We invite our LLC Community to the roundtable discussion "Women in Activism", organized by the Women's Center. This discussion features Dr. Bev Bickel, Jacki Stone (cohort 18), and Iman Said (student activist).

The panel will take place on April 20th, 4:00 pm, at the Women's Center Lounge, located in The Commons, ground floor.

Dr. Christine Mallinson has recently produced a 5-minute podcast titled "The Revelatory Power of Language," for the Maryland Humanities Council's "Humanities Connection" series for WYPR 88.1. In this podcast, Dr. Mallinson shares what our word patterns can reveal.

Check out "The Revelatory Power of Language" here: https://mdhumanities.podbean.com/e/the-revelatory-power-of-language/

Dr. Rebecca Boehling, Professor of History and Director of the Judaic Studies Program and the Global Studies Program at UMBC and former director of the International Tracing Service (ITS), will speak on:

"Remembering Holocaust Victims: The Post-Shoah Search for Closure and Identity Across Generations"

Monday, April 24, 2017, 4:00-5:30 p.m., UC 310

The event is free and open to the public.  A small reception will follow the talk.

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for two Residential Faculty Research Fellowships for spring 2018. Funding is intended to support and promote significant humanities research at UMBC. Dresher Center Research Fellows will reside at least one day a week in the Dresher Center and receive release from teaching (up to two course releases) in order to work on a significant humanities research project or the training necessary to embark on such a project. Faculty wishing to develop expertise in a new field or discipline towards a future project are also encouraged to apply. Each fellow will have the use of a private office in the Dresher Center and will be awarded $500 to hire an undergraduate research assistant (junior or senior) for the semester.

All full-time, tenured and tenure-track faculty members pursuing humanities research in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences are welcome to submit a proposal. Applications are especially encouraged from, but not limited to, full-time faculty with appointments in departments and programs with a humanities focus. Two fellowships are available. Proposals will be reviewed by the Dresher Center Advisory Board, with decisions by mid-July 2017.

For information and an application: http://bit.ly/19L6mfE

The American Council on Education (ACE) has selected UMBC’s Sarah Shin, professor of education and special assistant to the provost for academic initiatives, as a fellow in its 2017-18 class.

Each year the ACE Fellows program, the longest running leadership development program in the United States, names a select group of emerging college and university leaders to participate in its intensive program. Shin is one of just 46 emerging leaders in higher education selected nationwide this year.

“I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to participate in the ACE Fellows Program,” says Shin, thanking her nominator, Provost Philip Rous, whom she works with closely on programs and initiatives that support the university’s new strategic plan. Shin notes, “The ACE Fellows Program will help me be more effective in this work by offering me the opportunity to benefit from on-the-job experience and skills development that are condensed into a single year.”

The robust program combines retreats and visits to campuses and higher education-related organizations with placement at a host institution for a close mentoring experience with a university leader outside of the fellow’s home campus. Fellows observe and work closely with senior officers at their host institution, including the university president, and use those experiences to inform projects of pressing concern to their home institutions.

“I believe that the close mentoring, leadership seminars, campus visits, and frequent opportunities for networking that are the hallmarks of the ACE Fellows Program will be enormously valuable both to my own professional development and to UMBC,” Shin reflects. “I’m looking forward to a great year of learning and growth and bringing back important lessons to contribute to advancing the mission of UMBC.”

Dean Scott Casper, of UMBC’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, wholeheartedly agrees. “I’m delighted for Sarah and for UMBC that she will join the ACE Fellows program,” he shares. “The opportunity to learn from another institution’s practice, as well as from colleagues around the country, will enrich not just Sarah but our entire community.”

In addition to being named an ACE Fellow, Shin recently received UMBC’s prestigious Presidential Research Faculty Award.

Photo: Sarah Shin, by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

This hybrid course meets in person Tuesdays from 1-4 in the first six week summer session. The class is filling quickly, so be sure to sign up now!

Dr. Lisa Cella (professor of flute), Dr. Patrick Crossland (professor of trombone), Ms. Jacqueline Pollauf (professor of harp), and Dr. Airi Yoshioka (professor of violin) have all been named Individual Artist Award Recipients for grants of varying amounts from the Maryland State Arts Council. The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC), an agency of the Maryland Department of Commerce, announced that $245,000 has been awarded to 88 Maryland artists through the 2017 Individual Artist Awards (IAA). The MSAC’s competitive IAA Program is administered in partnership with Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and recognizes artists in 18 disciplines divided into three groups with awards presented in each discipline every three years. This year’s awardees represented the fields of Classical Music Composition, Classical Music Solo Performance, Dance Choreography, Dance Solo Performance, World Music Composition, World Music Solo Performance, Poetry, and Sculpture.

(Source: Maryland State Arts Council)