Real People Profiles: Elaine Yang
We're asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Elaine Yang
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Major: Health Administration and Public Policy
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: This is my fourth year at UMBC
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Phi Mu Fraternity for Women, Philanthropy Committee.
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? A: I am an Asian-American Greek Life member and STRiVE Alum.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: I enjoy being in Phi Mu Fraternity for Women because not only have I found a group of women that I will have a lifelong bond with, I am part of a nationwide, even worldwide organization that is about changing lives. From volunteering with local Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and holding events to raise money them, to volunteering at homeless shelters,Operation Welcome Home and more, Being an active member of Phi Mu allows me not only to be a positive influence to those at UMBC and in my Greek Organization, it allows me to reach out to those in my local community and beyond to make an impact. My life's purpose is to change lives and being a part of Phi Mu allows me to do just that alongside other beautiful women I call sisters.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: The most important thing that I learned at UMBC is that anyone can make a difference and be a leader. My second semester of my junior year I attended STRiVE leadership conference. It was at this conference that I learned the important of leadership and what I could do to bring about positive social change in my community.
Q: What is one way you have worked with others to make a positive difference at UMBC or in another community?
A: One way that I have worked with others to make a positive difference in my community is volunteering with my sorority sisters by making posters and welcoming home soldiers at the local airport.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"A: Intellectually stimulating conversations
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: My favorite spot on campus would have to be the 7th floor of the library. When I study in the corner of the library where I am surrounded my windows, I can see how truly beautiful the campus is.
PROMISE at UMB invites all to a special Fall Kick-off & Social Hour.
Friday, September 4, 2015, 3 pm
University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)
Bressler Building, Hostick Lecture Hall
Featuring Dr. Nirmal Joshi, MC Chief Medical Officer for Pinnacle Health System
Transportation
Driving:
(Additional information will be placed in the comment section of this post.)
By bus:
A shuttle leaves at 1:30 PM and 2:30 PM from UMBC and arriving at UMB 1:50 PM and 2:50 PM
More about PROMISE at UMB:
http://www.graduate.umaryland.edu/Current-Students/PROMISE-Program/
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The National "We Need Diverse Books" Campaign
The UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library needs student input and leadership to assist with a #weneeddiversebooks campaign.
They are interested in collaborating with students to put together displays, events, and other resources that highlight both the need for diverse perspectives in literature and the representation of such perspectives in our library. They also hope to plan a kickoff event in coordination with the Baltimore Book Festival, which takes place Sept. 25-27, 2015 at the Baltimore Inner Harbor.
If you are interested in participating and contributing to this campaign, contact Joanna Gadsby at
gadsby@umbc.edu.
The first meeting will take place very soon!
--Repost from Mosaic Center--
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NEH Summer Stipends Competition: Proposals Due!
Deadline Aug. 28, 2015 for Internal Proposals
Proposals for the 2016 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipends competition are due to the UMBC Office of the Vice President for Research by Friday, August 28, 2015. UMBC may submit up to two nominations for NEH Summer Stipends (NEH deadline is October 1, 2015). Proposals will be evaluated by an internal review process, which will be completed by Friday, September 11, 2015. All applicants will be notified shortly after that date.
NEH Summer Stipends provide outright awards of $6,000 to support two consecutive months of full-time research during summer 2016.
Information and questions:
Rachel Brubaker, Assistant Director for Grants and Program Development, Dresher Center for the Humanities,
rbruba1@umbc.edu
The summer after my freshman year of college, I worked in a shop that sold laminated plaques: posters mounted on pieces of wood. The place also did custom work at a factory off-site, and one of the perks of my minimum-wage job was that at the end of the summer I could bring in one of my own items to be mounted at the factory. From the first day, I knew that what I would have mounted was a map of my dreams. I spent many of my free moments that summer creating the map.
I had been drawing dream maps for several years. I started with the idea that all of my dreams took place in the same Dreamland. Many of my dreams unfolded in familiar venues like my home and schools, so I placed them all in Dreamland in their appropriate locations. For places that seemed to exist only in my dreams, I had to use my intuition to place them on a map. I felt empowered to do this in part because a character in one of my dreams had once turned to me just before I woke up and said, “Anything learned about dreams while dreaming is true.” I loved that.
When a single location had been the site of multiple dreams, I gave the dreams names, like the titles of stories. I drew pictures of the buildings and landmarks I remembered, imitating the styles of the maps associated with my favorite books, like Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series and Stephen R. Donaldson’s Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. I finished that summer’s dream map in August and waited a few anxious weeks for it to come back from the factory.
