*Repost* LGBTQ+ Student Union Involvement Fest Repost from LGBTQ+ Student Union
We are back baby! Welcome to LSU's Spring '22 Involvement Fest. Come on down and meet some of our board members and friends. 

https://meet.google.com/ixg-nxrm-vtm

If you're not able to make it during this time but you have some questions, please reach out to Jordan at jordanp2@umbc.edu, Angelica at angelim1@umbc.edu, or Maxine at melovit1@umbc.edu!
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is known for its stunning architecture and powerful, immersive exhibits. More than 600,000 visitors experienced the NMAAHC – the newest Smithsonian museum – in the first three months of its opening in Washington, D.C. During the COVID pandemic, the museum wondered how it could best reach audiences unable to visit in person. Enter Baltimore-based tech company Fearless and a team of UMBC alumni bridging computing and the arts.

Fearless, founded by Delali Dzirasa ‘04, computer engineering, led the development of the Searchable Museum to complement the NMAAHC’s “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition. The Fearless and NMAAHC teams worked together to reimagine this exhibit specifically for online audiences.

The Smithsonian’s announcement of the new platform notes, “Over a year in the making, the Searchable Museum initiative is one of the museum’s largest digital undertakings, bringing the museum’s evocative content and immersive in-person visitor experience into homes around the world.”

Read more about how Fearless and a team with many UMBC alumni created this platform in this UMBC News article.

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We are excited to announce that we will be having two sessions for involvement fest today. Please feel free to use the Webex link to join us from either 1-3 PM or 7-8 PM. We can't wait to see you there!

-EWB E-Board.
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We hope you had a relaxing winter break and are ready for an exciting new semester. This week we are going to be available during involvement fest on Wednesday (2/9). We will be running two sessions, one from 1-3 PM and another from 7-8 PM. Come join us using this WebEx link to see what we have planned for the semester. We can't wait to see you there.

-EWB E-Board
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Have you seen the early responses to our Reimagining the Harbor as a Hub public paper in the news?  Here’s the Baltimore Business Journal story that started a buzz one day after we sent out our paper, and here’s a WBALTV story that’s getting word out to a wide public. We’ve since had a stream of encouraging and engaged responses from the Mayor’s Office and other regional elected officials, leaders, and Baltimoreans.  

Creative ideas from community members are centered in our reimagining call and are driving the story now.  We need your voices and ideas to keep this conversation moving forward towards a bold and inclusively reimagined Harbor.  Please join us for a virtual event on Tues, Feb 8th at 12 noon sponsored by the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore (It will be a zoom style presentation, with Q&A discussion and call for continued input).  

Click below to register for the Feb 8 Event:  When you click the link you’ll also find click-to-read tabs where you can see our original OpEd published in the Sun and a printable pdf of our full public Reimagining the Harbor as a Hub paper. 

We sincerely hope you’ll join us for this virtual Waterfront Partnership event.  Please spread the word and invite friends, neighbors, and your local leaders to join too.  And, even if you can’t make it, keep sending us your responses and ideas; we’ll add them to our inspiring collection of community sourced visions!

Sending our best, and we’ll see you next Tuesday, Feb 8th at Noon! 

Joby Taylor and Sally Scott

Joby Taylor, PhD
Shriver Center at UMBC
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Support Group for Transgender, Non-binary, and Gender Questioning Students is a semester- long, emotional support group for students who identify as trans, genderqueer, gender fluid, non-binary,
bigender, and/or those who are questioning their gender identity.
Day and Time: Fridays 2PM – 3PM (Starting February 11th)
Facilitators: Sunny Swift, Psy.D. (He/him/they/them) & Janae Cephas, M.S. (She/her/hers)
The first step to join any group is to complete a triage appointment. Please call 410-455-2542 to schedule this brief assessment.
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Join us for our culture show on February 23rd from 7:00-9:00 PM in the sports zone located by the commons!  Volunteer to be featured on our runway and showcase your cultural clothes or bring traditional snacks that can say a thing or two about your culture. We will also be playing fun interactive games, So come out and have fun with us!! Oh and did we mention that we will be having a drawing for a chance to win a gift card to the bookstore?


*Sign up using this google form link to let us know you're coming and If you're bringing something to the show!!

YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS IT, HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!!

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Accepting Applications Through April 8, 2022!


The Women's Center's Returning Women Students/Adult Learners Scholarships Application for 2022-23 is available now via Scholarship Retriever to undergraduate students who meet the eligibility requirements. 


