The Gordon Center for Performing Arts is currently seeking a full-time Assistant Technical Director responsible for safe and efficient operations of the facility equipment, personnel and facilities. This position is charged with assisting in the production of all Gordon Center events including music, dance, film, theater, family programs and more. The position includes the complete support of staging, lighting, sound, rigging, AV needs and event specific requirements to support the Gordon Center and the JCC.

SINGLE CARROT THEATRE SEEKS FULL TIME DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR:

Single Carrot Theatre seeks a Development Director interested in growing with an energetic, passionate company. This is a unique opportunity to join a community of individuals who work collectively to bring new and exciting work to Baltimore and use art as a vehicle for community building and neighborhood revitalization.

Curtis Menyuk, computer science and electrical engineering, won the prestigious Humboldt Research Award. The award is granted by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to scholars who have made a significant contributions to their discipline and plan to continue cutting-edge research.

Menyuk’s research concentrates on optical and photonic systems, including optical fiber communications and switching, solid state device simulations, and nonlinear optics. In 2013, he received the IEEE Photonics Society Streifer Award, another major international award. Menyuk said, “I was delighted and very honored receive this award.  It is really a tribute to UMBC and the members of my research group, past and present, since the award recognizes the 30 years of work that my group has carried out at UMBC.  The link that this award will create between UMBC and the Max-Planck Institute for Light in Erlangen, Germany — one of the world’s leading institutes in optics and photonics — will be of great benefit to UMBC’s students and other researchers.”

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We have a new ‘Course Utilization’ report that combines five reports located in the Curriculum Management  > Course folder. Yes, we have moved the cheese.  The selection of the courses displayed are the same, active courses that are indicated as the Primary Course.  You may have to select all from the Components parameter if the course you are looking for is not the graded component.  On the Class tooltip you will find the following: Instructor’s Name, Instruction Mode, Room Capacity, Location, Combined Sections, Course Type, Component, Class Attribute and Class Attribute Value. The Cmbd tooltip displays each combined class and the enrollment. Two additional columns pertaining to the term have been added, Authorizations Generated and Day 1 Waitlist, when available.

The 5 replaced reports are:

1. Class Section Utilization

2. Course Utilization Rate by Org

3. Courses by Utilization Rate

4. Sections at 90 Percent Capacity

5. Course Utilization by Class Attribute

See attachment for further detail

Shari Waldstein, professor of psychology, has been named the Lipitz Professor for 2015-2016. This professorship is supported by an endowment created by Roger C. Lipitz and the Lipitz Family Foundation “to recognize and support innovative and distinguished teaching and research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.”

A clinical psychologist who specializes in cardiovascular behavioral medicine and medical neuropsychology, Dr. Waldstein is known internationally for fundamental contributions to the understanding of the links among early, multi-level risk factors for cardiovascular disease, sub-clinical brain pathology, neurocognitive performance, and their development across the lifespan. In recent years she has increasingly focused on identifying the multi-level mechanisms underlying race and socioeconomic status-related disparities in cardiovascular and brain health.

Since coming to UMBC, she has been awarded more than $6,000,000 in grants and contracts. Dr. Waldstein’s contributions to the profession of psychology are numerous. She has served for 18 years as director of the behavioral medicine track in our human services psychology Ph.D. program and has mentored 22 Ph.D. students. She also works closely with colleagues at UMB, where she holds a secondary faculty appointment as professor of medicine.

Read more about Dr. Waldstein’s work. 

Find out more about Camerata at our Department of Music webpage

Camerata is a choral ensemble sponsored by the UMBC Department of Music and is conducted by UMBC voice professor and professional conductor/composer Dr. Stephen Caracciolo.

Camerata is a credited ensemble within the Department of Music that is open to all students regardless of major. The course number is MUSC 303 and carries 2 credits each semester. Honors students may register for the 3-credit honors section for one semester, MUSC 303H. 

Make friends quickly and for a lifetime within the atmosphere of challenging and satisfying music making. Get to know other singers on campus. Perform amazing music with others.

Students interested in auditioning for Camerata are urged to contact Dr. Stephen Caracciolo at caraccio@UMBC.edu to arrange an audition ahead of any upcoming semester.