Submit your iPad app now for an initial review by the App Review Team and receive feedback on its readiness for the grand opening of the iPad App Store.
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Submit your iPad app now for an initial review by the App Review Team and receive feedback on its readiness for the grand opening of the iPad App Store.
Visit the App Store Resource Center for important details including screen shot dimensions, how to target universal applications, and what to expect during the initial review.
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umbc's Department of Chemistry, the Office of Undergraduate Education and the Shriver Center worked together to create the Chemistry Discovery Center, a problem-based, high-tech learning lab (University Center, Room 201) focused on cooperative learning. Two years later, pass rates in Chemistry 101 are increasing, fewer students need to repeat the class and faculty have seen additional improvement at all grade levels. The number of majors, second majors and minors in chemistry and biochemistry is growing. And an overall improvement in group skills is also migrating to upper-level chemistry classes |
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Sign up today to volunteer during Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day, Wednesday, April 28. Volunteers needed 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. E-mail your preferred time to mcglynn@umbc.edu . Learn about the great research done by fellow students, enjoy this dynamic event, and serve the UMBC community. Service groups welcome. Thank you!
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At UMBC, Katie Morris (Social Work) and Tim Hardy (Economics) share two examples of quality student learning in their online and hybrid courses. Both faculty members are past participants of the Alternate Delivery Program (ADP). Morris, who has served as an ADP peer reviewer, recently completed the Quality Matters Program online certification training. Using the QM principles and approach, she converted her hybrid SOWK 240 course into an online-only course for Winter 2010 and will share her students' feedback. One of six faculty to re-design an ADP Summer or Winter course for Fall 2009 hybrid delivery, Hardy will share his observations about quality student learning. Specifically, when comparing his students' scores on his department's common final exam, he found the hybrid students performed better than students in a traditional, face-to-face course. |
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The other day at while I was placing my order at Mondo subs, I asked the lady making my sandwich for extra hummus on my Vegetarian sandwich. Two girls behind me commented loudly at how gross hummus was. I turned to ask then what exactly they did not like about it. The taste? Smell? Chickpeas?
Their answer?
The texture….
Now personally I love hummus, actually I love chickpeas. They have been a HUGE staple in my healthy living college style diet.
Chickpeas are an excellent source of fiber and are best paired with raw vegetables. Perfect for dipping!
So if you are like the girls that stood behind me the other day, here is a chickpeas recipe that will play with your taste buds
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UMBC’s faculty experts on Asian cultures are extending the university’s reach across the Pacific.
Two books written by UMBC Faculty are currently being translated to Asian languages. Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan, is by Constantine Vaporis, professor of history, and examines the cultural aspects of Samurais’ tours of duty while in the employ of Japanese war lords. That book is currently being translated to Japanese, and will be released in Japan in May.
Anna Shields, director of the honors college, also has a book in translation. Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian ji, examines the social and literary origins of Chinese love song lyrics from the 10th Century and is being translated to Chinese. The book was released in English in 2006, and will be released in China in 2011.
Neither author wrote their book thinking that it would be translated, and they agreed that the process is more complicated than simply handing their work over to the translator. “I have to track down the original source notes and interpret them for the translators,” said Vaporis. The English version of his book was released in 2008 and chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Shields pointed out that cultural as well as linguistic differences between her scholarship and Chinese norms complicate the process. “I take an approach that isn’t necessarily identical to the one that Chinese scholars would use, so I need to be sure that the particular perspective I use on a problem is correctly translated,” she said.
Maintaining the perspectives in these two books is crucial, because both authors look at their subject in a unique way. “There are lots of studies in Japan that look at [the tour] as a control mechanism, but none that look at it from a cultural perspective,” Vaporis said. Shields tackled an art form and period that has not been widely studied.
Both authors expect that the translated version of their book will be popular, because the subjects are familiar and interesting to the people where they will be released. “Think about how many books are published here on Shakespeare in a given year,” Shields explained.
In addition to reaching a Chinese audience through her scholarship, Shields will head to China this month to talk with high school students about attending UMBC. UMBC is also the home of Asian scholars; Warren Cohen, professor emeritus of history, recently released the fifth edition of his book America’s Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations, and Ka-che Yip, professor of history, was named a 2010-2013 UMBC Presidential Research Professor for his work in modern Chinese history and public health.
“I think there are all kinds of opportunities for UMBC to begin building real connections in China,” Shields said.
(3/12/10)
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