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    <Title>Undergraduate Research Awards Application Workshops</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Come and learn how to complete a successful application!<br><br>Undergraduate Research Awards provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. Students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they will continue at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.<br><br>The Workshops will be held on:<br><br>Monday, November 22, 2010<br>Monday, December 6, 2010<br><br>Both will be held in Administration 911 from 12:00-1:00 pm<br><br>For further information please contact Janet McGlynn, <a href="mailto:mcglynn@umbc.edu">mcglynn@umbc.edu</a><br><br><br><br><span><strong><span><br></span></strong></span><p><span><strong><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77NVWRqrTUI" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span><br></span></a></span></strong></span></p></div>
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    <Summary>Come and learn how to complete a successful application!  Undergraduate Research Awards provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC...</Summary>
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    <Title>Database Trial:  Morningstar Investment Research...</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Full Title: Database Trial:  Morningstar Investment Research Center - ends 12/10/2010<p>UMBC now has trial access to the  <strong><a href="http://library.morningstar.com/Membership/setup.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Morningstar Investment Research Center</a></strong>.</p>
          
          <p>The <strong>Morningstar Investment Research Center</strong> is an all-inclusive investment research database designed specifically for libraries.  It features data and analysis on over 11,000 international and domestic stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and more than 1,000 exchange traded funds.</p>
          
          <p>The trial runs through December 10, 2010.</p>
          
          <p>For off-campus access, please login via VPN first (<a href="http://vpn.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://vpn.umbc.edu</a>). 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<br>
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          Feedback is encouraged. Use the form below or send directly to Drew Alfgren: <a href="mailto:alfgren@umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">alfgren@umbc.edu</a><br>
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    <Summary>Full Title: Database Trial:  Morningstar Investment Research Center - ends 12/10/2010 UMBC now has trial access to the  Morningstar Investment Research Center.    The Morningstar Investment...</Summary>
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  <Title>"A Model for Governments at Every Level to Learn From"</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><span>Harry Boyte of the <a href="http://www.augsburg.edu/democracy/index.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Center for Democracy and Citizenship</a> has some strong words of praise for UMBC's SGA in a <a href="http://adpaascu.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/we-the-people-part-3/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">blog post</a> today.  Boyte offers reflections on last week's Civic Agency Institute in Washington, DC, a national meeting of partners working to focus American higher education on empowering citizens and building a stronger democracy.  He calls UMBC's SGA "the outstanding example" of a government that serves as a meeting ground for its constituents and a catalyst for their civic contributions, and points to SGA as "a model for governments at every level to learn from."</span></div><div><br>
    </div><span>UMBC has been an active participant in the <a href="http://www.aascu.org/programs/adp/civic.htm" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Civic Agency Initiative</a> and the <a href="http://www.aascu.org/programs/adp/about.htm" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">American Democracy Project</a> of which it is a part, and our students have played a leading role from the beginning.  Seven UMBC students (and I) participated in last week's Institute.</span><div></div></div>
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    <Summary>The number of people in Haiti who have died from cholera has reached 917, the country's health ministry says.</Summary>
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  <Title>Mina's Legacies</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><span>I imagine the scene played out something like this:  Bundled up in her winter coat, 12-year old Mina Appel longs to press through the throngs of passengers to claim a spot on the port side rail.  But she has younger brothers and sisters to mind, and her mother Reise insists that they all stay away from the heart of the crowd, where little Franciska and Salli could be trampled.   The breeze sweeping the deck of the <em>Graf Waldersee</em> stings Mina’s face and numbs her ears, but she welcomes the relief it provides from the sour smells of a damp 10-day voyage in steerage class.  </span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>Mina has a taste for adventure, but after the last two punishing weeks all she can think about is the life she has left behind in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olublo" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">town of Olublo</a>, Hungary: her friends from school, the horses in their stables, the comforts of a house big enough for her family of 10.  She knows she can expect a much harder life at the end of this voyage, in a foreign country whose language she does not speak, where her family does not have roots generations deep.  </span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>When Mina’s reverie is broken by cheers erupting from the rails and spreading across the deck, she stands on her toes and cranes her neck, eager to catch a glimpse of the copper-clad symbol of this new world: the Statue of Liberty.  Later on this afternoon of December 29, 1905, Mina and her family will be processed on Ellis Island and, after some anxious hours, permitted to enter the United States at long last.</span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>Mina’s father Sigmund awaits them in Milwaukee, where he has been staying with members of Reise’s extended family.  In the old country, Sigmund had been a traveler by trade: a dealer in linens who carried his wares by horse and buggy from hamlet to hamlet across Eastern Europe.  He is a stern and devout man, protective of Mina and his other children.  One of Mina’s treasured possessions is a beautiful white kerchief embroidered with her initials, a special order Papa placed with one of his suppliers.* </span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>In Sigmund’s mind this unwelcome, destiny-altering migration has been forced by events in Olublo.  Anti-Semitism is on the rise.  Sigmund believes he can no longer keep his family safe in Hungary.  His inventory was looted on the night before Yom Kippur, and his oldest sons faced conscription into the army if they stayed.  Sigmund sent the boys to Milwaukee two years ago, then followed them a year later, with plans for the rest of his family to join him once he had made arrangements in their new home.</span></div><div><br>
