<?xml version="1.0"?>
<News page="6104" pageCount="10543" pageSize="10" timestamp="Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:01:03 -0400" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts.xml?page=6104">
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58952" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58952">
  <Title>Hilltop Institute's Abrams presents 2015 Shinogle Lecture</Title>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><em>This article originally appeared on <a href="http://www.hilltopinstitute.org/News/NewsAndBulletins.cfm" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Hilltop Institute website</a>, written by Marsha Willis, senior policy analyst, The Hilltop Institute. </em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><span>On Friday, December 4, Hilltop Senior Research Analyst and UMBC Public Policy PhD candidate Michael T. Abrams, MPH, gave the 2015 Judith A. Shinogle Memorial Fellowship lecture at UMBC. Abrams discussed the research projects—spearheaded by Shinogle before her tragic death in 2012—that he and UMBC researchers are conducting to inform policy decisions about health care and treatment for adults with serious mental illness, and children with asthma. He also discussed his dissertation research, which focuses on the impact of news coverage on the dissemination of prescription drug warnings issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Colleagues from Hilltop and UMBC’s School of Public Policy, faculty mentors, research partners, friends, and family members joined Abrams to celebrate his achievement. Abrams was selected by a faculty committee in recognition of his outstanding scholarship and research in health policy. At Hilltop, Abrams conducts quantitative and qualitative policy and health services research related to the brain and the behavioral health of Medicaid and other low-income populations.</div><div><br></div><div>The family of Dr. Judith Shinogle established the award in her memory to provide support for outstanding doctoral students committed to health policy research. Dr. Shinogle had a distinguished and productive career as a health policy analyst and researcher. At the time of her death, she was a senior research scientist with the UMBC Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research and an adjunct faculty member of the School of Public Policy.</div><div><br></div><div>The complete 2015 Shinogle Fellowship Lecture can be viewed below.</div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>Note: This article originally appeared on <a href="http://www.hilltopinstitute.org/News/NewsAndBulletins.cfm" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Hilltop Institute website</a>, written by Marsha Willis, senior policy analyst, The Hilltop Institute. </em></div><div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58952/attachments/20120" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div></div><div><em>Image: School of Public Policy Professor David Salkever, Michael Abrams, and School of Public Policy Professor and Director Donald Norris. Photo by Marsha Willis. </em></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This article originally appeared on The Hilltop Institute website, written by Marsha Willis, senior policy analyst, The Hilltop Institute.      On Friday, December 4, Hilltop Senior Research...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/787ba94d03735c3ef90458dc9eca2dd8/69d4655f/news/000/058/952/4b86521fb429633d44697456d41ac4e5/035-e1449673153987-1920x768.jpg?1459349469</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58952/attachments/20120"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58952/guest@my.umbc.edu/8859e0680ab0f7dd42e8b772bdb97cb0/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/xxlarge.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/xlarge.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/large.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/medium.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/small.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/xsmall.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/952/d8ea3ca79431cf87985f72c5fefb428a/xxsmall.jpg?1459537320</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>0</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:51:19 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:02:14 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58950" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58950">
    <Title>Vote for the Workshop Held in April!</Title>
    <Tagline>What workshop would you like to attend in April?</Tagline>
    <Body>
      <![CDATA[
          <div class="html-content">Please select up to <strong>THREE </strong>topics you would like to see featured as our April workshop. <div><br></div><div>The choices are: </div><div><br></div><div>1. <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=52625757" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Assessing </a>Your Learners in Blackboard </div><div><br></div><div>2. <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Blackboard+Collaborate" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard Collaborate</a></div><div><br></div><div><span>3. Grading &amp; The <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=41190089" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard Grade Center</a> <br></span></div><div><br></div><div>4 .Organizing Your Course Content in <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=31916773" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Box</a> </div><div><br></div><div>5. <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/TechSmith+Relay" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">TechSmith Relay</a> (Screencasting) </div><div><br></div><div>6. <a href="http://www.cast.org/our-work/about-udl.html#.VrycYRCrTUI" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Universal Design for Learning</a> <br><br>7. Changes Coming to <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Clickers" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Clickers</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span>This poll will close on the <strong>Friday, April 8, 2016. </strong></span></div><div><br></div><div>Date and time of the workshop will be determined by a future Doodle poll. </div><div><br></div><div>Questions? Please email us at <a href="mailto:instructionaltechnology@umbc.edu">instructionaltechnology@umbc.edu</a>. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
      ]]>
    </Body>
    <Summary>Please select up to THREE topics you would like to see featured as our April workshop.     The choices are:      1. Assessing Your Learners in Blackboard      2. Blackboard Collaborate     3....</Summary>
    <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58950/guest@my.umbc.edu/678658ece58136336cb64f1117f8b827/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
    <Tag>blackboard</Tag>
    <Tag>clickers</Tag>
    <Tag>training</Tag>
    <Tag>workshops</Tag>
    <Group token="instructional-technology">Instructional Technology</Group>
    <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology</GroupUrl>
    <AvatarUrl>https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xsmall.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/original.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xxlarge.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xlarge.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/large.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/medium.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/small.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xsmall.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/164/dec3b026b81ee6d890a8f82f75c94a2e/xxsmall.png?1446126703</AvatarUrl>
    <Sponsor>Instructional Technology</Sponsor>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/xxlarge.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/xlarge.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/large.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/medium.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/small.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/xsmall.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/950/efd936e16d4c5fc3fe8f493fdd9d7205/xxsmall.jpg?1459349365</ThumbnailUrl>
