UMBC Heroes
UMBC has launched an advertising campaign that highlights students who are making a difference.  I love the concept, the images, and the idea that UMBC is embracing and touting the innovative contributions of student change agents.  Check it out.
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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. 

Name: Jill Randles

Hometown:I don't have one.  My Dad was career Army.

Q: How long have you been at UMBC? 

A: This is my 19th year.

Q:  What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A:    Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. 

 Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: Working with colleagues, I develop programs and opportunities that support student success in the transition to college.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

 A: My work requires that I work closely with students, faculty, and staff on a broad range of initiatives.  I love the variety of people with whom I work and also the variety of tasks with which I am blessed to be involved.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC? 

 A:  In college, I learned that often our perceptions are not accurate.  One has to be careful about making judgments without having all of the information, and that the information on which you base your decision should be information you gather.  Just because someone you know has an experience, that may or may not be a good one, does not mean your experience will be the same. Give people and opportunities a chance, try them yourself, get out of your comfort zone because, if you don't, you can't possibly know what you are missing or make a meaningful contribution that can help to improve something. 

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

 A:  Horses and riding. 

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share? 

A: Years ago we were sitting at a table celebrating a staff member's retirement.  I think the assumption by some of the students who had worked with her was that she did not go to college.  Well...she did.  She attended a local private college and graduated with a degree in History.  When she shared this and most of the students jaws dropped to the ground (perhaps an example of a perception based on an assumption) she said..."Yes, I went to college when the goal of an education was to learn how to learn, not just to get a job. The tools I developed during my years in college have served me well in a variety of positions....they are transferable skills and I learned how to access and apply them."  This is something I have never forgotten.
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Science, Engineering, Math, and Computer Science students check out the paid summer research fellowship at NIST. If you are considering applying to this program, sign up now for more information by e-mailing mcglynn@umbc.edu. Ten UMBC students were research fellows at NIST last summer. Students in all years as well as graduating seniors may apply to this summer research program.

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When I’m standing in front of a room full of people—something I do a lot in my job—I never know what to do with my hands.  It’s not so bad when I’m speaking, and can use a gesture to emphasize a point.  But when I’m standing next to a co-presenter or co-instructor and watching the other person talk, my hands feel like little beacons of awkwardness.  I tend to be most comfortable sticking them in my pockets, but when I see others do that they look nervous and goofy.  When I let them fall at my sides, I imagine that I must look stiff, like a robot.  When I cross my arms across my chest, I imagine that I look wound-up and self-protective.  When I clasp one hand with the other behind my back, I imagine I must look pretentious, or just contorted.  As thoughts like these distract me from what the other person is saying, I’ll sometimes move my hands and arms from one position to another and back again, and I imagine they look like the blades of a helicopter whirling around me.

My insecurity in those moments is a throwback to an earlier time in my life, when my acute awareness of my own awkwardness was sometimes socially paralyzing.  Filled with anxiety and self-doubt, I shied away from people at gatherings because I imagined that my trying to connect with them would be experienced by them as an unwanted intrusion.  I yearned to understand the social rules that most other people seemed to have mastered, and was painfully conscious of my unwitting transgressions.  

Eventually I became more confident and less self-conscious.  In the meantime, my struggles to navigate my social world had some surprising benefits.  I began to see things: subtle patterns in interactions and situations.  I started to find that certain books and articles about leadership, civic engagement and education really spoke to me because I recognized, from personal experience and lifelong observation, the human dynamics they described.  When I became a community organizer and began pulling a variety of people together to solve complex problems, I was able to draw on years of insights gained largely from trying very hard to look a little less like a dork.

Now I work at a job I love, and to which I feel called.  It involves helping students to transcend their own sources of self-doubt, figure out who they are and what they care about, and discover their capacity to pull people together—navigating the nuances of complex interactions—to make a difference.  And every single day I use and teach what I learned, and continue to learn, from struggling through my own doubts.

