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  <Title>UMBC faculty and staff award recipients place community at the core of their success</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">At UMBC’s 2022 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (PFASA), Tamra Mendelson said she loves “getting to the core of a concept” in her research and teaching. As awardee after awardee addressed the audience, both in person and online, it became clear that all shared the same “core concept” of UMBC: community.</div>
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  <Summary>At UMBC’s 2022 Presidential Faculty and Staff Awards (PFASA), Tamra Mendelson said she loves “getting to the core of a concept” in her research and teaching. As awardee after awardee addressed the...</Summary>
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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s Danyelle Ireland is named a national Rising Star as champion for transfer students</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">This award honors Ireland's years mentoring and advocating for UMBC transfer students in information technology and engineering fields. It also brings greater visibility to UMBC’s transfer student population and to how the university can most effectively support their success.</div>
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    <Summary>This award honors Ireland's years mentoring and advocating for UMBC transfer students in information technology and engineering fields. It also brings greater visibility to UMBC’s transfer student...</Summary>
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    <Title>CWIT Scholar Sammie Maygers &#8217;20 finds, and builds, a community of support at UMBC</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">A community of support welcomed Maygers to UMBC before she started classes freshman year. She thoughtfully grew that community during her time as a Retriever. Now, she’ll carry it with her to the next stage of her life and career.</div>
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    <Summary>A community of support welcomed Maygers to UMBC before she started classes freshman year. She thoughtfully grew that community during her time as a Retriever. Now, she’ll carry it with her to the...</Summary>
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    <Title>UMBC graduates create their own paths to excellence, focused on succeeding together</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Each graduating student’s path looks different. For many Retrievers, UMBC offers an opportunity to develop not just knowledge and skills, but also self-awareness that enables them to pursue personal passions. That self-awareness often means understanding what kinds of support made an impact on their experiences, and how they can lend support to those coming up behind them. Excellence for these seniors is about more than accolades; it is about succeeding together. </div>
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    <Summary>Each graduating student’s path looks different. For many Retrievers, UMBC offers an opportunity to develop not just knowledge and skills, but also self-awareness that enables them to pursue...</Summary>
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    <Title>UMBC students confront ethical challenges through new computing curriculum</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">“We want to capitalize on this curiosity and diversity of perspectives,” says Helena Mentis. “Alongside technical skill development, every week we want to introduce challenges around ethics, equality, human behavior, and societal impact, reiterating that a fundamental component of development is thinking through implications.” </div>
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  <Title>&#8220;Appreciate the differences&#8221;: How study abroad shaped four UMBC student experiences</Title>
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    <Title>UMBC&#8217;s 6th Critical Social Justice Week focuses on passion and pathways to have an impact</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">CSJ: Ignite takes place October 22 – 26, 2018. The week’s programs have been designed both to tap into the passion people already feel for issues that matter to them and to provide pathways for people who haven’t been engaged in traditional forms of activism to see opportunities to have an impact. “It’s about being able to share your strengths and skills for activism and social change, and being able to share the message with others,” says Jess Myers, director of UMBC’s Women’s Center.</div>
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