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<Title>Alex. Brown Center Scholarships</Title>
<Tagline>Applications now open!</Tagline>
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    <div>Are you involved in the Entrepreneurship Program at UMBC or do you have an interest in being an Entrepreneur?  If so, you are eligible to apply for the two scholarships offered by the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation! </div>
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    <div>These scholarships are for students who demonstrate a strong interest in entrepreneurship and will be awarded for the 2026-2027 academic year.</div>
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    <div>1. <strong>The Joseph and Frieda Faiman Eisenberg/VPC Endowed Scholarship</strong>
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    <div>Provides a $500 scholarship award to need based students interested in becoming an entrepreneur and are associated with the Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University.  Students who are interested in careers in video production or broadcasting will be encouraged to apply.</div>
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    <div>2. <strong>The PNC Scholars/Fellows Program</strong>
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    <div>Provides awards up to $2,000 to outstanding UMBC students interested in becoming an entrepreneur. These awards can be used either as an academic scholarship or seed venture funding.</div>
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    <div>Apply in <a href="https://scholarships.umbc.edu/retriever/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Scholarship Retriever</a>!  Be sure to submit a complete application-- including a personal statement and your resume!</div>
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    <div>Applications are DUE BY March 2, 2026!</div>
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    <div>For more information, go to: <a href="https://entrepreneurship.umbc.edu/resources/students/scholarships/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Scholarships – Alex. Brown Center For Entrepreneurship and Innovation – UMBC</a>
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<Title>UMBC 3-Minute Thesis Competition 2026</Title>
<Tagline>3MT sign up forms released! Register now to win up to $3000!</Tagline>
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    <div><span>The wait is over! Calling all graduate students-</span></div>
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    <div><div>Are you ready to showcase your research in just 3 minutes? This is your chance to captivate an audience, enhance your presentation skills, and win amazing prizes! </div></div>
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    <h6>What's 3MT? </h6>
    <div>The 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition that challenges graduate students to explain their research to a non-specialist audience—one slides, one powerful, concise talk!</div>
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    <h6>Why Participate?</h6>
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    <li>Gain valuable feedback on your presentation skills</li>
    <li>Build confidence and network with researchers</li>
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    <h6><ul><li>Represent UMBC at regional and national stages (fully-funded travel)!</li></ul></h6>
    <h6><ul><li>Prizes and certificates for top performers! (1st Prize - $500, 2nd Prize - $350 and many more)</li></ul></h6>
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    <h5>3MT competition will be held on 04/07/2026!</h5>
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    <h5>Register <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gearsgsa/posts/155704/4b765/1a548d0f61d5f9881fbf538839cf5b42/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fforms.gle%2F42TGSraEbhi4Jzsi8" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a> or scan QR code on the poster below. </h5>
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    <div><div>Buffet Lunch will be provided!</div></div>
    <div>Training Sessions will be held in a hybrid manne</div>
    <div>r in February and March!</div>
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    <div>For any questions, email - <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gearsgsa/posts/155704/4b765/a15a05b3c6bd0c3fc718b6c37876a1c9/web/link?link=mailto%3Agsagears%40umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">gsagears@umbc.edu</a>
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<Title>Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs Conference</Title>
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    <p>From our collegues at AMCHP:</p>
    <p>The <a href="https://amchp.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Association of Maternal &amp; Child Health Programs (AMCHP)</a> is the national membership association for state and jurisdictional governmental public health leaders working to advance and protect maternal and child health across the country. Each year, our Annual Conference brings together leaders, practitioners, partners, and emerging professionals working across maternal health, early childhood, adolescent health, disability, and children with special health care needs.  </p>
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    <p>As part of the <strong>2026 AMCHP Annual Conference (March 7–10, Washington, DC)</strong>, we are offering a set of skills-building sessions designed in direct response to needs we're hearing across the field. One of these sessions, <strong>Maternal Health Data 101</strong>, will take place the <strong>morning of March 7</strong> and is especially well suited for students with an interest in domestic maternal health. This three-hour, beginner-friendly session introduces the maternal health data sources shaping public dialogue and debate, while also helping participants understand what those data do <em>not</em> capture. Importantly, this is not a technical training for epidemiologists or data analysts. Rather, it is designed for anyone seeking to feel grounded in U.S. maternal health data and more confident participating in conversations about how data inform policy, programs, partnerships, and narrative change. Participants will learn how to place data within broader systems and community contexts and explore how data can be used responsibly to move knowledge into action. </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>We would be grateful if you would share this opportunity with your students. Access to the full day of skills-building sessions on March 7 is <strong>$75</strong>, and a <a href="https://amchp2026.eventscribe.net/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">full agenda and link to register is available </a>here. The flyer attached to this email provides information on all skills-building opportunities and how to register for these session only. Students are also warmly invited to attend the broader conference, and we encourage institutions to consider sponsoring student participation where possible. For students who may not have financial support, AMCHP also offers <strong>volunteer opportunities</strong> that provide access to conference programming as schedules allow. </p>