    <PawCount>0</PawCount>
    <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
    <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
    <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:49:33 -0400</PostedAt>
    <EditAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:52:15 -0400</EditAt>
  </NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58951" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58951">
  <Title>UMBC economist examines impact of Puerto Rico debt crisis</Title>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
        <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/umbc-economic-policy-researcher-examines-the-impact-of-puerto-ricos-debt-crisis/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Justin Vélez-Hagan</strong>, a Ph.D. student in UMBC’s School of Public Policy and executive director of the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, has been in the news recently after Puerto Rico defaulted on more bond payments, falling deeper into debt. Vélez-Hagan was recently a guest on Al Jazeera America, HuffPost Live, and the BBC and discussed the impact of the financial crisis and what needs to be done for the commonwealth to bounce back financially.</div><div><br></div><div>On HuffPost Live, Vélez-Hagan joined other economic analysts and researchers and examined how the financial crisis is affecting Puerto Rican citizens (<a href="http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/puerto-rico-debt-crisis/5681ce348795a249f6000987" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">watch the full segment</a>).</div><div><br></div><div>“The average Puerto Rican is paying as much, if not more, in taxes, if they’re paying taxes. Keep in mind that a lot of the population is not paying taxes given the poverty rates. But those who are paying taxes are paying more and getting less in return. The economy continues to shrink, employment opportunities are shrinking, and it’s basically affecting everyone from the bottom to the top in Puerto Rico dramatically,” Vélez-Hagan said during the segment.</div><div><br></div><div>He also discussed how the increase in sales taxes and costs for electricity and water, coupled with the decrease in population and transportation investments, is having a sizable impact on Puerto Rico’s economy.</div><div><br></div><div>Vélez-Hagan appears frequently in the media to discuss economic policy in Puerto Rico. He’s been featured in <em>Forbes, Fox News, Politico, The Hill, Politic365, NBC, The Huffington Post, Fox Business Network, Voice of America, BBC News, Al Jazeera America, Al Jazeera English, HuffPost Live, NPR Radio, SiriusXM, </em>and<em> Fusion</em>.</div><div><br></div><div>He is the author of the new book <a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498509008/The-Common-Sense-behind-Basic-Economics-A-Guide-for-Budding-Economists-Students-and-Voters#" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Common Sense behind Basic Economics</a> (Lexington, 2015). <a href="http://nousonomics.com/bio/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Read more</a> about his work.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58951/attachments/20119" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div></div><div><br></div></div>
    ]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.     Justin Vélez-Hagan, a Ph.D. student in UMBC’s School of Public Policy and executive director of the National Puerto Rican...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/3151a1cf69beef2098b980120c9743d2/69d4655f/news/000/058/951/8182365d5e93072ee1f23dcfc29776ad/Justin-Velez-Hagan-e1452092633480-1920x768.jpg?1459349334</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58951/attachments/20119"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58951/guest@my.umbc.edu/c2c99a5401afdf7d4ce3472f80e960b4/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/xxlarge.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/xlarge.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/large.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/medium.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/small.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/xsmall.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/951/e6a0b506c2ee4bc207e3051c1a4df347/xxsmall.jpg?1459537377</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>0</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:49:06 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:45:59 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58949" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58949">
  <Title>UMBC's MDQuit celebrates 10 years toward smoke-free Maryland</Title>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/umbcs-mdquit-researchers-celebrate-ten-years-of-progress-toward-a-smoke-free-maryland/%0A" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Dinah Winnick.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58949/attachments/20117" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 250 health professionals and researchers will gather in Ellicott City this month to mark a major milestone: ten years of dramatically reducing tobacco use across the state.</div><div><br></div><div>The <a href="http://mdquit.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Maryland Quitting Use and Initiation of Tobacco (MDQuit) program</a> was founded a decade ago when state leaders approached UMBC about creating a resource center for tobacco control to support the <a href="http://mdquit.org/quitline" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Maryland Quitline</a>. <strong>Carlo DiClemente</strong>, professor of psychology, worked to establish MDQuit as a resource hub for healthcare providers to access evidence-based tools for smoking cessation programs and to connect with one another to share best practices. Since MDQuit was created, with funding from Maryland’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and other organizations, the state’s smoking rate has declined from 23.4 percent to under 17 percent.</div><div><br></div><div>As director of MDQuit, DiClemente leads a team of researchers and undergraduate and graduate students who provide trainings, identify trends and challenges in smoking, and share best practices for tobacco cessation.</div><div><br></div><div>“One of the great benefits of locating this resource center in an academic setting is the academic and community partnerships,” shares DiClemente. “People look to us for quality training and information.”</div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58949/attachments/20118" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div><div>MDQuit had a major impact early on through supporting the Maryland Clean Indoor Air Act of 2007, as well as other smoke-free policies. More recently, it has focused on a coalition-building approach to address smoking cessation, including collaborating with the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Legal Resource Center.</div><div><br></div><div>UMBC students working in the MDQuit program provide training to doctors, nurses, counselors, and other health professionals on the most effective tools for smoking prevention and research new trends in smoking, such as e-cigarette use and policies.</div><div><br></div><div>While moving these research and training initiatives forward, the students also sharpen their clinical, community, and behavioral medicine research skills by learning how to approach interventions effectively from multiple perspectives. For example, MDQuit demonstrates particularly effective ways to encourage people to quit smoking by working with their family members or broader social networks.</div><div><br></div><div>“There are still a number of people who smoke,” explains DiClemente. “There are networks of smoking. If you’re a smoker, one of the best things you can do to be a model to the rest of your network that smokes is to quit. We have data that says if one person in a network quits, then five years from now most of the people in that network will quit. Quitting is contagious.”