Advising Town Hall for New Students Please Join us on 8/7 at noon!

Advising Town Hall #2: Wednesday, August 7th at 12:00

Link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?MTID=m46b227970b5be87b3061fcf5a35ae2ae
(Password is Ekqt6SBrz22, but should not be required)

Couldn’t make it to the first Town Hall? Do you have last minute questions or concerns you would like addressed prior to the start of the Fall semester? Advisors are here to help!

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The office of Talent Learning & Organizational Development has been hard at work crafting engaging and impactful programs for the upcoming academic year - check out some options below!

USM Fall Into Success Virtual Professional Development Conference
This year's annual conference consists of a dynamic blend of on-demand workshops and live sessions led by experts from Guidance Resources. The experience is tailored to fit your schedule, learning style, and professional aspirations.

What Sets This Year Apart?
  • NEW: Kick-Off with the Learning & Talent Development Committee
  • Keynote with two campus Presidents
  • Virtual workshops around the themes of Inclusion & Belonging, Personal Leadership Mastery, Workplace Productivity, and Workplace Wellness
  • Facilitated feedback and networking session
  • NEW: Curated selection of on-demand workshops 
Mark your calendars for September 23-27, and prepare for your professional development journey. Stay tuned for more details on how to register.  To see video playlists from previous conferences and workshops, click here.

Navigating & Leading Change Programs
In FranklinCovey’s Change: How to Turn Uncertainty into Opportunity we will look at the human side of change and learn the knowledge, skills, and strategies, and a common language to understand, cope with, and adapt to change.

3 Unique Ways to Engage: 
  • Change Conversations (2 hr. program) For Individual Contributors & Leaders - September 10th & 16th
  • Change Book Discussion (1 hr./week, 5 weeks) For Individual Contributors & Leaders - Starts October 3rd
  • 3-Part Program For Managers & Leaders (6 hr. overall program) - Starts November 19th 
Check out the Navigating & Leading Change Website to learn more and register 

Ready. Set. LAUNCH! - Coming Mid-Late Fall 2024
Introducing a comprehensive suite of e-learning videos designed specifically for new managers, covering essential HRSTM topics. Launch is also highly recommended for managers and leaders who have been with UMBC for some time and wish to have a refresher. Embrace your opportunity to engage in continuous learning while also staying informed on the latest HRSTM practices. Stay tuned for more information on the myUMBC Training group!  
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Hello Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health majors and minors!

Our department is offering the course SOCY 451: Sociology of Health and Illness Behavior this fall.

Are you looking for an upper-level elective that focuses on health and illness? Consider enrolling now!

Seats are still available! Contact the Graduate Program Coordinator at sociologyma@umbc.edu for more information.

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Dear UMBC Community, 

Please join me in congratulating Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Katharine Cole, who will be retiring effective January 1, 2025. Cole retires after seven years in the role and 12 years with the University System of Maryland. 

Since 2017, Cole has had many accomplishments as vice provost and dean in the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs. Cole envisioned and established the university’s Academic Success Center, a one-stop center for student academic support services. The Academic Success Center currently houses all university-wide tutoring, the Writing Center, Academic Alerts, the Office of Academic Advocacy, and in collaboration with the College of Engineering and Information Technology, a Computing Success Center serving all majors. 

In collaboration with Enrollment Management, Cole wrote and received funding for a two-year grant from the University Innovation Alliance to create the UMBC Students Transferring and Redefining Success (STARS) program. A combined effort among the University Innovation Alliance, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Enrollment Management, and Student Affairs, this program provides scholarships, academic support, a sense of community and belonging, and major exploration for UMBC STARS. 

Working with the Council of Deans, Undergraduate Program Directors, and Faculty Senate, some of Cole’s additional meaningful accomplishments include the establishment and co-leadership of a university-wide Transfer Student Success committee; major revisions to the academic policy for Arbitrary and Capricious Grading; changes to the university’s Latin Honors policy; the acceptance of military coursework for veterans; the implementation of mandatory incomplete grade contracts between students and faculty; the elimination of the university’s requirement mandating non-academic credits for physical education courses; and the development and implementation of a 90-credit degree audit graduation check for all students. 

We are grateful to Cole for her many years of service to UMBC and the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs. Please join me in expressing our deepest thanks and congratulations to Cole on a wonderful career and best wishes for a happy retirement! 

I am also pleased to announce that effective September 1, 2024, Stephen Freeland will be serving as interim vice provost and dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs. 

Freeland joined UMBC in 2001 and is a professor in biological sciences. He left UMBC for a brief time in 2009, when he joined the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the University of Hawaii. He returned to UMBC in 2013 as director of the Individualized Study Program, where he has served ever since. In 2021, Freeland also became associate dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs. 

Freeland holds a Ph.D. in genetics from Cambridge University. Prior to his Ph.D., he received a M.S. in biological computation at the University of York and a B.A. in zoology at Oxford University. In recent years, Freeland’s research into life’s origins and early evolution has been completed by increasingly working with federal and philanthropic funding agencies to form and develop interdisciplinary teams of scientists in the United States and around the world. Freeland has received multiple honors, including the Trotter Prize in 2019 for “pioneering contributions to the understanding of the role of information, complexity and interference in illuminating the mechanisms and wonder of nature.” He was also elected a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation in 2021. 

Please join me in congratulating Freeland on his new appointment. We look forward to having him serve UMBC in his new role and join the Academic Leadership Team. 

Sincerely, 

Manfred H. M. van Dulmen 
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs 

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ESS & NESS Staff Cookout

All staff are invited to join us for a BBQ!