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    <p>If you or your students have questions and/or would like to sign up to volunteer, please feel free direct them to reach out to me (Kameron Jones) at <a href="mailto:krjones@amchp.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">krjones@amchp.org</a>.  </p>
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    <p>We are eager to partner with you and your students in shaping the future of MCH and public health. We hope to welcome some of your students to the conference this March! </p>
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<Title>SGA is HIRING!</Title>
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    <br><div>SGA is looking for people interested in getting involved!! If that sounds like you apply to become an <strong>Election Board Member, Finance Board member, social media manager or Director of International Student Affairs</strong> !️</div>
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    <br><h4><strong>DEADLINE TO APPLY: January 25th, 2026</strong></h4>Application link: <a href="https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3QwjUdfzbwWDUJE" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3QwjUdfzbwWDUJE</a>
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    <br><h3><em>Position Descriptions</em></h3>
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    <div><strong><u>Election Board member</u><br>Hours per week: 3.5</strong></div>
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    <li>participates in planning, publicizing and administering SGA elections in a manner that maximizes voter turnout and ensures fairness;</li>
    <li>Participate in resolving allegations of misconduct by candidates; and</li>
    <li>Participate in certifying the results of SGA elections</li>
    <li>Attend weekly meetings with Election Board</li>
    <li>Attend all mandatory trainings and in-services.</li>
    <li>Uphold the values and work towards the vision of the organization.</li>
    <li>Meet with the primary SGA advisor or their designee on a monthly basis</li>
    <li>Complete an end of term report by May 1, 2026</li>
    <li>Submit weekly progress reports to the SGA Stipend Review Committee</li>
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    <div><strong><u>Finance Board Secretary</u></strong></div>
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    <p><em>Proposed stipend: $1,178 per year subject to Stipend Review Committee review</em></p>
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    <li><p>Promote and support UMBC undergraduate students by working with them and other campus partners to co-create programs, services, and relationships to improve the UMBC community.</p></li>
    <li><p>Actively make an effort to participate in and promote SGA-affiliated initiatives and events.</p></li>
    <li><p>Represent SGA and the student body in a variety of settings, potentially including in meetings with faculty, staff, administrators, and other students.</p></li>
    <li><p>Attend all mandatory trainings and in-services.</p></li>
    <li><p>Uphold the values and work towards the vision of the organization.</p></li>
    <li><p>Record and format meeting minutes for the Finance Board</p></li>
    <li><p>Attend the duration of every Finance Board meeting</p></li>
    <li><p>Manage the signing and archiving of all Finance Board legislation, collaborating with the Senate Secretary for Joint Legislation</p></li>
    <li><p>Maintain the Finance Board office hours calendar</p></li>
    <li><p>Perform all other duties as assigned by the Chair of the Finance Board</p></li>
    <li><p>Meet with the primary SGA advisor or their designee on a bi-weekly basis</p></li>
    <li><p>Fulfill all other responsibilities assigned in SGA's Guiding Documents</p></li>
    <li><p>Complete End of term report by May 1, 2026</p></li>
    <li><p>Abide by the expectations and requirements of the SGA Stipend Review Committee</p></li>
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    <div><strong><u>Social Media Manager</u></strong></div>
    <div><strong>Hours per week: 4</strong></div>
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    <li>Promote and support UMBC undergraduate students by working with them and other campus partners to co-create programs, services, and relationships to improve the UMBC community.</li>
    <li>Actively make an effort to participate in and promote SGA-affiliated initiatives and events.</li>
    <li>Represent SGA and the student body in a variety of settings, potentially including in meetings with faculty, staff, administrators, and other students.</li>
    <li>Attend all mandatory trainings and in-services.</li>
    <li>Uphold the values and work towards the vision of the organization.</li>
    <li>Regularly manage and update all of SGA's social media platforms and the SGA myUMBC page</li>
    <li>Respond to comments and messages on SGA social media posts and accounts</li>
    <li>Diligently repost stakeholders social media posts and ask campus partners to repost SGA’s social media posts</li>
    <li>Attend all SGA-related events and activities for social media content</li>
    <li>Attend officer retreats and developmental sessions</li>
    <li>Attend Department of Communications Team and Executive Operations Meetings</li>
    <li>Meet with SGA advisor on monthly basis</li>
    <li>Perform all other duties as assigned by the Director of Communications and Executive Vice President.</li>
    <li>Complete an end of term report by May 1, 2026</li>
    <li>Submit weekly reports to the SGA Stipend Review Committee.</li>
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    <div><strong><u>Director of International Student Affairs (new position)</u></strong></div>
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    <p><strong>Hours of work per week:</strong> 8</p>
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    <li><p>Promote and support UMBC undergraduate international students by working with them and campus partners to co-create programs, services, and advocacy efforts that improve the UMBC community and ensure international student voices are represented in student governance.</p></li>
    <li><p>Actively make an effort to participate in and promote SGA-affiliated initiatives and events.</p></li>
