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Remember:
URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research, scholarship, or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. UMBC students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they remain enrolled at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.
Applications require a research proposal and mentor statement of support.
Speciality URAs will be awarded to Social Scientists and Entrepreneurs
]]>This post was written by Women’s Center director, Jess Myers as a tribute to our UMBC moms. Special thanks to the moms who provided photos to help curate our Women’s Center moms collage. Wishing happy thoughts to all our UMBC moms in your first and hopefully last quarantined Mother’s Day!
Self-Care Content Note: There’s lots of reasons why Mother’s Day can be hard for a lot of different people. We see you and your story and your pain and hurt matter to us too. Be kind to yourself. Create boundaries in ways that feel right for you. Reach out to someone who can validate your real emotions that don’t require censorship.
To those who may be hurting. We see you.
Okay, so let’s just put this out there. My mom is my favorite human being. So much so, I just got teared up writing that last sentence.
How else can I explain it? I remember one Mother’s Day when I was in high school. My mom and I were in the car to go visit my Busia (that’s grandmother in Polish). We were listening to the radio and a caller request came in. The caller explained that the requested song for her mom was “their song.” And, as caller requests go – she shouted out her mom, said she loved her, probably gave a woooo!!!, and then the song came on.
It was Celion Dion’s Because You Loved Me.
It took all of three seconds for my mom and I to look at each other with the biggest “wows” on our faces (also mom upside down is wow). A love song. A love song for a mother and daughter. By then we had pulled up to my Busia’s house, but we just sat in the car, listened to the lyrics, and cried. And, that was the moment we too had a love song. I am everything I am because my mom loves me.
Jess and her mom with True Grit at UMBC’s Faculty and Staff Awards celebration in 2018!
I could go on and on, but the point of this blog post isn’t to gush about mom (well not exactly). It’s about gushing about you, Dear Moms of the Women’s Center at UMBC.
To the moms who serve or who have served on the Women’s Center Advisory Board
To the Returning Women Student Scholars + Affiliates Moms and all of our student moms
To the moms who have spent countless hours in our lactation room pumping away
To the moms who have served as staff members over the decades
To our Friends of the Women’s Center Moms
To the moms who have donated their money, their time, their skills to support our mission
To those who aren’t moms but support and champion the work of the Women’s Center because of the space and meaning it holds for moms
Thank you for you. Thank you for being a part of the Women’s Center community. In the words of Celine Dion, we are everything we are because you love us… you make us a stronger and richer community because we get to learn from you, benefit from your skills, and call you our friends and allies.
So, in honor of all these brilliant moms we offer some suggestions and action items to take this Mother’s Day weekend:
Virtual ways to celebrate or honor a mom in your life:
To help advocate for a mom in your life:
For those of us who aren’t moms, we may have no idea what it’s like to be a mom in quarantine. Even moms in quarantine won’t know exactly what other moms are going through. What we do know, though, is that at home and on the front line of this pandemic, women are essential.
So how can you learn more? Here’s a few recommended readings and podcasts. After checking out those, consider ways you can advocate for mothers in your own life and spheres of influence. As always, we appreciate your own ideas and suggestions in the comments!
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Panel:To highlight leadership styles in crisis management so that mission continuity occurs and workplace and workforce are safe.
The panelists serve as executive leaders in healthcare, industry and government/non-profit. These three high-performing women will offer insights into lessons learned in a pandemic for multiple industries as well as cybersecurity considerations in times of change.
Donna Brady Raziano, MD, MBA, is the Chief Medical Officer of Mercy LIFE. Dr. Raziano's credentials include ABIM board certifications in Geriatric Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Care as well as an MBA in Health Care Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has over twenty years of experience in practicing medicine and healthcare leadership roles.
Diane Brady Janosek, Esq., CISSP, is the President of Women in Cybersecurity's (WiCyS) Mid-Atlantic Regional Affiliate, and Senior Advisor to the Critical Infrastructure Chapter. She has been a member of the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service for the last decade, with prior experience at The White House and Pentagon. Ms. Janosek is the 2019 Cyber Warrior Woman of the Year awarded by Cybersecurity Association of Maryland, which honored her for mentorship, inspiration, and advocacy.
Donna Brady Raziano and Diane Brady Janosek are identical twin sisters that collaborate to improve the lives of Americans.
Nicole Dean is the Chief Information Security Officer for Accenture Federal Service (AFS). Over the past 20 years, Ms. Dean has held increasingly responsible positions in cybersecurity and information technology systems management for the Federal, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community and commercial cyber and communications systems. Ms. Dean holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in both Liberal Arts and Information Technology. She holds a Master's degree in Information Systems Security from Colorado Technical University.
