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<Title>As women&#8217;s soccer continues conference struggle, statistics say it&#8217;s not so bad</Title>
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    <p>The UMBC women’s soccer team dropped a tough decision 2-0 to the UMass Lowell River Hawks Thursday night in Lowell, MA. The Retrievers fought hard, outshooting the River Hawks 15 to 10, with 9 shots on goal against Lowell’s 6.</p>
    <p>Even though the Retrievers outshot the River Hawks, 2 goals from Lowell, one in each half, sunk UMBC. The goals coming in minutes 12 and 51 from the same UMass Lowell player, overpowering junior visual arts major Leah Roth.</p>
    <p>Roth made four saves in the game, bringing her save total on the season to 61 saves, and her career total to 160 saves. She also is No. 8 in conference in goals against average with 1.53, and No. 7 in conference in save percentage with .744.The goalkeepers for the team, both Roth and freshman Jade Wilkins, have the fifth most saves in the America East conference with 68, and they average 4.86 per game.</p>
    <p>Unfortunately for the Retrievers, the shooting boots have gone cold, having only scored two goals in five America East games and shutout in three of them. The team is No. 8 in conference in shots with 10.57 per game, and only 148 on the season. Sophomore Nikki Saad has taken 29 shots on the season, good enough to be ranked 13<sup>th</sup> in the conference in shots. When they do shoot, they gain more corner kicks, averaging 5.00 per game with 70 in 14 games. UMBC has scored 11 goals this season, averaging just 0.79 goals per game, they score a goal every 13.45 shots they take.</p>
    <p>With the loss against UMass Lowell, the Retrievers drop to 2-9-3 overall and 0-5-0 in America East play.</p>
    <p>The Retrievers have two home games left this season, with the University of Vermont coming on Thursday, Oct. 19, for the Think Pink Game in a support of breast cancer awareness. They will also host Senior Day on Oct. 22, honoring Seniors Gabby Boehmer and Madison Koenig, as the University of New Hampshire arrives in Retriever Soccer Park.</p>
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<Summary>The UMBC women’s soccer team dropped a tough decision 2-0 to the UMass Lowell River Hawks Thursday night in Lowell, MA. The Retrievers fought hard, outshooting the River Hawks 15 to 10, with 9...</Summary>
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<Title>Tonight's Meeting</Title>
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<Summary>Hey, guys. Just a reminder we're meeting as usual in Admin 101 at 6PM. And don't forget; Marathon Committee is deciding on genre blocks, tonight! Can't wait to see you!</Summary>
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<Title>USM announces Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources</Title>
<Tagline>Register now to attend on Friday, December 8, 2017</Tagline>
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    <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/cai/advancing-postsecondary-student-success-through-oer-statewide-summit-open-educational-resources" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Register now to attend</strong></a><strong> </strong><strong><em>Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through <span>OER</span>: </em></strong><span><strong><em>A Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education.</em></strong></span>
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    <div>Date:</div>
    <div><strong><span><span>Friday, December 8, 2017</span></span></strong></div>
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    <div>Location:</div>
    <div><strong>College Park Marriott Hotel &amp; Conference Center</strong></div>
    <div><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=3501+University+Boulevard+East%0D+%0D+Hyattsville,+MD+20783&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">3501 University Boulevard East</a></div>
    <div><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=3501+University+Boulevard+East%0D+%0D+Hyattsville,+MD+20783&amp;entry=gmail&amp;source=g" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Hyattsville, MD 20783</a></div>
    <div><span><span>8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.</span></span></div>
    <div><em>(Registration, light breakfast and poster showcase will begin at <span><span>8:00 a.m.</span></span>)</em></div>
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    <div>This day-long Summit will bring together faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and administrators from across Maryland’s higher education institutions to explore the promise of using open educational resources (<span>OER</span>) to replace costly textbooks with affordable, high-quality learning materials while giving instructors the opportunity to repurpose content to meet their students’ needs.</div>
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    <div>The Summit is open to all 2- and 4-year Maryland higher education institutions and welcomes attendees at all levels of <span>OER</span> experience. Join <span>OER</span> leaders to:</div>
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    <li>Explore freely available open source materials;<br>
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    <li>Learn about the impact on student cost-savings, access, and success; <br>
