Researcher of the Week: Yasmin Graham
Technologies for telerehabilitation services
Meet Yasmin! She is a junior mechanical engineering major, Meyerhoff and MARC U* STAR Scholar, LSAMP participant, a member of Phi Kappa Phi, and has consistently been named to the Dean’s and President’s lists at UMBC. She completed summer REUs at both M.I.T. and Vanderbilt University, and won the award for best research poster presentation at Vanderbilt’s Nanoscale Science and Engineering conference.
Yasmin also co-authored a publication in the scientific journal, Frontiers in Biological Detection: From Nanosensors to Systems IX. In her spare time, she is an exhibited photographer and member of the UMBC gospel choir and the robotics team.
Her goal is to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering with a focus in biomechanics. She is currently interested in the field of robotics and prosthetics. Yasmin just earned an honorable mention for the prestigious
Goldwater scholarship.
Yasmin will present her research poster, "
Rethinking Telerehabilitation: It’s Not The Metrics" at
URCAD on April 25th from 10-11:30 a.m. in the UC Ballroom. Her mentor is Dr. Helena Mentis (Information Systems).
Abstract:
Telerehabilitation is providing rehabilitation services outside of a formal rehabilitation center through information and communications technology (ICT).
Currently, emphasis is placed on the computational work – recognizing movement and quantifying it for use in home-based rehabilitation systems. For this study we wanted to further understand what information a rehabilitation specialist (occupational therapists and physical therapists) currently use, and how they would use that information in a telerehabilitation context when providing care to stroke survivors living in low-resource communities. We conducted a series of observations and interviews of stroke survivors and rehabilitation specialists and then categorized information and interaction behaviors into themes using an event logging software, Noldus Observer. We discovered rehabilitation specialists were not solely interested in the movements performed, but preferred more contextual and subjective information on their patients. Additionally, these specialists were eager to learn more regarding the everyday tasks their patients are completing to ensure the exercises that are prescribed translate to everyday tasks and functions. From our findings, we assert that telerehabilitation needs to centralize the experience of the patient and use movement data as a secondary supporting information source.
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UMBC Review: Journal of Undergraduate Research 2018 Edition
Pick up your FREE copy at URCAD on April 25th!
The 2018 edition of the UMBC Review will premiere at URCAD on Wednesday, April 25th. There will be a table in the UC lobby where you can pick up your free copy! Check out the work of UMBC undergrads...
Journal of Undergraduate Research 2018 vol.19
TABLE OF CONTENTS |
Rebecca Gale
Cigarettes, Sailors, and Sororities: Student Scrapbooks and the Female Experience at National Park Smeinary, 1900–1942 |
17 |
Nimasha Fernando
Latin American Immigrant Health in the Baltimore Area: Provider Perspectives of Alternative Remedies |
111 |
Bruce James
Optimization of the K-means Clustering Algorithm through Initialized Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning |
37 |
Susannah Jones-Hochmuth
Faith and Feminism: An Exploration of Intersecting Identities |
137 |
Himadri Patel
Brain Mechanisms of Stress-Induced Analgesia: Exploring the Relationship Between Pain and Stress |
55 |
Jacob Street
Paying Dividends: Universal Basic Income, Income Inequality, and Public Opinion |
159 |
Manneha Qazi
Loss of Function Tool Development for N-myc Downstream Regulated 1 (NDRG1) |
75 |
Marina Mizell
Maternal Depression and Other Possible Barriers to Early Head Start/Head Start (EHS/HS) Enrollment in Baltimore, Maryland |
185 |
Sean Owen
Pronounced Leh-nurd Skih-nurd: Rhoticity and the South in American Rock Music |
93 |
Alexander Sievers
The Question of ‘Left-Wing Fascism’ within the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s |
213 |
This year's edition was created by a team of undergraduate students, including Ioana Petricel (STEM Editor), Manisha Vepa (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Editor), and Samuel Buettner (Graphic Designer). They are advised by faculty members Susan McDonough and Guenet Abraham.
Have research you want to publish in this peer reviewed journal? Submissions will open in August. See: ur.umbc.edu/umbc-review
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URCAD Oral Presenters Workshop
Tomorrow- Wed, 4/4 at 12:00pm
Accepted to do an oral presentation for URCAD on April 25th?
Workshop Tomorrow!
Effective Oral Presentation Strategies
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
12-12:50pm
with professor Timothy Phin
Location: ENG 027
Learn about: public speaking techniques, how to put together your powerpoint, organizing your research into a visual format, and more!
Check out our other resources for presenters, including guidelines, templates, and advice:
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Borrow a laptop for a day
From the library Check Out desk!
