Hello!

Final exams are quickly approaching.   Enjoy some brain food to fuel your study session ON ME!!  

All  iCubed study group participants (that's you!) currently in a study group are eligible to enter.   Please fill out the study group registration form (attached) and return to me by 4pm FRIDAY, December 2nd,  to be entered into a raffle to win 2 PIZZAS for you and your study group on UMBC Study Day (December 14th).   

For those of you not in a study group yet, contact me and I can help you find one.   I am currently forming study groups for most science/math classes including Math 106, Math150, Math151, Biol141, Chem101, etc!!!

For more information or if you have questions, please feel free to contact me or stop by my office in University Center 116.

Thanks!

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Tashauna Felix, M.S., Ph.D.

iCubed Study Group Coordinator

University Center 116

tfelix1@umbc.edu

410.455.3173

The 10th Annual EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel from January 11-13, 2012. This year's conference is titled "Reimagining IT in a Changing Landscape" and will focus on the need to reimagine, reinvent, and innovate in a climate of constant change and challenge. The programming on Thursday includes a variety of sessions that may be of interest to faculty and educational technologists. For the second year EDUCAUSE is offering special one-day registration options. Early registration is open until December 14 and can be found at http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?page_id=1028976&bhcp=1#REG.

Write or Radiate

Professor Christopher Rose
Rutgers University

1:00pm Friday December 9, 2011, ITE 227

Communication theory researchers do the relatively routine but deeply important work that maintains and expands our increasingly connected society. It is therefore easy to forget that communications research, by its very nature, is more than about telephones and the Internet, but is about interactions of any and every kind. That is, communication theory is an inherently profound subject and as communications researchers, we should be sensitive to the deeper questions our discipline often raises. In illustration, we describe how some routine wireless research had something surprising to say about how we might efficiently communicate across a wide range of distances and in so doing knocked on the door of one of the "big questions" — are we alone in the universe?

Christopher Rose was a semi-lifer at MIT from 1975 to 1985. He was paroled by his new wife and new baby in 1985 when he graduated with a Ph.D. in EECS. Almost immediately afterward he began what is now a 26-year-and-counting postdoc in communication theory starting at Bell Laboratories Research where he rubbed shoulders with a wide range of uniformly delightful technical angels and curmudgeons. He's currently an ECE professor at Rutgers, WINLAB and an IEEE Fellow cited for "contributions to wireless systems theory."

Chris has always been confused about his technical identity and has thus roamed over research terrain that has included introducing surprisingly good random switch architectures as an antidote to the "topology of the week" rage back in the late '80s, better-than-fiber superconducting coax with levitated center conductors during the heady days of High-Tc superconductors, and a variety of wireless problems, culminating in his proudest moment — an interview on NPR where a caller asked him about crop circles and ET communication. That interview (and the Nature paper which spawned it) has done wonders for his reputation as an expert witness.

He is currently thinking hard about (but not making loads of progress on) fundamental problems in bio-molecular communication. He is also thinking about communications as a lens on everything — with some already surprising initial results.

The Laramie Project

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - Sunday, December 11, 2011

UMBC Theatre

UMBC ID = $5.00

General Admission = $10.00

• Wednesday, 11/30 @ 8pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10
• Thursday, 12/1 @ 4pm - Ticket #: 7 of10 -- This is a FREE showing!
• Friday, 12/2 @ 8pm - Ticket #: 5 of 10
• Saturday, 12/3 @ 8pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10
• Sunday, 12/4 @ 4pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10
• Thursday, 12/8 @ 8pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10
• Friday, 12/9 @ 8pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10
• Saturday, 12/10 @ 8pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10
• Sunday, 12/11 @ 2pm - Ticket #: 1 of 10

The Scene

UMBC Rock Climbing Club

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

7:30pm

Lecture Hall 1

UMBC ID = FREE

General Admission = $10.00

Ticket #: 5 of 183

[Title of Show]

Musical Theatre Club

8:00pm

Fine Arts Room 306

UMBC ID = FREE

General Admission = $5.00

• Thursday, 12/1 - Ticket #: 17 of 140
• Friday, 12/2 - Ticket #: 28 of 140
• Saturday, 12/3 - Ticket #: 21 of 140

X-Mas Bashment

Caribbean Student Council

Friday, December 2, 2011

8:00pm

University Center, Ballroom

UMBC ID = FREE (limit 1/ID)

General Admission = $5.00

Ticket #: 9 of 425

Yalda Night

Persian Student Association

Saturday, December 3, 2011

7:00pm

University Center, Ballroom

UMBC ID = FREE (limit 1/ID)

General Admission = $15.00

Ticket #: 29 of 326

Winter Concert

Saturday, December 3, 2011

8:00pm

Fine Arts Recital Hall

UMBC ID = FREE

General Admission = $10.00

Ticket #: 18 of 425