On March 7, 2018, we will be having our annual “Pathways to Success” seminar talk with Dr. Freeman Hrabowski. Everyone is invited to attend!

Organization Description:

Young Audiences/Arts for Learning, founded in Baltimore in 1950, is the country’s foremost arts-in-education non-profit organization. The Maryland chapter of Young Audiences (YA) provides more than 9,000 arts education opportunities to nearly 200,000 students, artists, and educators throughout the state each year. The staff, board, and teaching artists of YA are passionate about generating opportunities for all students to imagine, create and realize their full potential through the arts.

Job Summary:

URCAD

Description

Join us to learn about how Nutanix is helping schools reduce complexity and risk, and simplify, modernize and automate legacy tasks that exist within data center operating environments.

Nutanix makes datacenter infrastructure invisible by delivering an on-prem Enterprise Cloud that enables IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business. Nutanix leverages a hybrid delivery model to capitalize on public cloud advantages while retaining the security and control of private datacenters. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud integrates server, storage, virtualization and networking in a Hyperconverged platform to run any workload, at any scale, while removing the complexity of legacy infrastructure.

**Targeted Audience… CIO, VP Infrastructure, IT Director, Data Center Director, Server Admin/Engineer, Storage Admin/Engineer, Virtualization/VMWARE Admin/Engineer  

Presenters

Erica Kordes - CDWG Account Executive

Dave Goodwin - Nutanix Territory Account Manager SLED

Mike Umphreys - Nutanix Sales Engineer"

The BEYA STEM Conference sponsored by Career Communications Group will be held February 8-10, 2018 as part of this large annual conference, representatives from several major corporations and universities will be on hand to meet with students pursuing careers in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields as well as Business, Finance, and Marketing.  Why you should attend:

• FREE Career Fair
• Career exhibits
• 50 + seminars and workshops
• On the spot job offers
• Networking with recruiters
• Job readiness certification for college students.

The Career Fair portion of the conference, on Saturday, is free of charge for UMBC students and alumni with an active UMBC email address. All students are welcome to attend. Dress to impress and bring plenty of updated resumes!

Registration is required.

To register and for additional information, go to:

http://careers2.umbc.edu/calendar/fairs/beya2018.php

Deadline to pre-register is Feb. 5 (Career Fair) and Feb. 2 for the entire Conference

Contact Diane Crump-Fogle (crump@umbc.edu) or Chrisi Giannakaris (chrisig@umbc.edu) of the UMBC Career Center for additional information.

Free Shuttle Bus

There will be a free shuttle bus to transport students to and from the career fair on Saturday. If you will need transportation, be sure to complete the shuttle bus registration form at the bottom of the BEYA registration page: http://careers2.umbc.edu/calendar/fairs/beyabus.php. Please note that the free shuttle bus is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. The free shuttle will run only on Saturday between 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Transportation to and from other conference events (such as the BEYA Gala held Saturday evening) is on your own.

Transatlantic Studies Association

17th Annual Conference
University of North Georgia, Dahlonega, Georgia, USA
9-11 July 2018

2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program Informational Webinars

The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for its 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program to strategically support 2- and 4-year Maryland public higher education institutions' efforts to adopt open educational resources (OER) as a means to greatly reduce textbook costs and address college affordability for students.  Sign up for one of this week's informational webinars to learn more about the 2018 program and walk through the application.  There will also be Q&A to answer specific questions about course eligibility, proposal ideas, curation of existing OER, and more. 

Register for one of this week's webinars (https://goo.gl/forms/m9jfDEJqolRXtaah1): 

• Wednesday, Jan. 10th, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
• Friday, Jan. 12th, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
  

Two types of mini-grants will be awarded for Fall 2018 OER implementation: 1) Adopt/Adapt OER ($500 - $1,500) and 2) Scaling OER ($1,500 - $2,500).  Proposals must be received by 5 p.m.Eastern Time on Friday, February 2, 2018.

Maryland OER Summit Keynote Video and Other Resources

Access resources from Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through OER: A Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources, including the keynote address video and PowerPoint presentation from Cable Green and David Wiley, and handouts, PowerPoint presentations, posters, and additional resources from the OER Summit presenters.  To find the resources, go to the “Program” tab on the Summit event page: http://www.usmd.edu/cai/advancing-postsecondary-student-success-through-oer-statewide-summit-open-educational-resources. 

Sign Up for the M.O.S.T. Basecamp

To receive the latest news and updates from M.O.S.T., join the M.O.S.T. Basecamp.  The M.O.S.T. Basecamp will also connect you with other colleagues in the state adopting and scaling OER and provide you with a place to share resources and best practices.  To join, click here: https://3.basecamp.com/3233682/join/MQrvqxBnAFMp.

Reminder: Changes for January 25, 2018 Application Due Dates

Two major changes impact applications submitted for due dates on or after January 25, 2018.

• Applicants are required to use FORMS-E. Wondering what this means for late applications or reviewers submitting under the continuous submission policies? See NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-17-062 to learn more.
• Applications that include one or more clinical trials must be submitted in response to funding opportunity announcements that allow for clinical trials. See NIH Guide Notice NOT-OD-18-106 to learn more.

New Electronic Submission Requirement for Diversity Supplements

The funds provided in response to Diversity Supplement requests are used to improve the diversity of the biomedical research workforce by recruiting and supporting students, postdoctorates, and eligible investigators from groups that have been shown to be underrepresented in health-related research. Currently, NIH does not require that diversity supplements be submitted electronically, which poses a challenge to NIH staff when trying to identify and track diversity supplement awardees and their subsequent research careers.

Effective January 25, 2018, all single and multi-project diversity supplement requests MUST be submitted electronically (NOT-OD-18-111).

Our diversity supplement funding opportunity announcement will be reissued with FORMS-E application forms and instructions on January 25, 2018 (NOT-OD-17-062). Until then, requests can be prepared using our current FORMS-D diversity supplement FOA. This FOA will expire on February 25, 2018 and all subsequent requests must use the new FORMS-E FOA.

Since the ability to submit diversity supplement requests to multi-project awards is new, an application forms package was added to the FORMS-D diversity supplement FOA to facilitate those submissions. A similar package will be added to the FORMS-E FOA when posted. Although the new package is used in conjunction with multi-project awards, the diversity supplement request itself is structured as a single-project application to the parent award.

Use our “Research Instructions” found on the How to Apply – Application Guide page when preparing all diversity supplement requests.