Women's Center Closed for Spring Break Office and Lounge Closed 3/20 - 3/24

The Women's Center lounge and office will be closed during Spring Break. Those dates are Monday, March 20th through Friday, March 24th. 

We will resume our normal hours starting Monday, March 27th.

 For any parents who need the lactation room during this time, please contact the Women's Center at womenscenter@umbc.edu or call us at 410-455-2714 to make arrangements prior to spring break beginning.

Have a great Spring Break, UMBC!

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Do you think you have what it takes to be @umbcdining and Retriever Essentials' UMBCooking champion? Anyone can participate from a student org, club, alumni group, or even a group of friends! Sign up here with your best recipes! More details below.


Details: Each team will consist of 3-4 individuals and you will be able to compete for a panel of judges in a live cooking competition. We supply the ingredients, you supply the chefs! You will have until Sunday, March 26th, 2023 at 10:00pm to sign up! Selected teams will compete in person at True Grits on Tuesday, May 2nd from 5-7 PM for a panel of judges.

Qualification: Your team must submit two dishes! You don't have to cook these for us, but your recipes' creativity, detail, ingredients, how tasty they sounds, and your use of a Retriever Essentials ingredient will determine if you compete on May 2nd! For a further understanding, see the link in our bio.

Selection Period: We will be selecting teams the moment the sign up ends and we will let you know in an announcement on myUMBC March 31st, 2023. The announcement will have team names, recipe titles, date of the competition. We will also personally email you as well to make sure you get the message! 3 teams will be selected and they will have a chance to cook their two dishes for our judges in the main event!

!!The day your teams will compete is May 2nd of this semester from 5:00 to 7:00 PM!!

Prizes: Prizes will include your dish being featured one day in the True Grits Dining Hall menu with the option to cook it with SVC staff, gift cards to local participating restaurants and other places, and potentially some other prizes that will be very, very, VERY intriguing.

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As our university community is gearing up for our mid-semester rest and Spring Break, our center hours will be amended in reflection of this. 

The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity & The Pride Center will close on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 5pm and re-open on Monday, March 27, 2023 at 10am.

The Gathering Space for Spiritual Well-Being will close on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 8pm and re-open on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 12pm noon. 

During this time we hope that all of our community members receive the rest and peace to fulfill themselves in anticipation of finishing the second half of our spring semester.

Should there be any questions or concerns, please reach out to i3b@umbc.edu. 

-- i3b Staff Team  
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Women's Center staff will be available remotely,  if you have questions please feel free to contact us via email at womenscenter@umbc.edu
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We will re-open for regular operations Wednesday, March 15th. Should there be any questions or concerns, please reach out to us at i3b@umbc.edu. 
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Save the date for our annual GSA Awards Ceremony! 

Our program will recognize GSA award recipients as well as other members of our graduate community and the GSA Senate. The Graduate Student Association has established numerous awards to recognize members of the UMBC community who have distinguished themselves. All graduate programs, faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend!

Click Here to Register Your Nominations for Graduate Student and Graduate 
Student Organization Awards

Descriptions of each award 

Click Here to Register for the Awards Gala

We hope you will join us as we celebrate the wonderful members of our graduate community! We look forward to celebrating another successful year with all of our graduate programs! 

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We have updated this week's signup link to pack meals at True Grits and we need your help!

Sign up here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d49a8a82aa3fdc70-frnxretriever9?useFullSite=true#/

Please note that all current opportunities to get involved are kept up-to-date on our Linktree.

Thank you and hope to see you soon!
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]]> Reminder! Join us today if you RSVP for food and fun. Attendees are welcome, food limited to RSVPS. UC 312 Image https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/32b90655d325180285e9962314fba49f/69f93e87/news/000/131/646/4a0a330f3fe04fab7704255c4230dc6d/Screenshot_20230313_111402_Instagram.jpg?1678720627 https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/131646/guest@my.umbc.edu/d7c45ca7d0333d1b700ef66df21313e5/api/pixel UMBC Graduate Student Association https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/xsmall.png?1688588974 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/original.png?1688588974 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/xxlarge.png?1688588974 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/xlarge.png?1688588974 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/large.png?1688588974 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/medium.png?1688588974 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/small.png?1688588974 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/xsmall.png?1688588974 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/141/6944ed1afb7c0b0557d52a5e61a6d9c9/xxsmall.png?1688588974 UMBC Graduate Student Association 0 0 true Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:17:07 -0400 Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:17:17 -0400 REPOST: Candid Conversations about Accessibility w/InstrTech

This session will provide an overview of resources available to support the common accommodation needs for students who are deaf or have a hearing impairment. Students with disability accommodations may require sign language interpreters and captioning/transcriptions of all audio and video materials.  

We will provide an overview of the options that Student Disability Services (SDS) and DoIT provide UMBC users to meet student accommodation needs. Transcription/captioning is a legal requirement for course materials for Deaf/Hard of Hearing students, though all students benefit from the availability of transcribed/captioned content which increases engagement and increases  retention and comprehension. 

In the session, answers to some common questions will be addressed including:

This session will be facilitated by Dr. Peter Ariev, Instructional Design Specialist, Josh Abrams, Instructional Design Specialist, and Michael Canale, Assistant Director in the Office of Student Disability Services. 

To RSVP for this event: Please click on the Website button below to connect with "Going Virtually" and adding this event to your calendar. 

This session will take place in a virtual conference room. On the date/time of the event, please join the session by clicking "Join Online Event" above. The meeting link will be added to this event page in advance of the session.

The session will be recorded and the link will be distributed to everyone who registered.

A photo of a hand sculpture supporting a tree trunk accompanies this post, as a symbol of academic support. Credit unsplash.com

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Judith "Judy" Heumann - widely regarded as the "mother" of the disability rights movement passed away in DC on March 4, 2023.  A summary of her life and essential work is available on her website here.

Memorial service information (DC/Livestream) is posted here.

She has left an indelible mark on the world for people with disabilities and all who benefit from accessible features.  She has been a lifelong advocate for herself and others, beginning with her own educational advocacy and her successful challenge in becoming a licensed teacher who uses a wheelchair and continuing to the present day. Her experience with Camp Jened and the San Francisco 504 protests has received broad attention with the recent documentary Crip Camp. (NB: there is intersection with Dr. Sami Schalk's recent 504 UMBC talk)

More of Judy Heumann's work in her own words can be found here:

Her influence is truly global, national and local - many of the professional staff within UMBC's Accessibility and Disability Services have seen her in action through Association for Higher Ed and Disability (AHEAD) and similar  professional development events. Her memory is a global blessing.

While she will be dearly missed, as a tribute to her legacy, she would want campus members to co-create a disability-friendly community, and to reach out to UMBC Disability resources for information and support:

Photo of a larger-than-life seated silver man statue overlooking a man in a wheelchair, both appear to be gazing out a floor-to-ceiling window with a lush, green landscape, symbolizing Judy Heumann's influence on the experience of people with disabilities.  Credit Unsplash.com
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