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    <li>Participate in hands-on workshops to gain new tools for curating, developing, and licensing <span>OER</span>;<br>
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    <li>Discuss accessibility and quality issues; and<br>
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    <li>Develop strategies to support your institution’s efforts to scale up the use of <span>OER</span>.<br>
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    <div>The event will feature a keynote address by <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/cai/advancing-postsecondary-student-success-through-oer-statewide-summit-open-educational-resources#e4" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Cable Green, Director of Open Education at Creative Commons</a>, on the changing landscape of <span>OER</span>.</div>
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    <div>Institutions are encouraged to bring teams of 4-5 members, including faculty, instructional designers, librarians, and administrators, to collaborate in the interactive discussions and workshops. </div>
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    <strong>The deadline for registration is <span><span>November 22, 2017</span></span></strong>. However, spots for the Summit are limited and filling up quickly. <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/cai/advancing-postsecondary-student-success-through-oer-statewide-summit-open-educational-resources#e5" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Register today!</a>
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    <div>If you are interested in submitting a proposal to showcase and present your <span>OER</span> story at the Summit, <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/LvDfr6U0HAQQPOz43" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">complete our brief application form</a> by <strong>5 p.m., <span><span>Wednesday, October 25, 2017</span></span>.</strong>
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    <div>The Summit is co-sponsored by the University System of Maryland’s <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/cai" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation</a>, <a href="http://www.marylandonline.org/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">MarylandOnline</a>, and <a href="http://www.umuc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Maryland University College (UMUC)</a>.</div>
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    <div>More information, including a preliminary program, will be posted in the coming weeks at <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/cai/events" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://www.usmd.edu/cai/events</a>. Questions may be directed to Fiona Yung at <a href="mailto:cai@usmd.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">cai@usmd.edu</a>.</div>
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<Title>Dr. @Renetta_Tull &amp; @UMBC Faculty host #WhenFacultySayX. Oct. 20 through Oct. 31, 2017. Students have questions. Faculty have answers.</Title>
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    <p>Understanding professors’ expectations shouldn’t be a mystery. However, sometimes, there are disconnects between what a faculty member wants a student to produce for a project, and how the student interprets the instructions. In many cases, the expectations of faculty are clearly articulated, either in written or oral format. However, in other cases, there are situations where a faculty member’s feedback or outcomes from discussions regarding progress may not be as clear because they involve aspects of non-verbal communication such as eye contact, gestures, facial expressions, the tone of voice, and eye contact.</p>
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    <p><strong>Addressing the Needs of Graduate Students</strong></p>
    <p>We draw particular attention to the needs of graduate students for our “When Faculty Say X” success seminar series. Graduate students have several forms of faculty interaction that have their own sets of nuances. For graduate students, the faculty member is a teacher, a mentor, an advisor, and a future colleague. There are several phases through which one must pass to navigate the transitions. During coursework, there is the phase where one follows the syllabus, turns in the homework, and takes the exam. During the qualifying exam and proposal stages, it can be difficult for a student to determine what they are supposed to know on the journey toward building expertise in a discipline or particular area of research. In addition to becoming a contributor to the field, a professor may have a methodology that must be employed by all in her lab or a set of theories which need to be used set the foundation for all work that comes out of the research group. There may be bibliographies that one must reference, techniques that must be mastered, and simple “unwritten rules” that must be followed. Some of the rules may include attending every group meeting and each departmental colloquium. Other rules may extend to writing, i.e., explicit use of a citation style, paragraph structure, or drafting process.  In the past, we have had in-person seminars and panels where students have a chance to post questions online, and faculty answer them in-person during a dinner seminar.</p>