</div><div><br></div><div>DiClemente is encouraged by dramatic changes in smoking rates over time. He also recognizes that tobacco products and consumption practices are always changing.</div><div><br></div><div>“There’s a lot of money in promoting tobacco and smoking,” DiClemente says. “While we’re trying to get everybody to quit, they’re trying to get people to smoke.” To get Maryland to be “as smoke-free as possible,” he points out, MDQuit and other leaders in smoking cessation must continue to adapt.</div><div><br></div><div><em>Image (l-r): Krystle F. Nickles, MDQuit project director; Carlo DiClemente, professor of psychology and director of MDQuit; and Terri Harold, MDQuit center coordinator. Photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.</em></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Dinah Winnick.          Nearly 250 health professionals and researchers will gather in Ellicott City this month to mark a major...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/4b8fcacf3e3f175352c774d40e65c30f/69d4655f/news/000/058/949/56c507670a47dd95c4a9b1a972b7f33d/Option-1-1920x768.jpg?1459349161</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58949/attachments/20117"></Attachment>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58949/attachments/20118"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58949/guest@my.umbc.edu/34034898f36d9745a80b45cc1386430d/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/xxlarge.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/xlarge.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/large.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/medium.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/small.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/xsmall.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/949/d69349f0e5e4fa300b98a523af7276bf/xxsmall.jpg?1459540057</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>1</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:46:42 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:47:44 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58948" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58948">
  <Title>USM names UMBC alum Vice Chancellor for Economic Development</Title>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/university-system-of-maryland-names-umbc-alumnus-j-thomas-sadowski-vice-chancellor-for-economic-development/%0A" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div>Robert L. Caret, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, has appointed UMBC alumnus <strong>J. Thomas Sadowski</strong> as the system’s vice chancellor for economic development. Sadowski ’89, political science and public administration and policy, is a member of UMBC’s Public Policy Advisory Board and is currently the president and CEO of the Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore (EAGB). He will join the USM team on May 2, 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>“The vice chancellor for economic development is a new position that was created to build on USM’s success as a major driver of the state’s economic development and to enable the system to focus its expertise, programs, and resources even more sharply and strategically on the state’s economic development priorities,” said Chancellor Caret in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>As a member of UMBC’s Public Policy Board, Sadowski has helped make meaningful connections between public policy initiatives at UMBC and policymaking in the state and region. Last fall, he was a panelist at the School of Public Policy Forum on Urban Sustainability in Baltimore and emphasized the importance of public-private partnerships in addressing pressing social and economic challenges.</div><div><br></div><div>“For over twenty-five years, Tom has been a staunch advocate for workforce and business development, and we are thrilled that he will be utilizing his talents to support our institutions and the economy,” says UMBC President <strong>Freeman Hrabowski</strong>. “It is important to have someone with Tom’s expertise in this position as universities work to meet workforce needs. Tom understands the critical role of universities as assets to the State. We are proud of him, and we look forward to working with him in his new position.”</div><div><br></div><div>See the <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/newsroom/news/1593" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Maryland System</a> website for the official press release and additional details. Media coverage of the announcement can be found below.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2016/03/16/tom-sadowski-tapped-for-economic-development-role.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Tom Sadowski tapped for economic development role at University System of Maryland</a> (<em>Baltimore Business Journal</em>) </div><div><a href="http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2016/03/17/tom-sadowskis-car-will-be-his-headquarters-at-the.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Tom Sadowski’s car will be his headquarters at the University System of Maryland</a> (<em>Baltimore Business Journal</em>) </div><div><a href="http://thedailyrecord.com/2016/03/16/sadowski-to-join-usm-focus-on-economic-development/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Sadowski to join USM, focus on economic development</a> (<em>The Daily Record</em>)   </div><div><a href="http://www.usmd.edu/newsroom/news/1593" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">J. Thomas Sadowski appointed vice chancellor for economic development</a> (<em>USM News</em>) </div><div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58948/attachments/20116" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div></div><div><br></div><div><em>Image: Tom Sadowski ’89. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC. </em></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.     Robert L. Caret, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, has appointed UMBC alumnus J. Thomas Sadowski as the...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/3292c110fabd75ecd54606c777260095/69d4655f/news/000/058/948/456414ddfffd645d272538bcf3950609/Tom_Sadowski-0446-e1458311372866-1920x768.jpg?1459349011</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58948/attachments/20116"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58948/guest@my.umbc.edu/8f7ced067165dbd5e68928ed93b85a32/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/xxlarge.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/xlarge.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/large.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/medium.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/small.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/xsmall.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/948/3225740d1d12f1758b51a8bed82b8f35/xxsmall.jpg?1459540104</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>2</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:43:45 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:48:55 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58947" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58947">
  <Title>In Zika age, Biehler studies mosquitoes in low-income areas</Title>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
