Congratulations! You made it to the final week of the Spring semester!

Please remember to check your UMBC email for reminders and announcements from ELI staff and faculty.

Also, if you are travelling outside of the USA during summer break, please get your I-20 signed by ELI staff. Just ask for Vanessa or Sarita at the front desk.

Are you Arabic Speaking Students?

Do you do online search in English?

Come and earn $20 or $40 bucks!

(Sponsored by Google)

Online searching in a foreign language study

·       Participants will perform online searching tasks in a diary study or take part in a focus group discussion.

·       Participants will be paid $20 (for focus group) or $40 (for diary study) for their time.

Contact Ashwag Alasmariatashwag1@umbc.edufor more information.

UNITED Worship Night will be held Thursday, April 9th from 7:30pm-11pm in LH5/ENGR 027

The theme will be "God in our Campus"

Sincerely,

~~

Theophilus Aluko

UMBC Class of 2016

Mechanical Engineering Major

UMBC Adaptive Sports Committee

Bethel Campus Fellowship Conference rep

Hilltop Institute graduate research assistant and UMBC Public Policy Ph.D. candidate Pradeep Guin is co-author of an article recently published in the journal Health, titled Health Status and Access to Health Services in Indian Slums. The article presents the findings of a study that analyzed the status of health and access to health services among the urban poor in India, based on data from a primary survey conducted among 2000 households, covering 10,929 individuals from four cities of India. The results of the study indicate continued vulnerability of the urban poor, and the need for urgent government action. Guin presented a paper on this study at the Health Systems Reform in Asia Conference in Singapore which took place December 13-16, 2013. Citation: Gupta, I., & Guin, P. (2015). Health status and access to health services in Indian slums. Health, 7, 245-255.

Guin also presented a poster at the Association for Education Finance and Policy’s (AEFP) 40th Annual Conference on February 27, 2015, in Washington, DC, titled The Impacts of Exposure to Natural Disasters on Children’s Education and Health Outcomes. This dissertation research attempted to answer the question: Does (a) exposure to natural disasters and (b) economic losses from disasters have any impact on a child’s education and health outcomes? Guin found that there is no significant impact on a child’s outcome measures in a one-year exposure period due to various types of disasters. There is evidence, however, that disasters that lead to especially large economic losses can reduce students’ performance on math assessments.