Throughout history, mental illness has been conceptualized in a wide variety of ways, often strange or humorous in retrospect – divine retribution, demonic possession, witchcraft, astrological influences, and imbalanced humors.  Patients were feared, shunned, banished and subjected to bizarre, often abusive treatments which nonetheless stemmed from accepted conceptualizations of the time – like exorcism, cold baths, centrifugal devices, and medical purges.

Most of these archaic treatments have been abandoned by now, as better theories and newer treatments have been informed by science and clinical developments in the field.  We understand psychopathology in very different ways: i.e. stemming from multifactorial interactions of nature, nurture, individual differences, and context.

PSYC 285 – Abnormal Psychology provides a fascinating overview of abnormal behavior, thinking, emotion, and personality in clinical and everyday contexts.  Develop your sensitivity to the complexities and controversies of conceptualizing deviance, while learning to distinguish between normal and abnormal.  The course presents history, theory, causes, diagnostic criteria, and scientific and therapeutic approaches to psychopathology.  Class discussion is vibrant, focusing on personal understanding, dispelling popular misconceptions, and real-life applications.  

PSYC 285 is a 4-week course offered during Winter Session 2018, with a required prerequisite of PSYC 100. Effective time-management, commitment to a collaborative learning process, and attendance are essential.  Students should bring to class a full measure of curiosity about complexities of the human condition, philosophical underpinnings of mental illness theory and treatments, and practical aspects of mental health education, prevention, and care.  

EHS Graduate Seminar 11/28/2017
SPEAKER: Instructor Jenn Ryan
TOPIC: Art of Writing in "Emergency Management" Style

Have you ever wondered about how and why the writing style in some areas of work is different from normal writing? Have you noticed that the people who know the writing style of a particular field are more likely to get professional-level jobs in that field?  Please join us tomorrow (Wednesday) for the grad seminar, in which instructor Jenn Ryan Grey will help us learn the skills of writing in "emergency management" style.   Be there!

3pm-5pm, Sherman Hall Rm 305, or via Blackboard, using a new and improved camera technology. Need help logging in?  Please contact Kara Buckmaster at the above email for assistance, before 2:30p.

LIVE LINK via BLACKBOARD:
https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/13876aa9beb44d42b1e7cfe5df3004f6

Mandatory Freshmen Advising Meeting

Freshmen Mandatory PreHealth Advising meeting

MANDATORY attendance is required at this group advising meeting for any current UMBC freshman or freshman-transfer student who is interested in attending medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, or veterinary school after graduating from UMBC.

From a pre-health advising perspective, you should attend the Freshmen Mandatory Advising Meeting if:

This is your first or second semester in college.
or
You are currently enrolled in CHEM 101 or CHEM 102 or BIOL 141 or BIOL 142.

This meeting will address pre-professional specific advising issues for freshmen such as professional school prerequisite courses, grades, standardized exams, gaining research, clinical, and leadership experience. Between now and the meeting, freshmen should acquire a working knowledge of the information on the office’s website. All freshmen students interested in attending medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, or veterinary school after they graduate from UMBC, are required to attend.

Pre-professional students have TWO advisors–an Assigned Academic/Declared Major Advisor and a supplemental, pre-health advisor. Please read about the differences between your TWO advisors here. It is strongly suggested that each student meet with their Assigned Academic/Declared Major Advisor prior to attending the pre-health group advising session. Only your Assigned Academic Advisor in your declared major can lift your registration block.

This session will be conducted two times. The same content will be covered in both sessions. There is no need to RSVP. Please save one of these dates on your calendar.

Mandatory FRESHMEN Advising Meeting for pre-medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, veterinary students
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
UC 312 (University Center, Room 312)
3:00-4:00pm
No need to RSVP.

Remember to join the myUMBC “PreMedical and PreDental Interest Group” under the myUMBC Group directory.

or

Mandatory FRESHMEN Advising Meeting for pre-medical, dental, optometry, podiatry, veterinary students
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
UC 312 (University Center, Room 312)
Noon-12:50pm
No need to RSVP.

