COEIT and CNMS Host AAAS “Communicating Science” Faculty Workshop

AAAS19On Friday, April 10, the College of Engineering and Information Technology and College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences hosted a “Communicating Science” workshop for STEM faculty, organized through UMBC’s Office of Institutional Advancement. Over 40 faculty registered for the day-long event.

Speaker Linda Hosler from the Center for Public Engagement with Science and Technology at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) presented strategies for communicating scientific research to public audiences and media. Faculty honed concise, accessible messages about their scientific research and practiced presentations on camera and in an interview setting. The workshop also helped researchers identify pathways and opportunities to communicate about scientific research with a range of audiences, from policy makers and funding agencies, to news media, to students and colleagues in other fields.

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Click on the attached UPDATED FLYER for full details.  

As you can imagine, this just a cross-section of the many on and off-campus events happening in recognition of National Asian Pacific American Heritage Month throughout the month of April and May. If we
missed adding your organization, office or department’s event, please send us
the details mosaic@umbc.eduand we’ll be happy to add them to this online calendar.  

On and off-campus events are welcomed!
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UMBC Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Curtis Menyuk recently won the prestigious Humboldt Research Award.  Academics from any discipline are eligible for the €60,000 award, which comes with the opportunity to conduct research with a collaborator in Germany for up to a year.  Awardees are selected based on accomplishments from their entire careers, as well as their potential to continue producing cutting-edge research.  

“If you look at the previous winners, anybody in my field who’s won a Nobel Prize is on the list,” Menyuk said, underscoring the award’s prestige and potential to propel a researcher’s career to new heights.
 
Menyuk has already made quite an impact in nonlinear optics.  In the 1980s, he developed the equations that govern the propagation of light through fiber optic cables—the same cables that deliver internet, cable television, and phone services to households and businesses around the world.  The equations are particularly relevant for light travel over long distances, because they take into account physical effects that aren’t as important for short-distance travel.  After their initial publication, the equations quickly began appearing in textbooks.

Menyuk’s favorite research project, however, is predicting and modeling the existence of a property called “self-similarity” in light propagation.  “Self-similarity is really important in nature,” Menyuk said.  Fractals are the epitome of self-similar structures, and the ever-repeating patterns in snowflakes, lightning, and Queen Anne’s Lace flowers are examples.  For people in Menyuk’s field, self-similarity became important because it “was destroying the ability of people to send laser beams through the atmosphere,” he said.

  
A Queen Anne's Lace flower is an example of a fractal---a repeating pattern that shrinks infinitely in scale. Image found here. 
 
Menyuk’s expertise is in theoretical work, but part of his success derives from abundant collaborations with experimental scientists all over the world.  “If there’s something I’m good at, it’s looking at a physical system and figuring out how to turn that physical system into equations,” he said.  When Philip Russell, Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Erlangen, Germany, and his collaborators figured out how to do experiments to verify Menyuk’s theoretical work on self-similarity, their collaboration was born.  Russell eventually nominated Menyuk for the Humboldt.

“This was the piece of work that I’ve always liked the best, because it was a mathematical problem that I wrestled to the ground,” Menyuk said of the self-similarity work.  “I like it even better now, because it led to this wonderful collaboration.”  Last summer Menyuk spent a month in Germany working with Russell’s research group and outlining projects they would like to pursue together in the future.  The award will make furthering their collaboration much easier.    


The Russell research group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

Menyuk is about much more than research, though.  He loves to teach, both in undergraduate classrooms and as a mentor to his graduate students and younger colleagues.  He’s especially proud of an electromagnetism course he developed—a topic that is famously the bane of many an undergrad electrical engineer’s existence.  The course consistently receives positive student reviews and incorporates team-based learning projects.   Menyuk also considers it his duty to help his graduate students find their way into career paths, and he maintains collaborations with a few of his alumni.  Many of his protégés have gone on to prestigious positions in academia.     

