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Student Life is now accepting applications for two great leadership opportunities listed below. The deadline is Tuesday, November 6th at midnight. You don't want to miss out on this opportunity!

Alternative Spring Break

A week long service-learning trip that challenges students to combat civic issues underlying larger societal concerns. ASB will leave participants with a sense of comrade, compassion, and empathy for the people of the world.

This year’s trips: Homelessness, Public Health, “Seeing Baltimore,” and Gesundheit.  

STRiVE Leadership Retreat

STRiVE participants hone leadership skills, develop campus and social change projects, build community and have a lot fun. STRiVE's many activities will keep you engaged, and you'll emerge feeling confident, inspired and connected. Participants' ratings of the retreat have been off the charts. 100% of former participants say they'd recommend STRiVE to a friend.

See the attached flyer for more details and apply through the provided link!

It's time to Register for Spring Classes!

http://coeadvising.umbc.edu

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October 19, 2016 in News and Stories for UMBC Alumni

Kafui Dzirasa ’01, right, on a panel with President Barack Obama and Atul Gawande at the White House Frontiers Conference. Photo by Tracy Certo.

Kafui Dzirasa ’01, M8, chemical engineering, spoke alongside President Barack Obama on the Presidential Panel on Brain Science and Medical Information at the White House Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh last week. Dr. Dzirasa, now a researcher and professor at the Duke University School of Medicine, received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers earlier this year for his work with neural pacemakers. You can watch the stream of the event here.

 

Delali Dzirasa ’04, third from left, takes a selfie with his Fearless Solutions team on stage at the awards ceremony. Photo by Stephen Babcock.

Delali Dzirasa ’04, computer engineering, and his software company, Fearless Solutions, took home the Design/Dev Firm of the Year award at this year’s Baltimore Innovation Week. Fearless, formerly housed at bwtech@UMBC, was recognized for their work on a federal program that helps small businesses in Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) zones.

Psalm 73:16-17 - “When I pondered to understand this, it was troublesome in my sight until I came into the sanctuary of God.“

If you were asked to name three things that pose the gravest general threats to the health of today’s marriages-and to your marriage in particular-what would be on your list? When Barbara and I were asked the same question recently, here are the three we gravitated toward:

Threat number one is not really knowing who God is. In his book The Knowledge of the Holy, A. W. Tozer wrote, “The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils among us.”

When we fail to attribute to God the majesty of His supreme position over us and all creation, we weaken our need to stay accountable to Him in our behaviors and attitudes toward each other. We also lower the healthy self-esteem that’s derived from measuring our value in the light of His love and grace. Tozer summed it up, “The most important thing you think is what you think about God.”

Threat number two is selfishness. This shows itself in numerous degrees, from not wanting to help fold socks . . . to not caring what our schedules are doing to our families . . . to outright adultery. But in reality, this second threat breeds on the first one. Lives that are being constantly molded and characterized by a fear of the Lord will move toward humility and self-denial rather than living to satisfy self.

Threat number three is lack of biblical skills in resolving conflict. Conflict happens in marriage. It is simply unavoidable. But many people are not fully aware of the wealth of scriptural truth on this subject. Just following the admonition of a verse like Ephesians 4:32-being “kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ has forgiven you”-will change your life.

Prayer:Ask that you may see God in greater grandeur and glory with each passing day and that the resulting glow would enlighten and enliven your marriage.
(Taken from Dennis and Barbara Rainey’s Moments With You devotional.)

-AP

Program: The Data Incubator is an intensive 8 week fellowship that prepares masters students, PhDs, and postdocs in STEM and social science fields seeking industry careers as data scientists. The program is free for Fellows and supported by sponsorships from hundreds of employers across multiple industries. In response to the overwhelming interest in our earlier sessions, we will be holding another fellowship.

Who Should Apply: Anyone who has already obtained a masters or PhD degree or who is within one year of graduating with a masters or PhD is welcome to apply. Applications from international students are welcome. Everyone else is encouraged to sign-up for a future session.

Locations: There will be both an in-person (in NYC, DC, SF) and online section of the fellowship using the common application below.

Dates: All sections will be from 2017-01-03 to 2017-02-24

Application Link: https://www.thedataincubator.com/fellowship.html#apply?ref=wcm91dHphaG5AdW1iYy5lZHU=

Data Science in 30 minutes: Learn how to build a data-science project in our upcoming free Data Science in 30-minutes webcast. Signup soon as space is limited.

Learn More: You can learn about our fellows at The New York Times, LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, or Palantir. To read about our latest fellow alumni, check out our blog. To learn more about The Data Incubator, check us out on Venture Beat, The Next Web, or Harvard Business Review.

From: Group for Research on Academic and Professional English

The GRAPE (Group for Research on Academic and Professional English – http://www.grape.uji.es) makes a call for researchers who have already carried out some research on this topic or are truly interested in it. Our purpose is to have a rich exchange of ideas that can make a relevant contribution to this field of research.

We think Multimodality can still be addressed from many different perspectives. As in the first webinar, this new edition consists of two parts. The first one will be developed from the 24th to the 28th of October and is formed by 3 online forums in which you will be asked to make at least one contribution with a new idea or comment on another researcher’s contribution. The topics of the three forums are:
 

• Methodological questions in multimodal analysis research
• Pedagogical applications
• Future of research on multimodality

Disclaimer: The LLC Program does not sponsor this event. Please consult GRAPE’s webpage for more information.

A recent article in Nature asked, “Is science only for the rich?” In the United States, writer Jane J. Lee concluded, there are steep challenges for students from lower-income backgrounds who want to pursue science, but there are also positive examples of people who are working to create opportunities for these students—people like Michael Summers.

Summers is Robert E. Meyerhoff Chair for Excellence in Research and Mentoring and University Distinguished Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UMBC. His lab is nationally and internationally known for engaging students from all backgrounds in high-level, hands-on research from day one, and further supporting them through intensive faculty and peer mentorship.