UMBC Will Close for Spring 2016 Because it Might Snow

UMBC Will Close for Spring 2016 Because it Might Snow by David Hoffman and Craig Berger

UMBC announced today that it has preemptively canceled classes for the entire spring 2016 semester due to the potential for inclement weather. “When you look at that stretch of time, encompassing all the winter months, the probability of frozen precipitation approaches 100%” said UMBC communications officer Richard Roller. “Ice and heavy snow can be quite dangerous, but even light flurries are sort of annoying, like a cat that won’t stop licking your arm. Or just cats generally. I mean, what do they want?” Roller explained that UMBC did not want to inflict suffering on anyone by holding classes in such conditions.

According to Roller, if the closure decision proves popular, UMBC might take a similar approach to other inconveniences and challenges for future semesters. He speculated that two such situations might be days with weather so nice it would be criminal to waste it indoors, and mornings when students feel like they “just can’t even” get up for 8:00 a.m. classes. Roller encouraged students who want to see more preemptive closures to vent on social media, observing that a hostile Yak with lots of upvotes is virtually guaranteed to influence positive change on campus.

Over the past decade, UMBC had developed a reputation for being slow to close in inclement weather. Roller believes the spring 2016 closure will cast UMBC in a different light. “Yes, we’re studious, and it’s cool to be smart. But hear this: We are also warm and cozy in our pajamas when we’re binge-watching Netflix on a cold, damp day.” He suggested that instead of “An Honors University in Maryland,” the UMBC tagline could become “When There’s A Chill, We Are Chill.” Immediately following this statement, Roller dropped his microphone and left the building.

Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of 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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The 2015 PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) will be held on Saturday, August 15, 2015, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM. This conference (business attire) provides professional development for new/incoming graduate students, continuing graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career professors, and professionals in the region. This is an annual event that has been in existence since 2003. All PROMISE alumni are welcome to return! Professionals in the area are welcome to attend to be part of this networking, professional development, and community building event. The 2015 SSI will be held at The Hotel at Arundel Preserve, in Hanover, MD. See more about our SSI History: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/promise/the-promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/

Stay tuned to this website. It will be regularly updated with information.

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Warmer weather is arriving and we’d like for you to mark your calendars now for two PROMISE AGEP events that are open to graduate students and postdocs within the University System of Maryland, and our friends and colleagues from other universities. We build community as part of our professional development efforts, so we’ll look forward to having you join us on those dates.

Stay tuned to this website for more information. Both events will utilize the Eventbrite registration system. Here are some details that you can add to your plans.

1. The Cookout and Celebration of Graduates will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2015, 1:00 – 4:00 PM. This event acknowledges all master’s and doctoral graduates from any school within the University System of Maryland. This year, we will also acknowledge postdocs who are moving on to other positions. Please send us your good news so that we can acknowledge you: promisestaff@gmail.com, with the subject: “May 2 Cookout Celebration.” This event will be held at the High Ridge Park Pavilion in Laurel, MD.

2. The PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) will be held on Saturday, August 15, 2015, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM. This conference (business attire) provides professional development for new/incoming graduate students, continuing graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career professors, and professionals in the region. This is an annual event that has been in existence since 2003. All PROMISE alumni are welcome to return! Professionals in the area are welcome to attend to be part of this networking, professional development, and community building event. The 2015 SSI will be held at The Hotel at Arundel Preserve, in Hanover, MD.

Details for the 2015 SSI on August 15th will be posted here: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi-august-15-2015/

See more about our SSI History: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/promise/the-promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/

Please save the dates!

These events are sponsored by the National Science Foundation, 
    PROMISE AGEP: Maryland Transformation (AGEP-T) project.

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Name: Jessica Moreno

Hometown: Silver Spring, MD

Major: Media and Communication Studies Major & American Studies Minor

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: Since fall 2011. I am finally a SENIOR!

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I am a Student Assistant/Receptionist and Social Media Intern at the Career Center here at UMBC. I just recently joined The Retriever Weekly (student run newspaper) as an Online Editor!

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?

A: Student, friend, helper, observer of life, and commuter!

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: I think it’s been great meeting the diverse people on campus and going to the social events hosted by seb, so I enjoy being a student! I also like working at the Career Center (CC) because people who know me will ask me questions about how to get job/research/ internship opportunities, and I like helping students figure out how to use the various services offered by the CC.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: I think that to make UMBC yours, you have to take the initiative and explore the many resources that UMBC has to offer. I think it is important to be active on campus and you can do that by either joining a group/student organization or maybe find an on-campus job. I asked questions to professors, staff at the Career Center, friends, everyone! It’s good asking questions because professionals are here to answer them.

