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The company is are currently looking for two interns. One for its GIS Department and the other for its Marketing/Communications Department. APPLY via UMBCworks TODAY! The job descriptions are below: GIS Intern: The GIS internship is open to students who have a GIS background and interest in gaining practical experience using GIS. This position will assist a GIS Analyst in the development and maintenance of GIS databases. The position will also assist in map/database creation for clients and a wide variety of professionals within the company. Qualified applicants should demonstrate a basic ESRI ArcGIS version 9.x working knowledge. Qualified applicants should have experience using GPS equipment and experience in post-processing collected data for use in ArcGIS. Communications Intern: Assistant needed for the a busy engineering, architecture, and planning firms' Communications/ Marketing Department. 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The SGA officers elected last month to serve for 2010-2011 were sworn into office today on the Commons Terrace.  Here is the oath they took:

I do solemnly affirm

that I will faithfully execute

the office of {title}

of the UMBC Student Government Association,

and will, to the best of my ability,

promote and defend

the interests and well-being

 of UMBC’s undergraduate students


Above: The 2011 SGA Finance Board--Sekinah Hassan, Tehmeena Hassan, Rosy Chirayath, Jessica Ji, Morgan Russo




Above: The 2010-2011 SGA Senate--Benjamin Smith, Toby Le, Matthew McNey, Damani Lewis, Dylan Cook, Chidi Agha, Jasmine Batchelor, Vikram Bambawale, Sumit Bose, Gift Jayakar (not pictured: Alex Gaines)


Above: 2010-2011 SGA Vice President for Student Organizations William Joyner, Treasurer Kaylesh Ramu and Executive Vice President Richard Blissett


Above: 2010-2011 SGA President Yasmin Karimian


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Studying for final exams:  Stressful.  Taking a break and hanging out with friends while munching on free snacks:  Much less stressful.

On Friday, May 14th and Monday-Friday, May 17th-21st, SGA (with help from Office of Student Life staff) will host the Stress Free Zone in the Student Organizations Area on The Commons' 2nd floor.  Stop by between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

If you're interested in the history of the Stress Free Zone--and you should be (this will be the 11th version of what has become a campus tradition, and there's more to the story than snacks and t-shirts)--read about it here.


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“Playing Pericles”

In UMBC’s version of “Pericles,” fields of corn are created with corn flakes, a watering can easily floods the town and toys come to life – all while the world is magnified in abstract images on screens in the Imaging Research Center (IRC). “Playing Pericles,” a joint collaboration by the IRC and Departments of English and Theatre, asks its audience: What does it mean to play – and – do you remember how?

Funded through a grant from the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship, the three groups have been working on the production since early September 2009. Quickly discovering the playful nature of the play, they decided to take a different approach to a Shakespeare classic.

“I used to watch my son and daughter play with toys, and they would just make up stories that would go on for hours,” said Alan Kreizenbeck, associate professor of theatre. “It seems like ‘Pericles’ was kind of like that. There are parts where you can see that Shakespeare is inventing stuff, so I thought wouldn’t it be cool to take toys, and make this like kids playing with toys.”

While Kreizenbeck thought of acting possibilities with toys, Assistant Professor of English Michelle Osherow turned her students into dramaturges during the fall semester, working tirelessly on understanding the play. They prepared study guides for actors, helped edit the script accordingly and edited videos on the idea of play that will be featured before the show begins.

“You had to be really open-minded to sign up for this project,” said Osherow. “My students wanted to help make Shakespeare more accessible and friendly, and through exploration and imagination, they were able to achieve that.”
Eric Smallwood, IRC technical director, worked on images for the screens with the help of students. The pictures chosen mirror the action taking place in the play, sometimes magnifying the toy in an actor’s hand or displaying a real cornfield or flood. Hoping to better convey moments, the screens enhance the understanding of this text.

“All students involved in this have really gone the distance and embraced the toys and playful nature we’re taking on,” said Osherow. “This is not an easy Shakespeare play, and they have all had such a collaborative spirit.”

Osherow, Kreizenbeck and Smallwood feel that the collaborative project has made them each more creative and playful personally. They are hoping to work together on more projects in the future.

“I’d love to think about further collaborations and fresh ways to present Shakespeare to people who are afraid of his texts,” said Osherow.

Even after the play is performed, “Playing Pericles” will live on. The performance will be videotaped and distributed to educational classrooms, serving as a tool for deeper understanding about social change using Shakespeare’s texts.

Be sure to attend a performance of “Playing Pericles” at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 7, and Saturday, May 8, or on Sunday, May 9, at 4 p.m. All performances will be in the Information Technology and Engineering Building, Room 108 (the IRC). Admission is free with one canned item to benefit Food on the 15th, a community service project that delivers groceries to economically challenged seniors in Howard County. Reservations are strongly encouraged as the IRC will only seat 40-50 people. Call the Theatre Box Office for more information at ext. 5-2476.

(5/3/10)

 

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Pictures of Progress

From the gruesome photograph of a lynching victim to the moving footage of Jackie Robinson’s first major league game, the images of the Civil Rights era motivated people to act, whether those actions were ignited by injustice or inspired by achievement. Yet there had never been a comprehensive examination of the ways images mattered throughout the struggle.

Six years ago, Maurice Berger, senior research scholar at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)  at UMBC, set out to change that.  With the backing of his colleagues at CADVC and two grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Berger began sorting through visual artifacts from the Civil Rights era to find those that best told the story of the decades-long struggle for Civil Rights.

“I have never felt more passionate about a project,” Berger said.

Now approximately 230 photographs, objects and video clips have come together to form For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights, an exhibition co-organized by CADVC and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture that will open at New York’s International Center for Photography on May 21.

“My father was a Civil Rights supporter before most white people even acknowledged the movement, so my initial inspiration comes from the dialogue I had with him as a young child,” said Berger. He has been studying and writing about race relations in many contexts—ranging from the historical to the personal—for over 25 years.

For All the World to See is the first exhibition to showcase the visual artifacts of the Civil Rights movement.  During the era represented in the exhibition, from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s, images were becoming an important part of society: photo magazines grew popular and people increasingly got news from their televisions. These mediums not only reported on events, but reflected and influenced society’s perception of the movement with how they chose to present African Americans.

“I want viewers to see that efforts to combat racism and segregation during the Civil Rights era were waged not only with fiery speeches and nonviolent protests but also, significantly, with pictures, forever changing the way political movements fought for visibility and recognition,” said Berger.

During the time Berger spent working on the exhibition, he was also writing a book of the same name. The book, which was published this year by Yale University Press, provides a historical background for the images and provided the script for the exhibition.  “The exhibition and the book influenced each other in innumerable ways,” said Berger.

The exhibition was designated a “We the People” project by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The goal of the “We the People” initiative is to support projects that explore significant events in America’s history and advance knowledge of the issues that define America.

For All the World to See will be on view at the International Center of Photography until September 12.  Then, it will head to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History from June to October of 2011.  The exhibition’s last stop will be at UMBC, from September 2012 until January 2013.

(5/7/10)

 

 

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