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    <p><strong>Launching <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhenFacultySayX?src=hash" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">#WhenFacultySayX</a> 2017</strong></p>
    <p>In order to accommodate schedules of faculty guests who will join our seminar this year, and in an attempt involve all of the students in our PROMISE AGEP network and beyond, we are launching an interactive, online version of the seminar that will allow all to participate.</p>
    <p><em>Here’s how it will work.</em></p>
    <p>Between Friday, October 20 and Tuesday, October 31, 2017, we invite graduate students to post questions to faculty below in the comment section (you do not need a WordPress account to participate, we encourage anonymous posts.) We will encourage questions from graduate students broadly, and answers from faculty colleagues from any school.</p>
    <p><strong>Faculty:</strong> <em>Faculty colleagues from around the world are welcome to share things that they want students to clearly understand, using the hashtag <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhenFacultySayX?src=hash" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">#WhenFacultySayX</a>. You are also welcome to join the conversation below and reply to the comments. </em></p>
    <p><strong>Students: </strong><em>This program was developed for you. It was developed to remove the barriers and fear regarding asking any and all questions related to your success. You may post anonymously.  Do you have a question that you want a faculty member to answer? </em></p>
    <h2><em><span>Post your <span>questions in the comment section</span> of this post at the bottom of this page. You may post anonymously. Our panel of experts will answer each question in the comments as well.</span></em></h2>
    <p><strong>Our featured faculty panel of experts will answer questions that are posted on this website, below. </strong></p>
    <p>PROMISE Director, Dr. Renetta Tull (<a href="https://twitter.com/Renetta_Tull" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">@Renetta_Tull</a>), Dr. Sarah Chard, Dr. L. Michael Hayden, Dr. Christopher Murphy, and Dr. J. Alan Yeakley.</p>
    <p><img src="https://promiseagep.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/whenfacultysayx.png?w=630" alt="WhenFacultySayX" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></p>
    <p><strong>Featured faculty:</strong></p>
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    <strong><a href="http://sociology.umbc.edu/deptleadership/person/rk71205/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dr. Sarah Chard</a></strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology at UMBC, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy.</li>
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    <strong><a href="http://physics.umbc.edu/people/faculty/hayden/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dr. L. Michael Hayden</a></strong>, Chair, and Professor of Physics at UMBC, Department of Physics.</li>
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    <strong><a href="http://psychology.umbc.edu/people/corefaculty/christopher-murphy/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dr. Christopher Murphy</a></strong>, Chair, and Professor of Psychology at UMBC, Department of Psychology.</li>
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    <strong><a href="http://ges.umbc.edu/j-alan-yeakley/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dr. J. Alan Yeakley</a></strong>, Chair, and Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems at UMBC, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems.</li>
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    <a href="https://renettatull.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Dr. Renetta Tull</strong> </a>– Online Moderator. <em><em>Dr. RenettaTull will moderate the discussion and will add commentary based on her experience as a former faculty member at University of Wisconsin-Madison, adjunct at College Park (<a href="http://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Tull/Renetta" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://hesp.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Tull/Renetta</a>), and member of the program faculty groups for MSRP at MIT, and QoLT at Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh.</em></em>
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    <em>Tull is the University System of Maryland (12 Institutions)</em> Director of Graduate and Professional Pipeline Development, and Special Assistant to the Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/</a>; at <em>UMBC she is the </em>Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives, Professor of the Practice, College of Engineering &amp; IT.</div>
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    <p><strong>Historical Perspective</strong></p>
