Do you have a great idea or product in mind, but aren’t sure how to turn it into a valuable product? Then join us in the Commons 318 tomorrow, Wednesday, April 12 from 12-1 pm. You’ll learn how to develop an idea into a scalable product that will reach the needs of your customer segment. We look forward to seeing you!

The challenge for many entrepreneurs is they focus on their technology and oftentimes forget to explain its true value in a way that provides a customer not only inspiration, but permission to make a purchase. In this discussion, we'll focus on how the good idea becomes an even greater product. Just what does it take to make the transition from a technology that is inspiring in its own right to an item that has true value to the right customer segment. And in walking through this offering, our takeaway is to embrace the customer voice in clear concise English with demonstrable value and benefit.

About Peter

From acceleration to business incubation, from go-to-market programs in AgTech, MedTech and Cyber as well as interaction with potential funding sources, Mr. Ettinger is focused on the transition of the good idea to an even greater product.

As Executive Director of the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship he centers on not only finding, but growing those companies that have the go-to-market strengths that will allow them to make a real difference in their individual segments.

Peter has held senior leadership positions in both public and private companies: from Johns Hopkins University Medical School working with MD and PhD students as they transition qualified ideas from the bench to the bedside for both the domestic and global marketplace to President of publically traded Document Security Systems where he  increased sales by 200% by the restructure of its production staff, improving go-to market performance, and building an integrated sales structure.

With numerous speeches and presentations throughout the world, Ettinger is an author of articles in the fields of authentication, verification and document security and has also received numerous awards in the media and production fields.

Do you have a great idea or product in mind, but aren’t sure how to turn it into a valuable product? Then join us in the Commons 318 tomorrow, Wednesday, April 12 from 12-1 pm. You’ll learn how to develop an idea into a scalable product that will reach the needs of your customer segment. We look forward to seeing you!

The challenge for many entrepreneurs is they focus on their technology and oftentimes forget to explain its true value in a way that provides a customer not only inspiration, but permission to make a purchase. In this discussion, we'll focus on how the good idea becomes an even greater product. Just what does it take to make the transition from a technology that is inspiring in its own right to an item that has true value to the right customer segment. And in walking through this offering, our takeaway is to embrace the customer voice in clear concise English with demonstrable value and benefit.

About Peter

From acceleration to business incubation, from go-to-market programs in AgTech, MedTech and Cyber as well as interaction with potential funding sources, Mr. Ettinger is focused on the transition of the good idea to an even greater product.

As Executive Director of the Maryland Center for Entrepreneurship he centers on not only finding, but growing those companies that have the go-to-market strengths that will allow them to make a real difference in their individual segments.

Peter has held senior leadership positions in both public and private companies: from Johns Hopkins University Medical School working with MD and PhD students as they transition qualified ideas from the bench to the bedside for both the domestic and global marketplace to President of publically traded Document Security Systems where he  increased sales by 200% by the restructure of its production staff, improving go-to market performance, and building an integrated sales structure.

With numerous speeches and presentations throughout the world, Ettinger is an author of articles in the fields of authentication, verification and document security and has also received numerous awards in the media and production fields.

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 and performances, and film.

Over 250 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 with other programs.

Students who have received Undergraduate Research Awards (URA) for the previous year will be presenting their findings. The UMBC Review, UMBC’s annual peer-reviewed research journal, which features academic papers written by UMBC undergraduates, makes its debut at this event- stop by and get your copy! Come hear the alumni keynote speaker talk about their experiences after UMBC, and how being an undergraduate researcher benefited them.

UMBC is unique in providing this opportunity for undergraduate students to conduct and present their research in a professional and supportive setting.  Students get valuable feedback from their peers, faculty, and staff, and practice their public speaking and presentations skills.  This campus-wide celebration of achievement affirms UMBC’s commitment to the twin goals of research and a distinctive undergraduate experience.

Luke 9:22-24 (NIV) -”And he said, ’The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.’ Then he said to them all: ’Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.’”

“Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.”

Traditionally, the way we have come to understand this passage is that we are to follow Jesus’ example by living a cruciform life, just as he exemplified upon the cross. The issue with this passage however, is that Jesus is saying this to the disciples before he has gone to the cross. These instructions to take up your cross is a pre-crucifixion statement. This means that the disciples who are hearing Jesus say this wouldn’t have been able to make much sense of it. Surely for us in 2017, as we know how the story ends, can recapitulate the event of the cross with God’s wisdom and purpose of salvation. However, that was not something that the disciples would have been privy to at that time. Perhaps what this passage shows us is: the cross of Christ, and subsequently the cross that all disciples are to bear, was not a form of punishment created by the Romans, with Jesus just happening to be caught in its horrors, and as a result having become the symbol of our gospel. Rather, the salvation that was to occur on the cross was conceived and purposed by the very saving God who said in Ephesians 1-that before the creation of the world, He purposed us to be the object of his affection and salvation. Hence, the cross was always intentioned and purposed before creation as the suffering through which we would know God’s grace and rescue.

Today, consider this: the cross has been purposed before the creation of the world, for we have been chosen before the creation of the world to be the object of God’s salvation-and that is only through the cross. Let’s worship Him, who knows all things, does all things, and whose purpose will always be accomplished!

Today spend time in worship with this song: The Cross Changes Everything-Matt Redman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkZkeyu6a3k

-GK

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A team of researchers including UMBC’s Eileen Meyer and Markos Georganopoulos have found strong evidence of a striking astrophysical phenomenon: a supermassive black hole traveling away from the center of its galaxy at an incredibly rapid pace.

A scenario like this has been predicted for some time. “The theory is great, but we’ve got to have some observations to see if our simulations are correct,” says Meyer, assistant professor of physics. Those observations are now in hand, with copious lines of evidence all supporting the team’s explanation.

“There have been previous cases of systems like this,” says Georganopoulos, associate professor of physics, “but ours is the most solid case.” Meyer adds, “It’s the only one I can think of where all the little pieces of evidence line up in favor of this scenario very specifically.”

When two galaxies with black holes at their centers merge, gravitational forces pull the black holes to the center of the newly-formed galaxy. The black holes spin around each other, gradually slowing down. This process releases gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of spacetime that travel outward at the speed of light. Depending on the relative rotational speeds of the two original black holes, once they merge the new black hole may be kicked out of the galaxy’s center by the gravitational waves.

Video produced by NASA, accessed on Hubble’s site here.

Data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope and other sources confirm that the black hole’s speed  and position—approximately 4.8 million miles per hour, offset from the center of its galaxy—are consistent with the team’s explanation that the black hole has been powerfully ejected from the galaxy by the force of gravitational waves.

First author Marco Chiaberge, research scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute at Johns Hopkins University, approached Meyer and Georganopoulos almost two years ago to help interpret the surprising data. Georganopoulos shares, “For me, the most exciting thing was to go from the raw data to building up a scenario—gradually realizing that the other scenarios are very implausible.”

Although alternative explanations are unlikely, the team still wants to collect additional observations to further confirm their interpretation. They’re submitting a proposal for time on the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA), a powerful telescope in Chile that could help them answer remaining questions.

“At the same time that it creates the opportunity to solidify our model, it’s also an opportunity to falsify it,” says Georganopoulos, of the possible opportunity to use the array in Chile, and the importance of remaining open to new interpretations of the data.

Either way, it will be exciting research. “Even if it doesn’t turn out the way we’re expecting,” says Meyer, “this is still a strange and remarkable system that needs to be studied.”

See the NASA press release and other media coverage of this new research on Deep Astronomy (video), New Scientist, Washington Post, Science, Laboratory News, Sky and Telescope, TrendinTech, The Daily Galaxy, Sputnik International, and others.

Image: NASA’s Hubble Telescope collected this image of a bright quasar, a proxy for the presence of a black hole, far from the galaxy’s center.