Last chance to order books through ILL!

Last chance to order books through ILL! Still working on your research? Please plan ahead for the Library's winter hours!

The Interlibrary Loan Department:

will be closing at 4:30 pm December 22, 2016 and will reopen Tuesday, January 3, 2017
will not be able to process and send ILL requests for UMBC patrons from December 22 to January 3 as most of the libraries we borrow from will be closed as well

If you request a book after December 11 you may not receive it until sometime in January
plan accordingly (on average it takes about two weeks to get a book through ILL)

will continue to accept your requests and send them out when we return
wishes you a happy holiday and new year!

If you will be gone during the January winter break please do not submit ILL book requests until a week or so before you return. ]]>

Still working on your research? Please plan ahead for the Library's winter hours! The Interlibrary Loan Department: will be closing at 4:30 pm December 22, 2016 and will reopen Tuesday,...

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As part of this program, undergraduate students will be actively and meaningfully involved in an ongoing research project exploring the mental health of Ukrainian citizens based on a comprehensive, population-based survey of nearly 5,000 Ukrainian citizens, as well as additional, ongoing representative samples taken by our collaborators at the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS; a national sociological research firm in Ukraine).

This year the program will run from May 18 - July 28, 2017, with 2 weeks at the end of May taking place in Ukraine and eight weeks in June/July taking place on the campus of Dordt College, in Sioux Center, Iowa.

***Must have a passport

Benefits include:

A $5,000 stipend
Free on-campus housing
Travel costs will be covered to and from the campus at the beginning and end of the program, as well as travel costs to and from Ukraine, and other travel costs incurred as part of the program

Students in Mathematics and Statistics, Psychology, Bioinformatics, Biostatistics and Statistical Genetics, Public Health, AND RELATED FIELDS are encouraged to apply.

Deadline is January 31, 2017

For help with polishing your application and/or personal statement/essay, please contact Janet Mcglynn, mcglynn@umbc.edu

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The Women's Center will be operating under reduced hours beginning study day and through the winter term. Please plan accordingly!

Beginning study day (December 14th) and throughout finals week, the Women's Center will close at 5pm instead of 6pm. We will still close as usual on Friday, December 9th at 4pm.

The Women's Center Center will be CLOSED on the following days while UMBC is still open:

Thursday, December 22nd and Friday, December 23rd

The Women's Center will be closed throughout the winter break when UMBC is closed.

The Women's Center will re-open on Tuesday, January 3rd and will be open limited hours throughout the winter semester. Our January term hours will be:

Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 10am-3pm as staffing permits.

Community members needing access to the lactation room when the Women's Center is closed but UMBC is open should contact Jess at womens.center@umbc.edu to set up arrangements for alternative access.

Women's Center staff will still be available throughout the January term for meetings and to provide support to UMBC community members. Please feel free to set up an appointment by contacting professional staff members directly or calling 410-455-2714 during our hours of operation.

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Interns will work with faculty in a research-intensive setting on a research topic in chemical, physical, or biological oceanography, marine biology or marine geology. In addition to hands-on research experience, student support includes a $5,600 stipend, campus housing, and travel assistance.

Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Ocean Sciences, this REU program supports ten undergraduate students to conduct research in marine science. The program will take place at the University of Delaware's Hugh R. Sharp campus in the resort community of Lewes, located on the shores of the Delaware Bay and Atlantic Ocean near Cape Henlopen State Park.

More information and the application can be found on the website. You may also be interested to hear directly from former interns, or see one of the field trips from last summer.

For more information, please contact:

Joanna York
Director, UD REU program in Marine Science

jyork@udel.edu

302-831-7040

UMBC students planning to apply should also notify Janet McGlynn, mcglynn@umbc.edu .

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Meet Flora,

She is an Ancient Studies major and an URA Scholar. She is also a Designer for UMBC’s Student Events Board, a student assistant at AOK’s Special Collections and is the secretary for the Ancient Studies Club. Her future goals will to become a museum curator, preferably specializing in an ancient roman field.