Wednesday, August 14, 2024 · 11:30 AM - 1 PM
The Commons : Terrace
Join the Exempt and Non-Exempt Staff Senates for the annual UMBC Staff Cookout! This event is free and open to all UMBC staff and faculty members. Classic BBQ food (including vegetarian options) will be served. 

Please bring your Campus IDs with you to the cookout! 

RSVP to this myUMBC event if you will be attending - RSVPs are required so we can ensure we have enough food!
https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/ess/events/130542
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Predictive models have proliferated in the health system in recent years and have been used to predict both health services utilization and medical outcomes. Less is known, however, on how these models function and how they might adapt to different contexts. 

The paper, authored by Ruichen Sun, Morgan Henderson, Leigh Goetschius, Fei Han, and Ian Stockwell, reports on the results of a study on the inner workings of a large-scale predictive model deployed in two distinct populations, with a particular emphasis on adaptability issues. 

They found that the model adapted to, and performed well in, both populations despite demographic differences in these two groups. However, the most salient risk factors and their relative weightings differed, sometimes dramatically, across the two populations. The unadapted Medicaid model displayed poor performance relative to the adapted model.

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NIH’s Adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support by May 25, 2025

Notice Number: NOT-OD-24-163

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-24-163.html

 

Purpose:

This Guide Notice informs the extramural community of NIH’s adoption of Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support to be used with all applications and Research Performance Progress Report(s) (RPPRs) by May 25, 2025.

Background

The Common Forms represent a collaborative effort between federal research agencies to ensure standard disclosure requirements as outlined in the National Security Presidential Memorandum - 33. The approved Common Forms for Biographical Sketch and Current and Pending (Other) Support (OMB Number 3145-0279 managed by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)), can be accessed at NSF’s website at NSTC Research Security Subcommittee NSPM-33 Implementation Guidance Disclosure Requirements & Standardization.

NIH Common Forms Implementation

NIH will implement the Common Forms without change to any collection fields. However, in accordance with NIH’s Peer Review Regulations at 42 Code of Federal Regulations Part 52h, NIH currently plans to continue collecting three required agency specific data elements (i.e., Personal Statement, Contributions to Science, and Honors) to assess qualifications. These data elements will be collected separately from the Common Forms on a new NIH Biographical Sketch Supplement.

Please refer to the full notice linked above for further details on NIH's Common Forms Implementation timeline.

 

Should you have any questions, please contact the Office of Sponsored Programs.

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Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Silvia Newell, Michigan Sea Grant and University of Michigan. Her talk is titled "Nitrogen as a Driver of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms."

Date and Time: Thursday, August 8, 2024 at 11:00am EST
Join us via Webex.

Abstract: 
"Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) are increasingly frequent and severe in lakes across the globe, negatively affecting ecosystem productivity, nutrient cycling, macrofauna, tourism, property values, access to potable water, public health, etc. The frequency of HABs is predicted to increase in the midwestern United States with increased storm events exacerbating agricultural nutrient runoff. Both nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) runoff contribute directly to HAB production, and excess N is associated with cyanotoxin production. In the Great Lakes region, targets for reduced P runoff into Lake Erie exist, but not for N. However, controls on N are needed to reduce toxic HABs. Knowledge gaps around the role of internal water column and sediment N recycling vs. external loading on HABs and toxicity have hindered a reduction recommendation for N runoff. Internal N recycling promotes cyanobacteria dominance, particularly for non-N-fixing taxa (e.g., Planktothrix and Microcystis), which have a competitive advantage for ammonium. However, ammonium is assimilated quickly by cells, and ambient concentrations are usually low; thus, internal N recycling rates are a more accurate representation of ammonium availability than concentration measurements, which are snapshots in space and time. Here, we report on the rates of internal and external N loading on HABs and microcystins in hypereutrophic Lake Erie and Grand Lake St Marys (Ohio). Including internal N recycling rates in models explains N sources during periods of low external loads and improves models of microcystin concentrations. Quantifying internal N cycling is therefore key to modeling and predicting microcystins." 

Biography:
Dr. Silvia Newell is the Director of Michigan Sea Grant and a Professor at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability. She is a nutrient biogeochemist and microbial ecologist with experience working on Great Lakes issues. She researches the effects of excess nutrients from fertilizer and wastewater on inland and coastal waters, with a focus on harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. She is currently funded through NSF Chemical Oceanography to study nitrogen dynamics in the Great Lakes, NSF DISES to work on nitrogen dynamics influencing nutrient loading to Lake Erie, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources to look at nutrient processing in constructed wetlands, NSF Chemical Oceanography to look at connections between nitrogen and mercury cycling in Antarctic coastal water, and the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission to look at ecosystem impacts on fish recruitment. Silvia also has experience engaging stakeholders to develop realistic pathways for nutrient reduction. Additionally, she serves on the board for a number of organizations (including the Earth Science Women’s Network, the Great Lakes Commission HABs Collaborative, the Saginaw Bay Monitoring Consortium Advisory Committee, the Science Advisory Panel for the Michigan Domestic Action Plan for Nutrient Reduction to Lake Erie) and is the current Past President of the Lake Erie Area Research Network.

For more information on the GESTAR II Seminar Series, click here.
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ECS, The Sign Shop, and Parking Services are scheduled to attend.

At 11 am in UC 312 join us for Intro to 25Live with Matt Bolling, Assistant Director, Event Scheduling and Advising. (This will be in-person only; upcoming sessions will be virtual).
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