COEIT Scholarship Application Live
Applications due on April 17, 2020
The College of Engineering and Information Technology has officially launched their scholarship application for the 2020-2021 academic year!
Applications are due on April 17,2020.
Start your application today at scholarships.umbc.edu/retriever
Stay safe and healthy scholars!
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April 1: UMBC COVID-19 Action Update
Campus Status: The University is open, with employees working remotely. Facilities will remain closed. Maryland is currently under a Stay at Home Order.
For the most updated information and more information on actions to reduce COVID-19 risks in our community, please visit
covid19.umbc.edu.
Join President Hrabowski and campus leaders this Friday, April 3, 2020, at 4 p.m., for a virtual town hall to reflect on our first two weeks of distance education and work. We're all in this #UMBCtogether, so please share any questions at covid19.umbc.edu/town-hall.
Student Services and Support
- We are moving forward with the process of providing refunds to students and families. We hope to be able to provide them by the end of April. More details available here.
- Due to the Governor’s order, the residential move-out has been suspended. More information here.
- University Health Services is providing services remotely, 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. on weekdays. Please visit their website or call 410-455-2542 for more information. If you have non-emergency health concerns outside of regular business hours and wish to speak with someone from UMBC’s After-Hours Support Line, please call 410-455-3230.
- At UMBC, students tend to report that difficulties with stress, time management, motivation, and anxiety often interfere with personal, social, and academic goals. The Counseling Center has created a unique series of free interactive workshops to help support students with these particular concerns.
Academic Continuity
- The Academic Success Center has developed new FAQs for UMBC’s new Academic and Enrollment Policies in partnership with the Student Government Association and Faculty Senate.
- Students in Internships, Cooperative Education, Research Experiences, Field Placements, and Service-Learning & Community Engagement activities should review the Provost’s Directive for Applied Learning Experiences During COVID-19.
- UMBC faculty and alumni are participating in a number of COVID-19 related research activities; read more about these important efforts here.
Business Continuity and Staff Support
- Business Services is only able to process payments that are University mission critical or essential for research. More information here.
- Effective today, April 1, 2020, employers are required to notify all employees of their rights and benefits under the Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA). At the present time, all classes of UMBC employees remain in paid status, exceeding many of the benefits required under this Act. Additional information and guidance will be provided as it becomes available.
- The annual performance evaluation cycle ended yesterday, March 31, 2020. With many employees working remotely, Human Resources is continuing to develop an online solution for routing the PMP form for review and approval. As such, the submission deadline has been extended to Friday, June 5, 2020. Additional details to come.
- Transitioning to remote work requires a shift in mindset and skill sets. Review HR's Remote Work Guidance for Employees.
- Employees who have a live paycheck dated Friday, April 3, 2020 will receive notification from Payroll that will let them know to expect their check to be delivered to the address listed on their most recent tax forms.
- Please remember that at this time, active student employees will continue to be paid during the COVID-19 interruption period. Payments should be based on the student's work schedule or payment arrangements prior to the campus' remote work status. Supervisors and departmental payroll liaisons may refer to the COVID-19 Timekeeping Instructions and Reference Guide for more information.
- Over the coming weeks, ABM will be cleaning out food that has been left in common area refrigerators in order to avoid food spoilage and maintain a healthy environment.
Facilities
- UMBC has donated thousands of N-95 and surgical masks, nitrile gloves, and other personal protective equipment to the Maryland Department of Health in partnership with the Department’s coordinator for Baltimore County.
- Only students that are approved for late stay or employees with a letter from their supervisor should be on campus. If you have an emergency need to visit campus, call UMBC Police Deputy Chief Bruce Perry at 443-677-2195 or Lieutenant Derrick Johns at 410-207-0850.
- The Mailroom will be open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. --12 p.m. Courier service is currently unchanged.
#UMBCtogether
In the midst of challenging times, the UMBC community always finds ways to support each other. Check out how Retrievers are staying #UMBCtogether even though we’re physically apart:
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Coronavirus Chronicles Archive
Sharing Stories Through Isolation
The
Coronavirus Chronicles Archive is a publicly sourced, transnational database of stories about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on everyday life. Based out of the University of Pennsylvania, one member of the team is Conor Donnan (MA, History 2016).
This project is for everyone embroiled in this crisis. It invites people of diverse backgrounds around the world to pen “diaries” of their day-to-day, as well as to share their thoughts on public health strategies. The resulting collage of stories, presented on an online platform, will facilitate a continued connection, and demonstrate that no one is or should be alone in this fight. The publicly sourced database will also serve as an invaluable archive for future researchers seeking a grassroots understanding of the pandemic, expanding their data sources from policy, and breaking news to include your stories. The voices of the majority of people are often neglected in history books, but this project hopes to enable scholars to include your diverse perspectives in future research about COVID-19.
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[ELECTIONS] LSU Executive Board Positions Up for Election
Descriptions of Each Position and Their Responsibilities
It's about that time of year to start the process of electing the LGBTQ+ Student Union's Executive Board for 2020-2021. Our board of directors is the core of our organization as they manage our funding, events, meetings, and more!
