• If you are sick, stay home and in bed and rest. Avoid crowded places like dining halls, classrooms, restaurants, and the RAC or other fitness centers to prevent spreading illness to others
• Take fever-reducing medications like acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil), or naproxen (Aleve) if you do have a fever (temperature over 100°F). Please check your temperature using a working thermometer. If your fever persists for more than 48 hours in spite of taking these medications, please seek medical care (UHS hours Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., (410) 455-2542).
  
• Drink lots of fluids.
  
• If you have been diagnosed with the flu and develop shortness of breath or severe fatigue, call your healthcare provider or go to an emergency room.

• Wash your hands frequently and/or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizing stations are located around campus.
  
• Avoid contact with those who are ill, if possible.
  
• Clean high-touch surfaces in your room and/or office with antibacterial cleaner (bleach wipes are very good).
  
• Cough into your sleeve or a tissue, not directly into your hands, and wash your hands immediately.
  
• Avoid touching your face both when you are ill and when healthy. This spreads germs!
• Avoid sharing food, utensils, cups, and water bottles.
• It may still be helpful to get a flu shot. UHS provided more than 700 flu shots this season and while we do not have any more shots, vaccines may be available at local pharmacies or from your primary care doctor.
  

• If you are sick, stay home and in bed and rest. Avoid crowded places like dining halls, classrooms, restaurants, and the RAC or other fitness centers to prevent spreading illness to others
• Take fever-reducing medications like acetaminophen (Tylenol), ibuprofen (Advil), or naproxen (Aleve) if you do have a fever (temperature over 100°F). Please check your temperature using a working thermometer. If your fever persists for more than 48 hours in spite of taking these medications, please seek medical care (UHS hours Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m., (410) 455-2542).
  
• Drink lots of fluids.
  
• If you have been diagnosed with the flu and develop shortness of breath or severe fatigue, call your healthcare provider or go to an emergency room.

• Wash your hands frequently and/or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizing stations are located around campus.
  
• Avoid contact with those who are ill, if possible.
  
• Clean high-touch surfaces in your room and/or office with antibacterial cleaner (bleach wipes are very good).
  
• Cough into your sleeve or a tissue, not directly into your hands, and wash your hands immediately.
  
• Avoid touching your face both when you are ill and when healthy. This spreads germs!
• Avoid sharing food, utensils, cups, and water bottles.
• It may still be helpful to get a flu shot. UHS provided more than 700 flu shots this season and while we do not have any more shots, vaccines may be available at local pharmacies or from your primary care doctor.
  

The end is in sight! If you've earned 90 or more academic credits, you received a message from the Registrar's Office informing you that you are eligible to apply for graduation.

However, eligibility is only the start of the graduation application process. Below are four simple steps you can take now to ensure that you’ll soon be shaking hands with Dr. Hrabowski as you receive your UMBC diploma.

Note: Even if you do not plan to attend the commencement ceremony, you still need to apply to graduate in order to earn your degree.

Step 1: Apply for Graduation!

Friday, February 14^th is the last day undergraduates can apply for May Graduation.

Only those students who have every single requirement needed for degree completion on their spring semester schedules will be permitted to participate in the Commencement ceremony.

If you are taking a course at another institution that you plan to transfer, you must have an approved Verification of Transferability formon file with the Registrar’s Office and be prepared to submit a copy of your schedule.

Step 2: Embrace your degree audit!

Your degree audit indicates your progress toward degree completion. If you see “unsatisfied” items, these are requirements that need to be addressed immediately. Your degree audit is located on your profile in myUMBC, under "Degree."

Makesure any substitutions or waivers of major requirements are documented in your degree audit; you may need to submit a Help/RT ticket to the Registrar’s Office to add these notations to your record.

Step 3: Wrap up any outstanding details ASAP!

If you have Advanced Placement or CLEP scores, transfer transcripts, 201 lever language substitutions, or other items you need to provide to UMBC, delay no longer!  If the major, minor, or certificate program on your record is out of date, or if you have additional majors or minors that you need to remove, submit a new Declaration of Major form.  Any of these items could prevent you from being able to graduate.

Step 4: Let the celebration begin!

Participating in the commencement ceremony* and other celebratory activities on campus is the culmination of all of your hard work. Take time to recognize all it took to get you to this moment and be proud of your accomplishments!

Finally, use this link to check your Honors eligibility.

Thursday, February 13, 2020 – Saturday, February 15, 2020 * All Day

FREE!!!!

Open to All Students (undergraduate and graduate)

Jobs--full-time, part-time, internships and graduate admissions

BEYA STEM Conference - February 13-15, 2020
STEM Career Fair - Friday, February 14 and Saturday, February 15, 2020 (10 am - 4 pm)

Washington Marriott Wardman Park

2660 Woodley Road NW
Washington DC, 20008

The BEYA STEM Conference sponsored by Career Communications Group (CCG) will be held February 13-15, 2020 as part of this large annual conference, representatives from several major corporations and universities will be on hand to meet with students pursuing careers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields as well as Business, Finance, and Marketing.  Why should you attend?

