It’s still early days for Google’s modular smartphone effort, but developers and enthusiasts are already thinking about the swappable components they may build.

From afar, the device in Garrett Kinsman’s palm looked like a prototype of Google’s Project Ara modular smartphone: a shiny slab of a handset composed of thin, removable orange squares—each representing a different function that the user could easily swap—flanked by the golden-brown ribs of the internal skeleton that held the squares together.

After a very successful Career Week that included the Clothing Closet and Sweeten Up Your Network events, we wanted to thank you for helping our students. Whether you volunteered your time or donated clothes, your support helps UMBC students succeed. So head on over to our other blog, Giving to UMBC, to see all the ways you help the UMBC community!

See more photos from Career Week.

Graduate Student Support Group 

Are you a graduate student? Are you free Friday’s at 2 pm? Join the Graduate Student Support Group! The group focuses on issues related to dissertations/theses, relationships with advisors, balancing school and social life, etc. The best way to sign-up is to contact the Counseling Center and schedule a pre-group interview, stating an interest in the Graduate Student Support Group.  

If there are any questions, please free to contact Alexis M. Melville. 

Contact Information: 

Alexis M. Melville, Psy.D.

Staff Psychologist/Multicultural Coordinator 

Counseling Center

University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)

1000 Hilltop CircleBaltimore, MD   21250

tel:   410-455-2472   fax:  410-455-2399

melville@umbc.edu  

Catalyst, the interdisciplinary lecture series, presented by CIRCA (UMBC’s Center for Innovation, Research and Creativity in the Arts), continues with Steve Bradley and Nicole King, Monday, April 28, beginning at 12 Noon in the Dresher Center Conference Room (PAHB 216).

UMBC associate professor Steve Bradley of Visual Arts and assistant professor Nicole King of American Studies will present their collaborative research Mapping Baybrook, an interdisciplinary exploration of place that uses digital mapping to illustrate research on the history and culture of an industrial community in Baltimore, Maryland referred to as Baybrook—a merging of the names of two neighborhoods, Brooklyn and Curtis Bay. The story of Greater Baybrook reflects the tenacity of a community striving for sustainability in the boom and bust of U. S. industrial development.

A catered lunch will be provided by CIRCA.

Learn more about this event and Mapping Baybrook at our Arts and Culture Calendar. Additional Catalyst events can be found at CIRCA’s website.