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    <p>The “When Faculty Say X” seminar began as a PROMISE seminar in 2003, initially titled, “Understanding Faculty Expectations” as part of the PROMISE SUCCESS 2003, a precursor to the PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI). During an orientation session for new graduate students at UMBC circa 2004, <a href="http://psychology.umbc.edu/people/corefaculty/sonnenschein/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Psychology Professor Dr. Susan Sonnenschein</a> posted a chart with two columns. The left column noted “What Faculty Say,” and the right column noted, “What They Mean.” PROMISE adopted this method and started the <em>“Faculty X|Y – When Faculty Say X, They Really Mean Y”</em> seminar to allow students to anonymously ask questions, and have a faculty panel answer the questions (grouped by topic area) in person. This seminar has drawn crowds of more than 100 graduate students. The “they really mean y” portion of the title was dropped over time.  This 2017 #WhenFacultySayX virtual seminar is the online evolution of those early panels and workshops.</p>
    <p>Some of the programs and questions from past years can be found in these links:</p>
    <p><a href="https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/when-faculty-say-x-understanding-faculty-expectations-unwritten-rules-dinner-seminar-fri-oct-10-2014/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">When Faculty say “X” … Understanding Faculty Expectations, Unwritten Rules. Dinner Seminar, Fri. Oct. 10, 2014</a></p>
    <p><a href="https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2013/10/03/when-faculty-say-x-do-you-understand-what-faculty-say-and-mean-dinner-seminar-friday-oct-11-2013/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">“When Faculty Say ‘X’ …” Do you understand what faculty say and mean? Dinner seminar, Friday, Oct. 11, 2013</a></p>
    <p>Other videos that answer questions from past years can be accessed here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uKXMv-Mty_sRI31EzJm0E0cJTX20mve" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_uKXMv-Mty_sRI31EzJm0E0cJTX20mve</a></p>
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    <div>Nine distinguished faculty and alumni shared their stories at GRIT-X, a TED talk-style event during UMBC’s Homecoming. <strong>Karl Steiner</strong>, UMBC vice president for research, introduced the event, which debuted at last year’s 50th anniversary celebration. “We’ll take you from outer space to inner space,” he said, “from black holes in the universe to a pacemaker for the brain.”</div>
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    <strong>Kafui Dzirasa</strong> ’01, chemical engineering, kicked off the program by discussing the latter. Now associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke School of Medicine, Dzirasa has a personal connection to his groundbreaking work. “My family has struggled with mental illness for generations,” he shares. While much mental health research has focused on chemical imbalances in the brain, Dzirasa is using new tools and techniques to detect rhythmic waves of electric pulses in the active brain.</div>
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    <div>“These rhythms work together in the same way that a conductor can allow all the instruments in a symphony orchestra to work together to produce music,” he says. “These little rhythms allow brain cells to coordinate—to produce motions, and thoughts, and feelings.” He calls these rhythms the “metronomic system” of the brain, and is investigating whether psychiatric disorders, such as bipolar and schizophrenia, are a result of faulty metronomes. Dzirasa’s lab is learning about how these metronomes function through animal studies, and he hopes to one day apply the results to humans.</div>
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    <div>“In the future that I see, our family members would have lived out their life’s greatest dreams,” he says, “because we won’t simply treat psychiatric disorders by tuning electricity, we will cure them.”</div>
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    <strong>Christine Mallinson</strong>, professor of language, literacy, and culture, is looking to cure a different ill: the negative biases teachers may harbor against students who speak differently than they do, even if they’re speaking English. Hearing “coffee” pronounced several different ways as a child sparked Mallinson’s lifelong interest in linguistic diversity, which she says “is a resource, not a deficit.”</div>
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    <div>Demonstrating the value of diverse linguistic patterns in the classroom shows students they are valued, which makes them likely to value school, Mallinson explains. Overall, educators must “give the students the tools they need to succeed on the tests that we require of them, while sustaining and empowering their diverse voices,” she says, “so that we can have all our students with all their diverse voices right here in the front row of our classes at UMBC.”</div>
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    <strong>Nilanjan Banerjee</strong>, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, is working on wearable sensors—communication of a very different kind. After the iPhone revolutionized “smart” technology in 2007, he says, “Ten years later, we are at the brink of yet another revolution: the revolution of the next generation of wearables.”</div>