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    <tr><td><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TOFBrvw10rI/AAAAAAAAA-s/xEKyQpL-aqs/s1600/Leo+and+Minnie.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TOFBrvw10rI/AAAAAAAAA-s/xEKyQpL-aqs/s640/Leo+and+Minnie.jpg" width="436" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a></td></tr>
    <tr><td>Leo Spitz, 25, and Minnie Appel, 23, in July 1915.</td></tr>
    </tbody></table><span>Mina will thrive in Milwaukee.  An extraordinarily bright girl, she will learn English and catch up to her grade level in school within a year.  Like most of the other members of her family, she will come to be known by an Americanized version of her name: “Minnie.”</span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>Like her mother Reise (“Rose”) before her, Minnie will be married to a stern and industrious man through an arrangement by her parents.  Leo Spitz, a tannery worker, will keep food on his family’s table during both the Roaring 20s and the Great Depression.  Minnie will provide their four children, all girls, with a stable and comfortable home life.</span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>Minnie and Leo’s third daughter, Ruth, an inheritor of her mother’s adventurous spark, will marry for love at age 19.  Her husband Irv Krasno, a Russian immigrant, will work in his family’s Milwaukee egg business alongside his father and brothers.  But the Krasno men are proud and stubborn, and their partnership will collapse into a battle of factions.  Ultimately Irv and Ruth, with four daughters of their own, will seek their fortune in the west, in California, where they once spent an enjoyable vacation under sunny skies.</span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>Irv and Ruth’s second daughter, Sandy, will meet her future husband Herb Hoffman at a college dance.  They will marry in 1965, and have the first of three children in 1967.  Sandy and Herb (the son of immigrants from Poland and Israel) will make steadiness and security priorities for their family.  They will encourage their children to become members of stable and prestigious professions—doctor, lawyer, teacher—rather than risk-takers.</span></div><div><br>
    </div><div><span>Their first child, a boy, David, will meet his great grandmother, Minnie Appel—Grandma Mimi—on two or three occasions when she visits from Milwaukee.  She will pass away, at age 80, when he is five years old.  He will retain only the vaguest firsthand impression of her personality: her affection, and her strength.  But all his life he will navigate Mina’s legacies, and those of Sigmund and Rose, Leo, Ruth and Irv, Sandy and Herb: the yearning for adventure, and the bold, even rebellious willingness to risk everything for a better life, intertwined with the craving for stability and an end to upheavals, and the comforts of a well-worn path.</span></div><div><br>
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    <tr><td><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TOA6Afm7ITI/AAAAAAAAA-g/DI9n8xwsilE/s1600/Mimi%252C+Mary%252C+David+and+Julie--December+1967.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img height="457" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TOA6Afm7ITI/AAAAAAAAA-g/DI9n8xwsilE/s640/Mimi%252C+Mary%252C+David+and+Julie--December+1967.jpg" width="640" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a></td></tr>
    <tr><td>Minnie Appel Spitz (left), 75, and her younger sister Mary in December, 1967.  The baby in Minnie's lap is me (age 2+ months); in Mary's lap, my cousin Julie.</td></tr>
    </tbody></table><div><span>*<span>More than a century later, Mina’s kerchief survives in a wooden box in my home.</span></span></div><div></div></div>
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          dance and a 10-day conference called SEEDS: Somatic Experiments in 
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          Upon my return from the SEEDS festival I will draw from my research of 
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          environmental sustainability, and environmental art to compose my 
          Interdisciplinary Studies capstone project consisting of a research 
          paper and site-specific performance. I will explore an environmental 
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          artistic product through photography, video and a dedicated public blog.<br><br>For more information about Emily's work, check out her <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/research/ResearcherProfiles/EmilyKimakProfile.htm" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">profile!!</a><br></span></span></div>
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    <Title>Real People Profiles: Ben Davis</Title>
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          </span> </div><div> </div><div><span></span> </div><div>  </div><div><div></div><div><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TNcR2-HWrJI/AAAAAAAAA-I/BiSD9jg3vYo/s1600/Ben+Davis.JPG" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TNcR2-HWrJI/AAAAAAAAA-I/BiSD9jg3vYo/s400/Ben+Davis.JPG" width="400" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a></div><span><strong>Name: </strong>Ben Davis</span><span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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          <span><strong>Hometown:</strong> </span><span>Finksburg, MD</span></div><div><span><br>
          </span></div><div><span><strong>Q: How long have you been at UMBC?</strong>  </span></div><div><span><br>
