The Women’s Center Advisory Board is a collective of faculty, staff, and students with an interest in supporting and cultivating the work of the Women’s Center at UMBC and advancing gender equity and social justice on UMBC’s campus.

Board members participate in monthly board meetings, scheduled for the first Friday of each month during the academic year. This forum allows Women’s Center staff to share information about the Center and similarly allows the board members to share their knowledge, wisdom and unique perspectives to advance the mission of the Women’s Center. 

In addition to advising the Director and Assistant Director of the Women’s Center, board members provide support in the planning, programming, and advocacy of the Women’s Center. Board members are encouraged to attend Women’s Center events when possible and volunteer at larger events such as Critical Social Justice or the returning women students networking event. These responsibilities may entail additional hours of commitment outside of the monthly board meetings.

Board members are appointed for two-year terms, with the possibility of renewal.

The Women’s Center seeks to serve a diverse community of people interested in women’s, gender, and social justice issues.  We seek a diverse board to assure that varying needs and interests are represented.
For more on the Women’s Center mission, guiding principles, and priorities, visit womenscenter.umbc.edu

DEADLINE: Monday, April 24, 2017

For additional information, please call the Women’s Center at x52714 or email womens.center@umbc.edu. 

All Are Welcome So Long As They Respect Women’s Experiences, Stories & Potential

Research Assistantship
Department of Africana Studies
Work Study students are strongly encouraged to apply
Department: Africana Studies
Position: Research Assistantship
Positions Available: 1-2

Duties: To provide research support for Dr. King-Meadows.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities: data entry; finding assigned journal articles, newspaper articles, and books; preparing typed summaries of journal articles, newspaper articles, and books; running errands to AOK library and to other units on campus; photocopying, scanning and faxing, sending emails, preparing outgoing mail; typing documents; making phone calls; compiling documents and correspondence; attendance at weekly project meetings and participation in library research training; preparation and submission of final research report on activities; work on special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Required skills: Research skill would be helpful, but will train. Ability to work independently on assigned tasks, familiar with Excel and Microsoft Word. General office experience required. Key Competencies include organizing and planning, prioritizing, attention to detail and accuracy, problem-solving, adaptability, teamwork, and written and oral communication skills.

Duration: 11 weeks
Hours per week: 8
Pay range: $8.50

Supervisor: Dr. Tyson King-Meadows

End Date: May 6, 2016

To Apply: Follow this link - https://umbc-csm.symplicity.com/students/?mode=form&id=68b6b624bbe469b970c3814393889484&s=jobs&ss=jobs

Retaining Engineers Through Research Entrepreneurship and Advanced-materials Training (RETREAT)

The High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI) at the Florida State University is hosting a summer training program in Nanomaterials and Processing Engineering. The Diversity in Research and Engineering of Advanced Materials (DREAM) Training program, sponsored by the Air Force Research Lab Munitions Directorate (AFRL RW) at Eglin Air Force Base, will provide provide undergraduate and GRADUATE U.S. citizens from the under-represented groups in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) disciplines, the opportunity to enhance their research experience in Science and Engineering.

Meet Theodora,

She is a Chemical Engineering major who spent last summer working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg. Her summer internship involved designing and running her own experiments to add information to the database of the Soft Lithography Lab at NIST.