    <li><p>Represent SGA and the international student body in a variety of settings, potentially including meetings with faculty, staff, administrators, and other students.</p></li>
    <li><p>Attend all mandatory training sessions, officer retreats, and developmental in-services.</p></li>
    <li><p>Uphold the values and work towards the vision of the organization.</p></li>
    <li><p>Attend weekly Cabinet meetings and advise the Steering Committee and Chief of Staff.</p></li>
    <li><p>Serve as an ex officio member of the SGA Senate and participate in relevant committees as appropriate.</p></li>
    <li><p>Advocate for international students by evaluating the equity, accessibility, and inclusion impact of SGA legislation, initiatives, and projects.</p></li>
    <li><p>Serve as:</p></li>
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    <p>Afterwards there will be a Q&amp;A session.  </p>
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    <br>Please resume normal operation of the chip cluster and report any issues or questions via a descriptive RT Ticket submitted to <a href="https://rtforms.umbc.edu/rt_authenticated/doit/DoIT-support.php?auto=Research%20Computing">https://rtforms.umbc.edu/rt_authenticated/doit/DoIT-support.php?auto=Research%20Computing</a> .</div>
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    <div>---</div>
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    <div>Roy Prouty</div>
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    <p>The newly acquired storage system we've recently migrated most research volumes to is also unaffected.</p>
    
    <p>Thank you for your patience as we navigate this issue. Please expect an update no later than Friday (Jan 16) morning or as the issue is resolved.</p>
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    <p>Roy Prouty<br></p>
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    <div>This spring semester, two UMBC faculty members and a graduate student were awarded fellowships from the Dresher Center.</div>
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    <div>Please join us in congratulating these fellows!</div>
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    <div><div><em>Keeping the Girls in Stitches: Embroidering Biblical Narrative in the Seventeenth Century</em></div></div>
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    <strong>Michele Osherow</strong>, Associate Professor, English</div>
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    <div>This project examines seventeenth-century women’s embroidered pictures of the Bible as a form of biblical commentary. Michele Osherow argues that women’s renderings offer alternative readings of biblical narratives and challenge dominant interpretations head-on. Scholars of early modern women’s writing increasingly recognize the intersections among women’s visual and verbal textualities. Nonetheless, these biblical embroideries have largely gone ignored, dismissed as “stifling shows of feminine piety” (Orlin, <em>Renaissance Culture</em>). Such thinking suggests that the women behind these canvases interpreted biblical narratives through a prescribed lens, that their readings are inherited and unremarkable. But the assumption is flawed and unfair. Early modern women knew their Bibles and their representations are provocative. Stitched renderings were not bound to scriptural accuracy: characters are placed unexpectedly in scenes, and various episodes were often worked into a single stitched piece. What emerges is a stunning complexity of material in keeping with the textual intricacies of the Bible itself.</div>
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    <div><div><em>Making Darwin Soviet: The Moscow Darwin Museum and Ideas about Nature in the Soviet Union</em></div></div>
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    <strong>Mirjam Voerkelius</strong>, Assistant Professor, History</div>
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    <div><div>“Making Darwin Soviet” will be the first book-length study in English on the reception of Darwinism in the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks put Darwin on a pedestal. They drew parallels between Darwinism and Marxism as materialist theories of development and considered evolutionary theory a powerful “weapon” in their war on religion. However, Mirjiam Voerkelius' work intervenes in the existing literature to show that Darwinism remained surprisingly controversial in the Soviet Union. Darwin’s emphasis on gradualism and chance conflicted with the Bolshevik notion of history as advancing via revolutions. Moreover, Darwin conceptualized humankind as differing from animals in degree, but not in kind, which challenged the anthropocentric vision of our species as emancipated from and a conqueror of nature. Thus, although the Bolshevik revolutionaries made Darwinism the fulcrum in their revolutionary project, Voerkelius argues that Soviet scientists and ideologues struggled to reconcile Darwinism with their revolutionary worldview.</div></div>
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    <div><em>Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black</em></div>
    <div><em>Women’s Writing</em></div>
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    <strong>Neisha-Anne Green</strong>, Ph.D. Candidate, Language, Literacy, and Culture<br><div><br></div>
    <div><em>Breaking Bread, Breaking Cycles: Food, Trauma, and Generational Healing in Black Women’s</em></div>
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    <em>Writing</em> explores how Black women authors use food as both metaphor and method to narrate</div>
    <div>intergenerational trauma, memory, and resilience. Reading works by Toni Morrison, Edwidge</div>
    <div>Danticat, Ntozake Shange, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Tsitsi Dangarembga, Neisha-Anne Green traces how kitchens, gardens, and shared meals become sacred sites where silence, pain, and healing converge. Through a Black Feminist Critical Autoethnography, Green interweaves literary analysis with mirrors of my own personal narratives to consider how food practices such as cooking, eating, refusing, and creating carry legacies of both trauma and care. Having completed her comprehensive exams and initial analyses of each novel, this fellowship will allow Green to dedicate structured time for writing and deepening her analyses through participation in writing groups and retreats offered by Heart-Head-Hands, supporting significant progress toward completing my dissertation and sharing this work with broader audiences.</div>
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<Summary>This spring semester, two UMBC faculty members and a graduate student were awarded fellowships from the Dresher Center.     Please join us in congratulating these fellows!      Keeping the Girls...</Summary>
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