A new website resource is available to all college campuses. It provides information for students, schools, and anyone interested in finding resources on how to respond to and prevent sexual assault on college and university campuses and in our schools. Visit the website to find a crisis service, learn more about your rights and how to file a complaint, and view a map of resolved school-level enforcement activities.

https://www.notalone.gov/

“Sexual violence is more than just a crime against individuals. It threatens our families, it threatens our communities; ultimately, it threatens the entire country. It tears apart the fabric of our communities. And that’s why we’re here today -- because we have the power to do something about it as a government, as a nation. We have the capacity to stop sexual assault, support those who have survived it, and bring perpetrators to justice.”

-- President Barack Obama, January 22, 2014 

“Freedom from sexual assault is a basic human right… a nation’s decency is in large part measured by how it responds to violence against women… our daughters, our sisters, our wives, our mothers, our grandmothers have every single right to expect to be free from violence and sexual abuse.” 

-- Vice President Joe Biden, January 22, 2014

Want more info? UMBC Resources for Sexual Assault & Relationship Violence include:

• The SARVRT: http://umbc.edu/rvap/getting-help-support/sarvrt/
• VAV Program: http://www.umbc.edu/uhs/vav/index.html
• RVAP Program: http://umbc.edu/rvap/
• The Counseling Center: http://www.umbc.edu/counseling/
• University Health Services: http://www.umbc.edu/uhs/
• The Women's Center: http://www.umbc.edu/womenscenter/
• Student Judicial Programs: http://www.umbc.edu/sjp/
• UMBC Police: http://police.umbc.edu/

Northrop Grumman and University of Maryland, Baltimore County Launch Global Externship Summer Program

Jamila Ellis ’15, global studies, and Anna Kearns ’16, global studies and Asian studies, were awarded the prestigious Boren Scholarship for International Study.

The Boren Scholarship for International Study allows students to study languages and cultures that are critical to US national security. Award recipients go on to work in federal agencies.

Ellis will study Arabic in Jordan in order to learn more about the role of Middle Eastern and North African women in promoting conflict resolution in the region. She plans to have a career in the State Department.

Kearns will study Korean in South Korea to learn more about Korean security policy. She is planning to work in intelligence.

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) has awarded a 16-month, $23,000 grant to the Special Collections of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery for the creation of collection level records for all archival collections Special Collections and the implementation of an Encoded Archival Description (EAD-XML) compliant workflow.

Chief Curator Tom Beck, Archivist Lindsey Loeper, and Catalog Librarian Vicki Sipe will review, revise, and create collection level records and finding aids for the archival collections maintained by the Special Collections department in the Library. Collections will include the University Archives, the Center for Biological Sciences Archives, and local history collections including the new folklife collections donated by the Maryland State Arts Council and Maryland Traditions. The descriptive records will be mapped for reuse in multiple access systems including the Library Catalog, UMBC’s Digital Collections, and the Special Collections Search. The EAD-XML formatted finding aids will comply with national standards and may be harvested for access through union catalogs such as OCLC’s ArchiveGrid and the National Library of Medicine’s History of Medicine Finding Aids Consortium. The main goal of this project is to increase access to UMBC’s unique archival collections and to reach the researchers, scholars, students and community members that are seeking the high research value materials held at UMBC.

The NHPRC is the granting agency of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), supporting “a wide range of activities to preserve, publish, and encourage the use of documentary sources, created in every medium ranging from quill pen to computer, relating to the history of the United States.” The grant is awarded as part of the Documenting Democracy: Access to Historical Records program. A list of all May 2014 NHPRC awardees is available here.

The Imaging and Digital Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, featuring work by Michael Farley, Charlotte Keniston, Lexie Mountain, Shana Palmer, Carrie Rennolds, and Dominique Zeltzman was reviewed in the contemporary art blog Bmore Art this week. Founding Editor Cara Ober described the exhibition as an “effortless, yet thoughtful, balance between formal and conceptual concerns and digital process, a sign that this group is well prepared for the larger art world.”

Read the review “Imaging A Thesis”

UMBC hopes to build connections with Catonsville using Short Line Trail