DoIT is now providing NVivo, a qualitative research software package equivalent to SPSS, Stata, SAS, or R. This software is available to all faculty, staff, and graduate students. It allows the user to import, code, and arrange data for methodologically rigorous and scalable analyses. This acquisition aligns with efforts to support UMBC's strategic plan, including the objective to "vigorously promote a campus culture of multidisciplinary collaboration and multidisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative activity."

Professor Anne Brodsky of the Department of Psychology, who also serves as Interim Director, Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research (MIPAR) and Special Assistant for Social Science Research with the CAHSS Dean's Office, has been conducting qualitative research since arriving at UMBC 20 years ago. She believes this procurement is "great news for UMBC researchers and students" and access to NVivo "will further promote the excellent qualitative and mixed methods scholarship being done across the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, and STEM fields at UMBC as we work to further our understanding into some of the most important and exciting questions of our time."

If you are considering qualitative or mixed-methods research, or you are currently gathering qualitative data, this might be just the tool you're looking for to systematize your analytic strategy.

NVivo can be downloaded here. 

Click here for the proposal instructions and an application form. Applicants should mark on the application form whether they are applying for fall 2018 or spring 2019. 

The Dresher Center for the Humanities invites applications for two Residential Faculty Research Fellowships for Academic Year 2018-19 (one in fall 2018 and one in spring 2019). Funding is intended to support and promote significant humanities research at UMBC. The UMBC Faculty Research Fellows will join our new residential Inclusion Imperative Visiting Faculty Fellows in the Dresher Center. Dresher Center fellowships offer the gift of time, space, and collegial conversation within a robust humanities center environment that will, in turn, enhance the UMBC conversation surrounding inclusive excellence. 

All full-time, tenured and tenure-track faculty members pursuing humanities research in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences are welcome to submit a proposal. Applications are especially encouraged from, but not limited to, full-time faculty with appointments in departments and programs with a humanities focus. Proposals will be reviewed by the Dresher Center Advisory Board, with decisions on fall semester fellowships by mid-May and decisions on spring semester fellowships by late June.

More information: https://dreshercenter.umbc.edu/internal-residential-fellowship-program/

The Counseling Center has developed a series of workshops, and there are a few that the center wants to bring to the attention of graduate students. 

The "Graduate Student Support" group, in particular, was developed in response to graduate students' requests for a group to specifically address grad-level needs. Please take advantage of this group. If your schedule does not allow you to meet during the group's time, please contact Dr. Soonhee Lee at the Counseling Center, soonhee@umbc.edu to see if there might be some alternatives. Recommended groups are listed below. An expanded list with the groups' respective details (times, dates, location), along with information about additional workshops, is attached.

I’m confused. Where can I use the prize money again?
Anywhere that you can use your red card. For example:

Click here for a more detailed list of locations where you can use your Red ID.

Rules for Entry:
To enter the contest you have to share your best financial literacy advice. This can be done in any way that is visible to other people. You could:

Once you've shared your advice, send it to financialsmartsawards@gmail.com for official consideration. Just send a screenshot of the post, or send us the file if your entry is a video. 

Submitted content must not contain illicit material, including but not limited to foul language, drug use, and violence. Keep it PG.

When are entries due?
March 1st, 2018. 

How are winners determined?
A handful of finalists will be hand-selected by a panel of judges. Those entries will then be posted to myUMBC, where the campus community will vote on the best entries. The winners will be the entries that make it past the judges and receive the most community votes from students, staff, and faculty.

Who are the judges?
Members of the UMBC Financial Literacy and Education Committee.

What are the judges looking for?
Entries that are creative, offer practical personal finance tips, and promote financial literacy.

What is financial literacy?

Check out financialsmarts.umbc.edu and find out!