The Institute of International Education (IIE) is now accepting applications for the Freeman-ASIA spring and calendar year 2017 competition.

The deadline for student applications is October 20, 2016 (11:59pm EST), and the deadline for Adviser Certifications is October 27, 2016 (11:59pm EST.) 

The Freeman-ASIA scholarships provide funding to undergraduate US citizens and permanent residents to support them as they study abroad in East and Southeast Asia.

The Freeman-ASIA relaunch is the latest of several steps IIE has taken to increase the number and diversity of Americans studying abroad and their study destinations. Studying in Asia before graduating can give students a competitive advantage in their professional careers, especially when collaborating with international peers. More than half of Freeman-ASIA alumni report being employed in a position related to Asian affairs or requiring knowledge of an Asian language. As more employers seek new hires with meaningful and substantive experience in Asia, it is critical that more Americans learn about and engage with Asian economies, political systems and cultures.

More information:

To learn more about eligibility requirements, the timeline, and to access the application, students should visit the Freeman-ASIA website at http://www.iie.org/Freeman-ASIA.  

Credibility, Privacy and Policing on Online Social Media

Prof. Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK")
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

1:00-2:00pm Friday, 14 October 2016, ITE 229, UMBC

• TweetCred, a tool to extract intelligence from Twitter which can be useful to security analysts. TweetCred is backed by award-winning research publications in international and national venues.
• How police in India are using online social media, how we can use computer science understanding to help police engage more with citizens and increase the safety in society.
• OCEAN: Open source Collation of eGovernment data and Networks, how publicly available information on Government services can be used to profile citizens in India. This work obtained the Best Poster Award at Security and Privacy Symposium at IIT Kanpur, 2013 and it has gained a lot of traction in Indian media.
• Given an identity in one online social media, we are interested in finding the digital foot print of the user in other social media services, this is also called digital identity stitching problem. This work is also backed by award-winning research publication.

Get ready for Critical Social Justice: Home with our “What You Need to Know” series, starting with this primer on our keynote speaker Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Her lecture, titled “Body/ Land/ Home: Disability Justice, Healing Justice and Femme of Color Brilliance,” will be held on Tuesday, October 25th at 6PM in the University Center Ballroom (event details here). 

Based out of Toronto and Oakland, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer, disabled femme of color poet, performer, healer, and activist of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. Much of Leah’s work focuses on people and conversations that are often underrepresented, including disability justice, queer and trans people of color, and abuse survivors. In addition to her award-winning books of poetry, including Bodymap, Love Cake, and Consensual Genocide, she has also written a memoir titled Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home. 

“Stories create the world. Seeing stories that look like your own, that you’ve never read written down before, or that are stories you’ve never thought of before that change your whole idea of what is possible, are a big revolutionary deal.” †

art by Shira Devorah

Leah is also a co-founder and former director of Mangos With Chili, the longest-running performance art tour featuring queer and trans individuals in North America. She performs pieces with the disability justice collective Sins Invalid and is a co-director of the Toronto disability justice collective Performance/ Disability/Art.

…“[I]t was so inculcated in me that disability is this shameful story. And you know, if there’s not queer people of color space, queer people of color won’t perform. If there’s not disability space that centers queer and trans people of color, sex workers, poor people, all of the above, elders, young people, we won’t know that there’s similar stories.” †

For more on Leah, check out:

• Her blog, Brownstargirl
• This video of her performance in Sins Invalid
• Her interview with Bitch Magazine on disability, representation, and survivorhood

BYA is currently hiring for Winter, and Spring quarters. We are seeking facilitators for visual, writing, and performance classes at one or more of our four teaching sites (the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center, The BYA Community Studio, Thomas JS Waxter Children's Center, and the Lillian S. Jones Recreation Center). We are interested in building our community of artists to expand program offerings and engage youth with varied interests.

Genesis 39:2, 20b-21- “The Lord was with Joseph so that he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master…But while Joseph was there in the prison, the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.”
Genesis 41:38 - “So Pharaoh asked them, ‘Can we find anyone like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God?’”

We tend to define our life based on our perception of our progress. Am I where I thought I would be at this age? Am I happy? Is my life successful?

In reality, life is never defined by our performance or circumstances. What really makes any life worth living each day is the presence and protection and pleasure of the almighty, all-satisfying God.

After being sold into slavery by his own brothers, Joseph surprisingly rose to power in perhaps the most powerful empire in the world. Whether in power or in prison, Joseph’s life was hope-filled, meaningful, and successful, not because he worked so hard or received what he deserved, but because God was with him. The Lord was with him in success - and the Lord was with him in prison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oL6HlzQZLo

…The greater reality is that, if you have been called and rescued into a relationship with God, he always writes a better story for you than you would write for yourself. The “better” is based on this: God himself is the best you could ever have or experience; fullness of life is found not in any earthly success, relationship or accomplishment, but in his unearned favor and being with you through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. (Taken with edits from Marshall Segal’s article, Love the Life You Never Wanted, at desiringgod.org.)

With the help of his Spirit, let us trust in our Father’s unfathomable, fierce love in whatever circumstances we are in. Let us thank him for his presence with us through the Holy Spirit. Let us rejoice in his unfathomable, fierce love for us in Jesus Christ. Let our confidence in him be increasingly sure as our life stories are redeemed and rewritten by and into his story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv-SXz_exKE

-AP

Around 12:30 a.m this morning, UMBC Police received a call informing them that a person was unresponsive within Potomac Hall.

According to UMBC Deputy Chief of Police Paul Dillon, they “determined the student was deceased, secured the scene, and called the Baltimore County Homicide Unit.”

According to the Baltimore Sun, “Police identified the student as Eric Thomas Askins, 17, of Hollywood in St. Mary’s County.”

A statement released on the Baltimore County Government’s website said that “the Homicide Unit investigates sudden deaths where the cause is not apparent.” They will investigate the case until both manner and cause are conclusively determined.

The statement also clarified that “there were no signs of foul play” in this death. Dillon concurred with that assertion, and said, “Nothing at the scene led us to believe anything malicious happened.”

Mark Sparks, chief of police, sent an email to students across campus at 8:52 a.m. He said, “The State Medical Examiner will conduct an investigation to determine the cause of death. More information will be passed along as it becomes available.”

This death comes on the heels of the murder of fifth-year student Jackson Bleier last weekend.

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