The deadline for submission via Scholarship Retriever is Friday, April 8, 2022. 


This common application which is called Women's Center: Returning Women Students/Adult Learners 2022-2023 in Scholarship Retriever enables eligible students to apply for more than one of the Returning Women Students/Adult Learner Scholarships with just one submission. Please note that this opportunity to apply will only appear in Scholarship Retriever to students who meet the scholarship qualifications. The six available scholarships via the Returning Women Student Scholarship Application are:
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe Scholarship & The UMBC Scholarship for Mature Students 
  • Jodi Mister/Charlotte W. Newcombe Scholarship
  • Charlotte W. Newcombe STEM Scholarship
  • AEGON Scholarship
  • The Richard & Roselyn Bryson Neville Memorial Fund for Returning Women Scholarship
  • The Rosalie Tydings Business and Professional Women’s Scholarship

Undergraduate students of any gender over the age of 25 and with at least 60 credits and 2.5 GPA may be eligible. Students must be completing their first undergraduate degree. 
If a student does not meet these requirements, the scholarship opportunity will not appear on Scholarship Retriever. Students who have not completed the FAFSA will not see the opportunity in Scholarship Retriever. Students who wish to still be considered despite not meeting these requirements should contact the Women's Center directly. This encouragement to reach out directly to the Women's Center extends to students who have extenuating circumstances (i.e. students who are DACA/undocumented) that may prevent them from completing the FAFSA.

Students who are selected to be scholars are required to participate in the Returning Women Students/Adult Learners Scholars + Affiliates program. For more information about the program, visit our website and be sure to attend an information session.

Virtual Information sessions related to the application process and scholars program requirements on: 
Applicants are highly encouraged to attend an info session before submitting their application. For students who cannot attend a session live, a recording of the 2/8 session will be made available to those who request it. 

If you have any questions concerning the application process or the scholars program requirements, please contact Women's Center staff at womenscenter@umbc.edu. 
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Black and DisAbility history are intertwined: learn more...


Accessibility and Disability Service and Student Disability Services highlight Black History Month.

Rediscover how some members of the Black Civil Rights Movement also played essential roles as activists in the US Disability Rights Movement, and paved the way for disability rights activists to influence social change and legislation. Many people with disabilities were part of both movements and continue to be today. Crip Camp shows how intersectional being black and disabled can be - beyond the Black Panthers. Further back in history, learn new things about the famous Black figures who also had disabilities. For instance, Harriet Tubman lived with epilepsy and narcolepsy.

In the links described below, we hope you may find information you will be happy to rediscover or learn for the first time. Black history is being made this moment, and there is an endless amount to learn from the past. A little time spent exploring Black history this month may lead you in enlightening directions. Research forays have been known to start at (link)Brad Lomax, and end up at the (link) Wild Zappers, a DC-based all black all deaf dance company - what new-to-you ancestral influencers and history-makers will become front-of-mind to you?

Test your knowledge by taking this quiz with the National Black Disability Coalition (NBDC): (link)http://www.blackdisability.org/content/black-disabled-trivia

Important figures in Black History:

·       Enter “Black History” plus any disability (i.e. "autism," "dyslexia," etc.) into a search engine and explore more about the intersectionality of disability.

Explore Black History and Disability Rights:

The National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) has a great article about the integral role Black disability rights activists played in securing rights for all US citizens with disabilities.  (link)https://www.ncld.org/news/honoring-black-history-month-unsung-heroes-of-the-disability-rights-movement/ For more on Brad Lomax, a leader in the 1977 protests that led to the implementation of section 504 of the rehabilitation act, see this NYT obituary (link) https:/www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/obituaries/brad-lomax-overlooked.html

Black Disabled and Proud: College Students with Disabilities is a website by the HBCU Disability Consortium. Their page titled “Black Lives Matter and Disability” speaks to the recent and daily making of Black history as it intersects with disability. (link)https://www.blackdisabledandproud.org/black-lives-matter.html The page includes links to thoughtful articles as well as self-care info.

The Disability Visibility Project’s Black Lives Matter page has podcasts (with transcripts) that explore the individual experiences of people who are actively contributing individually and/or organizing to raise awareness about being Black and having a  disability.  (link)https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/tag/black-lives-matter/  Click through on the posts and find things like Jen White Johnson’s Black Disability Lives Matter mural (link)https://jenwhitejohnson.com/Black-Disabled-Lives-Matter-Mural-Project 

More UMBC posts and events are going up over the course of the month. If you are looking for disability resources - use these links:

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