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    <div>Banerjee explained how these tiny computers can make people with spinal injuries more independent, by allowing them to control appliances or communicate via motions as minute as tongue movements. Ankle straps could track health-related statistics from sleep patterns to cardiac conditions, reducing the strain on clinics facing an ever-increasing demand for services as the population ages. Banerjee also sees applications in driving safety, with sensors able to detect whole-body movements that may indicate distracted, drunk, or drowsy driving.</div>
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    <div><em>Nilanjan Banerjee, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, says we are “on the brink of a revolution” in wearable devices.</em></div>
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    <div>Banerjee acknowledges that “all of these sensors are useless unless people use them,” so this work requires perspective from an array of disciplines, such as human-centered computing, design, software development, and materials science. And of course, privacy and ethics concerns loom large when devices are collecting this much data. To conclude, Banerjee encouraged audience members to “think about what you want these next-generation wearables to do, and more importantly, think about what you want them not to do.”</div>
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    <div>The second session began with <strong>Sean Pang</strong> ’09, English, and M.A. ’11, teaching, who recounted his “fortune of misfortunes,” including culture shock and a language barrier upon his immigration to the U.S. as a small child, and poverty and eviction during his undergraduate studies. When he started teaching in Baltimore City after graduating from UMBC, he was the only Asian person in the room, but his background of challenges helped him connect with students. “When they see me come into the classroom, with a smile on my face, with passion, and dedication, and kindness, they see hope,” he shares, “hope that they can make something better from their lives.”</div>
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    <div>Pang, who was <strong><a href="http://news.umbc.edu/washington-post-names-umbc-alumnus-sean-pang-2017-teacher-of-the-year/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><em>The Washington Post</em>’s 2017 Teacher of the Year</a></strong>, had three recommendations for audience members. First, he said, be kind. In kindergarten, a classmate gave him a plastic dinosaur that Pang keeps to this day—it was the first act of kindness he remembers from a peer in the U.S. Second, “Try everything, because that will lead you to find your passion.” And once you find it, “use it to give hope, because hope is the greatest gift you can give.”</div>
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    <strong>Gymama Slaughter</strong>, associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, is hoping for a future of implantable medical devices that are safe, environmentally friendly, and powered by the metabolism of our own bodies. Her lab has created thin membranes made of nanocellulose—a flexible, permeable, transparent, biocompatible material produced by genetically engineered bacteria—and tiny attachable circuits that harness the body’s energy. Because the byproduct of the energy production process is simply water, it’s completely safe.</div>
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    <div>So far, Slaughter’s bio-power devices, only a few millimeters on a side, can light up an LED light. “This gives us hope that eventually, with such a small device, we can develop a power system that harnesses the biochemical energy of glucose within our body,” she says, “to power implantable devices that can monitor disease, diagnose diseases, and one day deliver therapeutics into our body to enable our bodies to heal.”</div>
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    <div><em>Kate Brown, professor of history, describes how families living near the Chernobyl disaster pick and sell radioactive berries that will enter the European market labeled only as “wild and organic.”</em></div>
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    <strong>Kate Brown</strong>, professor of history, closed the second session with a talk on radioactive blueberries. Brown traveled to the Chernobyl zone expecting to find sadness and isolation. Instead, she found a booming, revitalized economy based on foraging—blueberries in the summer, cranberries and mushrooms in the fall.</div>
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    <div>“These women and children pickers have made it happen with human-powered resourcefulness. So economically it’s a good idea,” Brown says. “What about biologically? That’s a trickier question.” Brown explains that berries are extremely efficient at absorbing radiation from the soil, and limits have been set on the radiation level allowed in the EU market. But the berries are simply marked as “wild and organic,” so consumers have no idea they are ingesting radiation. There is very little research on the effects of long-term, low-dose exposure to radiation, but in the area surrounding the berry picking region, birth defects are six times as high as the European average.</div>
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    <div>“I’m here to tell you that even though we think of Chernobyl as something that’s very far away, it’s being brought to us by the global market that’s been so successful,” Brown says. She recommends paying the pickers the same amount to pick the berries, except then disposing of them as waste in the effort to reduce radiation in the area.. Brown even speculates that tourists might be willing to pay to experience picking radioactive berries. “That might be a better way of solving this problem, than just pretending it’s not happening.”</div>
