Description

Nutanix makes datacenter infrastructure invisible by delivering an 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. Deploy as a turnkey appliance or as software on leading servers.

**Targeted Audience… MEEC Members

Presenter

Jonathan Adair , Sr. Systems Engineer, Nutanix

Sr. Systems Engineer

Summary

Imagine going to work every day knowing that you’re helping to change someone’s life for the better.  How would that make you feel?  If you answered… amazing, then a career at Medifast might be a perfect fit for you!

We’re looking for talented, driven individuals who are looking to pursue a rewarding career in the health and wellness industry.  If you’re passionate about helping people, changing lives and making a difference, we encourage you to review our current opportunities and apply to be part of our team!

At the center of this year’s New Student Book Experience is the question of what we, as individuals, can do to be part of the change that authors say must happen. This was also the theme of the lecture in the University Center on Wednesday.

This year marks the fourteenth year of the UMBC New Student Book Experience, an initiative that began to welcome incoming UMBC students and provide them with a shared experience and learning opportunity. The initiative began with President Freeman Hrabowski, and over the last decade, has grown to the campus-wide event that it is today.

The committee who chooses the books wants them to be relevant and engaging for students, and all UMBC students are allowed to nominate books. Jill Randles, the Assistant Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education and a member of the committee, says the books are “chosen through [a] committee composed of faculty, staff and students. It’s very representative of many disciplines; it’s a very comprehensive, big group.” She adds that the committee really values student opinions. “We lean heavily on the student voice, they read everything and have wonderful suggestions,” she says.

“Half The Sky” was co-written by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, and this Wednesday WuDunn came to campus to discuss the book and its relevance. In the book, she details the problems facing women in societies across the world today and argues that society will see the biggest social change when the biggest challenges are addressed. The audience was invested in her lecture. Freshman media and communications major Anjali DasSarma said, “she was a very excellent storyteller; it was almost like watching theater. It was interesting hearing her retell the stories in the book.”

Hope Mesngon is a freshman media and communications studies major with a minor in gender and women’s studies who says she found the book and lecture eye-opening. “[I] was surprised at how much abuse and wrong there was in the third world, but I loved the empowering stories,” Mesngon notes.

The empowering stories of “Half the Sky” drew a lot of students in, including Lilly LaFemina, a media and communications studies major and French minor. “Some parts of the book were hard to read because some of the stories were so powerful,” LaFemina admits. “But she incorporates more hopeful stories at the end.” DasSarma enjoyed how thought-provoking the book was, and is interested in reading more of WuDunn’s work.

The committee felt that “Half the Sky” would be important for students read because “[we] felt that it was an issue that we knew about but didn’t really know about. It struck deeply at challenges across the globe that maybe we weren’t aware of,” said Randles. It was a book that covered a variety of topics, making it an excellent book for a variety of classes to discuss. All UMBC students, new and returning, are encouraged to consider WuDunn’s closing words, given when she explained why everyone must try to support a cause larger than themselves: “be happier, live longer, help save the world.”

Throughout history, mental illness has been conceptualized in a wide variety of ways, often strange or humorous in retrospect – divine retribution, demonic possession, witchcraft, astrological influences, and imbalanced humors.  Patients were feared, shunned, banished and subjected to bizarre, often abusive treatments which nonetheless stemmed from accepted conceptualizations of the time – like exorcism, cold baths, centrifugal devices, and medical purges.

Most of these archaic treatments have been abandoned by now, as better theories and newer treatments have been informed by science and clinical developments in the field.  We understand psychopathology in very different ways: i.e. stemming from multifactorial interactions of nature, nurture, individual differences, and context.

PSYC 285 – Abnormal Psychology provides a fascinating overview of abnormal behavior, thinking, emotion, and personality in clinical and everyday contexts.  Develop your sensitivity to the complexities and controversies of conceptualizing deviance, while learning to distinguish between normal and abnormal.  The course presents history, theory, causes, diagnostic criteria, and scientific and therapeutic approaches to psychopathology.  Class discussion is vibrant, focusing on personal understanding, dispelling popular misconceptions, and real-life applications.  

PSYC 285 is a 4-week course offered during Winter Session 2018, with a required prerequisite of PSYC 100. Effective time-management, commitment to a collaborative learning process, and attendance are essential.  Students should bring to class a full measure of curiosity about complexities of the human condition, philosophical underpinnings of mental illness theory and treatments, and practical aspects of mental health education, prevention, and care.  

EHS Graduate Seminar 11/28/2017
SPEAKER: Instructor Jenn Ryan
TOPIC: Art of Writing in "Emergency Management" Style

Have you ever wondered about how and why the writing style in some areas of work is different from normal writing? Have you noticed that the people who know the writing style of a particular field are more likely to get professional-level jobs in that field?  Please join us tomorrow (Wednesday) for the grad seminar, in which instructor Jenn Ryan Grey will help us learn the skills of writing in "emergency management" style.   Be there!

3pm-5pm, Sherman Hall Rm 305, or via Blackboard, using a new and improved camera technology. Need help logging in?  Please contact Kara Buckmaster at the above email for assistance, before 2:30p.

LIVE LINK via BLACKBOARD:
https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/13876aa9beb44d42b1e7cfe5df3004f6

Mandatory Freshmen Advising Meeting

Freshmen Mandatory PreHealth Advising meeting

MANDATORY attendance is required at this group advising meeting for any current UMBC freshman or freshman-transfer student who is interested in attending medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, or veterinary school after graduating from UMBC.

From a pre-health advising perspective, you should attend the Freshmen Mandatory Advising Meeting if:

This is your first or second semester in college.
or
You are currently enrolled in CHEM 101 or CHEM 102 or BIOL 141 or BIOL 142.

This meeting will address pre-professional specific advising issues for freshmen such as professional school prerequisite courses, grades, standardized exams, gaining research, clinical, and leadership experience. Between now and the meeting, freshmen should acquire a working knowledge of the information on the office’s website. All freshmen students interested in attending medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, or veterinary school after they graduate from UMBC, are required to attend.

Pre-professional students have TWO advisors–an Assigned Academic/Declared Major Advisor and a supplemental, pre-health advisor. Please read about the differences between your TWO advisors here. It is strongly suggested that each student meet with their Assigned Academic/Declared Major Advisor prior to attending the pre-health group advising session. Only your Assigned Academic Advisor in your declared major can lift your registration block.

This session will be conducted two times. The same content will be covered in both sessions. There is no need to RSVP. Please save one of these dates on your calendar.

Mandatory FRESHMEN Advising Meeting for pre-medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, veterinary students
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
UC 312 (University Center, Room 312)
3:00-4:00pm
No need to RSVP.

Remember to join the myUMBC “PreMedical and PreDental Interest Group” under the myUMBC Group directory.

or

Mandatory FRESHMEN Advising Meeting for pre-medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, veterinary students
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
UC 312 (University Center, Room 312)
Noon-12:50pm
No need to RSVP.

Remember to join the myUMBC “PreMedical and PreDental Interest Group” under the myUMBC Group directory.

Sponsored by The PreMedical and PreDental Advising Office.