Now thirty more summers have passed, and while I continue to treasure the dream map hanging on my wall, I have drawn no more of them. In some ways it feels as though the whole dream mapping enterprise belongs to a more innocent time in my life, when the routines and expectations of adulthood were more distant.
Yet the deepest lessons from my dream mapping have stayed with me, and shape my work with students and colleagues at UMBC: All of us know things we sense are deeply important, but do not derive from textbooks and authorities, or rational calculation. All of us have interior worlds that can help shape the exterior world if we feel empowered to connect the two. All of us can be creators, if we dare to know that our stories matter, and are worth making visible.
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Real People Profiles: Nitya Kumaran
We're asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Nitya Kumaran
Hometown: Fairfax
Major: Psychology and Biology
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: One year
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A: Chair of the Reach Initiative's GWST/ Psych Committee
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? A: Friend, mentor, student, writer, uniter , lover of all beauty and life.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Being able to hear stories from different countries, cultures, and backgrounds. Noticing how valuable each person is for the creation of a diverse and open community.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: That we have different problems and yet are not that different. We want our pain understood and our beauty appreciated.
Q: What is one way you have worked with others to make a positive difference at UMBC or in another community?
A: In my english and public policy class, my fellow Sondheim Scholars and I discussed how we can do meaningful public service. Our exchange of ideas shaped the way we supported people in our individual service sites, the ideas we spread to UMBC members about service and our own visions of how to impact the community.
I now know we do not save people but instead empower them.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: I like sitting next to Walter Sondheim's statue. ( Hi Sondheims :) )
We have a shared love of public service. He's a great man; you should get to know him.
Now that we're all here, the campus has come to life. Here's some of what we saw today and tonight, starting with our walk at the front of the Class of 2019's procession from the library plaza, across campus, past lines of cheering faculty and staff members, to Convocation.
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| Personal greetings from President Hrabowski |
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| Faculty Senate President Sarah Shin |
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| Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Diane Lee |
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| Presidential Teaching Professor Michelle Scott |
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SGA President Anthony Jankoski shared his story of overcoming frustration
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/Sophomore Manisha Vepa spoke about having gotten deeply involved
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Next up: Picnic on the Quad
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Big Crazy Fun Night: Backstage
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Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.
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by David Hoffman and Craig Berger Now that we're all here, the campus has come to life. Here's some of what we saw today and tonight, starting with our walk at the front of the Class of 2019's...
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Welcome to UMBC
Now make it yours.
by David Hoffman and Craig Berger
When UMBC opened in 1966, the campus consisted of a few brick buildings and dirt paths. The first students, faculty and staff members complained about having to walk through dust and mud, but the absence of sidewalks was by design. Campus planners wanted to see where people walked before paving the paths. UMBC's pioneers literally blazed new trails with their feet, a process that has been repeated in every subsequent generation (most recently with a short path connecting The Commons and Biology buildings to the existing network of paths approaching the AOK Library).
Those winding and diagonal campus trails are a good metaphor for the spirit of everyday democracy is deeply embedded in the culture of our UMBC community. If you're just arriving at UMBC, prepare to co-create! All of us make this community together. Here we recognize and value each other as complex human beings, each with stories of our own, each of us integral to the whole. In the next few years, UMBC will grow and change in part because of what the freshmen, new transfer students, and new faculty and staff will contribute. Together, all of us will make something new, something our own, and in doing so we will embody and extend UMBC's best traditions.
We want to introduce a few online resources for people at UMBC who want to make the most of their time here by getting involved as co-creators of their communities, on campus and beyond.
Co-Create UMBC is the blog we write to support UMBC's co-creators, in part by making the UMBC community visible to itself. We'll be sharing profiles of UMBC community members; involvement leadership opportunities; and reflections grounded in our own stories and experiences.
BreakingGround is a UMBC initiative linking people, courses, community projects, and research through a philosophy of hopeful, creative action for positive social change.
The Shriver Center is UMBC's center for applied learning, civic engagement, and community-based service.
UMBC Student Life supports student leadership development, campus and community engagement, student organizations and campus events.
Join the UMBC Serves group on MyUMBC for updates from the Shriver Center and UMBC Student Life about opportunities to get involved in service.
The Women's Center advances gender equity from an intersectional feminist perspective through co-curricular programming, support services, and advocacy for marginalized individuals and communities.
For everyone just arriving here, welcome to UMBC! We're looking forward to learning your stories and discovering what we can create together. To everyone else: Welcome back! Let this new journey begin.
