• Semester Academic Honors - earned at least a 3.5
• Dean's List - earned at least a 3.75
• President's List - 4.0!!!

These honors are only for students who took classes full-time and the credits were not taken as pass/fail.

http://www.umbc.edu/inds/students/academic_awards

Will YOU be on the list next semester? We can work with you to make it happen!

• Documentarian/Audio Visual Lead - create and edit videos for the web and podcasts
• Online Journalist and Social Media Lead - must have an interest and experience in print journalism and social media
• K-12 Education Lead - work closely with the Museum's Education Outreach division

For more information and instruction on how to apply (by July 1), please visit http://www.smithsonianofi.com/blog/2013/05/20/nmah-history-freedom-school-fall-internships/

The National Museum of American History’s Department of Education and Public Programs seeks three exemplary college students committed to making a positive impact on their communities to participate in the Freedom School fall internship program. Through this program, participants will:

• Learn the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign first hand through dialogue with people who were there and through other primary sources

• Meet with curators and educators to explore related material in the Smithsonian’s National Collection and visit local civil rights-related historic sites

• Explore, discuss, and debate the meaning and legacy of social justice, democracy, and leadership in American history

• Visit government offices, and advocacy organizations to discuss modern activism

• Share lessons-learned with local high school students

• Publish their research on the Smithsonian website for a national audience.

Did you know that art played a pivotal role in Poland’s 1989 Solidarity Movement?  Solidarity was a broad anti-bureaucratic, workers-rights movement in 1980s Poland that eventually became a powerful political force. In addition to publishing over 500 newspapers and broadcasting their message via pirate radio stations, the Solidarity movement used art, particularly posters, to communicate their revolutionary message,  and even created a new school of art—The Polish Poster School—along the way.  Special Collections has a treasure trove of hundreds of posters, handouts, and newspapers. There are copies of the iconic work of graphic designer Jerzy Janiszewski (who created a style of writing known as Solidaric)  as well as Tomasz Sarnecki’s well-known poster that features an image of Gary Cooper from the 1952 film “High Noon.”

View the finding aid for this collection, now available online, for more information about the Solidarity movement and the Solidarity materials held in the Library: http://aok2.lib.umbc.edu/specoll/Solidarity/index.php.

Want to come look at the records yourself? Contact Special Collections to set up an appointment at x52353 or speccoll@umbc.edu. We also hold open research hours on Monday through Friday, 1pm to 4pm, with additional hours from 4pm to 8pm Thursday nights.

This post was written by Theresa Donnelly

greeNEWit’s Agents of Change Program recruits high school and college students with an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for social change to assist with social media, marketing and development needs. Students can get hands on experience as social entrepreneurs by means of two of greeNEWit’s social projects: Cleats for Bare Feet and the OUR Schools program.

Through the program, greeNEWit provides students with important career skills and instills a passion in them for entrepreneurship and sustainable living. The goal is to create a collaborative working environment that fosters the generation and sharing of ideas.

Go to http://www.greenewit.com/home/careers/apply-now-summer-interns to read more about the various opportunities!