Archives Unbound Database Trial - ends March 31, 2013 UMBC now has trial access to the database Archives Unbound.

Access rare primary source material in a cross-searchable digital format.

Archives Unbound provides access to topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward - from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history. Collections are chosen for Archives Unbound based on requests from scholars, archivists, and students.

Several collections are highlighted but there is access to all 144 of the collections, browse the index or use the search box for additional titles. Listed in 'Our collections' are:
  • "Through the Camera Lens:" The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 1907-1927
  • "We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:" Freedom Riders in the South, 1961
  • 19th Century English-Language Journals from the Far East
  • Actes royaux français, 1256-1794 (French Royal Acts, 1256-1794)
  • Afghanistan and the U.S., 1945-1963: Records of the U.S. State Department Central Classified Files

The trial runs through March 31, 2013. Feedback on the usefulness of this database is appreciated. Please contact Drew Alfgren at alfgren@umbc.edu, or leave us a comment to let us know what you think.


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You are invited to this one hour after five session that will cover basic and advanced research tips for successful research. This hands-on workshop will offer an overview of the library’s homepage and show you how to locate electronic/print resources on specific topics.

Please bring your research topics to this session.

► Where: Library, Room 259      
► When:  Thursday, March 14, 2013; 5:15 – 6:15 pm

Register for this workshop. 

Questions? Contact Simmona E. Simmons simmons@umbc.edu or phone 410 455-3587
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This archival research resource contains the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews. 

Subjects covered include:
  • Film industry
  • Music business
  • Rock and pop
  • Jazz and blues
  • Theater
  • Television
  • Radio

The trial runs through March 31, 2013. Feedback on the usefulness of this database is appreciated. Please contact Drew Alfgren at alfgren@umbc.edu, or leave us a comment to let us know what you think.
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This message came to us from UMBC Chemistry alumna, Dr. LaTese Briggs. Dr. Briggs completed a postdoc at The Broad, a collaborative between Harvard and MIT. She is now a Program Analyst for Faster Cures, a division of the Milken Institute. 


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The NIH has issued a Request for Information about implementing the recommendations of its Working Group on the Biomedical Research Workforce.The comment deadline is April 22. Responses are being sought from all stakeholders in the extramural community, including students, postdoctorates, scientists, scientific societies, and NIH grantee institutions, as well as from the general public. 

 

Here is the Link:

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-13-045.html

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  1. As of 2/25 anyone needing to access the WT2013 Bb server from off campus needs to log in to the VPN first.
  2. The WT2013 Bb server will be taken completely offline on Friday, 3/15.
  3. WT2013 courses will be restored on the UMBC Bb production server by Friday, March 29.  Please note that there will be approximately two weeks when WT2013 courses will be completely unavailable to faculty and students.  We encourage you to download a copy of your grade center, and any other content that you might need to your local machine. If instructors have students finishing incomplete grades, and students must have continuing access to their WT2013 course over spring break, the instructors should put in an RT ticket request prior to Thursday, March 14.

Thank you for your patience during this transition.

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Calling all of our STEM graduate students!! YOU have ideas … we’ve heard many of them. You’ve shared them with us in meetings, at conferences like the PROMISE SSI, on the walkways of our campuses, and in our offices. Now it’s time to get those ideas out to a national audience, and receive money if your submission is chosen!  You have to be in it to win it!

Deadline Apr. 15, 2013

_____________________________________________________

The following message comes from Dr. Jessie DeAro, national Program Director at the National Science Foundation for all of the AGEPs in the US.  (PROMISE is Maryland’s AGEP, one of more than 20 AGEPs nation-wide.)

______________________________________________________

Calling Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Graduate Students:

Have you ever thought of ways to improve STEM graduate education? Do you have a creative idea regarding graduate training? If so, NSF wants to hear from you!

The National Science Foundation Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge is calling for entries from currently enrolled STEM graduate students and teams. They are invited to submit innovative ideas to prepare today’s graduate students for tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges. Entries are solicited for ideas with the potential to improve graduate education and professional development. Ideas can be directed toward students, faculty, departments, institutions, professional societies, and/or federal agencies. Winning ideas will be shared widely and winners will receive prizes between $1000 and $3000.

