REPOST: A discussion of Minari & Asian Am. representation
This is a repost on behalf of the Asian & Asian American Faculty & Staff Council. Original event post here.
 
Event Title: Uprooting and Seeding: Intergenerational Experiences of Living as Asians and Asian-Americans 
 
Join us for a discussion of Minari and Asian American representation!

Dear AAAFSC Members, Allies, and Students:

Please join us on May 3 from 4-5pm, for our final AAAFSC event of the semester; while we will be closing out the semester, we’ll also be celebrating the beginning of AAPI heritage month.

At this event, we’ll be discussing representations of Asian Americans in popular culture, with a particular focus on the recent, award-winning film, Minari. Minari is currently streaming on a variety of platforms. However, if you are unable to watch the film before the event, please consider joining us anyway. 

We are hoping to close out this semester by creating a space for an open, free-flowing discussion. We want this meeting to be a space that will allow us to reflect on our ethnic heritage and racial identity as a way to reclaim our strength and resilience and to resist systems of oppression and hate. We also hope to share with each other the complexities of Asian American lives and our day-to-day experiences.

While allies are warmly welcomed to this event, we ask that if you choose to attend, you are mindful of taking a step back and making space for our Asian and Asian American members to discuss and share their experiences first. 

We hope to see you there!

Many thanks,
The AAAFSC board: Tamara Bhalla (chair), Aditya Desai (member at large), Soonhee Lee (member at large), Shuyan Sun, (member at large),Christopher Tong (member at large), Fan Yang (secretary)

p.s. There is no required reading or even viewing for the event, but here are a few articles that might be helpful to situating our discussion:
 
‘Minari’ wins best foreign-language film, but not without controversy. The New York Times, Feb 28, 2021 by Maya Salam and Robert Ito

‘Minari’ is about immigrants who speak Korean. That doesn’t make it ‘foreign.’ Viet Thanh Nguyen, Dec 24, 2020

My “Minari”: On Asian American Immigrant Cinema, LA Review of Books, February 10, 2021 by Hanna Amaris Roh
 
 
ONLINE MEETING INFO:
Join us for a discussion of Minari and Asian American representation! Hosted by Tamara Bhalla https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m388f28dae1487b4b8ce67632b9cffbae Monday, May 3, 2021 4:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) Meeting number: 120 311 5132 Password: MpK6jZMgq22 Join by video system Dial 1203115132@umbc.webex.com You can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. Join by phone +1-202-860-2110 United States Toll (Washington D.C.) Access code: 120 311 5132

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Please see the latest updates on UMBC’s Retriever Ready website. Questions? Email covid19@umbc.edu.

COVID-19 Health & Safety

COVID-19 Vaccine

UMBC Together

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Dear UMBC Community,


Last week the University System of Maryland and UMBC announced that COVID-19 vaccinations are required for all students, faculty, and staff who will be on a USM campus in Fall 2021. A process for medical and religious exemptions is in development and will be announced soon.


We are encouraged to learn that many in our community have already been vaccinated, and  we have launched a system to collect vaccination information from students, faculty, and staff. There are several ways to submit your information. 


In addition, we are pleased to share that we can now offer on-campus vaccination for community members. We will be scheduling a series of clinics for specific groups, beginning with current students, in May and extending throughout the summer. You will receive additional information as we develop our schedule. Current students will have the opportunity to be vaccinated on campus before the end of the semester and will also have additional opportunities throughout the summer. 


Thank you for your patience as we work to design the policies and systems necessary to support the vaccination process. Please share any questions you may have with us at covid19@umbc.edu.

 

Provost Philip Rous
Vice President for Administration and Finance Lynne Schaefer
COVID-19 Planning Coordinating Committee Co-Chairs

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Undergraduate Research Awards

URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. UMBC students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they will remain enrolled at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.


Applications for the 2021-22 URA program are open

The deadline is May 3, 2021.

Start your process here: 

URA Applications
*Special information related to Covid-19:

There are many changes happening to student research as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and campus closure. The URA selection committee has some advice to encourage you to apply for a URA and start to plan your research, even if there are some unknowns for the summer and fall semesters.