Flora's research will examine Roman coins from the second and third centuries CE and their use as a means of communication for Rome’s emperors. She will investigate how the physical characteristics of the coins – the amount of silver, the weight, the level of wear and use – all contribute to the emperors’ strategies of communication throughout the period. She will also examine the imagery of coins based on category (tradition, military problems, dynastic emphasis, personal preferences, disasters, and civic prosperity), one can begin to identify trends and their correspondence to contemporary events.

Read more about her research here…

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Meet Flora, She is an Ancient Studies major and an URA Scholar. She is also a Designer for UMBC’s Student Events Board, a student assistant at AOK’s Special Collections and is the secretary for...

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Keep informed by bookmarking or using a feed-reader app (like Feedly) to access:

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Did you know that you can read major newspapers for free online using the Library's databases? Keep informed by bookmarking or using a feed-reader app (like Feedly) to access: New York Times...

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Research topics

Archaeometallurgy
Extractive Metallurgy
Welding and Materials Joining
Thin Films Research
Corrosion Engineering
Nanomaterials and Nanoparticle Synthesis
Biomaterials

A $5,000 stipend and housing are provided.

Deadline: MARCH 5, 2017

See website and flyer for details. For help with your application and/or your resume, contact Janet McGlynn, mcglynn@umbc.edu.

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The NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site: Back to the Future offers a unique 10-week summer research program focused on integrated research experiences that involve Metallurgical...

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For more information about the lactation room in the Women's Center and UMBC's policies of family leave and support, visit the myUMBC Moms and Parents Group page.

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From the Press Release:

DCBFC and MBC are nonprofit organizations, which unite breastfeeding advocates, health care providers, and families. They provide a forum for the development and exchange of resources and foster the establishment of breastfeeding as the normal way to nurture infants.

Studies have shown that work-site support of employees enrolled in a company provided lactation support program is a Win-Win situation. Employers benefit through increased rates of retention, employee satisfaction and morale. The health benefits of breastfeeding for mother and baby equate to decreased health care and insurance costs, and a reduction in sick leave requests to care for an ill child.

Support for breastfeeding mothers is part of the 2010 Affordable Health Care Act, which stipulates that employers must provide reasonable break time and a space, other than a bathroom, for a mother to express her milk. “Despite these regulations, nursing mothers are not always provided these supports in the workplace. The Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace Awards seek to highlight and applaud those businesses and the varied creative ways they help women in the workplace”, says Dr. Sahira Long, President of the DC Breastfeeding Coalition. Previous winners have demonstrated how this can range from a small room to a large program replete with lactation consultants and support groups.

“Each one of the businesses receiving a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace

Award or a Health Care Provider Award is a role model for our region in how to support breastfeeding families. We are so proud to honor them,” says Dr. Dana Silver, Past President of the Maryland Breastfeeding Coalition.

Businesses were judged based on their size and the accommodations they provided to breastfeeding employees (breastfeeding support and education, and the time and space for mothers to breastfeed and/or pump breast milk in the workplace). Based on the number of amenities and processes to support breastfeeding, businesses received the awards at Gold, Silver or Bronze level.

Criteria for Health Care Provider Awards were based on the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine’s Breastfeeding-Friendly Physician’s Office Protocol. These offices represent healthcare providers who go the extra mile to support their tiniest patients and their mothers.

For more information about the Maryland Breast Feeding Coalition, click here.

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The Women's Center is excited to announce that we were awarded the Regional Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace Award on behalf of UMBC this November. In recognition of the supportive work...

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Meet Maniraj,

He is an Interdisciplinary Studies major and an URA Scholar. He also received the La Noue Scholarship to attend the 2016 Association of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) conference in University of Ottawa, where he presented his interdisciplinary research; a board game that teaches cardiovascular health. His future interests includes medical anthropology and social entrepreneurship, his final goal is to become a physician.

Maniraj's research will explore the leading cause of death worldwide, cardiovascular disease. Understanding the sociocultural construction of this non-communicable disease would advance our knowledge of how to improve care to vulnerable populations. Focused on a specific district in India, the purpose this study is to identify cultural beliefs and attitudes towards cardiovascular health among adolescents. His project was an organic transformation of his extracurricular project in educational health games.