        <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/dawn-biehler-leads-umbc-research-team-investigating-if-low-income-neighborhoods-are-more-at-risk-for-mosquito-borne-disease/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div><span>At a moment when the increasing threat of the Zika virus has brought renewed attention to environmental health issues, UMBC researchers are working on an extensive study to determine whether a neighborhood having more mosquitoes translates to a greater risk of disease transmission.</span></div><div><br></div><div>The UMBC research team led by <strong>Dawn Biehler</strong>, associate professor of geography and environmental systems, has spent several months canvassing Baltimore neighborhoods to collect data on mosquito populations and residents’ contact with mosquitoes as part of the <a href="http://www.beslter.org/index.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Baltimore Ecosystem Study</a>. They will use their research findings to draw up a set of evidence-based policy recommendations for better mosquito control to improve public health.</div><div><br></div><div>A March 18 article in <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/18/the-troubling-thing-that-flint-and-zika-have-in-common/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Washington Post</a></em> highlighted this research and some of its findings.</div><div><br></div><div>“We see cases where there’s persistent trash and abandoned buildings, and it just creates this surface where there are lots of small bodies of water, which are just great for this mosquito,” Biehler told the <em>Post</em>.</div><div><br></div><div>She explained that she has found that many residents are concerned about the city picking up trash only once a week, but a lessening of the tax base due to population decline can lead to eroded city services. “It’s not just the city’s fault,” Biehler said. “There are bigger issues here.”</div><div><br></div><div>Project findings will be applied to improving mosquito control and awarding grants from the National Science Foundation to communities that have developed promising mosquito abatement strategies. The research project was also recently featured in <em>The Baltimore Sun</em>. Read both articles below.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/03/18/the-troubling-thing-that-flint-and-zika-have-in-common/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Why diseases like Zika could unfairly target America’s poor</a> (The Washington Post) </div><div><a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-mosquitoes-in-neighborhoods-20160217-story.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Study shows poorer neighborhoods have more mosquitoes</a> (The Baltimore Sun) </div><div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58947/attachments/20115" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div></div><div><em>Image: Asian Tiger Mosquito. Photo by frankieleon, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">CC by 2.0</a>. </em></div></div>
    ]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.     At a moment when the increasing threat of the Zika virus has brought renewed attention to environmental health issues, UMBC...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/0cc412518c0549f187d41f1f9ae2baae/69d4655f/news/000/058/947/2b795a1bc79c65ed1e8693a24834e664/Mosquito-1350x768.jpg?1459348820</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58947/attachments/20115"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58947/guest@my.umbc.edu/2b609d859045ec6404a7d63fa3a56f1f/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/xxlarge.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/xlarge.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/large.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/medium.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/small.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/xsmall.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/947/c404faf60d2dee0ac9152cf7c8d70b14/xxsmall.jpg?1459540175</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>0</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:40:50 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:49:48 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58946" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58946">
  <Title>Nohe exhibit presents shifting Australian landscape</Title>
  <Tagline>illustrates humanity's global impact</Tagline>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/nohe-exhibit-presents-shifting-australian-landscape-that-illustrates-humanitys-global-impact/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Catherine Borg.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Timothy Nohe</strong><span>, director of the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) and visual arts professor, will introduce American audiences to the deeply woven human narrative of Botany Bay in his exhibition </span><em>Sounding Botany Bay</em><span> opening February 12 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery.</span></div><div><br></div><div>The exhibition, which runs through March 31, is the culmination of ten years of research beginning in 2006 while Nohe was an Australian-American Fulbright Commission Senior Scholar fellow. Nohe returned for intensive research residencies in subsequent years, during which time change inexorably swept the bay.</div><div><br></div><div>Nohe will also present a lecture about his work in the exhibition, part of the Humanities Forum series from UMBC’s Dresher Center for the Humanities, on Tuesday, February 16 at 4:00 p.m. Nohe shares:</div><div><blockquote><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>"For many thousands of years the land adjacent to Kamay was an important source of food, place of trade, and site of spiritual importance to a number of Aboriginal clans. Botany Bay/Kamay is one of Australia’s most significant cultural and natural sites. This location was a significant point of both physical and cultural conflict: HMS Endeavour, the first ship carrying British explorers and colonists, landed on the southern shores of Kamay — renamed, at this time, Botany Bay — in 1770.</em></div><div><em><br></em></div><div><em>Today, Botany Bay is an unusual clash of pristine national park land home to a diverse but delicate marine ecosystem, and heavily industrialized areas including Sydney’s main cargo seaport and the desalinization plant, oil refinery, sewer treatment facility, and miles of industrial pipelines that line the shores."</em></div></blockquote><span><div><span><br></span></div>By walking through bush and dunes, suburban streets and industrial estates, Nohe was able to directly observe the Bay with contemplative discipline. The artist was ready to document discoveries with digital audio recorders and cameras, and comprehensive database searches in state and national libraries and the online market eBay.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Over time he became aware of seasonal and long-term rhythms accented by notes of discordant change. A world of inaudible sound was sampled via a radio frequency scanner, allowing Nohe to intercept air traffic at Sydney Airport; hydrophones captured otherwise inaudible underwater sounds in mangroves, docks and tide pools.</div><div><br></div><div>His extended time and methods of observation revealed truths about a complex place told with documentary mural prints, sound compositions, video, archival documents, and ephemeral materials. In many ways this story mirrors our American experience of human stewardship, the colonization and the decimation of indigenous peoples, industrialization, national narratives, globalization and climate change.</div><div><br></div><div>“In the years that I worked on this project, I witnessed and recorded change that astounded me,” Nohe says. “One must contrast the epoch of Aboriginal stewardship of the Bay, with the radical reshaping of the environment after the founding of Modern Australia.”</div><div><br></div><div>Timothy Nohe is an artist and educator engaging traditional and electronic media in daily life and public places. His artwork has focused on sustainability and place, intermedia works, and sound scores for dance and video. He received a 2006 Fulbright Senior Scholar Award from the Australian–American Fulbright Commission and an Australian–American Fulbright Commission Fulbright Alumni Initiative Grant in 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>Nohe has forged strong ties to Australia, serving on the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal Unlikely, as an adjunct professor at La Trobe University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and as an artist-in-residence at the Centre for Creative Arts at La Trobe University.</div><div><br></div><div>Four Maryland State Arts Council awards have supported his work in the areas of music composition, non-classical; media; new genre; and installation/sculpture. Nohe has also been recognized with a Creative Baltimore Award and in 2015 the Warnock Foundation supported his interdisciplinary work in urban forests with a Social Innovator award.