  1. Some research that was scheduled to start this summer may be delayed until the fall or spring semester- that’s ok!
  2. The URA is good for the entire year, June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022. You can complete the research at any point during that time frame.
  3. Our expectations for a final product are fluid and relaxed. If the research plan doesn’t work out exactly as you proposed, that’s ok- it’s the nature of doing research.
  4. Be creative in the ways you think about your project. You may have to focus instead on doing a thorough literature review, using a pre-formed data set to analyze, or looking at case studies, rather than collecting in-person data, or conducting research in a lab.
  5. Methods such as lab benchwork, participant observations, focus groups, travel-related, in-person interviews, or other real-time collection methods may need some re-thinking. How can you collect data via online interviews, the internet, or other technological interventions?
  6. Creative arts projects may incorporate some kind of online delivery method. We are hoping to be back on campus for URCAD 2022, but consider how VoiceThread might be used to display your creative work. Be sure to visit the archive of  URCAD Online, April 19-25, 20021 at URCAD.umbc.edu to see what completed projects from this year’s URA Scholars look like.

Applications require a research proposal and mentor statement of support.

https://ur.umbc.edu/ura/

Questions: aprilh@umbc.edu


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Lindsey Loeper, Librarian III and Reference & Instruction Archivist in our Special Collections division, received the UMBC Provost's Library Faculty Award. This award, founded in 2019, is given every two years to a member of the library faculty who exemplifies excellence in librarianship, research and publication, and service to the UMBC community and information professions. Ms. Loeper is a UMBC graduate (BA, American Studies, 2004) and joined Special Collections in 2007. Her nomination singled out Ms. Loeper's "effective leadership skills, extensive service contributions, and impressive record of scholarship and creativity," as well as her "outstanding and innovative work in teaching, and collaborative and collegial working manner."


Kathy Chetelat, Library Services Supervisor for Interlibrary Loan, received the 2020-2021 Karen L. Wensch Endowment Award for Outstanding Exempt Staff. Among other criteria, the award recognizes a staff member who displays "extraordinary dedication to the fulfillment of the campus goals and mission." Ms. Chetelat joined the Library & Gallery in 2006, and has been a supervisor in Interlibrary Loan since 2018. Her nomination called attention to skill as a customer-serviced focused manager who is regularly praised by Interlibrary Loan users as "unfailingly professional, friendly, helpful, and thorough." She was honored at the Presidential Faculty & Staff Awards ceremony on April 7, 2021.

Please join us in thanking and congratulating these two stellar members of the AOK Library & Gallery team and UMBC campus community!
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Dear UMBC Community,

Spring is here and the members of our Class of 2021 are preparing to graduate and embark on the next phase of their educational or professional journeys. We know that you understand the excitement and anticipation that comes with these milestones. 

We invite the entire UMBC community to join together online to celebrate the Class of 2021 during virtual commencement ceremonies on Thursday, May 20, for our graduate students, and Friday, May 21, for our undergraduates. Both ceremonies will air beginning at 10 a.m. here.

Graduates, we want to hear from you! Share your fondest memories, thank someone who made an impact on your college career, and tell us what songs remind you most of your time at UMBC for your Class of 2021 Spotify playlist.

We encourage graduates and their families, as well as our entire community, to celebrate on social media using #UMBCgrad. Photo templates, campus photos, and more are available here. In addition, graduates will be able to share their individual commencement slides.

We hope you will join us in celebrating the Class of 2021!

The Commencement Committee
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The Maryland Higher Education Commission and Maryland Department of Health have identified “University Days” at mass vaccination sites around Maryland to provide access for University System of Maryland students, faculty and staff. The locations, dates and instructions are listed below.

To register for an appointment on those dates, visit massvax.maryland.gov, and enter the respective passcode when prompted to enter a zip code. Then, select the desired vaccination site. Finally, choose an appointment date and time to register.

The passcode above is unique to this University Day opportunity and you will be required to show an ID. Admitted students can also show a copy of their acceptance letter.

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URCAD 25 Comes to a Close

On behalf of the Office of Undergraduate Research and the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all the student researchers and artists, their mentors, and the guests who participated in URCAD 25 Online this year.  Over the course of the week, 11,272 people visited and 3,511comments were posted to students' VT presentations. Visitors logged on from all over the world, including Spain, Indonesia, Nigeria, Brazil, Bhutan, Germany, and the U.K.

