From ClickZ:

“Sean has been recently appointed to develop the Center for Digital Communication, Commerce, and Culture at the University of Baltimore and is chief creative officer at idfive in Baltimore. He has colorfully chronicled digital advertising trends for ClickZ in a fortnightly column first published Nov. 11, 1998. Ever since, Sean has served ClickZ’s readers well thanks to his prescient observations and candor. He’s examined hassles of doing business on the early web, such as “Bandwidth Blues,” back in the day. Other columns are still relevant today, such as “Applications Not Ads,” that he wrote in 2003.”

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Kay Kostopoulos ’72 was featured in O, the Oprah Magazine for a class on body languages that she co-teaches at Stanford University. From the article:

“Kostopoulos starts by leading us through a series of warm-up exercises. At first, the scene is yoga-esque. We step out of our shoes and stand tall, close our eyes, and take deep, slow breaths. But before long, the tempo changes, and Kostopoulos has us jumping up and down, shaking our arms, swinging our hips, blowing raspberries, and making kooky faces, alternately sticking our tongues out and then scrunching up our noses. All the while, we’re huffing out husky ha-ha-ha sounds from deep in our bellies. Kostopoulos encourages us to experiment with a deep voice. ‘You don’t want Mary Tyler Moore,’ she squeaks, then drops her tone an octave: ‘You want Diane Sawyer.'”

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The Geography and Environmental Systems Seminar presents Michael Studinger, project scientist for Operation IceBridge, Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET), UMBC and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The seminar, “NASA’s Operation IceBridge: Using Instrumented Aircraft to Bridge the Observational Gap Between ICESat and ICESate-2 Laser Altimeter Measurements,” will be held Wednesday, September 7, at noon in Sondheim Hall Room 001.

For more information, contact Dawn Biehler at dbiehler@umbc.edu or ext. 5-2095.

We've made a few small updates to myUMBC we wanted to share:

Birds tweet. Retrievers BARK! Soon groups will be able to post status messages in myUMBC or have them pulled in automatically from Twitter.

If there are features you'd like to see in myUMBC let us know!  Everything listed above was the direct result of people contacting us with suggestions.  We can't promise to do everything, but we'll do what we can.

Hoping your semester is off to a great start!

Collier

Maryland House Speaker Pro Tem Delegate Adrienne Jones ’76, psychology, toured the new Performing Arts & Humanities building this morning along with UMBC president Dr. Freeman Hrabowski and others.

“It is clear that our governor and other state officials understand how important this project is for our campus.  And the leadership of our alumna, Del. Jones, was pivotal in ensuring the building’s completion,” said Dr. Hrabowski.

The first phase of the building will open in Fall 2012; the second phase will open in 2015. Read more about the PAHB here.

(L-R): UMBC architect Joe Rexing, Patty Carper (Whiting Turner), Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, Del. Adrienne Jones ’76, Michael “Mickey” Miller (University of Maryland, Baltimore), and Ron Brown (University of Maryland, Baltimore). Photo by Michelle Jordan ’93.

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