When asked to chronicle her life since college, illustrator Monica Gallagher did so in the way that meant most to her: in comic book form.

Check out her essay from the Winter 2012 issue of UMBC Magazine (click on image below to view larger).

A designer, illustrator and comicker living in Baltimore, Gallagher graduated magna cum laude from UMBC in 2001 with a degree in visual arts, emphasis on animation. While at UMBC she learned Japanese, traveled to Greece with the ancient studies department, fainted in a yoga class, participated in film festivals, worked in the photo cage, stayed up way too late in the computer lab, got hit in the head with a volleyball, and has many, many other awesome memories.

View the original piece in the Winter 2012 issue of UMBC Magazine.

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Before the first note sounds, the dance studio—with its heavy black tape stripes lining the floor—s like an enormous blank page of sheet music. Then, Ferdinand Maisel leans into the keys of the black grand piano in the corner, and suddenly students in sweats and bare feet dot the staff with whole-note pliés and staccato jumps.

Read more at umbc.edu/magazine.

artweek:

Monday April 2nd

   + Art Week Kickoff Event

    12pm-2pm // The Commons Mainstreet

   + Visual Aid – Art Week Exhibition Opening (10 Second Motion Competition)

    7pm-9pm // The Commons Mainstreet & Mezzanine and Second Floor Galleries

Tuesday April 3rd

   + A Capella & Short Skit Performances

    12pm-2pm // The Commons Terrace

   + Humanities Forum

    4pm // Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

    +Dance Expo

    7pm-9pm // The Commons Mainstreet

Wednesday April 4th 

    + Screen Printing Demo

    12pm-2pm// The Commons Mainstreet

    + 48 Hour Film Festival and Awards Ceremony

    7pm-9pm // Skylight Lounge

    + Enigma Artists Society

    7pm-9pm // Sports Zone

    + InterArts Series & the Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents : Robert Staples and     Barbara Charles

    7pm // Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Thursday April 5th

    + Craft Fair

    12pm-2pm // The Commons Breezeway

    + Career Services and Art Week 2012 Present : Art With A Purporse

    7pm-9pm // Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Friday April 6th

    + (seb) and Art Week 2012 – How To : Printmaking

    12pm-1pm // The Commons Mainstreet

    + Art Week 2012 Artists Reception

    2pm-5pm // Lower Flat Tuesdays

    + IMDA (Imaging and Digital Arts) Open Studio

    6pm-11pm // 1100 Wicomico Street, Baltimore MD

artweek:

New Art Week buttons available (fo free) in commonvision. Pick one up when you get your submission form!

EE Graduate Seminar

From Backpack to Briefcase: Transition from
the Academic World to Corporate Culture

George W. Reynolds
Director, Industry and University Initiatives
Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems

11:30-12:45pm Friday 16 March 2012, ITE 237

This seminar explores the pitfalls that new hires can encounter as they transition to the corporate world from academia. We explore the personal characteristics that people will evaluate, over and above performance. We will learn the importance of having appropriate, unbiased mentors and how to choose them, as well as strategies to develop key relationships that add value to our career growth and non-technical education. The importance of image and appropriate wardrobe for success will be addressed in addition to what top executives look for when selecting staff with leadership potential.

George Reynolds is a licensed professional engineer with over forty years of experience with the Westinghouse Electric and Northrop Grumman Corporations. His current responsibilities include establishing key strategic relationships with selected universities for long-term research, business and recruitment partnerships. He is also responsible for sector wide initiatives that include knowledge management and introducing lean thinking into engineering and manufacturing organizations.

Mr. Reynolds has served as industry liaison for the Lean Aerospace/ Advancement initiatives at MIT since its inception in 1992. He also serves as the chairman and/or member of numerous engineering Advisory Boards for major universities, and is the past Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Associations Engineering Management Committee. Mr. Reynolds was selected as National Black Engineer of the Year for Professional Achievement in Industry in 1991, and Black Engineer of the Year for Corporate Support of Engineering Education in 2008. He is one of three people in the nation to receive two of these awards. In 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished Black Marylander Award.

Mr. Reynolds holds a B.S. in Engineering from Howard University, an M.S. in Engineering Administration from George Washington University, and is a graduate of the Program for Management Development at Harvard School of Business. He is also a Johns Hopkins Fellow in the Management of Change. He holds a black belt in Six Sigma and is an expert in Lean Thinking. Mr. Reynolds holds a commercial pilots license with multi-engine and jet ratings.

Host: Prof. Joel M. Morris