Will Google Glass revive a controversial cinematographic technique?

The other day I wrote about how I was skeptical about advertisements ever finding a home on Google Glass, largely for reasons of “screen real estate” (“reality real estate” may be more apt). I urged readers to take my argument with a grain of salt, having neither sampled Google Glass nor having seen a simulation of it. Yesterday, Google finally posted a video introduction to the Google Glass experience. Check it out here:

The Asian Studies Program and Longwood Apartments, located in Columbia, MD, have begun a partnership this spring. Asian Studies students will serve internships at this HUD Section 8 housing complex to facilitate communication between the largely Asian population and the non-Asian staff. They will also interact with the Chinese and Korean-speaking residents in a variety of ways, particularly through the Longwood Senior Center, which is located in Longwood Apartments and operated by Howard County

On April 26, two ASIA majors, Christine Au and Klara Kim, served as translators and facilitators at Longwood’s Spring Community meeting. Other internship duties will include: translating the monthly events calendar into Korean and Chinese; helping the Longwood staff to create bilingual work orders and other types of forms; assisting the Longwood Senior Center’s director with activities for residents (English language classes, recreational activities).

Asian Studies would also like to bring to Longwood Apartments “Food on the 15^th,” a not-for-profit program that provides free groceries to low income senior citizens in Howard County. “Food on the 15^th,” founded and directed by Julie Rosenthal, Program Management Specialist for ASIA, will begin collecting non-perishable food donations on campus in the fall.

To see more images, visit the Asian Studies Program Facebook Page.

In a City Paper story examining the 10th anniversary of The Transmodern Festival, alum Jaimes Mayhew ’10, MFA imaging and digital arts, weighs in on the annual event’s impact on Baltimore. Mayhew participated in the festival for the first time in 2006 as part of the Boston-based Institute for Infinitely Small Things.

The story also mentions UMBC alumna Kristen Anchor ’02, ’13, visual arts and MFA, IMDA, respectively.

Read the full story here in City Paper.

Off-Campus Student Services’ new and improved website (www.umbc.edu/ocss) is up-and-running and has tons of information and resources about finding off-campus housing and roommates as well as navigating the technicalities of living off campus such as building productive tenant-landlord relationships. The answers to students’ FAQs can be found there and at OCSS’s housing-related events such as the “Off-Campus Transitions” workshop, recently held on April 10^th, where we addressed questions about security deposits and lease lengths. More events are coming!

If students are interested in finding roommates, OCSS is hosting a Roommate Social on May 10^th from 12-1PM in Lower Flat Tuesdays in The Commons—there will be food, fun, and, of course, opportunities to meet potential roommates. If students can’t make this event, UMBC’s official off-campus housing directory is another free resource for students to post and browse roommate ads—visit www.umbc.och101.com.

Students looking for off-campus housing for the summer and spring semesters can also browse housing listings at www.umbc.och101.com or attend one of our in-person housing fairs in July, August, and October. Join the OCSS myUMBC group page for continued updates about housing-related events, news, and discussions. For help navigating our new websites, students can visit our office located next to the bookstore and pick up housing brochures and listings or call 410.455.2770.  

About the program:

The Department of Biological Sciences and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics announces the Undergraduate Mathematics Biology Training Program (ubm@umbc.edu) supported by the National Science Foundation. At the core of this program is the belief that modern scientific problems demand multidisciplinary approaches, and that cross-disciplinary training will accelerate discovery and prepare students to be scientific leaders in the 21st century. Our innovative program will provide two years of research training for undergraduates working on projects at the interface of biology, mathematics and statistics.

For student candidates:

The goal of this program is to prepare undergraduate students for graduate study and careers in biomathematics, biostatistics and fields that require a strong background in computational approaches to biological problems.

Apply NOW!

A film by Joe Tropea ’06, ’08, history, premiers locally at the Maryland Film Festival next week.  The Baltimore Brew covered the film in a May 1 story entitled “A fiery act of civil disobedience in Catonsville still resonates, 45 years later.”

The Baltimore Sun also wrote about the film here.

“Hit & Stay’ tells the story of nine Catholic activists who protested the Vietnam War by burning draft files in Catonsville on May 17, 1968.  Tropea and fellow filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk tell the story using old footage, recent interviews with surviving members of the group and their supporters, images of war horrors, and the reflections of eminences of the Left such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers and Amy Goodman.

Tropea undertook the six-year process of making the documentary after writing on the subject for his masters thesis.  “I had had no idea about the amount of strategy and coordination and about how all these things were connected,” he told Baltimore Brew.

“Hit & Stay” will have two screenings at The Maryland Film Festival. (Tickets available here.)

• Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m. at Charles Theatre, 1711 N Charles St.
• Saturday, May 11, 1:30 p.m. at MICA’s Brown Center, 1300 Mount Royal Ave.

The anniversary of the action will also be commemorated with a May 10 event at UMBC, “Looking Forward from the 45th Anniversary of the Catonsville Nine Actions.”

This post originally appeared in UMBC Insights.

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A film by Joe Tropea ’06 History B.A. and ’08 Historical Studies premiers locally at the Maryland Film Festival next week.  The Baltimore Brew covered the film in a May 1 story entitled “A fiery act of civil disobedience in Catonsville still resonates, 45 years later.”

“Hit & Stay’ tells the story of nine Catholic activists who protested the Vietnam War by burning draft files in Catonsville on May 17, 1968.  Tropea and fellow filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk tell the story using old footage, recent interviews with surviving members of the group and their supporters, images of war horrors, and the reflections of eminences of the Left such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers and Amy Goodman.

Tropea undertook the six-year process of making the documentary after writing on the subject for his masters thesis.  “I had had no idea about the amount of strategy and coordination and about how all these things were connected,” he said.

“Hit & Stay” will have two screenings at The Maryland Film Festival. (Tickets available here.)

• Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m. at Charles Theatre, 1711 N Charles St.
• Saturday, May 11, 1:30 p.m. at MICA’s Brown Center, 1300 Mount Royal Ave.

The anniversary of the action will also be commemorated with a May 10 event at UMBC, “Looking Forward from the 45th Anniversary of the Catonsville Nine Actions.”