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Curtis Menyuk recently received the The IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award. The award is given to recognize an exceptional single scientific contribution which has had a significant impact in the field of lasers and electro-optics in the past 10 years. The award is given for a relatively recent, single contribution, which has had a major impact on the Photonics Society research community. It may be given to an individual or a group for a single contribution of significant work in the field. Menyuk received the award, “For seminal advances in the fundamental understanding and mitigation of polarization effects in high-performance optical fiber communication systems.”
Menyuk received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT in 1976 and the Ph.D. from UCLA in 1981. He has worked as a research associate at the University of Maryland, College Park and at Science Applications International Corporation in McLean, VA. In 1986 he became an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and he was the founding member of this department. In 1993, he was promoted to Professor. He was on partial leave from UMBC from Fall, 1996 until Fall, 2002. From 1996 – 2001, he worked part-time for the Department of Defense, co-directing the Optical Networking program at the DoD Laboratory for Telecommunications Sciences in Adelphi, MD from 1999 – 2001. In 2001 – 2002, he was Chief Scientist at PhotonEx Corporation. In 2008 – 2009, he was a JILA Visiting Fellow at the University of Colorado. For the last 25 years, his primary research area has been theoretical and computational studies of lasers, nonlinear optics, and fiber optic communications. He has authored or co-authored more than 230 archival journal publications as well as numerous other publications and presentations, and he is a co-inventor of 5 patents. He has also edited three books. The equations and algorithms that he and his research group at UMBC have developed to model optical fiber systems are used extensively in the telecommunications and photonics industry. He is a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the IEEE. He is a former UMBC Presidential Research Professor.
An increasing number of departments are using the Box "upload by email" option as an effective way to conduct job searches. Apart from making it easy to collect applications, committee members can assess and even “vote” on applications remotely, saving face-to-face meetings for reaching consensus on applications where none exists yet.
For general help on Box see the “Need Help” link at box.umbc.edu, but here are some basic steps DoIT recommends for using Box on a search committee:
Create an "Applications" or "Applicants" folder, anywhere in Box where you’d like to receive applications. Maybe add "Qualified" and "Unqualified" subfolders, too, for sorting the received files.
Give your committee access to the folder(s) you just created.
Find the “upload by email” address function for the "Applications" folder, located under "email options." Note: By default, this address is is NOT enabled for “collaborators only.” This is good, because you want applicants to be able to use the “upload by email” address, too.
Include the “upload by email” address in your formal job posting for how interested parties should apply.
Ideally, ask applicants to submit their materials as a single .pdf file to the “upload by email” address for your Box folder. Why? A single file is preferable so the search committee doesn’t have to hunt and gather multiple files per applicant (e.g., cover letter, resume, references, etc.).
Once you’re ready to begin the review of applications, ask your committee members to add a “Yes, No or Maybe” comment to each applicant’s file in Box before the committee’s first face-to-face meeting. This way, you can spend your time trying to reach consensus on applicants where there clearly is no conensus.
There's really only one intervention that DoIT recommends for step #3 above: create an easy to remember email alias (such as "yourdepartmentjobsearch@umbc.edu") to replace the machine generated, difficult-to-remember email address that is created by default. To do so, submit an RT ticket requesting creation of the alias for your submissions. Your RT request might look like this:
"Please create the email alias: 'yourdepartmentjobsearch@umbc.edu' that points to the following Box folder 'upload by email' address:upload.Applica.ux84095xdjugth9y@u.box.com
This is to support the Theoretical Anatomy Department's search for a guest lecturer position."
If you're still not sure about the "upload by email" function in Box, here's an FAQ (with images) that illustrates this process:
https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/0QAxAg
Finally, here's a quick video created for a DoIT search committee on how they could "vote" on applications by adding a simple "Yes, No or Maybe" comment to each file in the Box folder:
]]>It’s Tuesday which means that the Treehouse Show is back! In episode 87 of The Treehouse Show, Nick and Jason (@jseifer) talk about style guides, writing great interface copy, the Ratchet framework, and more.
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The Cost of Waiting: Consider Long Term Care Insurance Now
A major challenge of retirement planning is finding an affordable way to fund the potential need for extended care, whether in your own home or in a facility. Recent studies show that most Americans underestimate the cost of long term care, while 56% overestimate the cost of the insurance that would defray those very costs.² Delaying the purchase of LTC insurance can have dire consequences.
Nothing impacts policy pricing more than age and health, so the sooner you purchase coverage, the lower the base rate for the life of your policy. Life-altering events can occur at any age, leaving one with few options for LTC insurance. Delaying your decision, plus the impending disappearance of industry discounts, equate to what we call “the cost of waiting.” This means there’s never been a better time for both men and women to research their LTC options than right now.
No-risk LTC consultations are available to our graduates at no cost as part of the UMBC Alumni Insurance Program. Visit http://meyerandassoc.com/umbc/ltc to download a free “10-Point Checklist” and then schedule your risk-free consultation by phone.
Regardless of your present age and health, the longer you wait to start your planning, the more it will cost in the long run—assuming you can still qualify when you’re ready.
Editor’s note: Content provided by Meyer and Associates
The Independent User Interface (Indie UI) Working Group today published the First Public Working Draft of Requirements for IndieUI: Events 1.0 and IndieUI: User Context 1.0. The document introduces use cases related to the IndieUI specifications and the technical requirements for meeting the use cases. IndieUI: Events defines a way for different user interactions to be translated into simple events and communicated to web applications. With IndieUI, web application developers will have a uniform way to design applications that work for multiple devices and contexts. It is introduced in the IndieUI Overview. One focus of IndieUI is enabling better user interaction in the mobile environment. This Requirements document provides an opportunity for early review of user needs to be addressed by the IndieUI specifications. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
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