Four UMBC Alumni Invited to U.S. National Team Tryouts; Ed Stephenson To Head Up Program at UMass Lowell

Four UMBC Alumni Invited to U.S. National Team Tryouts; Ed Stephenson To Head Up Program at UMass Lowell UMBC alumni Brendan Mundorf, Drew Westervelt, Terry Kimener and Peet Poillon are among the 98 invitees for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships, where the U.S. men seek to defend their title in Denver, Colorado on July 10-19, 2014. In other news, Ed Stephenson has accepted the head coaching position at new conference foe U Mass Lowell, as the Riverhawks restart their men's lacrosse program. ]]>

UMBC alumni Brendan Mundorf, Drew Westervelt, Terry Kimener and Peet Poillon are among the 98 invitees for the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships, where the U.S....

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BARCELONA � UMBC rising senior Mohamed Hussein broke his own Egyptian National record while finishing 29th overall in the 200m IM, Wednesday at the 15th FINA World Championships.

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An increasing focus on office collaboration is creating opportunities for software giants like Microsoft and Google and start-ups like Quip.

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Following its own move into automated buying, IPG Mediabrands announced a plan to help clients create content for online platforms.

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The ruling is the first to address the constitutionality of warrantless searches of historical location data stored by cellphone service providers.

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Web Talent Marketing out of Lancaster PA, Amish Country, a nationally recognized Search Marketing agency, has just launched what they are calling, the Website of the Future, a new version of their company website.

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Web Talent Marketing out of Lancaster PA, Amish Country, a nationally recognized Search Marketing agency, has just launched what they are calling, the Website of the Future, a new version of their...

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OpenTable, the world’s largest online reservation service, is getting ready to take the next step and let diners pay for the meal with its app, too.

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ScaleArc iDB Eliminates Site Outages, Speeds SQL Queries to Boost Application Performance, and Gives WordPress Application Developers Deep Insight into SQL Traffic.

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ScaleArc iDB Eliminates Site Outages, Speeds SQL Queries to Boost Application Performance, and Gives WordPress Application Developers Deep Insight into SQL Traffic.

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The VPSO and Treasurer each work with teams that support their roles on campus and within SGA. The VPSO's team is called the Student Organization Support (SOS) Team and the Treasurer's is named the Financial Support Team (FST). Both teams rely on students wanting to take initiative and work together make a change on campus!

Click here and apply now!

Student Organization Support Team (SOS): Members of the SOS team will work with the Vice President for Student Organizations. The SOS Team's goal will be to provide the necessary support to help organizations improve and grow.

There are 5 positions available:

1. Director of Student Organization Support - to serve as a partner for the VPSO. They will oversee all directors and work with everyone to make sure initiatives are being done in an effective and timely manner.

2. Assistant Director for Campus Involvement - will help organizations become more involved on campus. He or she will be reaching out to organizations who wish to hold events/organize initiatives on campus as well as coordinate with athletics on bringing organizations to sporting events.

3. Assistant Director for Public Relations (PR) - will help organizations with their PR efforts on campus. He or she will work with organizations to market their club and make better use of their website and social media accounts.

4. Assistant Director for Collaboration - will help organizations with similar events/interests/goals work together. He or she will review past events and initiatives and match organizations with similar goals to increase collaboration.

5. Assistant Director for Financial Assistance - will guide organizations through the process of requesting SGA funds. He or she will be required to attend Finance Board meetings every Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. and will work closely with a member of the Financial Support Team (FST) to communicate and assist organizations.

Financial Support Team (FST): Members of the FST will work with and assist the SGA Treasurer with weekly clerical work, which includes filing papers, entering data, and answering questions, in order to create an efficient, problem-solving system that best benefits student organizations.

There are 2 positions available:

1. Director of the FST - This student will be expected to help the Treasurer review submitted Allocation Request Forms, respond to and send e-mails to organizations, and input data. This student will need to be available twice a week for two hours.

2. Assistant Director for Financial Assistance - This student will be expected to respond to organizations’ finance-related questions, attend FB meetings at least twice a month, and work with a member of the Student Organization Support (SOS) Team.

SGA Retreat

The SGA Retreat is on August 22nd-24th. Applicants for the Student Organization Support Team and Financial Support Team positions are strongly encouraged to RSVP and attend. (More information on the Retreat and the RSVP form can be found by clicking this link.) The deadline to RSVP for the Retreat is August 5th.

Application

To accentuate the importance of attending the Retreat, we are setting a priority deadline for all SOS and FST applications on August 4th at noon.

While we will begin reviewing applications following this date, we will continue to collect applications until August 12th at noon.

Application Link:

Click here.

Questions?

Contact Hannah Khan, Vice President for Student Organizations, regarding SOS positions: Khan12@umbc.edu

Contact Haneen Daham, Treasurer, regarding FST positions: dhaneen1@umbc.edu

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The use of special characters such as (#,&,+) can potentially cause problems. This includes using these characters as part of files and naming assignments when they are created by the instructor.

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Instructors should not include special characters in the file names of documents they are uploading to Blackboard through the Assignment and Safe Assignment feature. Also, instructors when creating Assignments or Safe Assignments should not use special characters when naming them. Blackboard recommends the following guidelines for filenames: Characters a-z (upper or lower case), 0-9, period "." and underscore "_" are acceptable in filenames. Spaces in file names are converted to underscores in the name of the uploaded file. The number sign (#) should not be used in naming columns in the gradecenter either.

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