Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association celebrates alumni and faculty who have made outstanding contributions to their fields, their communities, and the University. Join us for the Alumni Awards Ceremony on Thursday, October 5, at the Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, as we honor the following individuals:

Outstanding Alumnus, Engineering and Information Technology
Dr. Kafui Dzirasa ’01, Chemical Engineering
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University

Outstanding Alumnus, Humanities
Dennis Williams ’14, American Studies
Head of Content Marketing, Skillshare; Oculus Content Fellow; LinkedIn Top Voice 2016

Outstanding Alumna, Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Dr. Kate Laskowski ’06, Biological Sciences and Chemistry
Scientist, Department of Biology & Ecology of Fishes, Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology & Inland Fisheries

Outstanding Alumnus, Visual and Performing Arts
Dr. Alejandro Cremaschi ’93, Music
Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Chair of Keyboard Studies, College of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder

Outstanding Alumna, Social and Behavioral Sciences
Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D. ’06, Public Policy
Deputy Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services

Distinguished Service
Dr. Steven Storck ’08, Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics, M.S. ’09, Mechanical Engineering, and Ph.D. ’14, Mechanical Engineering
Additive Manufacturing Application Engineer, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Rising Star
Lauren Mazzoli ’15, Computer Science and Mathematics, and M.S. ’17, Computer Science
Systems Engineer, Future Technical Leaders Program, Northrop Grumman

Outstanding Faculty
Dr. Marc Zupan
Associate Professor and Program Director, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMBC

Learn more about our past award winners

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Any course ending in Y includes a weekly Honors University seminar. Designed for students in their first year, the Honors University seminar reinforces the lecture through study skills, exam preparation, time management, and other key skills. Most courses meet general education requirements. These courses carry one credit and focus on enhancing skills that pertain to college life.

AGNG 200Y
(SS) GEP, (SS) GFR (WI)

Based in the life-course perspective, this course blends academic analysis of human aging in social context with more experiential learning, including exposure to literature on older adults, awareness exercises about aging in the news and talking with older adults in and out of class to debunk common myths and stereotypes regarding aging and older adults. Academic content is broadly social, in terms of understanding family and community contexts of aging, the individual experience of aging including productivity, spirituality and typical engagement, normal changes and diseases common in physical and psychological health, and a focus on how society views aging. Finally, students will be encouraged to identify themselves as aging individuals, on a trajectory toward later life.

So, how do we enter/receive this saving love of God? According to God’s word, though God’s love is poured upon the world/us in compassion, there is a proper human response that is essential in our receiving and living in the love of God. In Romans 10:9,10 it says , “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.”  The declaring with your mouth that Jesus is Lord is a clear response that every Christian must make, however this is not simply a speaking of the statement ‘Jesus is Lord’ that brings salvation. For even Jesus said many who say Lord, Lord will not inherit the kingdom of God (Matthew 7:21). Rather the word ‘declare’ with our mouths means to make verbally (outwardly) known that which we have come to believe in our hearts (inwardly). Therefore, the proper human response is to declare and to believe, which means that there ought to be a real life evidence/expression of God’s love in our lives by the way the transformation in our lives make that declaration. Hence, without transformation, there is no real declaration of living faith! However, even in this, our dependence is upon God’s faithful love, that brings about his conviction, empowering, and the desire to now live in response to God’s love.

Today pray in response to John 3:16, and let’s humbly ask for real evidences of transformation in our lives.

-GK

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Track work has been completed between BWI and West Baltimore.  MARC Trains will commence boarding on their regularly scheduled platforms.  Residual delays will occur over the next hour or two, but no further major delays are anticipated.

BE ADVISED:  Until further notice, all Penn Line trains will board on the northbound platform at the following stations:   BWI, Halethorpe, and West Baltimore.  Engineering forces are working to resolve a track defect that is causing this single-tracking situation.  Significant delays are expected throughout rush hour service.  Updates on service status will be provided as they become available.