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A great night – Sisters in the Dissertation House. A great DH, sponsored by UMB
Sisters in the Dissertation House #Legacy @PROMISE_AGEP #TeamGetItDone #Reloaded #ThinkBigDiversity @drwestmoreland pic.twitter.com/SG38NGhj0Z
— Alexis Williams (@alexisinc) August 15, 2015
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One post describes the event. It was a banner evening for the “Sisters in the Dissertaton House” discussion on Friday, August 14, 2015.
PROMISE also thanks its partner at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) for sponsoring the Dissertation House for the SSI, August 13-14, 2015.
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Sisters in the Dissertation House #Legacy @PROMISE_AGEP #TeamGetItDone #Reloaded #ThinkBigDiversity @drwestmoreland pic.twitter.com/SG38NGhj0Z — Alexis Williams (@alexisinc) August 15, 2015...
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NSF GRFP Fellowship Application Workshop @UMBC, Sept. 12, 2015
“Funding Your Graduate Education”
An Annual “Special Saturday Success Seminar”
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Saturday, September 12, 2015
UMBC Sherman Hall, Room 003
(First floor Lecture Hall. Sherman Hall is between the Administration Building and the University Center. It is across the walkway from the Sondheim Building.)
Speakers:
Dr. Frances D. Carter-Johnson, AAAS S&T Fellow at the NIH Center for Scientific Review
Dr. Patricia Ordóñez, Department of Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
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Our speakers, UMBC Alumni and former NSF GRFP winners, bring their award winner seminar back to UMBC! This seminar has been presented at the National Science Foundation’s HBCU-UP national conference, the American Association for the Advancement in Science’s Emerging Researchers Network national Conference, Harvard, MIT, Spelman, Clemson, and at others universities in Puerto Rico, Texas, and DC. Our speakers have been part of MIT’s Tech TV series, and continue to be sought-after speakers on the topic of graduate funding.
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Dr. Carter-Johnson is a graduate of UMBC’s Department of Public Policy and formerly served as a STEM Policy Analyst at Westat. Dr. Carter-Johnson has degrees in Public Policy, Applied Physics, Pure Physics, and Mechanical Engineering from UMBC, Georgia Tech, and Spelman College. She has received research support and fellowships from NASA, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), SREB, The Department of Education, GEM, the American Evaluation Association, NIH, and MIT. Dr. Carter-Johnson completed her postdoctoral training at the Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT, and is a Science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She currently designs studies and analyzes data to develop policy solutions to enhance diversity in the biomedical workforce at the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Ordóñez is a graduate of UMBC’s Department of Computer Science. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras. Dr. Ordóñez has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and UMBC in Hispanic and Italian Studies, and Computer Science respectively. She has taught several classes at UMBC and was a Technical Trainer for UMBC’s Training Centers, focusing on JAVA Computer Programming Certifications and curriculum development. Dr. Ordóñez was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and has received fellowships and/or recognition from Xerox, Verizon, Google, The Ford Foundation, The Hispanic Scholarship Fund and UMBC. Dr. Ordóñez is the Leader of Biomedical Informatics Function for the Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium, and her research is focused on applying machine learning, data mining, and data visualization to big time series data for the purpose of improving medicine and on developing assistive technologies for programming. Dr. Ordóñez also presents this workshop on graduate research funding in Puerto Rico in Spanish.
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Our speakers’ work on the topic of graduate funding was presented at the “Understanding Interventions” national conference in 2012, and was published in a paper by the American Association of Engineering Education in 2013. This year, in addition to their annual workshops in Boston, their seminar, “The $10 Million Dollar Plan: Increasing Graduate Funding and Diversity in Computing” was presented at the 2014 Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, in Seattle, WA. Their list of winners continues to grow, and participants who have taken their workshops have won the prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowship and other awards, totaling more than $1 million of fellowship money!
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Learn how to apply for the NSF GRFP Fellowship, learn about the nuances of submitting a fellowship to NSF, have terms deciphered, and start your application on Fastlane – NSF’s computer system.
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PLEASE RSVP (Breakfast refreshments and lunch will be served):
- UMBC’s students: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/34284
- If you are not a student at UMBC, RSVP by posting in the comment section at the bottom of this message with your name, school, and discipline (academic department)/major.
Graduate students and undergraduates from all schools in the region are invited to attend this seminar. All current LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellows are required to attend the workshop, and are required to apply for the NSF GRFP.
Directions and Parking:
http://about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide/directions/
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