Inspiration from Mother Nature for cancer therapy
Dr. Pan's research explores bee venom
Discovery Magazine interviewed Dr. Dipanjan Pan about lab's research on venom as a possible cancer therapy.
"A pioneering breakthrough may come from chemist and bioengineer Dipanjan Pan, who is currently looking into a melittin-based cancer therapy with his lab at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Amid calls for safer, more successful cancer treatments, Pan inspected toad, scorpion and bee venom for answers. “The philosophy of my research is biomimetics, or bringing inspiration from Mother Nature,” he says.
These animal poisons include toxins like melittin, which is considered a host defense peptide. Most multicellular organisms have these peptides to ward off disease, including humans, but only some creatures weaponize them in the form of powerful venom. Funnily enough, this toxin could end up saving human lives.
And it isn’t particularly difficult to create synthetic melittin in a lab, Pan says, which is optimal for drug development due to its convenience, quality control, and relative safety compared to crude natural sources.
The real challenge: designing an effective delivery method that squashes cancer growth but leaves surrounding cells healthy. Chemotherapy, for example, commonly causes patients to lose their hair because it damages follicles in the process. “That has been the key bottleneck in targeted [cancer] therapy,” he adds. “It boils down to: How can we make these venom peptides more selective and targeted to the cancer cell? It’s like finding a needle in a haystack.”
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Dr. Ankit Goel publishes paper
An Introduction to Inertial Navigation From the Perspective of State Estimation
[Focus on Education]
Abstract
Inertial navigation determines the position and attitude of a vehicle using only accelerometers and rate gyros by integrating kinematic relations. Although modern navigation systems combine inertial navigation and the Global Positioning System (GPS) in the state estimation framework to improve the accuracy of position and attitude, inertial navigation remains essential for applications where either GPS is not accessible, such as under water and under ground, as well as where GPS can be jammed or spoofed. This article focuses on strapdown inertial navigation, where the sensors are hard-mounted to the vehicle, and thus rotate as the vehicle rotates. Within this context and under simplifying assumptions, this article investigates the relevance of state estimation techniques to inertial navigation in order to highlight the special challenges of this technology. The goal of this article is to provide a foundation for the basic concepts of inertial navigation in a form that is suitable for students and instructors in systems and control.
Dr. Goel's website is here.
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How have you experienced accessibility at UMBC?
An anonymous survey for next week’s CSJ 101 on 9/27!
Do you have a disability or have you experienced life with a disability?
Are you interested in disability justice?
Have you had any good, bad, interesting experiences with access at UMBC?
Fill out an anonymous survey to guide our upcoming discussion about disability justice on an institutional and interpersonal level, the current state of the movement, and what it means to be an ally!
As part of Monday 9/27's CSJ 101: Disability Justice at UMBC and Beyond, we invite you to share a little bit about your experiences with disability justice at UMBC or outside of campus. Please note: This survey is anonymous and is not collecting any identifying information unless you opt into it at the end.
Please note: UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all students, staff, faculty, and visitors. If you have difficulties accessing any of the materials on our site or any of our events or discussions, please contact us so that we can provide an alternative format and/or remedy any accessibility challenges.
Disability Resources at UMBC:
Office of Accessibility & Disability Services
- Coordinating accommodations for UMBC students with disabilities
- Advocating and advising students with disabilities
Math/Psychology Building, Room 212
Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 4:30 pm
Phone: 410-455-2459
More information at sds.umbc.edu
Office of Equity and Inclusion
- Managing UMBC’s efforts related to Title IX and other civil rights issues including discrimination, hate, and bias
- Promoting and coordinating inclusive excellence, equity, and diversity practices
Administration Building, 9th Floor
Phone: 410-455-1717
Confidential online reporting/referral form available at oei.umbc.edu
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REPOST: Leadership Development programs - Fall 2021
Check out and sign-up to Campus Life's leadership programs
This is a repost on behalf of Campus Life. The original post can be found here.
This semester, Campus Life is offering four different leadership programs for UMBC students! These programs are designed for skill-building, experiential learning, campus connections, and overall student development. Whether you're a student looking to get involved, become a leader, refine your skills, or add something extra to your résumé-- check us out! Below you will find a summary of each program, registration information, program dates and hyperlinks to event pages for more information:
The Leadershops series consists of workshops that focus on various student centered leadership-related topics facilitated by Campus Life staff and student leaders. This program aims to contribute to the leadership development and ongoing learning of UMBC undergraduate students.
The following are the fall 2021 Leadershops sessions that are being offered for students to register through myUMBC:
This session is about taking a deeper look into the relationship between womxn and leadership. Attendees will learn about how our socialization affects our views regarding our own identity and our capacity to lead. This session will be done online.
The Author of Your Leadership Story is a leadership workshop that focuses on self-authorship; defining and creating you own individual sense of self, and making yourself as you go on your college journey. This session will be done in-person at The Commons.
Attendees will learn about the leadership process through team-building and capitalizing on difference. This session will be done in-person at The Commons.
