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<Title>Eid Mubarak &amp; CWB Hours Adjustment</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><span>Eid Mubarak to all community members celebrating!</span><div><br></div><div>In conversation with student leaders and given the need to accommodate the religious needs and requests of students staffing the space, The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being and the Center for Well-Being will be <strong><u>closing tonight, April 20th at 10:00pm</u></strong>. <u>The Center will return to our normal hours (M-F 8:00am-10:00pm) tomorrow, Friday, April 21st</u>. </div><div><br></div><div>Thank you for understanding.</div><div><br></div><div>Wishing you each wonderful Spring Holiday Season,</div><div><br></div><div>-i3b Staff</div></div>
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<Summary>Eid Mubarak to all community members celebrating!    In conversation with student leaders and given the need to accommodate the religious needs and requests of students staffing the space, The...</Summary>
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<Title>URCAD Selfie Contest Winner- Olivia Hutchinson</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>The results are in.... the first winner of the URCAD Selfie Contest in the category of Best Selfie with a Family Member goes to...</div><div><br></div><div>OLIVIA HUTCHINSON</div><div><br></div><div>Olivia's Grandfather came to see her poster, "I<span>mpact Of Adverse Childhood Events On Adult Personality Traits In A Clinical Sample"</span></div><span>Mentor: Dr. James Waltz</span><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Olivia will receive a $</span><span>50 gift certificate to the UMBC Bookstore!</span></div><br></div>
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<Summary>The results are in.... the first winner of the URCAD Selfie Contest in the category of Best Selfie with a Family Member goes to...     OLIVIA HUTCHINSON     Olivia's Grandfather came to see her...</Summary>
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<Title>Apply for a URA!</Title>
<Tagline>Undergraduate Research Awards- Get Up to $1500!</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><h3>Applications for the URAs are open!</h3><h4>Deadline: May 1, 2023</h4><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUN0QQ0Vv6aogXzcgLQmEe4V4haAPhPDivbbW9vi14LN2eyw/viewform" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">URA Application</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research, scholarship, or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor. UMBC students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they remain enrolled at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.</div><div><br></div><div>Applications require a research proposal and mentor statement of support.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Questions? <a href="mailto:aprilh@umbc.edu">aprilh@umbc.edu</a></div></div>
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<Summary>Applications for the URAs are open!  Deadline: May 1, 2023     URA Application        URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research, scholarship, or creative work...</Summary>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="132789" important="false" status="posted" url="https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/educ/posts/132789">
<Title>The Culturally Sustaining Possibilities of Embodied Literacy</Title>
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     Dr. Woodard will draw from three empirical studies to showcase how 
    embodied literacy pedagogies offer potential for cultivating Culturally 
    Sustaining Pedagogy and call for expanding conceptualizations of 
    Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy to account for contemporary embodied 
    experiences on a planet in crisis. Dr. Tondreau will connect Dr. 
    Woodard's research to her own work to extend Culturally Sustaining 
    Pedagogy through Disability Sustaining Pedagogy, and discuss how these 
    shared interests and ideas are informing their cross-institutional 
    collaboration.<br></div><div><br></div><div><span><span><span>All members of the 
    department, partners/collaborators, and students/faculty from other departments are invited to attend.  <strong>Lunch will be provided by the department.</strong>  <u>Please RSVP by April 29th</u> by completing this form:</span></span></span></div></div><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxA5s_Yq6CORlBdhWSfEvdrxgLTYBlzJ-Vye2AUyUghLL63w/viewform?usp=sf_link" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdxA5s_Yq6CORlBdhWSfEvdrxgLTYBlzJ-Vye2AUyUghLL63w/viewform?usp=sf_link</a></div>
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<Title>PRIDE Week 2023 Details &amp; Pride Center Hours</Title>
<Tagline>Check out the final updates for our event line-up!</Tagline>
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In this collaborative effort, we would like to invite you to all of our events. We have linked each of them below with up to date information to make it easier for you to locate the separate links. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><ul><li><span><strong>Today, Wednesday, April 19, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116398" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PRIDE Week Sneak Peak Tabling</a> | 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 pm | The Breezeway</span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Monday, April 24, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116399" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">“P” is for Professional Development: Exploring Allyship and Advocacy in the Workplace</a> |  4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Virtual via WebEx Events </span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Tuesday, April 25, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116400" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">“R” is for Religious InQueeries: What’s the (T)ea with Exploring Religion as a Queer Person?