The NASA Postdoctoral Program

NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship

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The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers U.S. and international scientists the opportunity to advance their research while contributing to NASA’s scientific goals. The NPP supports fundamental science; explores the undiscovered; promotes intellectual growth; and encourages scientific connections.

Selected by a competitive peer-review process, NPP Fellows complete one- to three-year Fellowship appointments that advance NASA’s missions in earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, space bioscience, aeronautics and engineering, human exploration and space operations, and astrobiology.

Current research opportunities can be viewed on-line: https://npp.usra.edu/opportunities/

Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree in hand before beginning the fellowship, but may apply while completing the degree requirements. U.S. citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents, and foreign nationals eligible for J-1 status as a Research Scholar, may apply.

Stipends start at $60,000 per year, with supplements for high cost-of-living areas and for certain academic specialties. Financial assistance is available for relocation as well as subsidized health insurance, and $10,000 per year is provided for professional and programmatic travel.

Applications are accepted three times each year:

• March 1
• July1
• November 1

For further information and to apply, visit: https://npp.usra.edu/

Send questions to npphelp@usra.edu.

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Drs. Cynthia Leifer and Hector Aguilar-Carreno in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University have been awarded an NIH NIAID Research Education Program grant entitled “Cornell Program to Increase Faculty Diversity and Promote Research Excellence”.

 

Several departments within Cornell University have successfully employed targeted pre-interviews on an ad hoc basis to increase the diversity of their applicant pool for faculty positions. This has led to an increase in diverse hires.

 

An exciting part of our program is that it will allow us to expand what has been done on a small ad hoc basis. We are looking for these “Rising Stars”: URM postdoctoral scientists doing high quality NIAID-mission related research getting ready to apply for faculty positions, to invite them to take part in a pre-interview at Cornell University. The pre-interview will include guidance on how to complete the application and formal interview process at Cornell. While taking part in the Rising Star program cannot guarantee a faculty position at Cornell, we can alert participants to upcoming openings. Any participant offered a position will be paired up with a mentor ambassador who can assist them in their decision. Once hired, the Rising Star will become a participant in the career development portions of the overall grant, which includes courses for skill development, research experience enhancement and mentoring.

 

To be considered for the Rising Star program, please send a copy of your updated cv, a one page research statement and the contact information for 3 professional references to us at pace@cornell.edu.

 

For more information about our program please visit our website at https://blogs.cornell.edu/pace/

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We will also be finishing the work that started two weeks ago in our primary data center this coming Saturday. While we again do not expect any outage, we moved the work to the weekend with the gracious help from our facilities management group to avoid any potential interruptions of service with orientation. 

I wanted to thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we perform this work to service the power conditioners and clean up the wiring in these spaces. 

If you have any questions about this work or would like more information, please email me directly. 

Thank You, 

Damian

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Damian Doyle
Assistant Vice President - Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions
Division of Information Technology
damian@umbc.edu
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The UMBC delegation to last week's 2019 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting in Fort Lauderdale shared insights and forged connections with colleagues from across the U.S. 20 members of the UMBC community participated, including Provost Philip Rous and leaders from the Shriver Center, Honors College, Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program, Student Affairs, SGA, and other student organizations (full list at the end of this post).

Throughout the conference, the organizers ran a survey asking participants to share a one-word definition of civic learning and democratic engagement. Here's a word cloud of the participants' responses.


10 of the UMBC participants led a session entitled "Change the Meanings, Change the Culture," about how UMBC has developed a robust civic culture that bridges academic affairs and student affairs. 


The Center for Democracy and Civic Life's David Hoffman and Romy Hübler led a session called "Engaged Pedagogy and Civic Learning: Promoting Civic Agency" with Erica Kohl-Arenas, Faculty Director of Imagining America, and Robin Bachin, Assistant Provost for Civic and Community Engagement at the University of Miami. David and Romy also led "Thrive Your Pedagogy: Creating Mutual and Reciprocal Environments for Student Learning" with Craig Berger, a former UMBC colleague now at Kent State University.


David also spoke at the opening plenary session about the Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Theory of Change, a forward-looking document around which the past three national CLDE meetings have been organized. The CLDE Theory of Change draws heavily on UMBC experiences and examples. In addition, Romy and David worked with colleagues from Grand Valley State University and Kent State University to launch a process of developing new tools to promote civic courage, one of the CLDE Theory of Change learning outcomes. Their work on those tools is supported by a grant from Bringing Theory to Practice.


UMBC participants in CLDE 2019 were:

  • Brittini Brown, Assistant Vice President, Student Affairs
  • Scott Buchan, undergraduate student; Treasurer, SGA
  • Justin Conner, undergraduate student; Finance Board Representative, SGA
  • Vrinda Deshpande, undergraduate student; President, SGA
  • Elizabeth Eakes, undergraduate student; President, Environmental Task Force
  • Laura Hussey, Director, Sondheim Public Affairs Scholars Program and Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
  • David Hoffman, Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
  • Romy Hübler, Assistant Director, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
  • Charis Lawson, undergraduate student; STRiVE Coach, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
  • Lauren Mauriello, Assistant Director, Residential Life
  • Tess McRae, undergraduate student; Civic Design Intern and STRiVE Coach, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
  • Kaleigh Mrowka, Assistant Director, Residential Life
  • Wangui Nganga, undergraduate student; Senator, SGA
  • Zane Poffenberger, undergraduate student; Vice President for Student Organizations, SGA
  • Philip Rous, Provost
  • Simon Stacey, Director, Honors College
  • Lexi Stevenson, undergraduate student; STRiVE Coach, Center for Democracy and Civic Life
  • Frances Watson, undergraduate student; Executive Vice President, SGA
  • Jenna Williams, undergraduate student; President, Black Lives Matter
  • Michele Wolff, Director, The Shriver Center
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This rack holds key equipment that provides data storage for a good number of servers in our infrastructure, including the the main campus website, the central UMBC sites web environment, Peoplesoft Campus Solutions and the Peoplesoft HR system. Power was restored within a minute, and we have been working to restore connectivity as the equipment comes back online.