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    <div><em>Jane Turner, director of UMBC’s Center for Space Sciences and Technology, explains her research on the relationship between black holes and galaxy formation.</em></div>
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    <div>Next, <strong>Jane Turner</strong>, director of UMBC’s Center for Space Sciences and Technology and professor of physics, took listeners much, much farther away to black holes at the centers of galaxies. The Milky Way contains a black hole 2.6 million times as massive as our Sun, she explained, and “there’s evidence for supermassive black holes at the center of all galaxy nuclei. This is one of the big discoveries of the last decade or so in astronomy.” These black holes are proportional in mass to the mass of the galaxy they’re in, so “these things must grow together,” she says.</div>
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    <div>Most of the black holes at the centers of galaxies are dark and only detected by their gravitational influence, but a few percent emit an incredible amount of light—these are called “active nuclei.” Turner’s work involves investigating why those few are so bright, by looking at X-rays coming from very close to the black hole “event horizon,” beyond which we cannot make observations. These X-rays can tell scientists about what material is present close to the black hole and how that material is moving. Astrophysicists like Turner have found that black holes are pulling in about one star’s-worth of material per year, which is “enough to feed these active nuclei.”  The black holes are also pushing some of that material back out —enough to affect star formation in the surrounding galaxy. It’s by analyzing results like these, Turner says, that “we’re going to be able to understand the connection between the growth of the black hole and the host galaxy, and from that the growth of structure in the universe on the whole.”</div>
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    <div><em>Corey Fleischer ’08, mechanical engineering, discusses The Foundery, a makerspace he co-founded in Baltimore City.</em></div>
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    <div>While black holes are helping build galaxies far away, <strong>Corey Fleischer</strong> ’08, mechanical engineering, is helping people build things in Maryland. As co-founder and general manager of The Foundery, a makerspace in Baltimore, Fleischer’s goal “is to have anybody walk in with a hand sketch on a napkin, for a product or an invention they want to build, and with our tools and classes be able to walk out with a polished, professional-looking prototype.”</div>
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    <div>Fleischer’s career path has been largely informed by his experience on UMBC’s mini-Baja team, which involved designing and constructing a one-person vehicle and then navigating it around an obstacle course at competitions. “We were learning textbook knowledge in classrooms, but at the same time we were learning firsthand how to build things,” he says. The Foundery provides a space for people with ideas to make them reality, and quickly, by speeding up the design feedback cycle—which involves a lot of failure. “Failure is an empowering way to learn,” Fleischer says. “And makerspaces allow people to fail faster.”</div>
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    <div><em>Doug Hamby, associate professor of dance, leads two UMBC students in creating a new dance on the spot.</em></div>
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    <div>Finally, <strong>Doug Hamby</strong>, associate professor of dance, and two UMBC dance students, <strong>Emily Godfrey</strong> ’20 and <strong>Samantha Siegel</strong> ’18, created an original dance right before the audience’s eyes. Hamby gave them instructions and they absorbed them on the spot, performing turns, rolls, and pliés to the audience’s delight. “When I make a dance,” Hamby shared as he moved fluidly across the stage, “I like to think of it as an investigation of the human body in motion, and in space, and in time.”</div>
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    <div>After the dancers performed the full sequence to close the program, Hamby tied all the GRIT-X talks together. “That’s one of the ways art is made,” he said, “through serendipity and experimentation.” Replace “art” with language, science, or technology, and the statement holds. UMBC faculty and alumni are creatively exploring the edge of knowledge, and the physical and mental world, from inner to outer space—from black holes to brain pacemakers, from language usage to radioactive fallout, from driver safety to dance—and sharing it with the world.</div>
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    <div>Banner image: Sean Pang ’09, English, and M.A. ’11, teaching, chats with his wife (right) and President Hrabowski (left) after his presentation. All photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.</div>
