The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

An Introduction to the Security
of Software Defined Networks

Enis Golaszewski 

11:15am-12:30pm, Friday, 7 October, UMBC, ITE 229

Ancient Studies Week

October 10-15, 2016

Monday, Oct. 10, 12:00p-12:50p, 132 Performing Arts and Humanities Bldg. Lecture by Dr. James Romm, Bard College, “The Mythology of Ocean,” the river thought to encircle the earth in antiquity. Dr. Romm is an expert how Greeks and Romans imagined the ends of the earth.

Tuesday, Oct. 11, 10:00a-6:00p, near the University Center and the Forum outside the Performing Arts and Humanities Bldg.—Marathon Reading of Vergil’s Aeneid.

Wednesday, Oct. 12, 4:00p-5:00p, Gallery of A. O. Kuhn Library: ANCS Week Keynote Lecture by Dr. Josiah Ober, who will lecture on “Democracy, Legitimacy, and Civic Engagement.” Dr. Ober holds the Mitsotakis Chair in Classics and Political Science at Stanford University. A reception will follow the talk.

Thursday, Oct. 13, 7:00p-9:00p, 132 Performing Arts and Humanities Bldg.: concert reading of Aristophanes’ Knights. Contact Dr. Rosenbloom (dsrose@umbc.edu) if you are interested in reading.

Friday, Oct. 14, 12:00p-12:50p 234 Performing Arts and Humanities Bldg.: "Scribe School 2: Secrets of the Mycenae." Contact Riley (asarah1@umbc.edu) to register. 

Saturday, Oct. 15, 2:00p-5:30p, 7^th Floor A. O. Kuhn Library, ANCS Reunion Celebration of the UMBC’s 50^th Anniversary. Come see emeriti Professors Sherwin, Freyman, and Koehler as well as the current faculty and generations of ANCS alumni. Featured speaker is Dr. Joe Howley, 2005 ANCS graduate and Assistant Professor at Columbia University. The cost is $30 per person. Currently enrolled majors and minors can attend free of charge. Contact Domonique Pitts to register (dpitts@umbc.edu). Because the event is being catered, registration is required for attendance.

UMBC is the lead institution on a $5 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that provides additional funds for the University System of Maryland Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (USM LSAMP). Universities will use the renewed funding to support students from underrepresented groups in STEM. The funding boost also allows for expanded support for transfer students and new programming focused on performance in mathematics.

“This funding for expanded programs indicates that we are able to continue the legacy of inclusive excellence that UMBC celebrates,” explains Renetta Tull, associate vice provost for graduate student development and postdoctoral affairs.

Through LSAMP, Tull says, “Programming that prepares students for graduate school in STEM fields will be available to any student at UMBC who wants to participate,” complementing gold-standard cohort-based models like the Meyerhoff Scholars Program and MARC U*STAR Program at UMBC. Some LSAMP funds will also support these well-established programs.

The USM LSAMP program has four key focus areas: participation (supporting students as they transition from high school or community college), performance (reinforcing mathematics knowledge and improving performance in math courses), preparation (getting students ready for research experiences by offering opportunities for training), and presentation (providing opportunities for students to present their work publicly).

Of the $5 million in funding, UMBC will disburse $1 million to University of Maryland, College Park and $750,000 to University of Maryland Eastern Shore, the other two member universities of the Louis Stokes Alliance. Towson University and Frostburg University are associate alliance members, and community college collaborators include Prince George’s Community College, Anne Arundel Community College, and Community College of Baltimore County. Tull explains, “The tiered structure allows current partners to mentor associate members and collaborating community colleges.” 

UMBC has received NSF funding for LSAMP for 20 years. The new boost in funding will make more initiatives possible, including transition seminars for transfer students, a bridging conference for incoming first-year students, and a system-wide Winter Mathematics Institute. The institute, co-sponsored by the Diversity Committee of NSF’s Mathematical Sciences Institutes, is modeled on the successful Meyerhoff Summer Bridge program.  

In addition, LSAMP will develop relationships with other programs on campus, such as STEM BUILD at UMBC, a support program seeking to enhance success of undergraduates in STEM, and the STEM Transfer Student Success Initiative (t-STEM), which supports transfer students from Maryland community colleges, with initial funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

“The success of students at UMBC is underpinned by support initiatives like STEM BUILD and t-STEM,” shares Bill LaCourse, dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences. “Collaboration with the LSAMP program is a welcome addition, in that it broadens and deepens UMBC’s ability to attract and retain students from underrepresented group in STEM disciplines.”

UMBC is also home to a “Bridge to the Doctorate” program, funding for which is only available to institutions that have had LSAMP programs for at least 10 years. This program financially supports graduate students who participated in LSAMP programs as undergrads at any university in the U.S.