FROM THE WEBSITE:

Be sure to include the following elements in your submission:

  1. The title of your submission (150 characters or less)
  2. The issue in graduate education you wish to address
  3. Your solution or idea
  4. How your idea will change graduate education

 DETAILS:


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Calling all of our STEM graduate students!! YOU have ideas … we’ve heard many of them. You’ve shared them with us in meetings, at conferences like the PROMISE SSI, on the walkways of our campuses, and in our offices. Now it’s time to get those ideas out to a national audience, and receive money if your submission is chosen!  You have to be in it to win it!

Deadline Apr. 15, 2013

_____________________________________________________

The following message comes from Dr. Jessie DeAro, national Program Director at the National Science Foundation for all of the AGEPs in the US.  (PROMISE is Maryland’s AGEP, one of more than 20 AGEPs nation-wide.)

______________________________________________________

Calling Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Graduate Students:

Have you ever thought of ways to improve STEM graduate education? Do you have a creative idea regarding graduate training? If so, NSF wants to hear from you!

The National Science Foundation Innovation in Graduate Education Challenge is calling for entries from currently enrolled STEM graduate students and teams. They are invited to submit innovative ideas to prepare today’s graduate students for tomorrow’s opportunities and challenges. Entries are solicited for ideas with the potential to improve graduate education and professional development. Ideas can be directed toward students, faculty, departments, institutions, professional societies, and/or federal agencies. Winning ideas will be shared widely and winners will receive prizes between $1000 and $3000.

FROM THE WEBSITE:

Be sure to include the following elements in your submission:

  1. The title of your submission (150 characters or less)
  2. The issue in graduate education you wish to address
  3. Your solution or idea
  4. How your idea will change graduate education

 DETAILS:


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From:Jack Suess, Michael Dillon, Arnold Foelster
Date: February 26, 2013
Re:Update on Digital Measures Implementation


Digital Measures is a commercial software product that will replace the Faculty Annual Report (FAR) in Calendar year 2014. Based on input from the Deans, we have decided to try a pilot implementation in 2013. As part of this pilot, there are nine departments using Digital Measures in lieu of the current FAR. The nine departments are Information Systems, Geography and Environmental Systems, Gender and Women’s Studies, JCET, and the five departments in the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS).

This memo will outline the process for the pilot departments. ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS WILL USE THE ORIGINAL myUMBC FAR.  The due date for both Digital Measures reports and the FAR will be April 10, 2013.

The main difference between Digital Measures and the FAR is that we are loading data regarding individuals into Digital Measures. As a result, we will load teaching data, grants data, and demographic information on file into the system. If you notice an error, you will be asked to let us know by submitting an RT ticket, so that we can track and correct the problem using the current system of record.

During the pilot implementation, faculty (as they have done in the FAR) will be expected to enter into Digital Measures their scholarly and creative accomplishments, service work, and other activities that are not tracked by our official systems.

For support, we hired FosterKnowledge consultants Susan Dawson, sdawson@umbc.edu and Marni Blachowitz, marnibl@umbc.edu. Susan developed training for the UMBC SA project.  Based on early feedback with some faculty that we have worked with, we believe most faculty will find this web-based package straightforward to use; however if any faculty member feels they need additional support we will be glad to provide assistance.

We will modify the start screen on the existing FAR so that faculty participating in the pilot implementation will be alerted to use the link specified for Digital Measures instead of the older FAR.

What follows is the timeline for the rollout this spring:

  1. Week of March 4  -- we will have the system available for faculty to sign in  and review basic demographic data. There will be some basic orientation videos available on how to sign in and interact with the software.
  1. Week of March 11 - we will have all  teaching data available.
  2. During the month of March we will have support available to answer any questions  and work with faculty one-on-one should they need help.
  3. In early May we will issue a survey to faculty asking for feedback and ways that we can improve the process for next year.

Let me close by thanking all of the pilot departments. Through your assistance and cooperation we can make the transition to a new instrument much better for all faculty. ]]> To:Digital Measures Pilot Departments and Deans From:Jack Suess, Michael Dillon, Arnold Foelster Date: February 26, 2013 Re:Update on Digital Measures Implementation Digital Measures is a... http://my.umbc.edu/go/academicprofile https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/24959/guest@my.umbc.edu/d06f541f641e69722c761d3eaa4ada65/api/pixel Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology 0 0 true Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:44:44 -0500 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:48:20 -0500