Every experience counts in life, not just the ones you can list on a resume.  Anxiety and failure contain the seeds of wisdom and empowerment.  If you can, be thankful for them, and embrace them for all they’re worth, even as you try to overcome them.  And if you have an idea about what I should do with my hands when I’m standing next to the person presenting, feel free to share.  I’m ready to learn.
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]]> Israel unveils preliminary plans for 238 settler homes for Jewish settlers in east Jerusalem, draws Palestinian ire. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11550263 https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/3035/guest@my.umbc.edu/1b78a03042349cc4bedbc2d6bc04ce82/api/pixel The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xsmall.png?1755890395 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/original.png?1755890395 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xxlarge.png?1755890395 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xlarge.png?1755890395 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/large.png?1755890395 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/medium.png?1755890395 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/small.png?1755890395 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xsmall.png?1755890395 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xxsmall.png?1755890395 Office of Student Life's Mosaic Center 0 0 true Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:07:37 -0400 Current Events Pakistan donors discuss flood aid reforms.
Pakistan's international partners are meeting in Brussels to discuss the country's plans to reform the economy and rebuild after devastating floods.
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Homecoming means participating in the tradition of waiting in line for free stuff!

First-ever Homecoming pancake-eating contest
Rosy and Lexx didn't get to see a Homecoming bonfire last year when they were freshmen (it got rained out), so this was a special night.

In the pancake line . . .

Traditionally the bonfire is lit by the members of the First Year Council, because it was a First Year Council member--Thomas Locastro--who launched the bonfire tradition.  This time members of the 2009 First Year Council also were invited to participate because of last year's bonfire rainout.  But there were so many FYC members who stepped forward to grab the lit torches that they ended up having to choose just a couple of representatives to light the bonfire.

At this point, a few people around me were actually snickering about what a lame fire this was.  They didn't know what was coming.


First Year Council members (and their student advisor, Naina Khandelwal).

The circle of people kept getting wider as it became too hot to stand close to the flames.


One of these guys said, "Do you want a picture of some tennis players?"

Some amazing colors in the embers.  Non-toxic, I'm sure!

This is the way the bonfire ends:  not with a bang, but a shower.

]]> Scenes from UMBC's Homecoming Bonfire on Wednesday night, October 13th: Homecoming means participating in the tradition of waiting in line for free stuff! First-ever Homecoming... http://cocreateumbc.blogspot.com/2010/10/scenes-from-bonfire.html https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/3014/guest@my.umbc.edu/f155c67126442009afdef2b1f3b84752/api/pixel scenes-from-photos Co-Create UMBC https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/co-create https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xsmall.png?1499890363 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/original.jpg?1499890363 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xxlarge.png?1499890363 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xlarge.png?1499890363 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/large.png?1499890363 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/medium.png?1499890363 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/small.png?1499890363 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xsmall.png?1499890363 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/002/5b8f025dafb56cb8d3088b7259aadcfb/xxsmall.png?1499890363 Co-Create UMBC 11 1 true Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:23:00 -0400 Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:14:00 -0400 Research and Rocky Road Undergrad research programs in the sciences and ice cream

Wednesday, November 3 at noon in Lecture Hall 4, in the Academic IV Building. Learn about research opportunities, including for freshmen and graduating seniors, and enjoy ice cream provided by the Chemistry and BioChemistry Council of Majors.

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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty and staff, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses. 

Name: Jamie Adasi 

Hometown:  Rockville, MD 

Q: How long have you been at UMBC? 

A: 3 months! J 

Q:  What is your current title (job or student organization position)? 

A:   Graduate Coordinator for Cultural & Spiritual Diversity, Office of Student Life. 

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A:   I help students develop cultural awareness that will last a lifetime! 

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most? 

A: Interacting with passionate, amazing and engaged students, faculty and staff who see themselves as both leaders and social change agents. 

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC? 

A: To get involved! We are all here to learn and get degrees, but what will set us apart from others when we graduate and are applying for jobs/graduate schools? Most of the time it’s the co-curricular things that we got involved with. These can also be hands on experiences that help us shape who we want to be and what we want to do with our lives (study abroad, service/volunteerism, student group involvement, etc…). 

Q: Complete this sentence: “I am a big fan of __________” 

A: FOOD! Haha I’ve always said that I’d be willing to try any food once (except for the food that I’m allergic to—shellfish and peanuts/tree nuts). 

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share? 

A:  This is one that I’m still working on since I’m so new, but what I’d like to say is that the Mosaic Center’s doors are open to ALL students, faculty and staff. So if you just need a place to chill out during your busy day, stop by and vent, or meet up with others, stop on by and someone will be here to help you! J
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