</div><div><br></div><div>Complete performance information and tickets are available through the <a href="http://wp.me/p2xNJ1-1dj" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Arts &amp; Culture Calendar</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Timothy Nohe will be on WYPR’s Humanities Connection live at 4:44 p.m. on February 11, 2016. An archive of the broadcast will be available at <a href="http://wypr.org/programs/humanities-connection" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Humanities Connection</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58946/attachments/20114" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><strong><br></strong></div></div><div><em>Image: Botany Bay, Australia. Photo by Timothy Nohe.</em></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Catherine Borg.     Timothy Nohe, director of the Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts (CIRCA) and visual arts...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/51239acfb5fadbacc73d28e344ac0c3b/69d4655f/news/000/058/946/149a11285a240705355ff4fe66dc3731/APL-ContainerShip_Edit-1920x768.jpg?1459348528</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58946/attachments/20114"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58946/guest@my.umbc.edu/e69d2ea756fd457ad27ae0d474927bbd/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/xxlarge.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/xlarge.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/large.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/medium.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/small.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/xsmall.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/946/8a8b2c40ad60ea754d0616fb6580478c/xxsmall.jpg?1459540225</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>1</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:35:45 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:50:42 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58945" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58945">
  <Title>CADVC&#8217;s touring exhibits connect to audiences across nation</Title>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/on-the-road-cadvcs-touring-exhibitions-reach-national-global-audiences/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Catherine Borg.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div><span>The </span><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC)</a><span> reaches audiences far beyond UMBC with dynamic touring exhibitions that explore the social and aesthetic issues of our times and inspire viewers to rethink how art institutions relate the public. The Center offers extensive educational outreach initiatives and publication programs, often in partnership with a leading educational and cultural institutions.</span></div><div><br></div><div>Four CADVC exhibitions currently traveling serve as excellent examples of this work:</div><div><br></div><div><em><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/foralltheworld/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights</a></em> was organized by the CADVC in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Through a host of media—including photographs, television and film, magazines, newspapers, posters, books, and pamphlets—the project explores the historic role of visual culture in shaping, influencing, and transforming the fight for racial equality and justice in the United States from the late-1940s to the mid-1970s. For All the World to See includes a traveling exhibition, website, online film festival, and richly illustrated companion book. The exhibition originated on the UMBC campus and since then toured extensively; prominent exhibition venues include the International Center for Photography, the National Civil Rights Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the DuSable Museum of African American History.</div><div><br></div><div>In addition to the partnership with the Smithsonian, the extension of the exhibition through digital and printed efforts, and the initial exhibition tour, a subsequent tour in partnership with the <a href="http://www.nehontheroad.org/SiteResources/Data/Templates/t1.asp?docid=543&amp;DocName=Home" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">National Endowment for the Humanities’ On the Road</a> program has been traveling since 2012, reaching cities from Portland to San Antonio. The 20th installation of the exhibition through the NEH partnership will open in April at Kean University in Union, New Jersey and then continue to tour at least through the spring of 2017 with additional upcoming exhibitions in Connecticut, Illinois, Louisiana and Texas. The NEH is an integral partnership, supplying the resources and communications to reach diverse audiences and tailor the exhibition for a wide variety of venues.</div><div><em><br></em></div><div><a href="http://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions/revolution-of-the-eye#gallery" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television</em></a>, organized jointly by the CADVC and the Jewish Museum in New York, is the first exhibition to explore how avant-garde art influenced and shaped the look and content of network television in its formative years, from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s. During this period, the pioneers of American television—many of them young, Jewish, and aesthetically adventurous—had adopted modernism as a source of inspiration. Revolution of the Eye looks at how the dynamic new medium, in its risk-taking and aesthetic experimentation, paralleled and embraced cutting-edge art and design. The exhibition premiered at the Jewish Museum, and then travelled to the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art where it was on view recently. The exhibition will open next at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts next month before returning to UMBC in the CADVC gallery October 6, 2016 through January 7, 2017.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/exhibitions/VisibilityMachines.php" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>Visibility Machines: Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen</em></a>, which opened at UMBC in October 2013, explores the unique roles Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen have played as meticulous observers of the global military industrial complex. Investigating forms of military surveillance, espionage, war-making, and weaponry, Farocki and Paglen each examine the deceptive and clandestine ways in which military projects have deeply transformed, and politicized, our relationship to images and the realities they seem to represent. The exhibition initiates critical questions about the crucial part images play in revealing essential but largely concealed information, and places the oeuvres of Harun Farocki and Trevor Paglen within the broader cultural and historical developments of the media they are creatively working with, namely photography, film, and new media. The exhibition marks the first time the work of these two internationally recognized artists has been shown together as well as significantly evaluated in respect to one another. After the exhibition premiered at UMBC an international tour included exhibitions at Die Akademie der Künst, in Berlin, Germany; Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago; and the Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio.</div><div><br></div><div>The exhibition <em><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/cadvc/exhibitions/migrate" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Where Do We Migrate To?