all of us avoid one of the most common pitfalls for new employees: failing to negotiate that starting salary. Don't let this happen to you!

The workshop will be held on Monday, November 6 at 12:00 PM in the Women's Center located in The Commons, Ground Floor.  Lunch will be provided. Invest in your future today!

SPEAKER: Jeff Halverson, PhD, UMBC Department of Geography and Associate Dean of the Graduate School

TOPIC: Natural Disasters From A Geophysical And Human Geographical Perspective

Dr Halverson's deep knowledge of the relationships between disasters and human-geography interactions, will add to all of our understanding how to predict the kinds of consequences we can expect from various kinds of interactions between natural and man-made phenomena.

Be There!

I would suggest that on-campus students arrive a bit earlier than usual, given that it's likely that we will have a number of non-EHS visitors this time around.  

Off campus and you don't know how to log in to the simulcast?  Contact Kara Buckmaster.

Opening Reception: Thursday November 2, 5 - 7pm
Exhibition on view November 2 – December 16

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture presents Spectrum: 2017 Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, featuring artworks by Eric Dyer, Corrie Parks, and Sarah G. Sharp. 

The artists will present a series of talks on their works in the gallery:

• Monday, November 6, 12 – 1 p.m. — Eric Dyer
• Wednesday, November 8, 12 – 1 p.m. — Sarah G. Sharp
• Wednesday, November 15, 12 – 1 p.m. — Peggy Re
• Wednesday, November 29, 12 – 1 p.m. — Corrie Parks

This EHS grad seminar is a special one, covering a really important topic: the need for legal and safety protection for refugee women and children. As you probably know, there are scores of large refugee camps in different parts of the world, and, all too often, women and children are abused or worse, either in the camps or on their way to the camps. We are even seeing some of this here in the States, in the commercially staffed refugee detention centers on contract to ICE.

If you look at the refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Hungary, Libya, Central African Republic, etc, human rights abuses against women and children are rampant. So, come and learn from our own students (Noor Abdel Rahman, Taylor Lutich, and Kara Buckmaster) about this important issue dogging the world's attempts to provide emergency health and humanitarian services for refugees in disparate parts of the world. Non-EMS students and faculty are welcome to attend.

CfP: 24 Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture 

John Warchal is an alumnus of our EHS undergraduate program, and holds a Master of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University.  He'll be talking on 11/1/2017 (Wednesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm in Sherman Hall, Room 305, A Wing) about the importance of using analytical methods in emergency preparedness and response decisions...which is one of the most powerful tools for breaking away from the old "well, we always did it this way" crowd. Much of what John has to share with us can be applied to many of the decisions we make, which affect the well-being and lives of others.   Be there!

LIVE LINK via BLACKBOARD:

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/13876aa9beb44d42b1e7cfe5df3004f6

The English Department is home to a productive, award-winning faculty whose members pursue research and creative activity across the many diverse fields of English Studies today. In celebrating that work, we would like to acknowledge some of our recent accomplishments:

Mike Fallon’s poem, “Henge,” was included on the last page of the recent UMBC Magazine. The poem was inspired by the Thomas Sayre sculpture, “Forum,” outside of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. His poem, “Dreams of Exile,” has also been published in the fall issue of the Crosswinds Poetry Journal and his poem, “A Litany of Dust,” appears in Illuminations.

YesYes Books will publish Dr. Tanya Olson’s next book, Stay, in March 2019.

Sally Shivnan has accepted an offer from The Short Story Project to purchase the foreign translation, digital, and audio rights to her short story collection, Piranhas & Quicksand & Love. Her book review of the novel The Crows of Beara also appeared in The Washington Independent Review of Books in September.

Congratulations on these incredible accomplishments. We look forward to seeing what the English Department faculty will do next.