·         FREE Career Fair

·         Career exhibits

·         50 + seminars and workshops

·         On the spot job offers

·         Networking with recruiters

·         Job readiness certification for college students.

The Career Fair portion of the conference on Friday and Saturday, is free of charge for UMBC students and alumni with an active UMBC email address. All students are welcome to attend. Dress to impress and bring plenty of updated resumes!

Registration is required.

To register, go to:  https://careers2.umbc.edu/calendar/fairs/beya2020.php

Deadline to pre-register is Feb. 10(Career Fair)

Contact Diane Crump-Fogle (crump@umbc.edu) or Chrisi Giannakaris (chrisig@umbc.edu) of the UMBC Career Center for additional information.

Shuttle Bus -

THERE IS A WAIT LIST FOR THE BUS BUT YOU MAY STILL REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE AND PROVIDE YOUR OWN TRANSPORTATION

There will be a free shuttle bus to transport students to and from the career fair on Friday or on Saturday. If you will need transportation, be sure to complete the shuttle bus registration form at the bottom of the registration page: https://careers2.umbc.edu/calendar/fairs/beyabus2020.php. Please note that the free shuttle bus is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.  In order to serve the most students, you may select only one day to ride the shuttle. The free shuttle will run only on Friday and Saturday between 8:15 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Transportation to and from other conference events (such as the BEYA Gala held Saturday evening) is on your own.

For a list of some of the employers, see:  List of Employers

 Added Bonus – Job Matching Program

 If you would like CCG to share your résumé with potential employers in order to help you identify employment opportunities, email your résumé directly to: aturner@ccgmag.com with subject line "Resume" (one resume attachment per email); resumes can come from any email address.

 
*If you require special accommodations for this event due to a disability, please notify us at least two weeks prior to the event. Requests received after that time cannot be guaranteed, but we will do our best to make the proper arrangements. Please email careers@umbc.edu with your specific request - be sure to include title, date, and time of the event.

By, Adam Sachs, RD

Campus Dietician 

                Many people feel compelled to start s new habit or make a lifestyle change starting after the first of the year. A considerable percentage of people will try a new diet trend for their new year’s resolution. This practice usually is brought on by the desire for weight loss, compensating for indulging over the holidays, or just a general desire to be healthier. Many diet trends from 2019 will carry over into 2020, but a few new ones are popping up just in time for the New Year.

While there is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health through diet, many diet trends are not based in science and research and can usually fall into the category of “fad diets.” On another note, changing your diet in a major way after the first of the year can sometimes not be very beneficial. Drastic changes of diet can result in a major shift in your lifestyle and routine. So much so that it can be very difficult to stick to your new plan. Many fad diets offer unrealistic results in a very short amount of time, but usually come with some extreme food and dietary restrictions, making them very difficult to maintain. The best practice for changing your diet is to find small components that you can alter and then build off of that. This helps to promote helpful changes in gradual steps, making it much more achievable.

Now we can take a look at some of the current and up and coming diet trends and some actual research surrounding them…

Ketogenic Diet

This popular diet has been trending for the past 2-3 years, and will most likely continue into 2020. Keto was never designed to be a diet for weight loss or healthy eating. The ketogenic diet was originally a treatment for young children with seizure disorder and epilepsy. Eating mostly fat and protein, with very little carbs changes the way your brain uses fuel in your body. This process drastically reduced the amount of seizures many young children were having. The diet has since been taken up by many health and fitness communities as a way to lose weight quickly. Keto requires a drastic change in most people’s usual diet, which makes it very hard to maintain. Are bodies are meant to eat carbs, they are not “bad” or “toxic.” Moderating and variety is key with any food, and that includes carbohydrates.

Food Combining

A relatively new diet trend, food combing states that you will benefit from combining certain food types, where as other food combinations are unhealthy and should be avoided. For example, on this diet carbs and protein should never be eaten together, and fruit and dairy should always be consumed on an empty stomach. There is no research that supports the claims of this diet for the purposes of weight loss or otherwise. Your body digests all food types the same way whether they are eating together or not.

Meat analogs (beyond/impossible meats)

This trend became popular towards the end of 2019, and will mostly likely continue to grow this year. The concept is to have 100% plant based products that taste and look identical to an animal protein product. The best example is the impossible burger or the beyond meat burger. Eating more plant-based foods can be very beneficial to your health and is also very sustainable. That being said, these specific products are meant to very closely resemble the animal protein product. For example the impossible burger is almost nutritionally identical to a beef burger in terms of calories, sodium, fat, and protein. These products are great if you would like to eat less total animal proteins, but they are not always very different from a health standpoint.

Adam Sachs, RD