Yesterday you received notice that the Spring Schedule of Classes is now available. As you are all quite familiar, GLBL has over 125 electives spread over 16 UMBC departments. Attached you will find a document wherein I have compiled a list of the courses offered in Spring 2021 which fulfil requirements of the Global Studies major. Refer to this list (as well as the Course Index on the GLBL website) when planning your Spring 2021 schedule to ensure you are registering for courses which will allow you to make progress in your major.  For the earliest date and time you will be able to register for your courses, visit  (https://registrar.umbc.edu/calendars/registration-appointments/). Receiving clearance prior to the date indicated will ensure that you will be allowed to register at the time specified. Again, you will be submitting your proposed Spring 2021 schedule for review in this Google Form.

Please do not hesitate to reach out to me should you have any questions, I will be available via email and webex; should you wish to speak about your concern, please book a GLBL Advising Appointment with me (please CLICK HERE*), provide your phone number in your appointment reservation and I will call you at the scheduled time.

Check out this opportunity for you to get exceptional experience over the summer!

For over 30 years, HCC has inspired and empowered the next generation of diverse health professionals. Through their paid, 10 week, full-time internship program with leading health care and public health employers, interns are provided an educational stipend and have the unique opportunity to:

• Gain hands-on exposure and experience
• Strengthen their network
• Discover or affirm their health career direction
• Find mentors
• Develop professional skills
• Secure jobs (70% are offered a fulltime job or extended internship)
• Increase competitiveness for graduate education (Public Health, Medicine, Mental Health, and Business)

To ensure safe experiences for students during the COVID-19 pandemic, HCC works with host organizations to provide in person, hybrid, or virtual internships that comply with health regulations.

HCC is open to all undergraduate students and recent graduates. Students enrolled in graduate programs are not eligible to apply. HCC internships are open to all students and strongly encourage BIPOC students, first-generation students, and those from economically challenged and underserved backgrounds to apply.

Please contact Professor Cozart at mcozar1@umbc.edu if you are interested as we may be able to hold a virtual information for students. Also, if you intend to apply and want to use this as your internship, I will need to touch base with the organization. 

To apply, student should submit their application and required materials by December 13, 2020.

An Invitation to Return...

In the coming weeks all UMBC faculty, staff and students will have Webex Assistant enabled by default for all Webex Meetings. Webex Assistant is a suite of features that improves meeting management as well as providing auto-captioning and meeting transcription highlights, which provides an important step towards meeting the needs of everyone in the UMBC community. We will send a follow up message once this suite of features is enabled. In the meantime, for more information on Webex Assistant and its capabilities, please visit this site.

Ray Soellner

Assoc. Director - DoIT

rays1@umbc.edu

Chancellor Jay Perman with Karla Negrete '19, mechanical engineering, and current Ph.D. student.

USM chancellor Jay A. Perman, MD and UMBC president Dr. Freeman Hrabowski toured the Interdisciplinary Life Science Building (ILSB) and stopped by Dr. Deepa Madan's lab.

Karla Negrete ‘19 mechanical engineering and Ph.D. candidate, spoke with them about the battery research conducted in the lab. Karla went into detail on the material focus she is undertaking when experimenting with secondary zinc-ion battery chemistry, and how this research aims to find an alternative to conventional li-ion chemistries with similar electrochemical properties. She was able to show them the fully constructed batteries within the swage locks containing their in-house hydrothermal V2O5 deposited cathodes, zn foil anode, and their novel gel-polymer electrolytes. The chancellor was intrigued that the focus of the research was not testing batteries for electrochemical characteristics, but rather on correlating material properties to these electrochemical characteristics.

She further discussed how she and other researchers are fortunate to be able to conduct research during these troubling times, and how grateful they are that UMBC is taking all the necessary precautions to ensure researchers are safe and healthy while working on site. 

More pictures here: https://www.facebook.com/umbcpage/posts/10158625753420907