Service to the main website and other public facing services was restored around 4:00pm. 

Service to the HR system was restored at 4:50pm, and we are finishing restoring service to the CS system which we expect to have operational by 5:30pm.

We will send another message when service has been fully restored later this afternoon. 

We appreciate everyone's patience as we work to restore connectivity, if you have any questions about this outage or would like more information, please feel free to email me at damian@umbc.edu

Thank you, and please stay tuned for additional information shortly. 

Damian
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Damian Doyle
Assistant Vice President
Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions
DoIT - UMBC
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In light of the spate of severe weather in our area over the past two weeks, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind the community how best to safely respond to severe weather warnings.

Please know that due to the nature of these storms, there is often little warning before severe weather strikes. When you hear local emergency sirens, please immediately seek shelter and follow the tips below. We will also alert the community through text and email alerts. 

In the event of a severe weather alert, seek shelter immediately in the nearest building and, if available, follow signs to designated shelter areas. Move to the lowest level of the building and shelter in place in interior rooms, corridors, or stairways. Stay away from windows. If you are in a vehicle and unable to safely leave to seek shelter, keep your head below window level and leave the vehicle running so that safety systems such as airbags remain active. Wait for the all clear before returning to normal activity.

UMBC receives real-time warnings from a national weather information and monitoring system that detail critical weather events in our area. We use this system to alert the campus immediately through our emergency alert text-messaging system, as well as issue the all clear when danger has passed. If you have not yet done so, we strongly encourage all members of the campus community to sign up. More information about our emergency operations and alert systems can be found here.

Paul Dillon, Chief of Police ]]> Dear Members of the UMBC Community, In light of the spate of severe weather in our area over the past two weeks, we wanted to take this opportunity to remind the community how best to safely... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/84835/guest@my.umbc.edu/ee5f284234463838dddcfa6249e2c235/api/pixel UMBC Community News https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/insights https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xsmall.png?1593096708 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/original.png?1593096708 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xxlarge.png?1593096708 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xlarge.png?1593096708 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/large.png?1593096708 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/medium.png?1593096708 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/small.png?1593096708 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xsmall.png?1593096708 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/090/56c39666a7bf2e5028d5419fc903e52d/xxsmall.png?1593096708 UMBC Community News 5 0 true Mon, 03 Jun 2019 15:07:07 -0400 Summer Staff Book Club

Are you looking for a way to connect with other UMBC staff members this summer?

Do you enjoy local authors, thrillers, or just looking for a reason to pick up a good book?


Join our faculty and staff book club at the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery!!!!


We will be discussing the book, over snacks, on Wednesday June 26th at 12pm in Library room 259.


Our first book club pick will be Wilde Lake by local author Laura Lippman. Books are on reserve and available for a 28-day loan at the Check Out Desk in the Library.


If you have any questions at all please contact Allison at ajenningsroche@umbc.edu


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As part of the recent initiative to convert all staff to Duo (umbc.edu/go/duo), the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will be automatically requiring Duo for new employees, starting Wednesday, June 5, 2019. This does not affect any current staff, who should already be enrolled, albeit manually by DoIT this past year. However, it does assure all future employees will be using an effective IT security practice.

Generally, this year’s rollout of Duo to all current staff went very smoothly, and our Technology Support Center (TSC) fielded fewer calls or tickets than expected. Similarly, while UMBC was the first to purchase Duo in the USM, both UMB and UMCP now require all faculty and staff to use Duo and experienced minimal issues. Accordingly, DoIT’s goal is for all current and future UMBC employees to be enrolled in Duo, which we’re close to having now.

Finally, DoIT wants to remind all faculty with PeopleSoft access (virtually all faculty) that they will be required to use Duo by Monday, September 30, 2019. Note: The original 9/1/19 deadline was revised to get past the hectic start of term and 10th day add/drop date.

Again, more information about Duo is available at umbc.edu/go/duo. If you have further questions, please contact the Technology Support Center by either submitting a support request atmy.umbc.edu/help or calling (410) 455-3838.

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After 44 years of service with the State of Maryland and UMBC, Elmer Falconer, Director of Employment and Employee/Labor Relations, will retire from UMBC, effective June 30, 2019. Please join us in celebrating his career and outstanding service at an open house reception on Tuesday, June 4, 3 - 5 p.m. in the Library, 7th floor.

Elmer began his career at UMBC in 1994 as employment manager for the Department of Human Resources. He was promoted to assistant director and later to his current position of director of employment and employee/labor relations. Prior to joining UMBC, he worked as an investigator/negotiator of discrimination complaints at the Maryland Commission on Human Relations and then as director of personnel for the Maryland Correctional Pre-Release Program.

During Elmer’s tenure he has successfully worked with employees from recruitment to separation. He has helped numerous individuals launch their careers over the years by providing career guidance, job seeking skills and mentoring interns. As director, Elmer worked with employees by helping them better understand their rights and privileges and he also worked with management to successfully negotiate terms of discipline and separation. Elmer’s philosophy is to always have and show compassion.
 
We hope you will join us in expressing our gratitude for Elmer’s contributions to the UMBC community. Please stop by and wish him well.

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