I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.
Name: Andrea L. Kalfoglou, Ph.D.
Hometown: Potomac, MD
Q: How long have you been at UMBC?
A: Just over 3 years.
Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?
A:Assistant Professor, Faculty Advisor to the Bioethics Student Association. Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?
A: I teach undergraduate public health courses and conduct research on reproductive ethics.
Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?
A: Motivating smart students to see the kind of impact they can make on the world by investing in careers in public health.
Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?
A: Integrity matters more than grades.
Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"
A: Being creative with my hands - quilting, jewelry making, scrapbooking.
Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?
A: I think UMBC is one year older than I am.
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This two day workshop helps you to find the answers to those big questions: Where am I headed next?; What kind of job am I interested in and how do I find it?; How will I ever be able to network if I have no confidence in myself?
Unlike other career assessments and workshops, you will be able to assess your strengths and identify what you enjoy, things that you do well and events or experiences in which you take pride. It motivates you to succeed. Ultimately by learning more about yourself through this process, you open up new opportunities.
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Full Title: UMBC Emergency Health Services Program Ranked Top 5 “Best Buy”Dinah Winnick
Communications Manager, Social Sciences
Office of Institutional Advancement
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
410.455.8117
dwinnick@umbc.edu
twitter.com/UMBCSocSci
UMBC’s master of science degree program in Emergency Health Services (EHS) has been ranked a top 5 “Best Buy” among distance master’s degrees in healthcare fields by GetEducated.com.
Through emergency healthcare, the larger healthcare system reaches out to people experiencing unforeseen medical emergencies. Offering the nation’s first EHS master’s, the UMBC program was created to prepare EHS professionals for leadership roles in the field. Students range from healthcare providers, researchers and educators to policymakers and administrators. The program offers them experience with planning, research, development and organizational operations.
Students can select from tracks in (1) administration, planning and policy; (2) education, in cooperation with UMBC’s Instructional Systems Development program; and (3) preventative medicine and epidemiology. The first two tracks can be completed entirely online; on-site students can also take courses through public policy, sociology/anthropology and nursing, as well as the UMB Preventive Medicine Department. An Emergency Management graduate certificate is available as well.
UMBC’s EHS master’s program is also the nation’s largest. Students have an opportunity to share faculty, resources and projects – and even to intern – with the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, University of Maryland School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine, and its National Study Center for Trauma and EMS. Students also have close access to DC-based federal agencies such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Homeland Security, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, and Department of Health and Human Services.
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Obama's split lip just shows how tough he is, politically.
Four more years! Apparently Obama is lookin’ good as far as the 2012 election goes.
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Obama's split lip just shows how tough he is, politically. Four more years! Apparently Obama is lookin’ good as far as the 2012 election goes. Could charges be brought upon the WikiLeaks...http://www.usdemocrazy.net/2010/11/30/whatzup-today-november-30/https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/3861/guest@my.umbc.edu/b29481ab0a39ccd10e84cad4644aa286/api/pixel2012-electionanne-hathawaycongressjames-franconewsobamaoscarswikileaksUSDemocrazyhttps://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/retired-12https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/xsmall.png?1279120129https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/original.jpg?1279120129https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/xxlarge.png?1279120129https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/xlarge.png?1279120129https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/large.png?1279120129https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/medium.png?1279120129https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/small.png?1279120129https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/xsmall.png?1279120129https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/012/f0935e4cd5920aa6c7c996a5ee53a70f/xxsmall.png?1279120129USDemocrazy00falseTue, 30 Nov 2010 08:41:55 -0500Wake up and Smell the Stats!
From time to time, our blog posts at USDemocrazy may seem a bit incoherent… but we have a good excuse.
As we’re just a bunch of ungroomed college students, we were most likely half asleep at 3AM when we filed our post (editor: yeah… work on that, please). But when we saw the follow video, it made us wake up and pay attention (quite a feat):
That’s professor Hans Rosling, who is kind of an awesome pioneer as far as graphic statistics go. As a scholar in global health, Dr. Rosling has been helping sleepy people like ourselves see important issues like health and wealth in new ways using statistics.
As students who are constantly looking at charts and tables in boring old books, we can appreciate this.
This clip is from an upcoming BBC production called “The Joy of Stats” which features how statistics are being used in fast, high-tech ways to solve both old and new problems. For instance, just in the four minutes in the video above, Rosling shows through statistics movements and revolutions through history and their affect on the world’s population.
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Apply now to take HAPP 403, International Field Research. During spring semester students attend a weekly seminar, complete background research, and write a research paper. Students are assigned to a research team based on the theme they select. Duirng the Swiss academic program, students stay in beautiful Kandersteg, travel to nearby cities, and hike in the Alps to complete a series of research exercises. Highlights include day trips to Geneva, Zurich, Berne, glaciers and the Swiss people. Applications due December 1.
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Full Title: Fry Nets Season-High 16, But Men's Basketball's Turnover Woes Continue in 71-59 Loss at PennPhiladelphia, Pa.�UMBC forward Justin Fry (New Bloomfield, Pa./West Perry) scored a season-high 16 points, but the Retrievers scored a season-low 59 points and fell to host Penn, 71-59, at the Palestra.
Turnovers also stung UMBC in its comeback effort, as the Retrievers committed 13 of 20 miscues in the second half.
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BALTIMORE�UMBC volleyball head coach Ian Blanchard announced today that Megan Groess, Tanaeri Santiago, Hannah Schmidt and Dalton Tolliver have signed National Letters of Intent to join the Retrievers in 2011.
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Earlier today, DoIT staff noticed errors on one of the two UMBC Voicemail systems supporting the campus phone service. The particular voicemail system is accessed by dialing x51121.
We placed a call with Siemens tech support and their technician arrived on-campus this afternoon. The technician determined that one of the hard drives in this system failed, and we worked with Siemens to install a replacement drive.
Unfortunately, all messages stored on the faulty hard drive can’t be recovered. These lost messages may impact one or more stored messages on individual phone numbers. Due to the age of our phone switch (almost 30 years old) there exists no method to provide a backup of voice messages for recovery purposes.
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Earlier today, DoIT staff noticed errors on one of the two UMBC Voicemail systems supporting the campus phone service. The particular voicemail system is accessed by dialing x51121. We placed a...http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2010/11/voice_mail_syst.htmlhttps://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/3819/guest@my.umbc.edu/66c8cc9329d0a64995be972991f3baae/api/pixelnewsDivision of Information Technology (DoIT)https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/doithttps://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227Division of Information Technology10falseMon, 29 Nov 2010 22:40:00 -0500My Real Names
In college I spent a single summer day at a children’s camp affiliated with my university. As with everyone at the camp, I left my given name behind at the front entrance. For the duration of my brief stay, I assumed a new name: “Winter.”
The beauty of being Winter in that place was that I got to choose what being Winter meant. Unlike in everyday life, I felt no pressure to live up or down to other people’s expectations of me. I was neither confused nor constrained by the reflections of my past in others’ eyes. As Winter I felt free to be truly me. It was a lesson I brought back to the “real” world at the end of the day, along with the wooden name badge I have never thrown away.
I wish I could remember whether I chose the name Winter or it was given to me by the people who ran the camp. Either way, it suits me. Winter is dark and deep. It is the season of cold days and warm hearths, of contemplation and the renewal of acquaintances. It is a time to look back before leaping forward anew. And so Winter is one of my real names. Have you discovered yours?
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Name: Andrea L. Kalfoglou, Ph.D.