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<Title>umbcseb: Come to The Commons at 8pm for Sunday...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: umbcseb: Come to The Commons at 8pm for Sunday Funday! #poker #bingo #foursquare #thegreenlantern #stuff! #UMBClifeumbcseb: Come to The Commons at 8pm for Sunday Funday! #poker #bingo #foursquare #thegreenlantern #stuff! #UMBClife</div>
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<Title>Hey guys! Just letting you all know - due to Irene,...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title:  Hey guys! Just letting you all know - due to Irene, the Foam Party is indefinite...Hey guys! Just letting you all know - due to Irene, the Foam Party is indefinitely postponed. We're having a ton of indoor activities in the Commons instead! Anyone wanna play Foursquare? Watch a movie at the Sports Zone? Play a hand of poker or blackjack? Some board games with your favorite people? Hang out with us for Sunday Funday. #WehateIrenetoo #Powersbackon</div>
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<Summary>Full Title:  Hey guys! Just letting you all know - due to Irene, the Foam Party is indefinite...Hey guys! Just letting you all know - due to Irene, the Foam Party is indefinitely postponed. We're...</Summary>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="8141" important="false" status="posted" url="https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/parents/posts/8141">
<Title>Welcome to UMBC</Title>
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    <span>The final preparations are complete, and the great re-gathering has begun. The campus paths and corridors soon will vibrate to the steps of thirty thousand feet. It's Welcome Week, power has been restored, and our doors are open.</span><br>
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    <span>If you’re just starting here, the first thing to know about UMBC is that it is neither a collection of buildings nor a catalog of courses, but a confluence of stories. Each of us has one: we started somewhere else; we lived, and we learned.  We all arrive at UMBC with something to offer. UMBC’s tremendous diversity signifies many things to us, not least that each one of us—student, faculty or staff member—has something that we can, and must, contribute to make this community whole. Each of us can be and become our best selves here; each of us belongs.</span><br>
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    <span>For newcomers, a part of what this means is that you are inheriting a collective story—our history in progress—to which your story is now joined. UMBC came into being a little less than 45 years ago, and its founding era lives in the memory of people still on campus every day. We are a community of pioneers.  Our founding faculty members were brilliant, young and energetic. Our culture was inclusive and democratic: UMBC didn’t even lay sidewalks until campus planners observed where and how people wanted to walk. We started in the shadow of College Park, but have developed a distinctive identity of our own: an honors university, a hub of innovation, a mosaic, nimble, up-and-coming, a caring community constantly being created by its members. By you.</span><br>
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    <span>You’ve arrived at an auspicious moment: a time of growth and change. We’re a year away from opening the <a href="http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/2011/08/scenes-from-performing-arts-humanities.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">new Performing Arts and Humanities Building</a> (which will be the largest on campus), and are looking ahead to expanding our science facilities. Plans are taking shape for a wave of new opportunities to make a difference on campus and beyond. In your time we will be asking ourselves: What do we want to be, and what shall we commit ourselves to accomplishing together, by the time of UMBC’s 50th anniversary? That future is your future too.</span><br>
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    <span>So welcome! I’m glad you’re here at last, and I’m looking forward to all that you have to share.</span><br>
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    <span>--</span><br>
    <span><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/CoCreateUMBC" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Follow Co-Create UMBC on Twitter</a></span><br>
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    <span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/cocreateumbc" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Like CoCreateUMBC on Facebook</a></span><br>
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    <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/co-create" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>If you're at UMBC, join the Co-Create UMBC MyUMBC group</span></a><br>
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<Title>Earn three credits while you develop a research proposal</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Add HAPP 398 <strong>Writing the Undergraduate Research Proposal</strong> to your fall schedule and develop your own undergraduate research proposal during this course. Those who wish to will be in a position to seek funding to conduct the research in future semesters.<br><br>
    
    Course meets Wednesdays from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. in PUP 204. This course is appropriate for students in any discipline, with a focus on social sciences and humanities. <br>For more information: <a href="mailto:mcglynn@umbc.edu">mcglynn@umbc.edu</a><br><br>
    
    Conducted in a seminar format, this course uses readings, literature review, discussions, and exercises to coach students through development of a complete research proposal. Writing assignments are iterative with the quality of writing expected to improve throughout the semester. The course will include review of research journals and conferences related to each student's research interests.</div>
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<Title>Access Free Sample Books on Project MUSE Beta</Title>
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    <p>The Project MUSE beta site offers access to over 300 free sample books. Browse and search this selection of books, along with MUSE journals, as a preview of the combined book and journal content that will be coming to MUSE on January 1, 2012. Explore books and journals on the Project MUSE beta site at <a href="http://beta.muse.jhu.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://beta.muse.jhu.edu</a>. </p>
    
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    <li>Easy linking to  content by subject area, most recently  downloaded, most recently issued.</li>
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    <p>The beta site will be available through the end of this year giving you an opportunity to become familiar with the new MUSE platform and particularly, with the new enhanced search.</p>
    
    <p>You can access the sample e-books from off-campus with no authentication.  To view UMBC subscriptions as well as the sample e-books from off-campus, please login via VPN first (<a href="http://vpn.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://vpn.umbc.edu</a>).  Click on the "UMBC Library Homepage" link, then follow the link under "News &amp; Events" on the library homepage. For more info on remote access, see <a href="http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/services/remoteaccess.php</a></p>
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<Title>Design and build Assistive Technology with Dr. Amy Hurst</Title>
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