Did you know that you can pick up a laptop from the Library’s Check Out desk? We have 10 Macs and 10 Dells that are loaned out on a first-come first-served basis.
In order to make laptops available to as many people as possible, laptops may not be renewed, and patrons must wait 24 hours to check out another.
Availability and more information: http://lib.guides.umbc.edu/laptops
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Researcher of the Week: Alexia Petasis
Bringing together dance and social justice
Alexia is an Interdisciplinary Studies major and Psychology minor who will graduate in spring, 2019. She has been selected as an Undergraduate Research Award (URA) Scholar for 2018-19, and is a member of the Honors College.
Title of your research project:Confronting Social Issues through Translational Choreography
Describe your project:The purpose of this research is to determine how dance is being used by choreographers, specifically Sarah Panayiotou in her dance company BABEL Movement (a NY-based dance company that partners with social justice organizations in order to increase the rate of which they make an impact), to effectively communicate and engage with social issues. The goal is to apply an interdisciplinary framework to analyze the integration of the various disciplines that inform the choreography and determine the effectiveness of using dance for social justice organizations.
Who is your mentor(s) for your project? How did you find your mentor? Why did you choose them?My mentor is Steven McAlpine, Assistant Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department. I chose him because he has been my advisor for the past year and has helped me develop my course of study for my INDS degree. He is also very knowledgeable about interdisciplinary work, especially with a focus in arts integration, which will be useful to help me structure my research.
How did you become interested in this project? I have been dancing for the majority of my life and have recently started to devote my time to volunteering for non-profits, one of which being The Samaritan Women in Baltimore. I was unable to see the correlation between these two aspects of my life until I joined INDS and saw how the integration between choreography and social issues could be powerful in communicating stories and experiences that are difficult to express with words.
Describe how your work is interdisciplinary and why that is important to your work/expression:This work is interdisciplinary because it uses theories and frameworks from psychology and sociology to explain social justice issues with the use of dance as a vehicle to communicate those issues. This is important because these disciplines work together to maximize the potential of the other, in order to create dances that are both substantial and impactful. This work uses dance to “reason through analogies,” by representing social issues through movement as well as to “bridge the explanation-action gap” by presenting the issues in a new light, perhaps motivating and driving individuals to action through these compelling dances.
What has been the most rewarding part of undertaking this project?The most rewarding aspect of this project will be to see if social justice organizations benefit from this non-conventional use of dance.
How will you disseminate your research?I will disseminate my research at URCAD and hopefully have it published in the UMBC Review.
What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research? I would advise students who want to get involved in research to do research in the areas they are passionate about. If you are naturally drawn to a specific field, the questions you are curious about can be really powerful in driving innovative research.
What are your career goals?My career goal is to have a similar non-profit as Sarah Panayiotou’s BABEL Movement. I plan to start a dance-based social justice organization to portray social issues through dance with a specific focus on community outreach and community partnerships.
Alexia has choreographed a dance for sexual assault awareness month that will be performed in the UMBC recital hall (Fine Arts 118) on April 13 at 6pm. The performance will be followed by a community engaged conversation with individuals from the Women's Center, We Believe You, Hope Works, TurnAround, and UMBC's Title IX dept. See:
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Linda Wiratan wins Prestigious Goldwater Scholarship!
Future leader in STEM research
UMBC junior Linda Wiratan has been awarded the Goldwater scholarship for 2018. Yasmin Graham earned an Honorable Mention.
Linda is a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major with a minor in Creative Writing. She is a member of the Honors College, a URA Scholar and URCAD presenter, and a published poet in Bartleby, UMBC's creative arts journal. Her mentor is Dr. Hua Lu and her current research is entitled, "Investigation of Effects of Elicitor-Induced Defense Activation on the Circadian Clock in Arabidopsis." She will present her research poster at URCAD on Wednesday, April 25th from 10-11:30 am in the UC Ballroom.
Linda joins UMBC's past Goldwater recipients who have earned this prestigious award. As a representative of science, she hopes to improve its public perception by advancing its approachability. To this end, in addition to all of her academic achievements, Linda is the founder of City of Cells, LLC, a science-focused organization with the mission of improving the public perception of science through interactive and creative means such as blogs, science-inspired products, and educational animation. She will pursue a Ph.D. in Cell or Molecular Biology and conduct protein dynamics research. She has won various awards for her research posters, and has consistently been named to the Dean’s and President’s lists at UMBC. She has co-authored four articles with her mentors, Dr. Hua Lu and Dr. Marcin Ptaszek, in peer reviewed journals, including Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Letters, and Nature Communications (under review). The paper which Linda co-authored was selected as a cover article in the current issue of Inorganic Chemistry, and she also made the graphics for the cover. She was selected from a pool of 1280 applicants for the Goldwater scholarship. The award supports high-achieving STEM students who will pursue careers as research scientists, and will support Linda with funding for her senior academic year.
