One of five 18 to 25 year olds experienced a mental illness in the past year.  Depression Screening Day helps individuals learn more about mental health and treatment resources.  Come to an in-person mood screening on Wednesday, October 1st from 11am-2pmon Commons Main Street.  At this event, you can

• Talk with professional staff from the UMBC Counseling Center
• Take a free mood screening and discuss your results with a counselor
• Learn about free workshops, Counseling Center services and the “Just In Case” mental health app
• Pick up flyers about stress, anxiety, depression and relationship difficulties.

You can also take a free online screening assessment (www.ulifeline.org/umbc) at any time.

Mental Health should be treated the same as physical health.  Come to Depression Screening Day to learn more.

JUST IN CASE is an exciting mobile and web application for UMBC students.  With Just In Case, mental health resources are just a click away!

Go to counseling.umbc.edu/justincase for access to on- and off-campus resources for students.

For Faculty/Staff: go to: counseling.umbc.edu/facultyandstaffjustincase.

Parents/families, there's also an app for you!  Go to: counseling.umbc.edu/familyjustincase.

In this week’s ebiquity meeting (10am Tue. Oct 1 in ITE346), Varish Mulwad will present Infoboxer, a prototype tool he developed with Roberto Yus that overcomes these challenges using statistical and semantic knowledge from linked data sources to ease the process of creating Wikipedia infoboxes.

Wikipedia infoboxes serve as input in the creation of knowledge bases
such as DBpedia, Yago, and Freebase. Current creation of Wikipedia
infoboxes is manual and based on templates that are created and
maintained collaboratively. However, these templates pose several
challenges:

• Different communities use different infobox templates for the same category articles
• Attribute names differ (e.g., date of birth vs. birthdate)
• Templates are restricted to a single category, making it harder to find a template for an article that belongs to multiple categories (e.g., actor and politician)
• Templates are free form in nature and no integrity check is performed on whether the value filled by the user is of appropriate type for the given attribute

Infoboxer creates dynamic and semantic templates by suggesting attributes common for similar articles and controlling the expected values semantically. We will give an overview of our approach and demonstrate how Infoboxer can be used to create infoboxes for new Wikipedia articles as well as update erroneous values in existing infoboxes. We will also discuss our proposed extensions to the project.

Visit http://ebiq.org/p/668 for more information about Infoboxer. A demo can be found here.

It’s Homecoming time once again! Join us for the extravaganza, and be sure to show off your Retriever Fever at these great events:

• Faculty and Staff Social, 10/8
• Alumni Awards Ceremony, 10/9
• Homecoming Carnival, 10/11
• Crab Feast, 10/11

We also hope you will participate in Spirit Monday on 10/6. Wear your best black and gold, take a selfie, and post to our Facebook page for a chance to win great prizes.

Robert Deluty, associate dean of the Graduate School, has published a new volume of poetry, “Human Recordings.” In his review, Ronald Pies writes: “The title of Robert Deluty’s wonderful new collection was inspired by the late rock band musician, Layne Staley, who struggled with depression and drug addiction throughout his adult life. But, like Staley’s music, Deluty’s moving poems are highly-condensed recordings of ‘being human,’ in all its tragic and comic tonalities. From the ‘taxidermist’s son/ wooing the depressed daughter/ of the mortician’ to the ‘Arby’s manager/ fuming that his sons opened/ a vegan bistro,’ Deluty regales us with the sweet, sad music of life, in tonalities that Layne Staley would have appreciated. This is a collection to be savored.”

“Human Recordings,” as well as all of Deluty’s other books, may be purchased at the UMBC Bookstore.

UMBC is always full of hard-working people who aspire to do great things, and the class of 2014 is no exception. Today, we wanted to share with you what some of our recent graduates are planning to do with their Retriever education.

Tabitha Haverkamp, information
systems, quickly made her mark at
UMBC by  co-founding UMBC’s Industry Certification Training Group and and serving on the executive board of the Information Systems Council of Majors. She also completed undergraduate research in geographic information systems, was a member of the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT), and won the 2014 Student Leadership Award from the Department of Information Systems. Haverkamp now plans to work with the Department of Defense.

After only being enrolled for a year in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program, Heather Linville, Ph.D. language, literacy, and culture, was offered a faculty position at American University. She has taught English teachers in Indonesia, Mexico, and Panama through working abroad. In addition to her Ph.D., Linville has also earned a master’s degree in instructional systems design at UMBC. She was chosen as an English Language Specialist for the U.S. State Department plans to continue her work there while working towards a tenure-track faculty position.

A Meyerhoff Scholar, Janice Antoine Lumpkin Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar, and a MARC U*Star Scholar, Dalton Hughes, chemical engineering, has earned many Undergraduate Research Awards. Hughes has also worked in leadership in UMBC’s Engineers Without Borders to attempt to create sources of clean water for a community in Isongo, Kenya. He also spoke about his experiences at UMBC at the U.S. News Stem Solutions conference, and now plans to earn his M.D./Ph.D. at Duke University.

Read more about the Class of 2014!