</a></em> features the work of nineteen internationally recognized artists and collectives, including Acconci Studio, Svetlana Boym, Blane De St. Croix, Lara Dhondt, Brendan Fernandes, Claire Fontaine, Nicole Franchy, Andrea Geyer, Isola and Norzi, Kimsooja, Pedro Lasch, Adrian Piper, Raqs Media Collective, Société Réaliste, Julika Rudelius, Xaviera Simmons, Fereshteh Toosi, Philippe Vandenberg, and Eric Van Hove. The exhibition explores contemporary issues of migration as well as experiences of displacement and exile. Situating the contemporary individual in a world of advanced globalization, the artworks address how a multiplicity of migratory encounters demand an increasingly complex understanding of the human condition. After its presentation at UMBC in 2011, the exhibition has toured both nationally and internationally, most recently exhibited at the Värmlands Museum in Karlstad, Sweden (view <a href="http://www.varmlandsmuseum.se/utstallning/where-do-we-migrate-to/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>). It will be on view at DePauw University’s Richard E. Peeler in the fall of 2016.</div><div><br></div><div>Symmes Gardner, executive director of the CADVC, says he is “very excited to be working on the Center’s next project on the near horizon, <a href="http://wp.me/p2xNJ1-17W" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">SEEING SCIENCE</a>, a new initiative that engages a wide variety of research happening at UMBC.” The year-long campus-wide interdisciplinary project will bring together UMBC’s science, humanities, and art communities to explore the central and evolving role that photographic images play in defining, shaping, promoting, and furthering science. The project asks how photographic images made in and about the sciences impact public opinion, policy, science education, visual and popular culture, and trigger awareness of and discussion about pressing issues. Seeing Science was initiated by the Office of the Vice President of Research, in collaboration with the CADVC. More information regarding the web-based projects, exhibitions, film series and publications can be found on <a href="http://artscalendar.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC’s Arts &amp; Culture calendar</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58945/attachments/20113" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div></div><div><em>Image: Installation view of the exhibition Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television. The Jewish Museum, NY. Photo by David Heald.</em></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Catherine Borg.     The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture (CADVC) reaches audiences far beyond UMBC with dynamic touring...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/0cd8b8845baa3d8a1e3e7825cbef11d4/69d4655f/news/000/058/945/105bbb4c5c3b35ce92f245193aa94883/babs780x420saveforweb.jpg?1459348319</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58945/attachments/20113"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58945/guest@my.umbc.edu/ccfa4bd4e9d18dcfda891f1ec57ffd32/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/xxlarge.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/xlarge.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/large.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/medium.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/small.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/xsmall.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/945/d02c6db8a690013346b1fd2654bc9f98/xxsmall.jpg?1459540284</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>0</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:32:14 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:51:45 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58944" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58944">
  <Title>UMBC heads to Light City Baltimore</Title>
  <Tagline>festival of light, music, innovation</Tagline>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/umbc-heads-to-light-city-baltimore-festival-of-light-music-innovation/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Dinnah Winnick.</em></a></div><div><br></div><div>Baltimore’s history as the first U.S. city to be illuminated by gas lamps has inspired Light City Baltimore, a major new public festival celebrating innovation and creativity across technology and the arts.</div><div><br></div><div>Light City Baltimore will take place in the Inner Harbor, March 28-April 3, with 1.5 miles of glowing public artworks, free music, a free UMBC hospitality space, and a six-day ticketed innovation conference, Light City U. Named one of the top “intriguing things to see and do in the U.S. in 2016” by <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/08/travel/united-states-travel-destinations-2016/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">CNN</a>, Light City Baltimore features artists, scientists, activists, and thinkers from around the globe, including several UMBC faculty, staff, students, and alumni.</div><div><br></div><div>Look for these exciting free exhibits and events highlighting members of the UMBC community:</div><div><ul><li><span>“1,001 Lux,” a video installation by <strong>Symmes Gardner</strong>, director of the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture<br></span><span><br></span></li><li><span>“<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1406424296040979/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Diamonds Light Baltimore</a>” light sculptures by <strong>Mina Cheon</strong> ’02 MFA, imaging and digital arts, and Gabriel Kroiz, with artist meet-and-greet April 2, 8:30-10:30 p.m., between Eastern Ave. and East Falls Ave. (<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/light-city-baltimore/bal-light-city-baltimore-diamonds-light-baltimore-story-20160322-story.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">watch video</a>)</span></li></ul><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58944/attachments/20109" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"><br><br></div><ul><li><span>“Project Aquaculture,” a large-scale projected animation on the roof of the Columbus Center by visual arts faculty <strong>Kelley Bell</strong> ’06, MFA, and <strong>Corrie Parks</strong> that comments on the health of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem (<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/light-city-baltimore/bal-light-city-baltimore-project-aquaculture-story-20160321-story.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">watch video</a>)</span></li></ul><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58944/attachments/20110" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div><ul><li><span>Red Sammy band performance with <strong>Adam Trice</strong> ’04, English, on the Concert Stage at Harbor East<br></span><span><br></span></li><li><span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1547777935516496/?ref=1&amp;action_history=%5B%7B%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%2C%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22extra_data%22%3A%5B%5D%7D%5D" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">HydroPrismEchoChamber: Fluid Movement’s Ode to McKeldin Fountain</a> including performers <strong>B. Simone Thompson</strong>, ’92, social work and psychology; <strong>Leah Marcus</strong> ’03 M.A., TESOL; <strong>Katie Leser</strong> ’04, theatre; and <strong>Delana Gregg</strong> ’04, M.A., instructional systems development, an academic advisor in the Honors College<br></span><span><br></span></li><li><span>Performance by <strong>Colette Searls</strong>, theatre, combining animation, live theatre and puppetry on the Light Up the Night! stage</span></li></ul></div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58944/attachments/20111" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div><div>“Baltimore is shedding light on itself through media, social action, and art,” says <strong>Searls</strong>. “The festival emphasizes Baltimore as a generator of great art and a destination for lovers of great art.”</div><div><br></div><div>“Artistically, innovatively, I’m just so excited to have the opportunity to do this,” <strong>Cheon</strong> shares.