Dean Kimberly Moffitt & Christine Mallinson

photo courtesy of Taka Yamashita

Congratulations to Christine Mallinson for being named the 2023-2024 Lipitz Professor!

Established by the Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation, the fellowship is intended "to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and/or research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences." 

"I'll be taking this year to move my research forward, especially my two current collaborative NSF funded projects at the intersection of language, culture, technology, and society -- and I'll be looking forward to sharing about our work with my colleagues at UMBC next spring!"

On this episode we hear a rebroadcast of a recent UMBC Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar.  The lecture, which took place on March 29, 2023, featured the work of Dr. Andrea Roberts, Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and Co-Director of the School's Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia's (UVA) School of Architecture.

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About The Series

Wednesday, May 17 - Thursday, May 18, 2023 
University Center Ballroom

***Reposted from the Department of Africana Studies. ***

Since the 1960s, 22 of the 54 African countries have witnessed civil wars that resulted in mass violence, displacement and refugee crises, economic and infrastructural destruction, and political and regional instability. Caused by complex historical drivers and experiences rooted in the colonial legacy of fragile constitutional and institutional structures, ill-prepared political leadership, sectarianism, ethnonationalism, religious intolerance, poverty and inequality, and stiff competition for scarce resources, among other factors, the wars have had devastating impacts on Africans especially women. Leading experts, activists, students, policymakers, and others will discuss these issues, including women, gender, conflict resolutions, and peacebuilding/peacemaking in Africa.

Join keynote speakers Aili Mari Tripp, Ph.D., Vilas Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and Cyril Obi, Ph.D., Program Director at the Social Science Research Council, NYC and leader of the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa programs along with a special panel of UMBC students for two days of discussion, African food, and music.

RSVPs/Registration is required no later than April 30, 2023 to reserve a seat. UMBC attendees should RSVP via Google form: https://forms.gle/H2VdVVY3dNDiHWSf8, also by April 30, 2023. Questions can be sent to: afst-conference@umbc.edu.

Guests should use the registration link on the website. Paid guests receive meals, a conference tote bag, event program and attend the evening banquet.

UMBC community members are not required to pay any registration fees, but they have to complete a Google Form to reserve a spot to attend the conference indicating the sessions they would attend. https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/degree-in-africana-studies/events/117316  

This event is hosted by UMBC's Department of Africana Studies, and co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean of College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; the Center for Global Engagement; the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the Center for Social Science Scholarship; The Shriver Center; Language, Literacy and Culture PhD Program; and Departments of Gender, Women's, + Sexuality Studies; Political Science; and Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health.

***reposted from the Office of Research and Creative Achievement***

Faculty Entrepreneurship AcceleraTor Fund

FEAT

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Feat -- an achievement that requires great courage, skill, or strength

With support provided by the Office of Institutional Advancement (OIA) and the Office of Research and Creative Achievement (ORCA), we are happy to announce a new funding initiative called FEAT. The program is designed to help broaden the technology pipeline, while also assisting with later stage technology commercialization. It is available to UMBC's entrepreneurial PIs to advance their technical concept, or their idea (social/behavioral/policy related) in conjunction with technology, towards commercial success, and out to meet societal needs. FEAT is flexible to assist UMBC researchers in obtaining additional commercialization funding, and providing mentorship services.

FEAT will support things like prototype builds, market surveys, business plans, CEO support, mentoring assistance, special facility or equipment access -whatever your specific needs are to obtain your next commercialization funding (MII, MIPS, SBIR/STTR, Momentum Funds, etc.).  This program will also enable UMBC, through OTD and bwtech, to identify for faculty existing resources, as well as provide new resources (like Market databases) based on faculty requests.

Proposal and Award Requirements:  UMBC PI eligible applicants must submit a one-page proposal which details the following:

1)      A non-confidential summary of the idea and its value proposition. What sets you apart from the competition?

2)      Describe how the funding will result in the project receiving additional internal or external funding [ABCE CENTRE fund, OTD Technology Catalyst Fund, TEDCO Maryland Innovation Initiative, UMD I-Corps , Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS), SBIR/ STTR program basics ] or advancing the technology to disclosure, licensing, or the creation of a start-up company.

3)      A list of goals you hope to achieve. What specific threshold(s) will you cross?

4)      The amount of funds needed for the project using a budget table.

5)      When you will need the funds and when you expect the work to be completed.

6)      Deliverable -- After the project is completed, awardee will provide a brief summary of how the funding assisted in the advancement of the technology.  This can be relatively short (MII requirement satisfied, proposal submitted, award received, technology licensed, start-up formed).  

Deadlines: Rolling submission, monthly reviews. Submit your one-page proposal to OTD@umbc.edu. Reviewed monthly, proposals are funded at the level deemed necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the proposal.