A special thanks goes out to Michael Mower, UAA’s IT Web, and Graphic Design Specialist, and to our partners in the Division of Information Technology, especially Peter Ariev and Josh Abrams, for helping to host URCAD online using the VoiceThread platform. Thank you also to our Alumni Keynote Speaker, Klaudine Wakasa, for her inspiring words of wisdom in these challenging times. Thanks also goes to Dr. Jodi Kelber-Kaye for moderating the live Q&A with Klaudine. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of URCAD, Diane Lee, Kathy Sutphin, Janet McGlynn, and Elizabeth Pennington recorded a fireside chat about the history of the event- thank you! I would also like to acknowledge the URCAD Selection Committee and its chair, Dr. Stephen Miller, for all their work in making selections and giving students feedback on their abstracts, and Dr. Raimi Quiton and Dr. Timothy Phin for helping prepare the students to present. And thank you to Provost Philip Rous and Dean Katharine Cole for their continued support of the event.

You will still be able to view the presentations throughout the summer, although some students may choose to turn off their comment function. To view student projects, see the URCAD presenter listing and click on any VT icon. Projects are also viewable by department. Be sure to check out the UMBC news story about URCAD which will be out next week. 

Don’t forget to mark your calendars for URCAD 2022, which will be held next year on Wednesday, April 20, 2022! Stay safe, and we hope to see you next year on campus for URCAD XXIV!

April Householder, Director of Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships, Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs

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Name: José Alarcon Jr.

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Position Title: Student Trainee

Major(s)/Minor(s): Information Systems

Current Class Level: Senior

Work Term: Summer 2020 - Spring 2021

Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities.

CMS is a federal agency in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that works in partnership with states to provide health coverage for more than 70 million beneficiaries through programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Throughout the course of the pandemic, I have been providing support to the Data & Systems Group in the AWS team in maintaining and operating with on-demand cloud computing to allow high-powered analytic capabilities for structured and unstructured data sets. I also assisted in the proper governance for multimillion-dollar AWS purchases to ensure costs and resources are managed within budget while meeting the needs of the database infrastructure teams.

Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?

I heard about the position at the Career Fair provided by the UMBC Career Center in January of 2020 and submitted my application the same month. 

What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization? 

I have really enjoyed learning about cloud computing, since it reflects how powerful resources can be used remotely and the impact it has behind-the-scenes.

How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?

Some of my contributions in the Data & Systems Group include enhancing and advancing the capabilities in DevSecOps (Development, Security & Operations)  that are crucial as the team develops and implements software and data products to support Medicaid and CHIP, which is very important for more than 70 million beneficiaries, especially in the middle of a pandemic.

What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience? 

My advice would be that in order to qualify for an internship, you don't need to be the smartest student in your class. You don't need to know everything. I have learned that most employers look for personality, work ethic, and the eagerness to learn. And lastly, to go outside often and ground yourself.

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Today is the last day for URCAD 25!

URCAD.umbc,.edu

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Examining Photovoice as a Participatory Action Methodology

Mahitha Vijily Saya, Allison Stein, Elaina McWilliams, Naqiya Ghulamali, Sachi Sheth
Mentor: Bronwyn Hunter, Psychology

Photovoice is a participatory research method that aims for participant and community engagement and empowerment. The method involves participants taking photographs relating to their lived experiences, often relating to social problems, and then displaying these photographs at public exhibitions to promote broader awareness and social change (Wang & Redwood-Jones, 2001). Although many studies report using this method as a form of participatory research, there may be wide variation in how, when, and to what extent researchers engage in partnerships with individuals who are not affiliated with academia. From a larger systematic review of studies using participatory research methodologies, we selected the 27 articles that mentioned photovoice in their title or abstract. Our research examined whether and how researchers partook in power sharing, identity and culture acknowledgment, and resource exchange throughout the six phases of research. We anticipated that photovoice is most collaborative during data collection and analysis phases of research. We hope this study will encourage researchers using photovoice to reflect on and enhance their use of participatory methods across the stages of research.

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