August 7: Retrievers Return Action Update Welcome Week + Upcoming Events
Campus Status: UMBC is open, with most students, faculty, and staff studying, teaching, and working remotely. Facilities remain closed. If you have an emergency, please call UMBC Police at (410) 455-5555. Maryland is currently under a Safer at Home Order. However, travel and other restrictions remain in Baltimore County and other areas.

The latest campus updates are posted on the Retrievers Return Roadmap website. If you have questions or concerns, please email covid19@umbc.edu.

Student Services and Support

  • Check out the latest ways for students to Stay Connected with Student Affairs.
  • Help promote Welcome Week and Involvement Fest events. Check out welcomeweek.umbc.edu and follow the Welcome Week myUMBC group to receive updates as more events are announced.
  • Off-campus Student Services (OCSS) welcomes commuters, transfers, adult learners, and veterans back to campus. Look for events in August and follow the OCSS myUMBC group for more updates.

Business Continuity and Staff Support

  • The Faculty Development Center (FDC) supports faculty and instructors in their teaching role by providing a comprehensive program of services and resources. As you prepare for remote instruction, hybrid courses, or face-to face instruction this fall, please remember that the FDC staff are here during the summer and continue to provide a number of resources to support you! View this post to learn about their programming, CATALyst and observation services, consultations, online resources, and ebooks. Please feel free to reach out to the FDC for support, with suggestions, or just to check in.

Campus Access

  • UMBC’s buildings are secured, with some employees and research teams on campus and taking appropriate health and safety precautions. Only employees with permission from their supervisor, approved researchers, and/or approved students should be on campus.
  • Faculty Summer Office Access Requests: If you need to access the campus to prepare course materials for a class that you are teaching this fall, or access to your office to teach online during the summer, please submit a Summer Office Access Request.
  • Faculty Fall Office Access Requests: If you need to access the campus during the fall semester to prepare course materials for a class that you are teaching, or access to your office to teach online during the fall semester, please submit a Fall Office Access Request. If you need a teaching assistant to also have access to campus for instructional purposes, please include the TA’s information in your request. Please submit your request by August 13, 2020. Decisions will be rendered by August 18, 2020.
  • If you have a one-time emergency need to visit campus and have gained appropriate approval(s) but do not have keys to gain access to the building/office that you need to visit, please call UMBC Police Deputy Chief Bruce Perry at (443) 677-2195 or Lieutenant Derrick Johns at (410) 207-0850.

UMBC Together


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Campus Status: UMBC is open, with most students, faculty, and staff studying, teaching, and working remotely. Facilities remain closed. If you have an emergency, please call UMBC Police at (410) 455-5555. Maryland is currently under a Safer at Home Order. However, travel and other restrictions remain in Baltimore County and other areas.

The latest campus updates are posted on the Retrievers Return Roadmap website. If you have questions or concerns, please email covid19@umbc.edu.

Student Services and Support

  • Check out the latest ways for students to Stay Connected with Student Affairs.
  • Help promote Welcome Week and Involvement Fest events. Check out welcomeweek.umbc.edu and follow the Welcome Week myUMBC group to receive updates as more events are announced.
  • Off-campus Student Services (OCSS) welcomes commuters, transfers, adult learners, and veterans back to campus. Look for events in August and follow the OCSS myUMBC group for more updates.

Campus Access

  • UMBC’s buildings are secured, with some employees and research teams on campus and taking appropriate health and safety precautions. Only employees with permission from their supervisor, approved researchers, and/or approved students should be on campus.
  • If you have a one-time emergency need to visit campus, please call UMBC Police Deputy Chief Bruce Perry at (443) 677-2195 or Lieutenant Derrick Johns at (410) 207-0850.

UMBC Together


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This week, we learned that two UMBC student groups innovated and earned their place in the winning seats among four other USM student groups for creating a COVID-19 mobile app.

In today’s Industry News, we’ll take a look at the lingering problems of COVID-19 that are alarming scientists. We’ll also look at how a machine mutated to detect COVID-19, AI’s role in studying birds, and the geography of an early Mars.


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An Opportunity with The Retriever for Visual Art/ Media and Communications Majors


Apply to be a Production Assistant for the Retriever


Responsibilities:

The Retriever Production Team is looking for an artist who is interested in learning about graphic design, newspaper layout, and social media and merchandise branding. This position is open to artists who are enthusiastic about creating engaging designs that help elevate student journalism and are prompt in meeting deadlines. Applicants should be prepared to design graphics for social media and online print articles, assist in layout for three special edition print issues this fall, and attend Production Team video calls throughout the semester with the Production Manager. It is preferred that applicants are familiar with Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, but access to an Adobe membership is not required.  


Requirements:

You must be an undergraduate student at UMBC with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5. Incoming freshman are encouraged to apply. 


To Apply:

Please send your resume and portfolio (if you have one) to our Production Manager, Madeline Arbutus, at m166@umbc.edu.


Note: This is a paid position and can be done remotely.  


