New Student Book Experience: Now Accepting Nomimations! Vote for Your Favorite Book Now! The Book Selection Committee for the New Student Book Experience seeks nominations of potential books. The New Student Book Experience invites all students new to UMBC in the fall (freshmen and transfer students) to read the selected book and engage in formal and informal discussion of the book at the start of the school year. Any member of the UMBC community may nominate any book via the web or via e-mail containing the same information. More than one nomination may be submitted by the same person. ]]> The Book Selection Committee for the New Student Book Experience seeks nominations of potential books. The New Student Book Experience invites all students new to UMBC in the fall (freshmen and... http://www.umbc.edu/undergrad_ed/book/nomform.html https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/36018/guest@my.umbc.edu/c8a18450311a6eb4309ff16d98cee0c0/api/pixel book experience new nominations student Undergraduate Research https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/undergradresearch https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/xsmall.png?1600355057 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/original.jpg?1600355057 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/xxlarge.png?1600355057 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/xlarge.png?1600355057 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/large.png?1600355057 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/medium.png?1600355057 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/small.png?1600355057 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/xsmall.png?1600355057 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/006/875606ced2b629148af4caa1a4e8dd3c/xxsmall.png?1600355057 Undergraduate Research https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/xxlarge.jpg?1379937162 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/xlarge.jpg?1379937162 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/large.jpg?1379937162 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/medium.jpg?1379937162 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/small.jpg?1379937162 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/xsmall.jpg?1379937162 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/036/018/ab74cae52afa59f5ab50f79a6599f236/xxsmall.jpg?1379937162 10 0 true Mon, 23 Sep 2013 07:52:56 -0400 UMBC staff and alumni to perform at Baltimore Book Festival Straight Up Tribal will perform at 3pm Sunday September 29th

After their successful Artscape concert in July, Straight Up Tribal has been invited by the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts to perform on the Main Stage at the Baltimore Book Festival on Sunday September 29th at 3pm. 

The world music group, co-founded in 2008 by Interdisciplinary Studies Assistant Director Steven McAlpine and UMBC alumni Trey Kulp, Abhik Saha, Bryan Lee, Asif Majid, and Eddie Chen, has recently released an album of original songs available in the UMBC bookstore.

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Come meet Mr. David Lacks, son of Henrietta Lacks, and Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics  TONIGHT,  October 9, 2012 at 7PM in the UC Ballroom.  A book signing and reception to follow. 

Come early-- an overflow crowd is anticipated.

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Come meet Mr. David Lacks, son of Henrietta Lacks, and Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 7PM in the UC Ballroom.  A book signing and reception to follow.

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Come meet Mr. David Lacks, son of Henrietta Lacks, and Dr. Ruth Faden, Executive Director of The Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics on Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 7PM in the UC Ballroom.  A book signing and reception to follow.

Sponsored by the Offices of Institutional Advancement and Undergraduate Education, Division of Student Affairs and Welcome Week Committee.
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