Lama Mohamed and friends with her artwork, "Imagining Science" embody scale, unity, and balance! She's a Visual Arts AND Biological Sciences major, proving that UMBC students cannot be put in boxes!

Lama wins a $50 gift certificate to the UMBC Bookstore.

Title: Imagining Science
Presenter: Lama Mohamed
Mentor: Chung-Wei Huang, Media and Communication Studies

Art has not been utilized nearly enough to visualize the complex relationships that exist within the broad disciplines of life sciences. The separation of creativity from science, and the rigidity of science within the arts has minimized the future possibilities of both fields. These illustrations explored how using more creative methods can inspire greater thought and wonder in younger viewers’ first exposure to elementary science. This was attempted through use of experimental art techniques such as collage, mixed media, and a focus on artistic appeal rather than strict accuracy of anatomy or scale. There are a total of three pieces: Scale, Unity, and Balance; all created with the intention of centering young audiences, but also the innate curiosity present in all people, regardless of age. Each illustration is centered around that inborn desire to understand and make meaning of the vast yet intricate world around us, and how it manifests in everyday life.

Save the date for URCAD 31:

April 28, 2027

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Nathan Dayie "completes the circuit" with friend, Raine Gibson at URCAD!

Nathan is a URA, U-RISE, and Meyerhoff Scholar. He will recieve a $100 gift certificate to the UMBC Bookstore!! He presented an oral talk on:

Investigating Neural and Behavioral Correlates Underlying Sensory Integration in Marmosets 

Mentor: Guoping Feng, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 

Abstract:

Atypical sensory processing is a hallmark of neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder, yet the neural and behavioral correlates associated with this deficit remain poorly understood. To investigate the mechanisms underlying sensory integration, we implemented a free-response version of a pulse-based evidence accumulation task in a non-human primate model, marmosets. The task presents sensory information in a sequence of flashes on either side of a screen, while freely moving marmosets choose the side with higher flash probability to receive a reward. We used the task, neural recordings, pose estimation, and computational models to investigate the process of sensory integration. In this study, we propose a multi-modal data alignment pipeline to integrate neural and behavioral data. Each session includes 3D-pose estimation extracted from five cameras, task performance data, and single-unit neural recordings. The pipeline successfully synchronizes neural spiking with task events and video, enabling qualitative insights regarding spike timing correlations with screen flashes and reward delivery. These results validate the pipeline’s utility for uncovering neural correlates underlying sensory integration. Future work will integrate computational models to quantify these correlations. We hope this framework will provide a foundation for studying sensory processing deficits across marmoset models of neurodevelopmental disorders.

Save the date for URCAD 31:

April 28, 2027

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Good Morning everyone!

It’s time to vote for your 2026–2027 E-Board!

Voting begins today and will remain open until Friday, May 1 at 11:59 PM. Reminder: you must have a UMBC email, be a member of the club, and be part of the myUMBC page for your vote to qualify.

 For any questions please feel free to email eshah1@umbc.edu or maisak1@umbc.edu 

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Hey everyone!

This is a reminder to fill out the form attached here if you are interested in a board position: CWC Position Application

We are looking for the following:

President

Vice-President

Treasurer

Secretary

Social Media Manager

If there is an alternative role outside of these positions that you are interested in, please feel free to apply!

this was a custom gift :(. Pls lmk if you find it, email me, rabiyam1@umbc.edu

Private room available in a 2BHK townhouse for a male at Westland Gardens for a 3-month move-in, available from May to August. 

Fully furnished 2BHK townhouse: 

What you get:

• Spacious living room with sofa + TV
• Fully equipped kitchen (Oven, Microwave, Fridge, Dishwasher)
• In-unit Washer & Dryer
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• Just a 1-minute walk to the UMBC bus stop
• Only 10 minutes walk to campus

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We're looking for passionate individuals who want to help eliminate harmful narratives surrounding Black men, women, and other underrrepresented groups through community, leadership, and purpose. 

Apply by May 2nd using the link attached to be considered! 

Positions Available:

Treasure, Secretary, Event Coordinator, Public Relations, Outreach Chair, Media Officer and  Fundraising Chair

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12-1 ITE 231, going to be discussing our next range trip and other topics. 

Humanities Forum Lecture with Orianne Smith
Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic
This event is part of the Spring 2026 Humanities Forum

Location

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Date & Time

April 27, 2026, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

The Humanities Forum presents Orianne Smith, professor of English at UMBC, who will speak on Romanticism Bewitched: Witchcraft, Revolution and the Female Demonic.

The Romantic-era witch was a remarkably flexible symbol of political and social disorder. The recent seventeenth-century witch hunts had already revealed deep anxieties about the subversive potential of women, and the witches who stalk the pages of Gothic poetry and prose or glare menacingly from works of art by Henry Fuseli and William Blake embody revolutionary anger and the possibility of radical social transformation. Despite the fears surrounding such figures, however, the Romantic period also saw witchcraft open up in conceptually new ways, enabling writers and artists to envision alternative means of interacting in the world that were not predicated on the subordination of women and other marginalized groups. Here, Orianne Smith embarks on an interdisciplinary reimagining of witchcraft, women’s writing, religion, and social reform, providing original insights on the history of witchcraft and its influence on public discourse, literature and art.

Admission is free.

The Humanities Forum is presented by the Dresher Center for the Humanities. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of English.