“We are delighted to build on our existing partnership with NSF,” said President Freeman Hrabowski. “UMBC strives to create an environment where students from all backgrounds can succeed in any field, and this funding enables us to expand that critical work.”

Image: Chemistry professor Michael Summers (left), known for his dedicated mentoring of students of all backgrounds in addition to his research, works with students in the lab. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

The Walters Art Museum has an immediate opening for an individual to work in the Security Department on the Evening Shift (4:00pm to 12:00 midnight), Wednesday thru Sunday.

Responsibilities include:

Volunteers Needed!

Saturday, Oct. 22^nd

The 19^th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Chemical and Biological Sciences needs volunteers.  Sign up here to help. To learn more about this event visit:

http://cnmssymposium.umbc.edu

UMBC's Department of Visual Arts is hosting a day and evening of art, performance and other surprises for UMBC’s 50th Anniversary. It’s all happening Friday, October 14th and October 15th

First, join us on Friday OCTOBER 14th from 12-2pm for our IMDA Welcome Event Featuring Special Guest IMDA Alumna Dr. Tiffany Holmes.  Dr. Holmes ’99 MFA, IMDA, is the Outstanding Alumna of the Year for Visual and Performing Arts. Dr. Holmes is Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Professor of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

The IMDA Welcome Event welcomes six new graduate students to the Intermedia + Digital Arts MFA graduate program this fall. Each will give a brief presentation on their artwork prior to Dean Holmes’s artists’ lecture: Aimi Bouillon, Dilay Koçogullari, Leah Michaels, Mandy Morrison, Bryan O’Neill and Nicole Ringel.

Next day, join us at the Fine Arts Building and the Imaging Research Center, for the Visual Arts Open House, with daytime events and activities from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Come and catch up with your favorite profs, and view the work of UMBC Alumni.

Wrap the day up with the The Golden Ball from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.,  a black and gold themed metallic masquerade inspired by the Wiemar Bauhaus’ Metal Party of 1929. The evening will commence with a cabaret showcase of alumni performance featuring Christine Ferrera, Tom Boram, Carrie Reynolds and other surprise IMDA MFA Alumni! After we’ll relax and reconnect with music, refreshments, and dancing to DJ Erik Spangler (aka Double 8) on the ones and twos.

There are no tickets required for the Golden Ball, but we request that you let us know you are coming by registering for the daytime and nighttime events here: alumni.umbc.edu/artsball2016

Registration is open to EVERYONE—UMBC alumni, faculty, students and staff and all our friends out there as well! You don’t need to be affiliated with UMBC, but we ask that you still register so we know that you’re coming!

Events listed below and you can find out more at facebook.com/VARTGoldenBall50.

OCTOBER 14th, 12-2pm [lunch provided]

IMDA Welcome Event Featuring Special Guest IMDA Alumna Dr. Tiffany Holmes, ‘99

Performing Arts+Humanities Building [PAHB], Room 102 off the main lobby. FREE!

OCTOBER 14 & 15th, All Day

IMDA Alumna Jenn Thwing
Exhibits 3 stop motion animations in the IMDA/CADVC Adjunct Gallery [outside ITE110]

OCTOBER 15th, Visual Arts Open House and the Golden Ball

Daytime Events: 11 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Mask Making Workshop
107 Fine Arts Building Room
Don’t have a costume for the Ball? Join a workshop where we’ll have materials on hand to create masks, headpieces, and other costumes from recycled materials. FREE for ALL.

Tintype Portraiture
346 Fine Arts Building
Portraits made the old-fashioned way! Photo instructor Chris Peregoy and IMDA student Melissa Cormier offer wet-plate photo portraits (tintypes.) For a $25 fee you will receive a one-of-a-kind portrait and souvenir frame to commemorate your visit.

RAFFLE: Fab Your Own Action Figure!
109B Information Technology and Engineering Building
Are you a hero? A legend in your own mind? Prove it by stepping into the Imaging Research Center’s new Three-Dimensional Scanner (with 90 cameras shooting in synchrony) to capture your legendary likeness! $5 gets you a chance to win your own custom-fabricated action figure, complete with packaging.

Nighttime Events: 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Studio A (101A Fine Arts Building)
The Golden Ball Cabaret 5:30 p.m. – 6:30
We kick the evening off with an assortment of performances by UMBC IMDA alums, including Christine Ferrera, in a performance of "Stellar Cellar" (with Temple Crocker and Dan Hanrahan,) Tom Boram, Carrie Reynolds and other surprise IMDA MFA Alumni!

The Golden Ball 6:30 p.m. – 9:30pm
A black and gold themed metallic masquerade ball (inspired by the Metal Party of 1929) to celebrate UMBC’s 50th Anniversary. The evening will commence with a cabaret showcase of alumni performance and after we’ll relax and reconnect with music, refreshments, and dancing.