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    <p>One culprit for the dip in movie-going is the cost of the ticket. Movie ticket prices have risen astronomically. From 2015-2016 alone, ticket prices rose an average of 5.4 percent according to the National Association of Theatre Owners. In the first quarter of 2016, movies tickets ran an average of $8.50, although movie goers might pay up to $13 for IMAX movies or theaters with premium seating and amenities.</p>
    <p>In comparison, a monthly premium subscription to Netflix costs $13.99 a month and offers access to hundreds of movies and TV shows. Hulu also recently partnered with the music streaming service Spotify to offer a student discount package including both services for $4.99 a month.</p>
    <p>To compete with the ease and price of streaming services, movie theaters offer discounts and special deals on ticket prices. The R/C Hollywood Cinema 4 in Arbutus is a favorite amongst UMBC students. Located just 1.5 miles from campus, the theater is an attractive alternative to the Cinemark at the Arundel Mills Mall.</p>
    <p>Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, tickets at the R/C Hollywood Cinema 4 cost $9 and $9.50 on the weekends. The theater does offer reserved seating and reclining seats.</p>
    <p>However, Tuesdays are the best for students. On Bargain Tuesday, all movie tickets for any show time are only $6.50.</p>
    <p>Senior psychology major Manny Molla regularly takes advantage of the discount day.</p>
    <p>“I go to the Hollywood Arbutus Theater at least once a month now,” says Molla. “Some friends and I actually went to see Blade Runner 2049 [there] last week. It’s a great location for a good price.”</p>
    <p>Students can also save by attending matinee show times. During the week days, tickets cost $7 and $7.50 on the weekends. These show times are convenient for students who have free time between classes during the week and want to take a fun break from studying.</p>
    <p>Students can even get a first look at popular movies by attending the UMBC Student Events Board (seb) bus trips to the R/C Hollywood Cinema 4. In September, students saw the premier of <em>The Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle</em>. In November, (seb) is organizing a bus trip to the premier of <em>Thor: Ragnorak</em>. Tickets can be purchased online and only cost $5.</p>
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    <div><span>Dear Members of the UMBC Community,</span></div>
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    <div><span>I am writing to announce the start of a national search for UMBC’s new Dean of The Erickson School who will replace Dean Judah Ronch who will have served in that positions with distinction for the past eight years. This search will begin immediately and continue through this academic year with the intent of appointing the new Dean by <span><span>July 1, 2018</span></span>.</span></div>
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    <div><span>Dr. Antonio Moreira, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, has kindly agreed to chair the search committee. Under the leadership of Dr. Moreira, I have appointed a search committee to assist the university in identifying our new Dean, and we have engaged the services of executive search firm Storbeck/Pimentel to assist the committee in its work. The names of the members of the committee are listed below, each of whom has my sincere gratitude for agreeing to take on this critical institutional responsibility.</span></div>
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    <div><span><strong>SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS</strong></span></div>
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    <li><span>Keith Bowman, Dean, College of Engineering and Information Technology</span></li>
    <li><span>Cedric Herring Professor and Director, Language, Literacy, and Culture Ph.D. Program</span></li>
    <li><span>Galina Madjaroff, Clinical Assistant Professor, Program Director, The Erickson School</span></li>
    <li><span>Robin Majeski, Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Management of Aging Services Internship Program, The Erickson School</span></li>
    <li><span>Antonio Moreira, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs</span></li>
    <li><span>Melissa Roane, Director of Innovative Learning Solutions and Director of Operations, The Erickson School</span></li>
    <li><span>Janet Rutledge. Vice Provost and Dean of The Graduate School</span></li>
    <li><span>John Schumacher, Co-Director of the Doctoral Program in Gerontology, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, Health Administration and Policy</span></li>
    <li><span>Gregory Simmons, Vice President, Institutional Advancement</span></li>
    <li><span>Christopher Steele, Vice Provost, Division of Professional Studies</span></li>
    <li><span>Carolyn Tice, Associate Dean, School of Social Work</span></li>
    <li><span>Scott Townsley, Professor of the Practice, The Erickson School</span></li>
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<Title>Today! Want to Present at URCAD 2018?</Title>
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    <div>This Wednesday, October 25, 2017 </div>
    <div>12-12:50pm </div>
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    <div>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.</div>
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