Please note that Saturday, Feb. 9th's training has been shortened.  Training is now set for Friday, 1-5pm and Saturday, 9am-2pm.  Additionally, MCSR Executive Director Neil Irvin plans to welcome participants at Friday's training.  Please RSVP to Lori Hardesty at lhardesty@umbc.edu.

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This spring, the non-profit organization Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR), Inc. seeks 4-6 male UMBC students to serve as Men Of Strength (MOST) Club Facilitators to work with young men regarding "attitudes and awareness about bullying and sexual harassment, healthy relationships, and masculinity." MCSR is working with 2-3 sites in East Baltimore,which includes the Carmelo Anthony Rec Center. The hope is to recruit two males to co-facilitate these sessions.  Before the holiday break, MCSR hosted an Info Session to share more about this program. 

In order to become a facilitator, you must complete a 1½ day training, and are expected to implement the curriculum each week (@ 2-3 hours/week to include the time for travel). Sessions would take place this spring after school and would be during the week.  MOST facilitators would have the ability to be enrolled in the 096 Community Service & Learning practicum through the Shriver Center, a zero-credit transcript notation for participating in this service-learning opportunity.  

Next Friday, 2/8 (1-5pm) and Saturday, 2/9 (9am-4pm), Rhett Walker, MCSR Campus Training Coordinator, and his colleague Jason Page, will lead the training sessions. RSVP to Lori Hardesty, Assistant Director, Service-Learning, K-16 Partnerships at lhardesty@umbc.edu.  After you RSVP, you will receive confirmation on location, any preparation needed for the training, etc.

If you are not sure that you can facilitate the MOST Clubs this spring, you should still consider participating in the 2/8-9 training in preparation for future MSCR opportunities.  UMBC also supports several initiatives that promote healthy relationships, to include Rebuilding Manhood, in its second semester through UMBC's Women's Center.  Please read a few BreakingGround posts from:

• Jess Myers, UMBC Women’s Center, “Speaking Up to End Rape Culture” at http://umbcbreakingground.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/speaking-up-to-end-rape-culture/

• Jeff Cullen, Student Judicial Services, "When Doing Nothing Is Not an Option" at  http://umbcbreakingground.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/when-doing-nothing-is-not-an-option/

Scholarships for for rising juniors and seniors and graduate students interested in cybersecurity-related studies are availabe, with a deadline of February 8 for two programs: the Information Assurance Scholarship Program and the Federal Cyber Service Scholarship for Service. US citizens capable of receiving security clearances are eligible for these programs. These scholarships require the recipient to work for the government following graduation. The awards include full tuition, stipend ($30k/year for PhD students, $25k/year for MS/MPS students, and $20k/year for BS students), and more. See this announcement for more information.

Please note that Saturday, Feb. 9th's training has been shortened.  Training is now set for Friday, 1-5pm and Saturday, 9am-2pm.  Additionally, MCSR Executive Director Neil Irvin plans to welcome participants at Friday's training.  Please RSVP to Lori Hardesty at lhardesty@umbc.edu.

This spring, the non-profit organization Men Can Stop Rape (MCSR), Inc. seeks 4-6 male UMBC students to serve as Men Of Strength (MOST) Club Facilitators to work with young men regarding "attitudes and awareness about bullying and sexual harassment, healthy relationships, and masculinity." MCSR is working with 2-3 sites in East Baltimore,which includes the Carmelo Anthony Rec Center. The hope is to recruit two males to co-facilitate these sessions.  Before the holiday break, MCSR hosted an Info Session to share more about this program. 

In order to become a facilitator, you must complete a 1½ day training, and are expected to implement the curriculum each week (@ 2-3 hours/week to include the time for travel). Sessions would take place this spring after school and would be during the week.  MOST facilitators would have the ability to be enrolled in the 096 Community Service & Learning practicum through the Shriver Center, a zero-credit transcript notation for participating in this service-learning opportunity.  

Next Friday, 2/8 (1-5pm) and Saturday, 2/9 (9am-2pm), Rhett Walker, MCSR Campus Training Coordinator, and his colleague Jason Page, will lead the training sessions. RSVP to Lori Hardesty, Assistant Director, Service-Learning, K-16 Partnerships at lhardesty@umbc.edu.  After you RSVP, you will receive confirmation on location, any preparation needed for the training, etc.

In the meantime, read a few BreakingGround posts from:

Jess Myers, UMBC Women’s Center, “Speaking Up to End Rape Culture” at http://umbcbreakingground.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/speaking-up-to-end-rape-culture/

Jeff Cullen, Student Judicial Services, "When Doing Nothing Is Not an Option" at http://umbcbreakingground.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/when-doing-nothing-is-not-an-option/

CSEE Colloquium

Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Computing

David Prucnal, PE
Advanced Computing Systems

*TO BE RESCHEDULED, ITE 227, UMBC

Data center power demand and energy consumption have grown substantially over the past 10-20 yrs. For high performance computing, power has become one of the main limiting factors. The Supercomputing Top500 List is now dominated by individual machines that demand nearly 10MW, which is equivalent to the technical load of an entire data center just 10 yrs ago. In addition these machines require another 5-10MW to power the necessary cooling systems. This talk will examine the power problem, and discuss some approaches to improving energy efficiency in large scale computing environments. In particular, it will look at demand side techniques for fully exploiting existing infrastructure, and at the use of immersion cooling.

Mr. Prucnal has been active as a Professional Engineer in the field of power engineering for over 25 yrs. Over the past 15 yrs. he has been involved with designing, building, and optimizing high-reliability data centers. He joined the Agency as a power systems engineer and was one of the first to recognize the power, space and cooling problem in high performance computing. He moved from the facilities engineering directorate to the research directorate to pursue solutions to the HPC power problem from the demand side versus the infrastructure supply side. Mr. Prucnal leads the Energy Efficiency Thrust within the Advanced Computing Systems research team. His current work includes Power-Aware Data Center Operation, and Immersion Cooling. He also oversees projects investigating single/few electron transistors, 3D chip packaging, low-power electrical and optical interconnects, and power efficiency through enhanced data locality.

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The third edition of the Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. This edition includes 16 new essays; the editors have organized the readings into four sections, which challenge the prevailing representation of feminist movements as waves.

Introductory essays at the beginning of each section lay out the framework that brings the readings together and provide historical and intellectual context.