As you read through this post, we highly encourage you to consider nominating yourself or others for any of the below positions through
this form here. Additionally, we thank you in advance for your patience as we try our best to make our elections as accessible as possible during remote instruction. Our current board is working on setting up ways to allow you to get to know our nominees and allow for the discussion style elections we usually participate in. We will keep you updated as soon as we know how we plan to move forward.
Here, we'll list every position up for election, their duties outlined in our organization's constitution and by-laws, and comments from the current director. The current director's email will also be listed so that you can contact them with further questions if you have any. Please do not hesitate to reach out as we want to make sure that you have all of the information you need to make your decision.
Executive Director
Description from Current Director:
As Executive Director you need to be able to help the rest of the board, help set up events and get them the connections they need. You are the face of the organization so you will get a lot of emails from other organizations and staff members in the UMBC Community, and many outside of the community. Organizing meetings and keeping in touch with different leaders on campus is very important, and sometimes being a tie breaker or making decisions about events, such as cancelling them.
Duties from Constitution and By-Laws:
- Developing and managing projects
- Serving as the organization's official representative for communicating with SGA and UMBC staff
- Calling for and convening board meetings at least twice monthly
- Running all organization general body votes
- Representing the will of the organization to the campus community and off campus partners
- Advising all officers in the execution of their duties
- Liaising with Student Life senior leadership and the SGA Vice President for Student Organizations
- Meeting individually in person with every other Director each academic session
Financial Director
Description from Current Director:
As the Financial Director you are in charge of the budget. This means working with SGA and other on-campus organizations to make sure that the events we have planned over the next semester have the funding and paperwork to exist. You will have to schedule meetings with SABSC and ECS, and learn how to use the surveymonkey budget submission system. Informally, you should also take a proactive stance on organizing or helping out with fundraising too, since you will have the best idea of how much money we have/need.
Duties from Constitution and By-Laws:
- Preparing and submitting that semesterly budget for the organization
- Managing fundraising
- Managing the organization’s funds and ensuring compliance with all financial rules and guidelines
- Maintaining records of the balance of all accounts
- Obtaining financial sponsorship of the organization’s programs
- Attending Treasurer training
Education & Advocacy Director
Description from Current Director:
The Education & Advocacy Director is responsible for handling a lot of our smaller scale events, primarily panels but also including fundraising and small-scale social events, among others. Your job would entail reserving space for events, communicating with different campus departments and organizations for smaller event collaboration, and helping advertise events with appropriate marketing. Additionally, the Education & Advocacy Director runs weekly meetings to lead smaller groups in planning events alongside our community.
Duties from Constitution and By-Laws:
- Maintain an accurate list of partnering organizations and departments
- Coordinating educational and advocacy programming with at least four programs per academic session
- Coordinate volunteers for most events
- Convene Event Planning Meetings
Social & Membership Director
Description from Current Director:
Being the Social & Membership Director means being able to plan and hold meetings with students as well as campus faculty and and staff, planning and executing events by keeping up with smaller incremental tasks, and facilitating conversation around potentially sensitive topics in a way that is safe, inclusive, and respectful. If you're organized and love helping people have fun while building community, then Social/Membership Director may be the perfect role for you!
Duties from Constitution and By-Laws:
- Managing member recruitment/retention
- Serve as point of contact and coordinator for large scale social programming
- Convene and plan Social Meetings on a weekly basis
- Create programming for membership retention and development
- Advise the Board of Directors with regards to inter and intra personal relationships
- Tabling at resource fairs
Communications Director
Description from Current Director:
I would describe being the Communications Director as being a combination of a Vice President and a Secretary. Taking meeting minutes and sending out emails/posts for the org are some of your main jobs, but so is being a point of contact and organized delegator when necessary. This role also advises our Social Media Director, an appointed position, on running our various org social media accounts. I won't lie, this is a job that requires a good amount of time management. The individual tasks themselves don't take too long, but letting them pile up can sometimes feel like a lot. If you stay on top of it, though, this is a great position for people who like to work behind the scenes and manage communications!
Duties from Constitution and By-Laws:
- Assuming the role of President in the event of the President’s absence or incapacity
- Managing communication within the group
- Ensuring activity on all media platforms
- Approving and distributing marketing and advertising designs
- Approving all communications to external and internal organizations
As stated above, if you have any questions, please reach out to any of our current directors for more information!
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Change in Elective for Fall 2020
Advanced Synth Meth by Dr. Marcin Ptaszek is now CHEM490-4
CLASS: CHEM490/654 Advanced Synthetic Methods,
Professor: Dr. Marcin Ptaszek
The new course number for undergraduates is 490 Sec 4
Description:
Area: Organic Chemistry. The course
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approaches (enolate chemistry, pericyclic reactions) and new methods
(metal-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, olefin metathesis). Scope and
limitations for each method is discussed. Each method is illustrated by
exemplary applications in total synthesis, medicinal chemistry, and
material chemistry, from the current chemical literature.
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