SDS Winter Session Hours – January 2024

• During the Winter 2024 session (1/2 through 1/26), SDS staff will be available Monday through Friday, 8:30am to 4:30pm, to answer questions via email, phone, and limited in-person front desk hours.
• In-person accommodated testing hours will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9am to 3pm through January 26th.
• On Monday, January 8th, and Monday, January 22nd, SDS staff will be available remotely via webex, email, and phone.
• Monday, January 15th, UMBC campus is closed for the Martin Luther King holiday.
• As always, appointments with a professional staff member can be scheduled in Accommodate.
• The Spring 2024 semester begins on January 29, 2024, when SDS will return to our regular office hours and accommodated testing hours.

Thank you!

Noah 

Dr. Arteaga is an ocean biogeochemist with an interest in understanding climate impacts on marine ecosystems and carbon cycling. At NASA, his main work is focused on the development and use of the NASA Ocean Biogeochemical Model (NOBM), which uses satellite observations of ocean color to estimate the oceanic production and sequestration of carbon, as well as the diversity of surface planktonic ecosystems in the global ocean. 

Dr. Arteaga is currently the PI of a NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) grant, awarded in 2023, and is actively involved in preparing the NOBM to assimilate hyperspectral data from the soon-to-launch PACE mission. 

Earth's oceans are vast and severely under-sampled. What keeps Dr. Arteaga engaged as a research scientist is the challenge to understand the oceans through remote sensing observations and unveil their biogeochemical relevance and sensitivity to Earth's climate.

Are you considering studying abroad in our upcoming Fall 2024 or Academic Year 2024-2025 term through one of our UMBC Exchange Programs?

Visit our website for more details on how to apply!

Are you considering studying abroad in our upcoming Fall 2024 or Academic Year 2024-2025 term through the ISEP Exchange Program?

UMBC's Study Abroad Application for ISEP Exchange is due February 1 to allow our team adequate time to process your application.

As a reminder, on an ISEP Exchange you pay UMBC tuition, room & board, and meals to go abroad for the semester!

Visit our website for more details on how to apply!

As we welcome the New Year, here are some updates about the club! Thank you so much for a wonderful fall semester, the board is looking for another amazing semester in the spring! 

We would just like to thank you all for filling out the post-mortems! We have read and reflected on your responses both individually and as a board. After thorough discussions, we have identified the areas for improvement and gained more insight into what you all enjoy most about our club! 

This level of communication is crucial for our club's success! We would like to encourage you all to continue to communicate with future insights and any questions. Please just remember that communication works best when it is constructive! Feel free to reach out to our HR board member, Ann Davies, or the board. The HR form is also always listed in our email signature for anyone who needs it! 

Thank you all again! We can't wait to work with you all next semester!

This is the final email that we will be sending out! If you went to our last GBM, you would know that we are fully switching over to myUMBC to send out updates. Make sure to hit the follow button in the top right corner of our page to keep getting updates for events, auditions, and more!

MTC myUMBC Page

LEGALLY BLONDE CREATIVE TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT:

It is the moment you have been waiting for! Here is our lineup for the creative team for our spring musical production of Legally Blonde!

Director - Fire Ojo

Assistant Director - Molli Martin

Stage Manager - Sumedha Bhat

Assistant Stage Managers - Malaak McDonald & Gale Daniel

Vocal Director - Sophie Gutierrez

Choreographer - Morgan Decker

Intimacy Choreographer - Ann Davies

Our first event of the semester is karaoke! Come join us to sing some of your favorite songs and catch up with your friends on February 12th in Flat Tuesdays! More information about this event will be released soon!

We have another semester full of exciting GBMS, here are just a few to look out for!

Feb 2nd - Spring Semester info & Legally Blonde Design Team presentation

Feb 9th - Dance Audition Workshop led by Morgan - LOCATED IN RAC 130

For those who don't know, we have a club Google Calendar! There you will find all sorts of things like events, GBMs, and shows! Here is the link below to subscribe to the calendar!

MTC Google Calendar

Thank you to everyone once again for such an amazing semester! We hope that everyone is taking a well-deserved break and we can't wait to see everyone again in the spring.