</a> | 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being (The Center for Well-Being 103)</span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Wednesday, Apri 26, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116401" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">“I” is for Intersections: The Cultural Intersection of Identity and Expression: How to be a Better Ally to Queer People of Color</a> | 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. | The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity (The Commons 2B23)</span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Thursday, April 27, 2023</strong> </span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116402" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">“D” is for Disease Prevention &amp; Education: A Community Conversation About Sex in the Dark </a>| 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | The Pride Center (University Center 201D)</span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Friday, April 28, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116403" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">“E” is for Expression: The People of Pride Photoshoot &amp; Queer Resource Fair</a> | 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. | The Commons: Mainstreet</span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Saturday, April 29, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/healthed/events/110214" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Association for Suicide Prevention: Out of the Darkness Campus Walk</a> | 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.| The Center for Well-Being</span></li><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116405" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Drag Bingo with (seb)</a> | 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | The Commons: The Skylight Room</span></li></ul><li><span><strong>Thursday, May 4, 2023</strong></span></li><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic/events/116406" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">STI &amp; Sexual Health Resources and HIV Screening: STI Awareness Trivia </a>| 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | The Center for Well-Being: First Floor Lounge </span></li></ul></ul></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>As you may imagine this is quite a big undertaking for our small professional and student staff team. As such, we will be adjusting the hours of The Pride Center to accommodate for programming. Below are the dates and times that will be impacted by our programming. </span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><ul><li><span><strong>Today, Wednesday, April 19, 2023:</strong> 1:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.</span></li><li><span><strong>Monday, April 24, 2023:</strong> Regular Hours  </span></li><li><span><strong>Tuesday, April 25, 2023:</strong> Center Closed from 4:00 p.m.- 6:45 p.m.</span></li><li><span><strong>Wednesday, Apri 26, 2023:</strong> Center Closing at 4:00 p.m.</span></li><li><span><strong>Thursday, April 27, 2023: </strong>Regular Hours</span></li><li><span><strong>Friday, April 28, 2023 &amp; Remaining Fridays for the Spring 2023 Semester:</strong> Center Closed</span></li><li><span><strong>Saturday, April 29, 2023:</strong> Center Closed</span></li><li><span><strong>Thursday, May 4, 2023:</strong> Center Open 4:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.</span></li></ul></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>We appreciate your flexibility and encourage you all to either join our events or visit our other i3b spaces. We would also like to thank all of our co-sponsors: </span></div><div><ul><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/sga" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Student Government Association</a>, </span></li><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/healthed" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Office of Health Promotions</a>, </span></li><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/lgbtqstudentunion" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The LGBTQ Student Union</a>, </span></li><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/qpoc" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Queer &amp; Trans People of Color</a>, </span></li><li><span>The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being, </span></li><li><span>The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity, </span></li><li><span>The Maryland Health Department, </span></li><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/seb" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">the Student Events Board (seb)</a>, </span></li><li><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/commonvision" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">commonvision with Student Affairs Creative Services</a>, </span></li><li><span>and all the campus partners who will be joining us at our resource fair. </span></li></ul></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>As this is our first year doing this initiative, we would love you to let us know that you’ve been at one of our events either by sharing something you’ve learned or a picture at one of our events by using our </span></div><div><span>Hashtag: #umbci3bprideweek2023</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>As always, our i3b staff strives to create the most inclusive environment possible. If you need to request a disability-based accommodation or have any questions? Contact us at <a href="mailto:i3b@umbc.edu">i3b@umbc.edu</a>. For our uploaded event recordings, attendee lists, works cited, and other materials, please check out our Initiatives for Identity, Inclusion &amp; Belonging (i3b) Events Drive. Materials will be available in this Google Drive within one business week after the event unless otherwise specified.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>#stayPRIDEful!</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>-The Pride Center Staff Team</span></div><div><br></div></div>
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<Title>Graduate Student Lunch with Dr. Sheares Ashby</Title>
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