Remember to join the myUMBC “PreMedical and PreDental Interest Group” under the myUMBC Group directory.

Sponsored by The PreMedical and PreDental Advising Office.

TODAY AT NOON, SHERMAN 113 WITH DR. APRIL HOUSEHOLDER, Director of Undergraduate Research and Nationally Competitive Scholarships

Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD) features research, scholarship, and creative work carried out by UMBC undergraduates. Student work is shared through oral presentations, posters, artistic exhibits, performances, and film. Over 300 presenters participate annually. Researchers work with faculty mentors on independent research, or research that is part of the mentor’s on-going projects.  They are from all disciplines, and can be working on a thesis, capstone project, part of a scholars or honors program, or they can be unaffiliated.

This campus-wide celebration of achievement affirms UMBC’s commitment to the twin goals of research and a distinctive undergraduate experience.

All current undergraduates who have conducted research, scholarship or creative work in the last year may apply to present their results at URCAD. Mentors, fellow students, friends, family members, high school teachers and students, graduate school recruiters, and the general public are invited to attend.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 – “But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

“There is no truth more generally admitted among earnest Christians than that of their utter weakness.  Here, as elsewhere, God’s thoughts are heaven-high above man’s thoughts. The Christian often tries to forget his weakness: God wants us to remember it, to feel it deeply. The Christian wants to conquer his weakness and to be freed from it: God wants us to rest and even rejoice in it. The Christian mourns over his weakness: Christ teaches His servant to say, “I take pleasure in infirmities; most gladly will I glory in my infirmities.” The Christian thinks his weakness is his greatest hindrance in the life and service of God: God tells us that it is the secret of strength and success. It is our weakness, heartily accepted and continually realized, that gives us our claim and access to the strength of Him who has said, “My strength is made perfect in weakness.”  (Andrew Murray)

Prayer: Thank you, Lord, for your promise of sufficient grace that sustains me to endure all things. I trust you and embrace my weaknesses as you enable me to say in my weakest moments your power is perfected in me.

– JK

Automated Knowledge Extraction from the Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FARS)

With increasing regulation of Big Data, it is becoming essential for organizations to ensure compliance with various data protection standards. The Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FARS) within the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes facts and rules for individuals and organizations seeking to do business with the US Federal government. Parsing and gathering knowledge from such lengthy regulation documents is currently done manually and is time and human intensive.Hence, developing a cognitive assistant for automated analysis of such legal documents has become a necessity. We have developed semantically rich approach to automate the analysis of legal documents and have implemented a system to capture various facts and rules contributing towards building an ef?cient legal knowledge base that contains details of the relationships between various legal elements, semantically similar terminologies, deontic expressions and cross-referenced legal facts and rules. In this paper, we describe our framework along with the results of automating knowledge extraction from the FARS document (Title48, CFR). Our approach can be used by Big Data Users to automate knowledge extraction from Large Legal documents.

Automated Knowledge Extraction from the Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FARS)

With increasing regulation of Big Data, it is becoming essential for organizations to ensure compliance with various data protection standards. The Federal Acquisition Regulations System (FARS) within the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) includes facts and rules for individuals and organizations seeking to do business with the US Federal government. Parsing and gathering knowledge from such lengthy regulation documents is currently done manually and is time and human intensive.Hence, developing a cognitive assistant for automated analysis of such legal documents has become a necessity. We have developed semantically rich approach to automate the analysis of legal documents and have implemented a system to capture various facts and rules contributing towards building an ef?cient legal knowledge base that contains details of the relationships between various legal elements, semantically similar terminologies, deontic expressions and cross-referenced legal facts and rules. In this paper, we describe our framework along with the results of automating knowledge extraction from the FARS document (Title48, CFR). Our approach can be used by Big Data Users to automate knowledge extraction from Large Legal documents.