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          </span></span> </div><div><span><strong>Q:  What is your current title (job or student organization position)?</strong></span><br>
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          <span>A: <span>Service Peer and Relay for Life: Event Chair.</span></span><span><br>
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          <strong>Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?</strong> </span><br>
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          <span>A: <span>Empowering people to help other people and themselves.</span><strong> </strong></span><br>
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          <span><strong>Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?</strong></span></div><div><span><br>
          </span></div><div><span>A: <span>I love working with so many driven and passionate people on campus. In my position I work with so many great leaders, and it is amazing to me the potential each and every person posses. I work with people from all over the campus, from SGA executive board members to random students who just want to get involved, and it is inspiring to me to know who they are and what they have accomplished.</span></span></div><div><span><br>
          </span></div><div><span><strong>Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?</strong><span> </span></span></div><div><span><br>
          </span></div><div><span><span>A: </span><span>The relationships with other people you establish, and hold throughout your life can be more important than your job, the knowledge you carry, and the money you make. You can learn so much from the relationships you have throughout your life, they can be a safety valve when times are tough, and they can be a voice of reason when you are struggling to cope with life. Relationships, whether they be friends, family, co-workers, etc., can also provide you with a lot of happiness and fun!</span></span><span><br>
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          <strong>Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"</strong> </span><br>
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          <div><span>A: <span>Sports and Listening to people.</span></span><strong><span> </span></strong></div><div><br>
          </div><div><strong><span>Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?</span></strong></div></div><div><span><br>
          </span></div><div><span>If you want to succeed in life, if you want to be a great doctor, lawyer, even a great person, then I would recommend that you get involved. You will learn so much more from interacting with other people and the real world, then from any textbook. </span></div><div><span><br>
          </span></div><div><span>Get Involved! -- Just visit the Student Government Office, the Student Events Board, or the Student Involvement Center. Tell them you want to help and they will be more than glad to set you up with an amazing opportunity. And you know what, they are all located on the Second Floor of the Commons.</span></div><div></div></div>
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  <Title>Real People Profiles: Donique Lewis</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><span><em>I’m  asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus,         including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few  questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their  responses.</em></span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TNchPJaho4I/AAAAAAAAA-c/JqLtm6poxpY/s1600/Donique2.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_b2T0VNbkzjE/TNchPJaho4I/AAAAAAAAA-c/JqLtm6poxpY/s1600/Donique2.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a><span><strong>Name: </strong>Donique Lewis</span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span><strong>Hometown:</strong> Baltimore, Maryland</span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span><strong>Q: How long have you been at UMBC?</strong></span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span>A: I have been at UMBC since November of 2004.</span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span><strong>Q:What is your current title (job or student organization position)?</strong></span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span>A:</span><span>I’m currently holding the position of      Executive Administrative Assistant in the Office of the Vice President for      Student Affairs.</span><span><br>
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    <strong>Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?</strong> </span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span>A: My role is to provide executive level support to the Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and to work with our student assistants.</span><span></span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span><strong>Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?</strong></span></div><div><span><br>
    </span></div><div><span>A: I really enjoy the opportunities for personal/professional growth afforded you in this division. If there’s something you’re interested in, all you have to do is ask.  I’ve recently expressed my desire to work more with the budget in my area, and without hesitation I was given a much larger role.</span><br>
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    <span><strong>Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?<br>
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    </strong>A: I have learned how important it is to make your presence known and not fade into the background.  Many opportunities may come your way, just by letting others get to know you.<strong><br>
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    Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"<br>
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    </strong>A: Football   “GO RAVENS”<strong><br>
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    Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?<br>
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    </strong>A: The “Red Flag Campaign."  I have really enjoyed participating with this event and being able to bring more awareness to the warning signs of relationship violence.  It’s my hope that at least one student may be helped by this campaign.</span></div><div></div></div>
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