Q: What is one way you have worked with others to make a positive difference at UMBC or in another community?

A: Just recently, I created a video for the Sustainability Matters group at UMBC. I initially made the video for a class but I wanted to do something more with it. The video basically gives the viewer an introduction on what sustainability is and why it is important to be sustainable not just on-campus, but also in your personal life. I did some research and I decided to contact the Environmental Sustainability Coordinator, Tanvi Gadhia. Thanks to her, I was able to find out how to bring my ideas to life in the video and I was able to feature two sustainability interns, which was great! Long story short, I wanted to make a video to show how small actions such as recycling, using less electricity, and composting does in fact help the overall state of the environment.

Let’s make UMBC a green campus!

For more information about the video and sustainability, visit: http://sustainability.umbc.edu/

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Sushi and roller coasters!

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 think every commuter may have answered this question the same way but the library has comfortable couches in the top floors! Especially on long days, it’s a good idea to take a power nap there.

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Cross-posted from the 2015 SGA Election Board myUMBC Group.

Below is a list of the students who submitted applications to run for SGA positions in the April election. This list is preliminary and not final (the names listed below will be checked for eligibility and may appear differently on the ballot, including their order).

All candidates must receive a number of votes equal to at least 5% of the number of total votes cast in the election. Write-in votes are permitted in SGA elections. Candidates are elected by plurality. For Senate, the top eleven vote-getters will be elected; for Finance Board, the top five vote-getters will be elected.

The election will take place through myUMBC on Monday, April 20th, Tuesday, April 21st, and Wednesday, April 22nd. On those three days, the polls will be open from 8am to 12pm and from 8pm to 12am.

The results will be released on Thursday, April 23rd at 3:30 p.m. in the Student Organization Space on the 2nd Floor of The Commons.

More information, including candidate profiles and scheduled Election Board-sponsored campaign events, will be posted soon at http://my.umbc.edu/groups/electionboard.

All candidates will receive an e-mail message from the Election Board Chair with information about candidate information sessions, SGA Election Rules, and other important information.

President (4 candidates):

Bentley Corbett-Wilson (Running Mate: Kelly Robier)

Anthony Jankoski (Running Mate: Daniel Amsini)

Bradley Nguyen (Running Mate: Keegan Dill)

Michelle Seu (Running Mate: Elizabeth Chen)

Executive Vice President (4 candidates):

Kelly Robier (Running Mate: Bentley Corbett-Wilson)

Daniel Amsini (Running Mate: Anthony Jankoski)

Keegan Dill (Running Mate: Brad Nguyen)

Elizabeth Chen (Running Mate: Michelle Seu)

Vice President for Student Organizations (2 candidates):

Bryan England

Sohini Kundu

Treasurer (5 candidates):

Tristan Oetker

Belawoe Akwakoku

Bee Morgan

Manisha Vepa

Sara Kim

Senator (16 candidates):

Markya Reed

Melissa Morales

Brooke Perrin

William Rice

Nick Colvin

DeVaughn Jones

Andrew Lopez

Sarah Lilly

Oladipupo Eke

Andres Garcia

Seth Benefield

Justin Chavez

Vanessa Barksdale

Yamini Narayan

Joshua Massey

Augustus Williams

Finance Board Representative (9 candidates):

Amry Majeed

Kevin Nguyen

Trent Bae

Sarah Bicknell

Nathalie Karam

Michelle Yan

Ankush Manchanda

Meghna Bhatt

Nevin Varghese

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Folks,

Because of an unexpected issue with the reservation of space for the karaoke event, we have had to reschedule it for April 3, 6-9pm at Upper Flat Tuesdays. We're really sorry about the inconvenience this change might cause, but we hope you can make it on April 3. It will still be fun times, just another date. Please mark it on your calendars.

Yours,

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We want to congratulate LLC Steering Committee member Dr. Michelle Scott,and LLC alumni Dr. Brian V. Souders '09 and Dr. David Hoffman '13 who will be honored in the awards ceremony.