</div><div><br></div><div>Light City visitors can <a href="http://50.umbc.edu/light-city/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">stop by the UMBC Black and Gold Lounge</a> in the Columbus Center, March 28-April 2, 6-9 p.m., for a complimentary beverage and free glow-in-the-dark UMBC gear (while supplies last). UMBC will host special alumni receptions for the <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc50/events/38303" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">visual and performing arts</a> (March 28), <a href="http://www.alumni.umbc.edu/s/1325/hybrid/index.aspx?sid=1325&amp;gid=1&amp;pgid=1437&amp;content_id=1436&amp;authkey=qd%2b1Pxdsr4Fe44UofUUATJClVduZFSDUbbjMnbNsjqR90eiBHy36mA%3d%3d" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">IT and engineering</a> (March 30), and the <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/umbc50/events/38304" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Honors College</a> (March 31).</div><div><br></div><div>Black and Gold Lounge visitors will get a sneak peek of UMBC’s new <a href="http://retrieverstories.umbc.edu/#featured" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Retriever Stories site</a>, where members of the UMBC community can share their UMBC photos and experiences heading into the university’s 50th anniversary. The Black and Gold Lounge will also offer “buy one get one” coupons for Ekiben Buns, available during Light City at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UMBCAlumni/posts/1110170719013958" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ekiben food truck</a>, operated by UMBC alumni entrepreneurs <strong>Nikhil Yesupriya</strong> ’13, biological sciences, <strong>Steve Chu</strong> ’12, economics, and <strong>Ephrem Abebe</strong> ’13, information systems (site #2 on the official <a href="http://lightcity.org/map/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Light City map</a>). For dessert, stop by the Harbor Flying Fruit smoothie kiosk operated by <a href="http://www.choiceprograms.org/pgs.cfm?linksubID=5" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC’s Choice Jobs Program</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>UMBC is also a founding sponsor of <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Light City U</a>, which includes conferences on social innovation (March 28-29), health innovation (March 30-31), sustainability innovation (March 30-31), and creative innovation (April 1-2), as well as the free Bright Lights Youth Festival.</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Talithia Williams</strong>, associate professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and current <a href="https://www.hmc.edu/about-hmc/2015/03/02/williams-named-american-council-on-education-fellow/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">American Council of Education fellow</a> based at UMBC, will present “Connecting African American Girls and Their Parents to STEM” on day one of the <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/social-innovation-conference/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">social innovation conference</a>, on March 28, 11 a.m. Her talk will be followed by two conversations featuring UMBC alumni. Invested Impact founder <strong>Rodney Foxworth</strong> ’07, anthropology, will speak on “Collaboration and Unexpected Outcomes” at 11:25 a.m. Center for Urban Families CEO <strong>Joe Jones</strong> ’06, social work, will join Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis at 1:05 for a conversation on “safety and civility.”</div><div><br></div><div>President <strong>Freeman Hrabowski</strong> will deliver keynote remarks for day two of the <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/social-innovation-conference/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">social innovation conference</a>, on March 29, 9 a.m. His talk “Holding Fast to Dreams” will focus on creating a learning environment and community that supports success for all students.</div><div><br></div><div>Professor <strong>Chris Swan</strong>, geography and environmental systems, will present on the Maryland Green Prisons Initiative during the <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/sustainability-innovation-conference/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">sustainability innovation conference</a> on March 30, 4:15 p.m. Professor <strong>Yoni Zohar</strong>, chair of marine biotechnology, will participate in the <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/health-innovation-conference/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">health innovation conference panel</a> “Our Planet, Our Health, &amp; Taking Care of Tomorrow: Sustainability in Healthy Food Choices,” moderated by National Aquarium’s TJ Tate on March 31, 10:20 a.m.</div><div><br></div><div>The <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/creative-innovation-conference/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">creative innovation conference</a> on April 2 will include the panel “Incubator as Influencer” at 2:05 p.m., moderated by <strong>Greg Cangialosi</strong> ’96, English, who is CEO of Mission Tix, co-founder of Betamore, and namesake of the Cangialosi Business Innovation Competition through UMBC’s Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship. Current UMBC student and emerging entrepreneur <strong>Markus Proctor</strong> ’16, interdisciplinary studies, who is founder and CEO of EduPal, will speak on the following panel, “Youth and Diversity in Entrepreneurship,” beginning at 2:35.</div><div><br></div><div>For visitors looking for a highly interactive experience, the creative innovation conference will also offer a tour of <a href="http://bmorefoundery.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Foundery</a>, a new Baltimore makerspace co-founded by Lockheed Martin engineer <strong>Corey Fleischer</strong> ’05, ’08 M.S., mechanical engineering, with partners he met through the Discovery Channel’s engineering challenge show “Big Brain Theory,” which he won in 2013.</div><div><br></div><div>UMBC community members can enjoy a substantial discount on tickets to the four Light City U innovation conferences. <a href="http://lightcity.org/lcu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Use the code “UMBCED2016” by March 27 to purchase individual conference tickets at $99, more than 50% off the regular price</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>For additional information on Light City and Light City U, visit <a href="http://umbc.edu/lightcity" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC’s Light City page</a> and the official <a href="http://www.lightcity.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Light City website</a>. Remember to share your photos on social media with #UMBC and #UMBC50. You can find UMBC on <a href="https://twitter.com/UMBC" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Twitter @UMBC</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/umbclife/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Instagram @UMBClife</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/posts/58944/attachments/20112" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><br></div><div><span><em>Images: (1) “Diamonds: Will You Marry Me?” light installation in Seoul, Korea, 2007; copyright by Mina Cheon and Gabriel Kroiz. (2) “Diamonds R 4Ever” light installation at Sungkok Art Museum, 2012, in Seoul, Korea; copyright by Mina Cheon and Gabriel Kroiz. (3) “Project Aquaculture,” courtesy of Kelley Bell and Corrie Parks. (5) “Kendra’s Bay,” courtesy of Colette Searls and Lynn Tomlinson</em></span></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Dinnah Winnick.     Baltimore’s history as the first U.S. city to be illuminated by gas lamps has inspired Light City Baltimore, a major...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/663e2aaef0b2bc88fad93c3b68de8f92/69d4655f/news/000/058/944/89efddd3e5b3984d72d0d03408d26650/20-02_8-1.jpg?1459347961</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58944/attachments/20109"></Attachment>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58944/attachments/20110"></Attachment>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58944/attachments/20111"></Attachment>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58944/attachments/20112"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58944/guest@my.umbc.edu/d82714f471d65fd1c98998e380776a4c/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/xxlarge.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/xlarge.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/large.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/medium.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/small.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/xsmall.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/944/9b9c6a29f95dda29b5357f9f2b53d288/xxsmall.jpg?1459540370</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>1</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:28:00 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 15:52:57 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="58943" important="false" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58943">