This program is about getting more out of, rather than cramming more into, UMBC. This 5 week program helps first year, sophomore, and new transfer students craft a more fulfilling college experience by sharing practical tools and ideas and relating them back to their leadership and involvement plans for UMBC. Topics include exploring your interests, finding your place at UMBC, designing plans for your leadership and involvement experience, and so much more. This seminar incorporates small group discussion, in-class activities, field exercises, and personal reflection.
There are two cohorts available starting the week of October 5th and ending the week of November 2nd, 2021:
- Tuesdays 10:00am – 11:30am
- Oct 5th, Oct 12th, Oct 19th, Oct 26th, Nov 2nd
- In-person meetings at The Commons
True Grit Cohort
- Wednesdays 1:00pm – 2:30pm
- Oct 6th, Oct 13th, Oct 20th, Oct 27th, Nov 3rd
- In-person meetings at The Commons
Chip Cohort
- Thursdays 3:00pm – 4:30pm
- Oct 7th, Oct 14th, Oct 21st, Oct 28th, Nov 4th
- Online meetings via Webex
To participate, you must be available to attend all of the sessions of your selected section of Leadership Blueprint. Registration closes at 11:59pm on Monday, September 27th, 2021.
Emerging Leaders is a day long experience for students who are interested in developing their leadership capacity and learning more about the Social Change Model (SCM) of Leadership Development. SCM at it’s core, approaches leadership as a purposeful, collaborative, values-based process that results in positive social change.
The Social Change Model sees leadership as purposeful, collaborative, and a values-driven process. Titles or positions are not needed in order to be a leader. Leaders work to improve the groups and communities they are part of. Through this approach, anyone can be a leader, because “leaders” are those who want to make a difference. This kind of collaborative process means that groups must have trust, which requires that group members act in ways that are consistent with their own beliefs and values as well as the group’s goals. Food will be provided at this event.
This program will take place in-person at The Commons 331 on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 from 10:30am – 3:30pm.
Registration closes on Friday, October 1st at 12:00pm.
The purpose of the Multicultural Leadership Experience (MLE) is to provide a space for students and student leaders who identify with diverse or marginalized backgrounds to discover their own capacity to lead, while also promoting a better understanding of their experiences, issues, and outcomes in navigating their own collegiate careers.
This year's MLE Mini-Series theme is Deconstructing Grit and Greatness! Below you will find the event links to the three sessions we will be offering this semester. All meetings will be done in-person at The Commons. Students are welcome to sign-up for any or all available session(s):
Participants will connect their understanding of themselves to their leadership approach in relation to resiliency.
Participants will connect their understanding of themselves to their leadership approach by engaging in inter-cultural dialogue and utilizing emotional intelligent capacities.
Participants will connect their understanding of our campus community and tools learned in order to collectively co-create a new definition for Inclusive Excellence.
Stay tuned for more leadership development opportunities and events coming your way! Should you have any questions or are interested in receiving leadership development updates from Campus Life, please contact Coordinator for Leadership, Beatriz Gutiérrez-Malagón at bgutierrez@umbc.edu
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Featured Employer Partner: BGE/Exelon
All this week the UMBC Career Center is excited to feature one of our top employer partners, BGE/
Exelon!
Events this Week:
Wednesday, Sept. 22 is BGE, an Exelon Company’s
UMBC Connects day in which they will hold sessions on:
BGE/Exelon: Understanding Who We Are
11:00 – 11:45 a.m.
Hear it From Your Peers: Intern and Recent Hire Panel
Noon – 12:45 p.m.
Where to Go From Here: Human Resources Debrief
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
About Exelon:
Exelon is a Fortune 100 company that works in every stage of the energy business: power generation, competitive energy sales, transmission and delivery. As the nation's leading competitive energy provider, Exelon does business in 48 states, D.C., and Canada and had 2020 revenues of $33 billion. We employ approximately 32,300 people nationwide.
Exelon’s six utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric Company (ACE), Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd), Delmarva Power & Light Company (DPL), PECO Energy Company (PECO), and Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) subsidiaries.
Featured Content:
Monday, 9/20
Tuesday, 9/21
Thursday, 9/23
Friday, 9/24
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Check back here for added content, recorded interviews and information sessions. Or follow us on
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Intern of the Week: Daniel Cleaver for Computer Engineering!
Check out Daniel's internship with BGE!
Name: Daniel Cleaver
Internship, Co-op, or Research Site: Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE)
Position Title: Emerging Techlologies & Innovation Co-op
Major or Program: Computer Engineering
Current Class Level: Junior
Work Term: Spring 21, Summer 21, Fall 21
Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities.
I developed a dashboard for BGE's innovation team, introduced time savings, improved task efficiency, and most importantly, gained new insights into our program. I participated in engaging employee training events and worked hands-on with BGE/Exelon's innovation teams.
Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
I received an email announcement from the UMBC Career Center that BGE was looking for a Spring 21 co-op, and they were specifically interested in undergraduates in my field. I was not planning to co-op during that semester, but I decided to apply anyway.
What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization?
I enjoyed learning how to use Microsoft Power BI and being able to immediately apply those skills to a real-world project.
How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?
I built, and continue to update, a dashboard that my team uses throughout the day. This has improved our process, and even started conversations with BGE's sister utility companies about similar efforts.
What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
Go for it! Be flexible with job descriptions and assignments, don't feel bad for not being an expert overnight, and remember you are there to learn.
Check out this post on our social media platforms!
#UMBCintern
Want to be the next Intern of the Week? Make sure to fill out this
form and stay tuned. New interns are announced every Monday!
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Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:18:32 -0400
WE'RE HIRING!
Check out our multiple vacant student staff positions!
Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion and Belonging (i3b) is excited to announce that we have FIVE student staff positions opening in our office to begin by mid-October. We are looking for excited, proactive, hard-working students to assist with our Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, social justice identity-based programming, and help us build our community and belonging resources.
Please look at the UMBCworks website and our
i3b Linktree to learn about the available positions, application materials, and more! Applications for the 2021-2022 academic year will be accepted on a rolling basis until all the positions are full. The best consideration date for applying is
Monday, October 4th, 2021, by 9:00 a.m.
Vacant Positions UMBCWorks IDs
- i3b's Pride Center Intern: 9329908
- i3b's Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being Intern: 9329909
- i3b's Community Desk Evening Manager(s) (x3 positions): 9329907
Important Notes:
To find the applications on UMBCworks, please look up the respective UMBCworks ID. Your RESUME must be submitted through UMBCworks.
Our position descriptions can be found here or via our Linktree. You MUST COMPLETE BOTH portions of the application (UMBCworks and our Qualtrics Form) via UMBC.
For more information or any questions, please contact our team at i3b@umbc.edu or check out our Virtual (Link) and In-Person (Link) i3b Student Staff Info-Sessions hosted next week!
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UPDATE!!! Zareen's Hazara family members fleeing Afghanistan
Supporting Zareen and Ali to support others in danger
UPDATE!!!! THANK YOU to everyone who donated and shared! You all are amazing. We've raised enough to cover ALL 8 of the humanitarian parole applications. I'm going to raise the fundraising limit to and see if we can't start raising funds for some of the visa applications and plane tickets for Zareen and Ali's family members.
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Zareen and Ali are dear friends and colleagues of many of us and we know that they work tirelessly to advocate for the rights of people from their country of origin, Afghanistan. Both Zareen and Ali come from an ethnic minority group in Afghanistan, the Hazara, who have been brutally targeted by extremists;
Zareen has written extensively on the issue for Ms. Magazine and other outlets.
At the present, Zareen and Ali are working to help bring 8 family members from Pakistan here to Baltimore. These family members have already survived harrowing ordeals to leave Afghanistan. They left Afghanistan with nothing. Zareen and Ali are the main financial supporters of them right now. While Zareen and Ali have been able to get pro-bono legal counsel for these family members, they want to file
Humanitarian Parole forms to bring them here to the United states. The fee for each applicant is $575.00. Right now, They need help to cover the fees to file the Humanitarian Parole applications and for them to get visas. Eventually, each of the 8 family members will need a plane ticket to come to Baltimore and some support locally while they get settled and find work. All 8 of the family members are in danger because of their ethnic minority status and several were also being targeted because of aid work they engaged in while in Afghanistan.
Let's show Zareen and Ali our care and support by helping them to raise the funds they need to safely bring their family members here.
View the website here to donate.
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Boot Camp Today
Join us at 3 PM for our first GBM!
Hey everyone,
Happy Friday! Today we are going to be having our first GBM today at 3PM Eastern on our
Discord. Join us as we catch you up to speed on our project. Can't wait to see you there.
-EWB E-Board.
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REPOST-TOMMOROW & FRIDAY-UMBC Suits You: Clothing Closet
An opportunity to get a FREE professional outfit
This is a repost on behalf of the Career Center. The original event post can be found here.
Location: Susquehanna Hall, Community Room
Dates & Times: Thursday, September 16 from 10am-6pm & Friday, September 17 from 9am-12pm
Do you want to make the BEST possible first impression with employers? The Career Center can help with that! We have partnered with T. Rowe Price to collect over 1,500 pieces of professional clothing that can be yours for FREE!
Wearing a professional outfit will not only boost your chances of getting a job, but is a major confidence booster as well. Visit our Professional Clothing Closet to select business attire absolutely FREE of charge and yours to keep! Stop by to shop for that suit, tie, skirt or blouse that will help you stand out while building your professional network and meeting employers.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to COVID safety protocols, this will be a grab-and-go shopping opportunity – i.e. NO FITTING ROOMS!!
Please note: UMBC is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive environment for all faculty, staff, students, and visitors. If you would like to request accommodations for this event due to a disability, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make arrangements for program access. Please contact the event host (
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