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Thermodynamic control —An old paradigm with new applications

Sebastian Deffner and Marcus V. S. Bonança

EPL 131, 20001 (2020)

Tremendous research efforts have been invested in exploring and designing so-called shortcuts to adiabaticity. These are finite-time processes that produce the same final states that would result from infinitely slow driving. Most of these techniques rely on auxiliary fields and quantum control, which makes them rather costly to implement. In this Perspective we outline an alternative paradigm for optimal control that has proven powerful in a wide variety of situations ranging from heat engines over chemical reactions to quantum dynamics —thermodynamic control. Focusing on only a few, selected milestones we seek to provide a pedagogical entry point into this powerful and versatile framework. ]]> Thermodynamic control —An old paradigm with new applications Sebastian Deffner and Marcus V. S. Bonança EPL 131, 20001 (2020) Tremendous research efforts have been invested in exploring and... https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/131/20001 https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/94695/guest@my.umbc.edu/979641c2b448057a26cb1893982da683/api/pixel Quantum Thermodynamics https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/retired-1393 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/xsmall.png?1502988446 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/original.png?1502988446 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/xxlarge.png?1502988446 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/xlarge.png?1502988446 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/large.png?1502988446 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/medium.png?1502988446 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/small.png?1502988446 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/xsmall.png?1502988446 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/393/cfed54c41318d9b704a1ec1b884218b1/xxsmall.png?1502988446 Quantum Thermodynamics 0 0 true Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:06:59 -0400 Fri, 07 Aug 2020 09:07:52 -0400 You’re Invited to UMBC’s Fall Opening Meeting, August 20, 20
What defines us is not whether crises happen, but how we respond to them. How is UMBC continuing to redefine excellence in higher education at the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and economic disruption?

Faculty, staff, and students are invited to share your stories and learn together in a series of virtual gatherings during the 2020-2021 academic year, beginning with:

The Empowered University: Shared Leadership, Culture Change, and Academic Success in a Pivotal Time 
The Annual UMBC Fall Opening Meeting
Thursday, August 20, 2020   
11:30-12:45 p.m. via WebEx

Register Here

Start with Virtual Conversations and Real Coffee

To help kick off our Fall Opening Meeting on August 20, unmute and enjoy informal conversation with colleagues over coffee from OCA Mocha, UMBC’s community-building coffee shop in Arbutus, from 11:30 to 11:45 a.m. All faculty, staff, and students who register for the Fall Opening meeting will be invited to enjoy a complimentary beverage from OCA Mocha. This offer will be honored on pick-up and delivery orders from August 20-September 20, 2020.

For more information about this event and the follow-up community gatherings, please visit umbc.edu/go/fall-meetings.
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Emergence Baltimore is Baltimore's first live-in business accelerator

program. Accepted founders spend 3 months working heads-down on their

businesses alongside other passionate founders and mentors in a safe

environment. In addition to a rigorous, customized curriculum, the

founders also get free fitness, yoga, and mindfulness training to help

them perform at their best, and have a private room, bath, and 4000sqft

of shared living and office space.


This one-of-a-kind program is currently accepting applications until

August 17th. More details can be found in the attached, shareable PDF

and at https://www.emergencebaltimore.org/.


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Emergence Baltimore is Baltimore's first live-in business accelerator

program. Accepted founders spend 3 months working heads-down on their

businesses alongside other passionate founders and mentors in a safe

environment. In addition to a rigorous, customized curriculum, the

founders also get free fitness, yoga, and mindfulness training to help

them perform at their best, and have a private room, bath, and 4000sqft

of shared living and office space.


This one-of-a-kind program is currently accepting applications until

August 17th. More details can be found in the attached, shareable PDF

and at https://www.emergencebaltimore.org/.


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Clinical trials seeking a vaccine to prevent COVID-19 are galloping forward around the world, and Kizzmekia Corbett and Barney Graham’s research team at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) continues to lead the pack.

In a study of non-human primates published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicinelast week, the team became the first to demonstrate that their vaccine successfully stopped viral replication in both the lungs and nose. The findings were a significant advance compared to previous studies, which only showed protection in the lungs. The day after Corbett’s results were published, Johnson & Johnson published similar results for their vaccine, although the animals in the Johnson & Johnson trial were exposed to a lower amount of the virus.

“Protection in the upper airway is something that’s hard to come by, so it’s a big deal,” says Corbett ’08, M16, biological sciences and sociology, scientific lead for the Coronavirus Vaccines Team at the NIAID Vaccine Research Center. “We were very excited when we saw it.”

Next steps

The next step is a phase III human trial, which began with 30,000 participants on July 27. The participants will either receive the vaccine or a placebo, “and then they will go live their lives, and either be exposed to the coronavirus or not,” Corbett says. Over time, enough of the participants will be exposed so that researchers can measure the efficacy of the vaccine. 

Our (co-inventors @McLellan_Lab) COVID-19 vaccine (spike delivered by @moderna_tx's mRNA) was just injected into the 1st human in phase 1 trial, only 66 days after viral sequence release… a testament to rapid vaccine development for emerging diseases

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Today we focus on building and maintaining partnerships and teams. “Teamwork makes the dream work!” is a saying you’re probably familiar with. Leadership exists through powerful relationships; no one can be a leader alone. Often the greatest leaders have a partner or teammates who can see their true selves and can challenge the leader’s thinking for the betterment of the cause or group efforts. A key characteristic in fostering partnerships and building teams lies within shared purpose and committing to shared goals.

It is also important to note that one should strive to make connections and build relationships in an authentic manner. Connections and relationships should be forged with good intentions, not through manipulation or deceit. One of the best ways to nurture partnerships and teams is to listen and be present. Being a great leader requires creating a shared vision and developing rapport with your partners and team, in order to ensure the group’s success.

Take a moment to reflect on the list below, which was adapted from Patrick Lencioni's (2002) The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. This list identifies key commitments that help create and foster an effective team.


Five Commitments for an Effective Team:

  1. Opening up and building trust within the team

  2. Engaging in respectful discourse and conflict

  3. Committing to the team’s purpose

  4. Holding oneself and others accountable for their performance

  5. Focusing on collective results


“All change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another.” -- Margaret Wheatley



Day 6 Challenge Questions:

  • What partnerships/teams are you a part of and how does each of these groups impact your life?

  • In what ways are you challenged AND supported by your partnerships/teams?


BONUS Question: 

  • What TV show, movie or documentary have you seen that further supports these statements, and how?


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