Yasmin Graham is a junior Mechanical Engineering major, a Meyerhoff and MARC U* STAR Scholar, and LSAMP participant. She earned Goldwater's honorable mention.
Congratulations to Linda and Yasmin!
For more information about Goldwater and other prestigious scholarships, see: https://oue.umbc.edu/ncs/
or email Dr. April Householder at aprilh@umbc.edu
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Work on that paper with Timmy Farrell at the Writing Center!
empowering students to become better writers
Tell us a little
about yourself…
My name is Timmy Farrell and I am a junior media and communicationsstudies
major with an interest in going into the
higher education and student affairs field.
Tell us about how
you are involved on campus.
I have been involved with a lot of leadership development
programs including the STRiVE student leadership retreat and the Retriever
Leadership Institute. I am also the Vice President of National Alliance on
Mental Illness (NAMI) at UMBC.
How and why did you
get involved in being a tutor?
I was interested in becoming a writing tutor because I think
being able to communicate clearly and effectively is one of the most important
skills to have in all aspects of life.
What is your
favorite thing about being a tutor?
My favorite thing about being a tutor is being able to have
conversation with students that empower them to become better writers.
Why should students
utilize the tutoring?
Students should utilize tutoring because getting feedback from
others is a very powerful tool.
What advice would
you give students about how to prepare for a tutoring session?
Have a sense of what you want to get out of the session and be
thinking about what your concerns are. Be prepared to engage in a conversation.
When and where can
someone work with you through the Learning Resources Center?
Students can work with me
in the Writing Center on Mondays from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and one Wednesdays
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Get Ready to Present: URCAD Workshop for Oral Presenters
Wednesday, 4/4 at 12:00pm
Accepted to do an oral presentation for URCAD on April 25th?
Upcoming workshop:
Effective Oral Presentation Strategies
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
12-12:50pm
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Location: ENG 027
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Get Ready to Present: URCAD Poster Workshop
Wednesday, 3/28
Have you been accepted to present a poster at URCAD on April 25th?
Learn how to create, print, and present your poster effectively!
Workshop Wednesday, 3/28:
How to Create and Present Effective Posters
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
12-12:50pm
with professor Raimi Quiton
Location: LH1
See examples of past URCAD posters in your field:
Accepted to do an oral presentation?
Upcoming workshop:
Effective oral presentation strategies
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
12-12:50pm
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Practice Spanish with Madeline Dement
Fridays 2-5p, Library
Tell us a little about yourself…
My name is Madeline Dement, and I am a Sondheim scholar and global studies major with a focus in international development and minors in Spanish and international politics. I studied abroad with UMBC in Barranquilla, Colombia last summer where I was able to greatly improve my Spanish skills.
Tell us about how you are involved on campus.
Along with tutoring for the LRC, I work closely with the Shriver Center on campus as the events coordinator for Refugee Youth Project’s College JUMP. In that role, I coordinate college-access workshops for high school refugees in the Baltimore area. I’m also the secretary of the Spanish Conversation Club!
How and why did you get involved in being a tutor?
I became a tutor after being recommended by one of my Spanish professors. I was looking for ways to practice my Spanish even more, and I thought that I would be able to help students exceed in their Spanish classes with the strategies that I’ve cultivated in my years of learning the language.
What is your favorite thing about being a tutor?
I love when a student finally understands a topic that they’ve been struggling with and tells me about a time in class when they were successful with it!
Why should students utilize the tutoring?
Tutoring is a great way to reinforce whatever you’re learning in class, no matter what level you’re at. It can give you that little bit of extra time and guidance that you need to really understand a topic, and it gives you an opportunity to practice it with someone with more experience. Especially when learning a language, practice is the most important thing, so committing to tutoring is a great idea.
What advice would you give students about how to prepare for a tutoring session?
Make a list of questions that you have and topics that you don’t understand in class to bring to your appointment. The tutor will structure the appointment based on whatever you want to work on, so the best thing to do is come with questions!
When and where can someone work with you through the Learning Resources Center?
Students can make appointments for 50-minute tutoring appointments through the StudyTree app. If a student wants a weekly appointment, all they have to do is email the LRC! Along with private appointments with tutors, Spanish students can also visit the Spanish Lab on the first floor of the library from 2-5PM on Fridays for walk-in help!
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