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Name: Sarah New

Hometown: Bel Air, MD, USA

Alma Mater: University of Virginia

Volunteers needed for research study.

The Role of Skin Color & Hair Politics

in Black Women’s College Experiences

Latasha Eley is a graduate student in the UMBC Language, Literacy, & Culture doctoral program conducting research to explore the ways in which Black, female, undergraduate students’ experiences are impacted by hair and skin hue politics within campus culture.  Please contact her (leley1@umbc.edu) for more information if you meet the following eligibility criteria and are interested in participating:

•       Black/African American

•       Female

•       18-25

•       Enrolled at UMBC full-time

You will be asked to share your on and off campus experiences, as they relate to hair and skin color, individually or in a small group setting of no more than twelve students for participation in a focus group.  Focus Group participants will receive a free pizza dinner.  Individual Interview participants will receive $20 cash.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Ebony Tongo, Chemical Engineering Major

President of UMBC's Society of Women Engineers

Meet Deborah. She is an Animation major. Her research explores the inner workings of the body through the medium of 3D animation. Typically, the only way the inside of the living body can be observed non-invasively is through the use of specialized medical equipment.

Who did you work with on this project?
I worked on it myself.

Was this your first independent research project?
Yes.

Do you get course credit for this work? How much time do you put into it?
Yes. Each art major is required to take a class in which they create their senior capstone project. This project has occupied most of my free time this semester.

What academic background did you have before you started?
I had been studying computer animation for about five years.

How did you learn what you needed to know to be successful in this project?
I studied anatomical books, drawings, and videos so that I could make my project as accurate as possible.

What was the hardest part about your research?
Making all parts of the model move together accurately.

Is this the first time you have applied to present at URCAD? How did you find out about applying to present your work? Are you excited?
This is my first time. The professor who teaches my senior projects class mentioned that, to fulfill one of our assignments, we could submit our projects to URCAD. I am very excited to have my work seen by people outside my department.

How does this research experience relate to your work in other classes?
Besides my animation classes, I have used knowledge from the computer science classes I have taken to write the code that controls the arm model in my project.

What are your career goals?
I would like to work as a computer animator for practical applications, such as the federal government, serious gaming, or medical visualization.

Read about her research here...

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR RESEARCH STUDY.

The Role of Skin Color & Hair Politics in Black Women’s College Experiences

I am a graduate student, in the UMBC Language, Literacy, & Culture doctoral program, conducting research to explore the ways in which Black, female, undergraduate students’ experiences are impacted by hair and skin hue politics within campus culture.  Please contact me for more information if you meet the following eligibility criteria and are interested in participating:

•Black/African American

•Female

•18-25

•Enrolled at UMBC full-time

You will be asked to share your on and off campus experiences, as they relate to hair and skin color, individually or in a small group setting of no more than twelve students for participation in a focus group.  Focus Group participants will receive a free pizza dinner.  Individual Interview participants will receive $20 cash.

Latasha Eley

leley1@umbc.edu  -  757-777-6173

WHIAAPI Summer Internship Deadline Extended to March 27

The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (WHIAAPI) in Washington, D.C., offers full-time internships during the spring, summer, and fall.  Interns at the Initiative are responsible for assisting the staff on a wide range of AAPI issues and priorities, including capacity-building, civil rights, data disaggregation, economic development, education, health, immigration, language access, and workforce diversity.  In addition, interns will help write policy memos and proposals, draft blogs, assist with communications and social media, coordinate and staff events, and conduct outreach to national and local AAPI organizations and leaders. Applicants for intern positions must be undergraduates or graduate students who are enrolled at least half-time. 

If you are interested in applying, please send the following to whitehouseaapi@ed.gov:

·         Dates that you are available for the internship

·         Resume

·         A written statement that describes (1) an issue that affects the AAPI community on a national level, (2) a strategy that you would implement at the Initiative to address that issue, and (3) the organizations and/or federal agencies with whom you would collaborate and why. The statement should be no more than one page, single-spaced.

The deadline to apply for the Summer session (May/June-Aug) has been extended to Thursday, March 27, 2014.  Please see the attached document or click here to learn more.