Dr. Scott will be honored with the 2015–2018 Presidential Teaching Faculty Award and the 2015 University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Award for Excellence in Mentoring

Dr. Hoffman will receive the 2013-2014 University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Staff Award for Exceptional Contribution to the Mission of UMBC (Professional Staff)

Dr. Souders will be given the Jakubik Family Endowment Staff Award 2014–2015

The Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards ceremony will be on Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at the University Center Ballroom, 12 - 1 pm. Everyone is encouraged to attend.

Congratulations to these three wonderful people!
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The UMBC Presidential Awards go to selected faculty and staff who have enormously contributed with their work and ideas to the university. We want to congratulate LLC Steering Committee...

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Dr. Toomer is the Sales Director for Cardinal Health Specialty Solutions in Oncology responsible to help the community practices operate more efficiently so that they can be more focused on the unique needs of cancer patients.

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Corine Toomer, cohort 9, is overjoyed to share with the LLC community the 3/20/15 arrival of her grand daughter, Avery Corine Harris. Her daughter, Davianne and son-in-law, Brandon live in...

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First Call for Sessions and Panels for the 3rd Biannual Conference: Montreal, 7-10th June 2016

Heritage is a powerful witness to mindsets and zeitgeist; it is commonly understood that it gives way to a better understanding of societies and even brings together communities. But how would this happen? Can heritage affect reality? What does it change?

The third ACHS Conference considers the manifestations, discourses, epistemologies, policies, and stakes of heritage—as a phenomenon, a symptom, an effect or a catalyst; as a tool of empowerment or leverage; as a physical or intangible restraint or kick-off; in communities, societies, or any material or mental environment. Subthemes range from gender-related issues to identity-making, mythologies of cultural diversity and the rethinking of heritage policies beyond the authorized heritage discourse.

The inaugural manifesto of the ACHS called for the building and the promotion of critical innovations and interventions in heritage while questioning the cultural and economic power relations that traditional understandings of heritage seem to underpin. This third Conference builds on the momentum of the previous conferences, held in Gothenburg, Sweden and in Canberra, Australia; it seeks to strengthen and broaden critical heritage studies as an inclusive area of theorisation, investigation and practice built from diverse geographical regions and disciplinary fields, such as public history, memory studies, museology, tourism studies, architecture and planning, urban studies, archaeology, geography, sociology, cultural studies, political science, anthropology, ethnology and artistic research.

Submissions to the 2016 ACHS Conference should bring innovative reflections and interdisciplinary methodologies or approaches to the critical enquiries about how and why heritage is, has been or could be made, used, studied, defined and managed, and with what effects, if any, on a society, a territory, an economy. Contributions might, for example, explore the reconstruction of narratives, the reconfiguration of social relations, knowledge production and cultural expressions, the transformation of the environment or the (de)valuation of the land. We particularly welcome papers that go beyond canon theories to interrogate discipline-based norms about heritage, and the assumptions that orient practice or decision-making. In this respect, this conference aims to continue important debates about heritage as a domain of politics and citizenship, a living environment, a source of identity and an assemblage of human-non-human relations.

For more information about the topics, roundtables and sessions, please visit the ACHS 2016 website

The deadline for the call for session is 1st July 2015
The deadline for the call for papers will be 1st November 2015.
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First Call for Sessions and Panels for the 3rd Biannual Conference: Montreal, 7-10th June 2016 Heritage is a powerful witness to mindsets and zeitgeist; it is commonly understood that it gives...

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The exhibit will coincide with the April 9-26 musical production of Betsy!, which tells the story of a Puerto Rican Latin Jazz singer forced to confront family secrets about her Scotch-Irish and Appalachian roots. Roadside Theater and Pregones Theater/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater co-created the musical, and the Joy of Giving Something Foundation is generously sponsoring this exhibit.

Why Participate?

Twenty-five students will have their photographs printed and physically exhibited during the April 9-26 run of Betsy! at Pregones Theater/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (304 West 47th Street). In addition to receiving three tickets to Betsy!, these students will be invited to a reception and receive recognition in the show playbill. All photos received will be showcased on websites and social media of the participating organizations, which boast national audiences of more than ten thousand people.

Photography Submissions

To participate, students may upload 1-3 images (saved as JPEG or JPG files, 1600 x 1200 minimum pixel resolution, and no larger than 5MB) and a short artist statement (less than 300 words) about the connection between your image(s) and the exhibit themes.

Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis. April 1, 2015 is the latest date to submit. Special consideration will be given to high school and college students in New York.

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