  <Title>UMBC&#8217;s hosts 10th Annual Arts Integration Conference</Title>
  <Tagline>hosted by UMBC Dept. of Education, focuses on social justice</Tagline>
  <Body>
    <![CDATA[
    <div class="html-content"><div><em><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/umbcs-department-of-education-hosts-10th-annual-arts-integration-conference-with-focus-on-social-justice/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.</a></em></div><div><br></div><div>Nearly 200 educators, students, artists, and administrators attended the 10th Annual Arts Integration Conference on Saturday, March 5 at UMBC. The event was hosted by UMBC’s Department of Education in cooperation with The Shriver Center. This year’s conference, titled <em>The Heart of Arts: Building Community through Arts Integration</em>, focused on how integrating visual arts, dance, music, and theatre into P-12 curricula can help build cultural awareness, enhance community engagement, and provide opportunities for students to become advocates for social justice.</div><div><br></div><div>The conference was developed for P-12 teachers, teacher candidates, youth leaders, and others who work with students through the arts. The event included an interactive general session, 14 hands-on workshops, and an art show where conference attendees interacted with Baltimore City student artists.</div><div><br></div><div>Many UMBC alumni participated in the conference, including presentations and remarks by <strong>Kevin Maxwell ’02</strong>, Ph.D., language, literacy, and culture, CEO of Prince George’s County Public Schools, and <strong>Margaret Weber ’12</strong>, M.A.T., art education, New York City Public Schools visual arts teacher. Weber shared best practices for producing engaging lessons that address cultural relevancy through her interactive presentation “Hallway as Canvas: Bringing Graffiti Art Techniques into the Classroom.” Other presenters included <strong>Fabiola Rodriguez ’16</strong>, M.A.T., and her UMBC PDS mentor, Sara Murphy.</div><div><br></div><div><img src="http://my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/cbc81ac297dee18e3446df51da522a84/56fbdf82/news/000/058/943/e2bd1aedcca34c1460557619b293af86/Arts_Integration16-8352-1.jpg?1459347303" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div><strong><br></strong></div><div><strong>Frank Anderson</strong>, assistant director of The Choice Program at UMBC, led an interactive general session titled “Giving Students a Choice through Socially Engaged Art.” Choice Program youth shared how their arts-based visual, music, and dance projects have helped them engage with their community, including a shared mosaic created with the Baltimore City Police Department and an audio recording of a community sound collage. <strong>Meghann Shutt</strong>, assistant director of the Shriver Center Peaceworker Program, and several Shriver Center Peaceworkers provided readings from <em>Voices of a People’s History</em>. </div><div><br></div><div>Many UMBC interns and students, UMBC Professional Development School (PDS) teachers, teachers from six Maryland school districts and Washington, D.C., and students and faculty from the University of Maryland, College Park and Towson University participated in the conference.</div><div><br></div><div>“I believe our record-breaking attendance this year was due to the relevance of the topic. Teachers understand the importance of building community in their classrooms, their schools, and the neighborhoods in which their students live,” explains <strong>Barbara Bourne</strong>, clinical instructor and director of elementary education and arts coordinator in the education department. “Conference presenters demonstrated how the arts – music, drama, visual art, and dance – are powerful tools for building communities from within and for linking one community to another. Hopefully, participants discovered new strategies for using arts integration as a means to connect their students with others in their classes, schools, neighborhoods, and global communities.”</div><div><br></div><div>For more information, visit the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/education/aiconference16/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">education department website</a>.</div><div><br></div><div><em>Image: The Department of Education Arts Integration Conference at UMBC, March 5, 2016. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC. </em></div></div>
]]>
  </Body>
  <Summary>This story initially appeared on news.umbc.edu, written by Max Cole.     Nearly 200 educators, students, artists, and administrators attended the 10th Annual Arts Integration Conference on...</Summary>
  <AttachmentKind>Image</AttachmentKind>
  <AttachmentUrl>https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/23dfee2943b496d7082d8fd2cae9b397/69d4655f/news/000/058/943/e2bd1aedcca34c1460557619b293af86/Arts_Integration16-8352-1.jpg?1459347303</AttachmentUrl>
  <Attachments>
    <Attachment kind="Image" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/posts/58943/attachments/20108"></Attachment>
  </Attachments>
  <TrackingUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/58943/guest@my.umbc.edu/32cf55b7df9133bfbb9c4c564bdc1378/api/pixel</TrackingUrl>
  <Tag>ovpr-news-2016</Tag>
  <Group token="research">Division of Research and Creative Achievement</Group>
  <GroupUrl>https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/research</GroupUrl>
  <AvatarUrl>https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="original">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/original.jpg?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xlarge">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xlarge.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="large">https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/large.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="medium">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/medium.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/small.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <AvatarUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/794/4bca2aa331eb7e472d63d97e0798b600/xxsmall.png?1743706368</AvatarUrl>
  <Sponsor>Office of the Vice President for Research</Sponsor>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/xxlarge.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xlarge">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/xlarge.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="large">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/large.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="medium">https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/medium.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="small">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/small.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xsmall">https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/xsmall.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <ThumbnailUrl size="xxsmall">https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/058/943/7ffe2080c0404dd33f3f57ae88324c24/xxsmall.jpg?1459536805</ThumbnailUrl>
  <PawCount>0</PawCount>
  <CommentCount>0</CommentCount>
  <CommentsAllowed>true</CommentsAllowed>
  <PostedAt>Wed, 30 Mar 2016 10:15:26 -0400</PostedAt>
  <EditAt>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 14:53:33 -0400</EditAt>
</NewsItem>
</News>
