Join the IRC Fellows for AFFECTion (5/18)

Join the Imaging Research Center fellows on Friday May 18 for a presentation of this semester’s project: AFFECTion.

The fellows worked with the Walters Art Museum, the IRC, and UMBC’s visual arts department to understand the historical context of what we now call “data visualization.” The fellows worked with Walters curators to learn how artistic works stored and communicated information, and used that knowledge to create a new digital work that will be shown on Friday.

The event will take place on Friday, May 18 at 4 p.m. in the parlor at the Walters Mansion, which is located at 5 West Mount Vernon Place.

Open Forum: Director of University Counseling Services (5/24)

From The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs

The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs invites you to attend an open forum to meet with Dr. Bruce Herman, candidate for the position of Director of University Counseling Services. The forum will be held Thursday, May 24, 3:15-4 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library, Seventh Floor.

Dr. Herman will provide a 20 minute presentation and then there will be time for questions and discussion. Following the forum, please feel free to send feedback to charne@umbc.edu by 9 a.m., Tuesday, May 29, 2012.

We look forward to your participation.

PSS Staff Picnic (5/30)

Join us for UMBC’s annual staff picnic, Wednesday, May 30, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., in the Harbor Hall courtyard. Great Food! Great Fun! Door Prizes and a 50/50 Raffle so be sure to bring cash. Tickets are on sale now for $6 per person. Contact any staff senator to purchase.

Sponsored by the Professional Staff Senate and the Office of the President. Only a limited number of tickets available! http://my.umbc.edu/groups/pss/events/11787

Contact Laila Shishineh (lailams@umbc.edu) for more info or questions.

You Are Invited! GSA Awards Banquet (5/14)

Please open the Smilebox Evite at the bottom of this email, and accept our invitation to the Graduate Student Association Awards Banquet! We look forward to seeing you a week from today.

The award winners are:

• GSA Senator of the Year: Jesse Fox, Biological Sciences

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• Graduate Student Organization of the Year: Chemistry Graduate Student Association (CGSA)
• Jessica Sota Perez Graduate Student of the Year: Rachel Sturge, Biological Sciences
• GSA Faculty Member of the Year: Dr. Jodi Crandall, LLC
• GSA Staff Member of the Year: Drema Wentz, Coordinator Event Planning & Conference Services

Please RSVP to gsa@umbc.edu.

Monday, May 14

5-7 p.m.

Library 7th Floor

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Scrabble Challenge (5/12)

Enjoy a fun afternoon of playing three games of Scrabble on Saturday, May 12, in the Skylight Lounge of The Commons. Registration starts at 1 p.m. Games begin at 2 p.m. A short awards ceremony will be held immediately after results are complete for the final game.

There will be several divisions: adults, high school students and middle/elementary school students, depending on the number of players.

Players must be registered by 1:30 p.m. on the day of the event. A short workshop on the rules and strategies will be offered from 1:30-2 p.m. RSVPs are appreciated. Contact Dr. Linda Oliva at oliva@umbc.edu ext. 5-2382.

Community Recovery after Disaster: Almost 7 Years after Katrina (5/2)

Virgil H. Storr, Research Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, will present “Community Recovery after Disaster: Almost Seven Years after Katrina” on May 2 at 4:00 p.m. in the UMBC library gallery.

The Social Sciences Forum lecture will focus on the role of commercial, social and political entrepreneurship in bringing about community recovery after a disaster using examples from post-Katrina New Orleans. It is co-sponsored by the Charles Koch Foundation.

Storr is also a senior research fellow and director of graduate student programs at George Mason’s Mercatus Center. His most recent book is Understanding the Culture of Markets (2012).

Social Sciences Forum: “Critical Psychology Confronts Racialized Crises” (Today, 4/30)

Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology, Women’s Studies and Urban Education at CUNY’s Graduate Center, will present “Critical Psychology Confronts Racialized Crises: Activist Research on the School to Prison Pipeline, and the Prison to College Pipeline” today (April 30) at 4:00 p.m. in the library gallery.

Fine will discuss social psychology’s long and often buried history of critical psychological engagements with movements for social justice. She will then review two participatory action research projects, one with New York City youth and one with women in prison, that focus on the school to prison, and prison to college, pipelines as racialized dynamics during times of growing inequality gaps.

This Social Sciences Forum is also a Distinguished Lecture in Psychology.

Join the Women’s Center for a Celebratory Picnic (5/9)

Last fall, the Women's Center kicked off their 20th anniversary celebration with a picnic.

On May 9, the Women’s Center will celebrate the end of their 20^th anniversary year with a free picnic in the Women’s Center Backyard at noon.

At the picnic, attendees will share their hopes for the next generation of Women’s Center stories. A few students will be speaking about their excitement for those next stories; for example, one student staff member will be speaking to the creation of a men’s engagement program and another student will be sharing next steps in serving returning women as well as women veterans.

The Women’s Center will also be unveiling a quilt created as part of the 20^th anniversary celebration, and the documentary about the first twenty years will be shown.

Geography and Environmental Systems seminar: “Maryland’s Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative” (5/2)

The Geography and Environmental Systems department presents a seminar by Brigid Kenney, Senior Policy Advisor, Maryland Department of the Environment. Ms. Kenney’s talk is entitled, “Maryland’s Marcellus Shale Safe Drilling Initiative.” The lecture will be held on Wednesday, May 2, at noon, in Sondheim 001.

For more information, contact Dawn Biehler at dbiehler@umbc.edu.

UMBC Symphony (5/6)

On Sunday, May 6, the Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of E. Michael Richards, professor and chair. The Symphony’s program will feature:

* Brahms – Violin Concerto (Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace)
Amy Lee – violin – winner of the 2011-12 UMBC Symphony Concerto Competition
* Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2
Kazuko Tanosaki – piano
* Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
* Dvorak – Symphony No. 8 in G Major

Dr. Kazuko Tanosaki is an affiliate artist with UMBC.

7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free.