On June 19, Towson University will be hosting a career fair for alums of local universities. The UMBC Alumni Association and the Career Services Center has partnered with MyWorkster* to help alumni find high-quality career opportunities in a variety of fields.

Alumni from the following schools are invited to participate: Towson University; Bowie State University; Coppin State University; Goucher College; Johns Hopkins University; Loyola University Maryland; McDaniel College; Morgan State University; Notre Dame of Maryland University; Salisbury University; Stevenson University; University of Baltimore; University of Maryland University College; and University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

The event will be held on Thursday, June 19, 2014, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Towson University, West Village Commons, 424 Emerson Drive, Towson, MD 21252.

To complete your free registration, click here!

*MyWorkster develops relationships with the best schools in the country and the amazing, hard working career and alumni professionals that represent their institutions. With their help, MyWorkster creates exclusive, high quality recruiting events that unites the nation’s strongest talent with amazing companies.

On Thursday, June 19th at 7am, DoIT will be performing an upgrade of the campus webmail environment for our dedicated Cyrus mail servers. The current webmail environment is out of date on both the hardware and software. There will be a brief outage to transition to the new server and no data will be lost during this upgrade.  Anyone logged into webmail prior to 7am will need to restart their browser and login again once the upgrade is completed.  Users of Cyrus webmail will notice a more refined interface with new colors as well as some icons that have shifted location.  

Anyone wishing to try out the new Cyrus webmail environment is encouraged to login at https://webmail-dev.core.umbc.edu. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Support Center at x53838.

Note: This campus webmail upgrade will not impact users who have migrated their email to Google.  

Was Sherman a war criminal?  What is acceptable in war?  On Saturday, May 31, C-SPAN 3 aired a talk given by History Associate Professor Anne Rubin at the U.S. Capitol Historical Society that discussed such questions.  For more, see http://umbcinsights.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/anne-rubin-history-on-c-span/

Antonio “Tony” Moreira, vice provost of academic affairs and professor of chemical and biochemical engineering, has been awarded the National Order of Civil Merit of Public Education by the President of Portugal on behalf of the Portuguese government.\

The award is given to distinguished individuals from the Portuguese diaspora community and is in celebration of the National Day of Portugal on June 10. The decoration will be presented to Moreira at the Portuguese Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the fall.

Click here to see the full list of awardees.

Congratulations to ebiquity alumna Lalana Kagal (Ph.D. 2004) for being featured on MIT’s home page recently for recent work with Ph.D. student Oshani Seneviratne on enabling people to track how their private data is used online. You can read more about their work via this MIT news item and in their paper Enabling Privacy Through Transparency which will be presented next month in the 2014 IEEE Privacy Security and Trust conference.

One of the things that makes UMBC great is how wonderful our alumni, students, faculty, and staff are. Because of these amazing people, UMBC often finds itself “in the news,” so each week, we’ll be sharing with you a round-up of the most newsworthy achievements from our community.

• Ellen Handler Spitz, Honors College, to Direct Creativity Seminar at Austen Riggs Center
• Dave Marcotte, Public Policy, in The Washington Times
• Tony Moreira, Vice Provost of Academic Affairs, Honored by President of Portugal
• Tim Hall, Athletics, To Chair NCAA Committee on Women’s Athletics
• UMBC Signs Agreement with U.S. Army RDECOM

View all the other great campus news on Insights Weekly.

Editor’s Note: The UMBC physics department recently honored the life of Joseph Mulligan, one of the founding faculty members, with their annual Mulligan Lecture and award. This year’s recipient, Kim Berghaus, is the first undergraduate student to receive the award. Her lecture, presented on May 14, 2014, is titled “The Life and Work of Albert Einstein.” Recently, Berghaus shared her thoughts with us on this opportunity:

The Mulligan lecture is a beautiful tradition, held every end of the school year about a topic in the history of physics to honor Joseph F. Mulligan. Holding this meaningful lecture was an amazing opportunity for me to get involved and connect with the physics department beyond just the classroom.

Presenting my work to faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students, in and outside of physics, was an important lesson for myself and prepared me for future communication of my scientific work.

The Mulligan award allowed me to do original research on Albert Einstein and visit the Einstein Museum in Berne. That journey was the foundation for my lecture, as it exposed me to deeper insight
into his life.

The lectureship also strengthened my applications to graduate school and helped me get admitted into great physics Ph.D. programs such as Johns Hopkins University and the University of Texas in Austin. I am grateful for the unique opportunity and my special thanks goes to Mrs. Mulligan.

– Kim Berghaus, ’14, physics

Watch Berghaus’ lecture here!