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Walk In Advising Hours January 5th-9th
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Monday, January 5th
10am-11:30am & 1:30pm-3pm
Tuesday, January 6th
10am-11:30am & 1:30pm-3pm
Wednesday, January 7th
10am-11:30am & 1:30pm-3pm
Thursday, January 8th
10am-11:30am & 1:30pm-3pm
Friday, January 9th
10am-11:30am
Advisors are also available by appointment.
An article published December 16 by the Pew Research Center examines the relationship between lower gas prices and consumer confidence in the economy. The article cites research by Douglas Lamdin, professor of economics, and Mark Johnson, a professor at Loyola University Maryland. Their research found a negative relationship between changes in gas prices and their impact on consumer sentiment. The excerpt from the Pew Research Center article can be found below:
“[The Pew Research Center] plotted the monthly consumer-sentiment index against the monthly average price of regular gas (adjusted for inflation) and found a moderately strong negative correlation — that is, consumer sentiment rose as pump prices fell. That aligns with previous research: For example, a 2012 paper from two researchers at Loyola University Maryland and the University of Maryland Baltimore County not only found an inverse correlation between gas prices and consumer sentiment, but used causality testing to conclude that price changes predicted sentiment changes and not the other way around.”
To read the full article in Pew Research Center news titled “Do lower gas prices make for confident consumers, click here.
]]>Presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities and the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
The National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Research will conduct a regional grant-writing workshop at UMBC on Friday, February 20, 2015 (inclement weather date on February 27), from 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in UC 312. Registration is required.
Sessions will include NEH grant and fellowship programs, proposal writing, and the NEH peer review process. Faculty may also register for a limited number of 15-minute appointments with the NEH program officer in the afternoon to discuss specific grants and project ideas (first-come, first serve). The rsvp deadline is February 10th.
UMBC faculty registration and information: http://goo.gl/forms/DMmlGvc4y6
Statistical data shows that driving-related accidents and human casualties caused by vehicles are on the rise in the US and globally. Most of these accidents are cause by impaired or distracted driving. Existing systems that detect impaired driving use cameras that perform eye and head tracking and do not capture full-body movements that are indicative of dangerous driving. To address this problem, in this thesis we present a system, distratto, that uses capacitive textile sensors embedded into car seats, headrests, and arm rests to capture whole body motion, and inertial and GPS sensors for determining vehicle speed and turns. Using a combination of these sensors and a tiered signal processing algorithm, we infer attributes that are indicative of impaired driving. We have developed a fully functional prototype of distratto that we evaluate in a real vehicle setting. We show that our system can detect impaired driving instances and driver movements with high accuracy.
Committee: Drs. Nilanjan Banerjee (chair), Ryan Robucci, Chintan Patel
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Special Research Assistantship/Initiative Support (SRAIS)
Deadline: Monday, February 23, 2015
UMBC's SRAIS awards provide up to $20,000 in annual seed funding for faculty who will use these funds to better position themselves for further scholarly work that is not internally funded. If the applicant is a tenured professor, the proposal should be aimed at interdisciplinary collaboration.
Standard Summer Faculty Fellowship (SFF)
Deadline: Monday, February 16, 2015
The SFF program provides $6,000 in summer salary to early-career faculty who would benefit from the opportunity to focus on establishing their scholarly independence.
To register: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/research/events/28379