UMBC Summer Enrichment Experience (SEE)

For Middle School and High School Students

UMBC is an honors university that combines the learning opportunities of a liberal arts college with the creative intensity of a leading research university.  UMBC is excited to offer a variety of fun and stimulating academic programs this summer for middle school and high school students. The Summer Enrichment Experience (SEE) will bring the college experience to these students by offering a variety of opportunities in science, engineering, technology, the arts and humanities led by UMBC faculty, industry professionals and undergraduate students. These experiences are designed to spark participants’ passions and interests in these fields and tap into their creative talents, expand technical skills and hone their academic skills.

SEE is proud to announce partnering with HowGirlsCode, Inc. and is offering two sessions of Mind, Body & Coding for rising 3rd through 9th grade girls.

For more details: http://see.umbc.edu/ 

Available July 1st! Two roommates-one male, one female (UMBC sophomores) are looking for a third roommate for a large 3 Bedroom/1 Bath furnished apartment in the central town area of Arbutus. Shared Family room, Dining room, and Kitchen. Quiet location; the only neighbors are the shops/businesses located below. Convenient to stores, grocery/pharmacy, dining, and campus (5-minute drive/10-15 minute walk). Snowball stand, ice cream shop, and bakery across the street and a Diner next door. Parking available. One year lease required for 500$/mth + utilities. Non-smokers only. Contact Chloe: Email nolet1@umbc.edu, call 410-949-4475 or comment on this post for more information and to apply. All applicants are welcome. 

Student Disability Services (SDS) has continued to transition to more digital processes. They recently converted their traditional “pink form” faculty filled out with details on how to administer a student’s test (e.g., whether students could use a calculator, extended time, etc.). In the past, issues arose when instructors left fields blank or multiple emails had to be exchanged to clarify important information, which can now be required through the use of the campus Request Tracker (RT) ticketing system. The new digital process saves both time and paper.

To read more of this article, please go to http://doit.umbc.edu/news/?id=68458

John 20:24-29 (NIV) – “Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’ But he said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.’
A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe.’
Thomas said to him, ‘My Lord and my God!’
Then Jesus told him, ‘Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.’”

Where would Thomas be without his brothers, the other disciples who shared with him, “we have seen the Lord!”? It wasn’t enough for Thomas at that moment, but his own encounter was awaiting him. In our small groups, may our time of teaching, time of sharing, time of encouragement lead to salvation encounters for each person.

I always looked forward to going over this passage and this chapter in the “Dive In” study we go through in many of our church’s small groups because it was on the topic of community. Here is an excerpt from the chapter’s study: “Our faith is lived out together and this new life with God is most realized, most powerful, and most transforming as we become a community that continually celebrates and responds to God and his story for our lives. The Holy Spirit brings us together, reminding us over and over again of all that Jesus has said, all that he has done, and all that he has promised. In these moments together the Holy Spirit removes the umbrellas of doubt in our lives, whether through a direct touch of hope and healing, or through our love as we come alongside helping, encouraging, and praying for each other” (Dive In, Agapé Churches).

Response: Let’s worship with this song “Glorious Day” remembering our own moments when Jesus called us out by name. Let’s also pray for those in our small groups by name for encounter moments with Jesus this week.

https://safeshare.tv/x/ss59349ff22fe66

-AK

-距离UMBC大学走路只需要10分钟
-开车3分钟
-社区非常安全友好
-距离药房小卖铺，公交车站，各种餐馆步行5分钟

每层都有浴。每间房提供家具。充足的停车位并且附加车道最多可以容纳5辆轿车。

租金为每月$500-550美金包括水电煤气高速网络（具体价钱根据选择的房间决定）

如果你有兴趣可以回复邮件给我!简单介绍你的情况，问题，你的电话，你想什么时间来看房，何时入住。

限制: 不可以聚会(其他房客喜静）。不对狗过敏（我有柴犬）

回复到: joyl1@umbc.edu 

UMBC biologists Phyllis Robinson and Preethi Somasundaram may have identified a key factor that contributes to our understanding of biological clocks and associated disorders, such as non-24 and seasonal affective disorder. Their new research focuses on the role of melanopsin, a retinal protein, in aspects of unconscious vision that regulate the biological clock.

Unconscious vision, or non-image-forming vision, is an often-underappreciated function of the eyes. While we look around, our eyes are doing more than processing what we consciously see. Specialized cells in our eyes also constantly send messages to the brain that regulate our circadian rhythms, sleep patterns, pupil size, and even our mood. One of the brain areas these messages head to is the superchiasmic nucleus (SCN), which Robinson, professor of biological sciences, calls the “master clock.”

“The SCN controls a lot of physiological functions,” Robinson explains, “from appetite to the ability to do math.”

For our internal clock to work, the specialized cells must effectively respond to light, sending messages when light is present and turning off when things go dark. Robinson and Somasundaram have found that a modified version of melanopsin in the cells can result in messages continuing to be sent long after the lights go out, which affects various behaviors. In other words, broken melanopsin breaks our bodies’ master clock.

For her dissertation, Somasundaram, a Ph.D. candidate in biology, tested how mice’s pupils reacted when she exposed them to a flash of light and then placed them in darkness. The normal response in any mammal is for the pupil to constrict upon exposure to light and then dilate again in darkness. This reflex is important to protect the retina from damage caused by excessive light, and it allows us to see consistently under varying light conditions. In Somasundaram’s experiments, mice with normal melanopsin and modified melanopsin both constricted their pupils similarly when shown a flash of light, but it took the mice with modified melanopsin almost 100 times as long to dilate their pupils again in the dark—9.5 minutes compared to 4.6 seconds on average in normal mice.

“When you think about signaling,” says Robinson, “you want the signal to turn on when it detects something, but then turn off so it can detect something else.” By taking nearly 100 times as long to turn off, the broken melanopsin doesn’t transmit any new input to the brain during its extended “on” period, which affects behaviors that rely on that information.

Somasundaram also tested the effect of melanopsin on a longer time scale by looking at jet lag. She exposed the mice to an artificial time change of six hours (similar to flying from Amsterdram to New York). The mice with normal melanopsin took 5.6 days to adjust their activity to the new cycle, but those with broken melanopsin adjusted in just 2.8 days on average.

These two dramatic results, both shown for the first time in an animal, demonstrate that melanopsin plays a major role in clock-driven behaviors. If it turns out that human patients with clock-related disorders have the same kind of modification in melanopsin as Somasundaram’s mice, that would suggest further melanopsin research could eventually lead to treatments for these disorders.

Melanopsin is found in five subtypes of the specialized cells that regulate unconscious vision. Somasundaram’s work only tested a subset of them, so she and Robinson are now looking ahead to using CRISPR (a new, more realistic genetic modification technique) to test the other subtypes for melanopsin’s possible effects on behaviors like sleep and learning. This future research was just recently supported by a five-year grant from the National Eye Institute.

Many currently prescribed medicines target the class of proteins that melanopsin belongs to, but, Robinson explains, “There aren’t any drugs on the market that I know of that target the turn-off mechanism for melanopsin.” If melanopsin turns out to be the culprit behind biological clock disorders or behaviors like insomnia, that could change.

Photo by Alessandro Lorizzo, used under CC 2.0 license.