On Wednesday, December 20, there will be a partial closure of Lot 8 for the entire day, in order to install a temporary trailer at the police station. The entire east side and part of the north end of Lot 8 will be closed in order to allow the trucks delivering the trailer to navigate the parking lot to a final destination at the police station. 

Facilities Management, Parking Services and UMBC Police will be onsite to help direct traffic. Accessible spaces will remain open throughout this closure. Questions or concerns? Contact UMBC Parking Services at 410-455-2551 or parking@umbc.edu. 

Attention potential HPEC Fall 2025 Cohort members:

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is hiring for their summer analyst internship program. Internships are paid and have the potential to be converted to a permanent position. The application will close either when the first 300 applications are submitted or on Friday, January 5, 2024. Students can learn more about GAO's different mission teams here.

 

Students should be aware that it's not yet definitive whether the internship will be 100% virtual but, the internship is eligible for telework with the option of working in person.  If hired, interns will be assigned to one of the GAO locations listed in the vacancy announcement for the position that they applied for, and that location will be their assigned Official Duty Station (ODS). Interns will be required to report in person to their ODS for their first day of the new hire orientation to complete necessary.  Below is the link to the undergraduate application:

 

Undergraduate Analyst Summer Internship Application: USAJOBS - Job Announcement

 

If students have any questions, they are more than welcome to reach out to Leslie McNamara (McNamaraL@gao.gov)

It makes sense that in a space on campus intentionally left green, wooded, and, well sacred, there would be someplace to sit, and under that bench there would be a notebook waiting for you, along with a writing implement. Your thoughts are the last ingredient for the moment.

Since the founding of the Joseph Beuys Sculpture Park on the Knoll in the southwest corner of the Loop in 2001, UMBC community members have been writing in journals tucked under benches from Nature Sacred—an organization that hopes to promote a connection to nature through journaling and contemplation spaces throughout America.

Sandra Abbott, curator of collections and outreach at the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (CADVC), has collected and replaced many dozens of the journals as part of her role at UMBC. “Journaling is a very intimate medium. People pour their hearts out in them here just like they would a personal diary tucked under their pillow,” says Abbott, who shares the journals with Nature Sacred and also uploads the texts to CADVC’s website.

“After reading 15 years of journal entries from our site, I can say a significant number of these entries are rife with emotion— whether a writer is waxing on about their newfound love or heartfully responding to someone else’s heartbreak—the moment spent physically writing in a book and in one’s own hand is powerful.”

Maybe you confessed a budding romance in those pages yourself. Maybe you questioned your major, or just drew a funny picture. The filled and empty journals alike call to Retrievers to make their mark on the pages, and in the world.

On this episode, Dr. Anson speaks with two talented student researchers associated with the ongoing NSF-funded EAGER award led by Drs. Christine Mallinson and Vandana Janeja of UMBC.

Kiffy Nwosu is an undergraduate computer science student from Maryland who has worked as a researcher at UMBC since high school, and is now a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Chloe Evered, originally of Houston, Texas, is a recent graduate of the Georgetown University department of linguistics with a minor in Chinese. Chloe is now pursuing a master’s degree in linguistics, also at Georgetown.

Campus Connections

On Campus Connections, we hear about the work of Dr. Jennifer Maher, Associate Professor of English at UMBC.

Check out the following links for more information on UMBC, CS3, and our host:

• The UMBC Center for the Social Sciences Scholarship
• The University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Ian G. Anson, Ph.D.

Subscribe on Spotify, Apple, or Amazon!

Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship.  Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno, and our production intern is Jean Kim.   Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland.  Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance.  Make sure to follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.