While the Humboldt will have huge impacts on his own research, Menyuk sees the award as just one more way he can support his students.  “The main thing that I want to get out of it is new visibility for my research program and UMBC globally,” he said.  “One of my goals throughout my entire career here has been to help create a vibrant intellectual atmosphere, a sense of excitement, which benefits everyone.”  Gaining international exposure for UMBC buoys the university’s research reputation, which can only help faculty and graduate students applying for grants, fellowships, and postdoctoral positions.

With his research achievements, deep interest in student success, and now, Humboldt Research Award, Menyuk is a powerful, positive force at UMBC.  That’s true even if he can’t list “Nobel Prize” as one of his accolades—yet.   
   



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Muse 360 Arts seeks a part-time Dance Instructor to teach this summer for:

Dancing Many Drums (DMD): Summer Arts Education Project was founded in 2007 to offer Baltimore City youth ages 8-18. DMD uses the arts to build critical thinking skills, develop intellectual and artistic competencies, promote personal growth and encourage life-long education to take on real responsibility in our organization and their community. We provide a creative safe haven for youth with no other means of support to develop character, leadership and confidence.

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EHS 115 is an amazing class, the students who took it last semester raved about how beneficial it was to their Pre-Nursing path and how much they learned from the class.

Unfortunately, this class DOES NOT count toward any of the specific Pre-Nursing requirements.  It will only be used as an elective.

Bottom line...if you have room in your schedule for an elective, take this class.  You won't be disappointed.  But don't take it thinking it will count for your AH or SS because it does not.
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Students live together, study and share their faith traditions with one another. They learn about social activism, practicing nonviolence and growing food. 

The program is free. Students will have housing, transportation and food paid for by the Stony Point Center. 

The program runs from June 1 - July 23, 2015. If you are not taking summer classes at the ELI, this a great opportunity for you to have a very unique summer experience which you will never forget.

To learn more about Stony Point and to apply, follow the link below. Also, check out the attached flyer.
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After many months of calling the Women’s Center my home, this semester,  I felt that I wanted to give back to my community by helping spruce up the new place with my assistance  to the Women’s Center needs. I am already a part of two of the groups sponsored by the Women’s Center: Women of Color Coalition and Critical Social Justice Student Alliance. At the beginning of this Spring semester, I heard about the Women’s Center needed more helping hands with all the semester programming going on and I inquired about what more I could do. Once Jess, the director, and Megan, the coordinator, heard my enthusiasm toward the prospect of volunteering for the center, they put me on board with some different tasks to help reach the campus about the Women’s Center and it’s mission to provide a space and give a voice to those that are marginalized in…

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Name: Clare Dowley

Hometown: Pylesville, MD

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: This is my third year at UMBC.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: Student, friend, leader, engineer, retriever

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: I most enjoy the potential to interact with so many different people at UMBC. I see incoming students as a Student Ambassador, as well as current students in classes, clubs, and around campus. No matter what someone is interested in or here to accomplish, everyone is friendly and open to meeting new people.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: I have learned the importance of being independent and responsible, but also knowing that help is available. Coming to college is a big change, both in living away from home and school becoming more of a challenge. All students have to learn and be responsible for themselves, but at UMBC there is always help available. Resources from health needs to study needs are available to help us succeed and thrive in our college years.

Q: What is one way you have worked with others to make a positive difference at UMBC or in another community?

A: I worked alongside ten other coaches, both students and faculty, at the STRiVE Leadership Retreat in 2015. In the winter of 2013 I attended the retreat as a participant and it changed my perspectives and pointed me in the direction I wanted to go as a leader. I realized my strengths and that I really could make a difference. Going again as a coach gave me the opportunity to pass my knowledge, support, and experiences to fellow students so that they too can facilitate change on our campus and in the community as a whole.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Music, laughing, friends, playing outside, and reading.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: Don't be afraid to branch out. You never know what kinds of connections you might make. My closest friends here were made through little details in housing, twins, and who happened to meet who at orientation and move-in day. Now I have lifelong friends and so many good memories. Join some clubs or study groups, attend campus events and sports events; there are so many awesome people here at UMBC you haven't met yet. Also, make time to have some fun. College is stressful and busy, but it will be so much better if you take time to be with friends, have some fun, and make some lasting memories.
Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.

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