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<Title>Acupuncture is BACK!!</Title>
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<Title>04.14.25 - Paradise Route ~ Detour In Effect @Frederick Ave. &amp; Beechfield Ave.</Title>
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    <p><span> Hello Paradise Route Riders,<br></span></p>
    <p><span>On Monday, April 14, 2025. - The construction crews have closed portions of Beechfield Ave beginning at Frederick Ave. and detoured all traffic effective immedately</span></p>
    <p>The following bus stops will be affected during this period:</p>
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    <li><strong>27. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2780454,-76.6956634,3a,90y,227.43h,82.41t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sdwgB8fvw2OSFn3MFjPfRaQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D7.587971939695592%26panoid%3DdwgB8fvw2OSFn3MFjPfRaQ%26yaw%3D227.42777562634194!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&amp;entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Beechfield Ave &amp; Colleen Rd.</a> </strong></li>
    <li><strong>28. <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2754755,-76.6943529,3a,90y,154.43h,83.69t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sYjeVPezQzow9dgF37VRbyw!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D6.305959036706383%26panoid%3DYjeVPezQzow9dgF37VRbyw%26yaw%3D154.42920365701187!7i13312!8i6656?authuser=0&amp;entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Beechfield Ave &amp; Thornfield Rd.</a></strong></li>
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    <p><span>To minimize inconvenience, riders are encouraged to utilize the following alternative locations for pickups. </span></p>
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    <span>Alternative: Please use Stop </span><strong><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2814043,-76.693726,3a,90y,119.65h,94.48t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sFEjbVyckNLSF82xI7-BxYg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-4.479891316364714%26panoid%3DFEjbVyckNLSF82xI7-BxYg%26yaw%3D119.64925936578662!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&amp;entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMzMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Frederick Ave. </a></strong>
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    <span>Alternative: Please use Stop<strong> </strong></span><strong>29. Beechfield Ave. &amp; Yale Ave.</strong>
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    <p><span>If you need immediate assistance or clarification regarding pickup locations, please don't hesitate to contact our office at 410.455.2454. </span></p>
    <p>We appreciate your understanding and cooperation during this necessary road closure. We want you to know that our priority is to ensure your safety and minimize disruptions to your travel plans.<br></p>
    <p>Safe Travels,</p>
    <p>Transit Team</p>
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<Title>April is Financial Literacy Month!</Title>
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    <p>Maryland Supplemental Retirement Plans (MSRP) is excited to
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    <p><em>MSRP will send you a reminder email with a link to the webinar one business day prior to the webinar.</em></p>
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    <p><strong>Social Security 101: Fundamentals for Every Age</strong></p>
    <p><strong>Key Speaker: MSRP</strong></p>
    <p><strong>Date/Time: April 17th at 11:00am</strong></p>
    <p>Join our webinar to learn the basics of Social Security, including eligibility for retirement benefits, the impact of early retirement, and how spousal and survivor’s benefits work. We’ll also show you how to access your "my Social Security Account" and use other online tools.</p>
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    <p><strong>My Medicare Matters!</strong></p>
    <p><strong>Key Speaker: Nationwide Retirement Institute</strong></p>
    <p><strong>Date/Time: April 15th at 1:00pm</strong></p>
    <p>Medicare can be confusing. Learn about important enrollment
    decisions you need to make as well as Medicare coverage, costs, and more!</p>
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    <p><strong>Retirement Readiness First Steps Webinar</strong></p>
    <p><strong>Key Speaker: MD State Retirement &amp; Pension Agency</strong></p>
    <p><strong>Date/Time: April 16th at 10:00am</strong></p>
    <p>The Retirement Readiness First Steps webinar provides a
    general overview of the survivor, disability, and retirement benefits
    administered by Maryland State Retirement and Pension System (SRPS) – including
    descriptions of service retirement eligibility rules, vesting criteria, and
    ways to obtain additional qualifying service credit. This presentation is
    designed for early career and mid-career members of the Employees’ and
    Teachers’ Retirement and Pension Systems.</p>
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    <div><em>ALL MSRP WEBINARS ARE APPROXIMATELY 45 MINUTES IN LENGTH. </em></div>
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    <li><p><strong>Best of CNMS:</strong> Lekan Ajiboye</p></li>
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    <p>See you all next year!</p>
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    <p>Congratulations to all participants for showcasing the power of research and storytelling. Your work continues to inspire and elevate the UMBC community.</p>
    <p>See you all next year!</p>
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    <p>At UMBC, the degree to which we encourage and celebrate this fact is a source of deep institutional pride. Converting learning into doing, is central to our university’s concept of student success because we know that the journey grows skills and builds identity that improve outcomes both within and beyond any undergraduate degree. I therefore welcome you with enthusiasm to UMBC’s 29th annual Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement Day (URCAD).</p>
    <p>This inspiring day showcases research and creative achievements co-created between students, staff, and faculty across UMBC and across the academic disciplines. Today you are warmly invited to experience films, musical performances, art exhibits, video games, along with presentations about experiments and analyses in every discipline. Together we celebrate this hard work showing gratitude for the mentorship and encouragement that have inspired each student to develop their potential. We celebrate the power of applied learning to develop critical thinking skills, communication skills, and skills of working in partnerships and teams. From another and equally important perspective, we celebrate the power of applied learning to produce stories and experiences that connect people across cultures, disciplines, and ideologies. These are the skills our students will take forward as leaders of the future.</p>
    <p>Our students’ achievements today are a tribute to their imaginations, their hard work, and their resilience in the face of challenges. They are also testament to the skill, passion, and service of mentors drawn from our faculty and staff across the campus. Please accept my appreciation and admiration for you all.</p>
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    <h2>Join Us for Our Selfie Contest!</h2>
    <h3>To compete, tag your photos, #umbcURCAD</h3>
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    <p>Take a selfie at URCAD and upload it to URCAD social media to enter to win a gift card to the UMBC Bookstore!</p>
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    <h3>Get creative!!</h3>
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    <div>Check out last year's winners:</div>
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<Title>URCAD Sneak Peek: Nehal Naqvi</Title>
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    <p><span><em><span>Afternoon Poster Session I | 1 – 2 p.m. | Poster #26</span></em></span></p>
    <p><span><em>Evaluating POLI 301 As A Gateway Course For Upper-Level Political Science Electives</em></span></p>
    <p><span><strong>Nehal Naqvi</strong></span><br>Mentors: Ian Anson, Political Science; Carolyn Forestiere, Department of Political Science, UMBC; William Blake, Department of Political Science, UMBC; Laura Antkowiak, Department of Political Science, UMBC; Brian Grodsky, Department of Political Science, UMBC; Mileah Kromer, Department of Political Science, UMBC</p>
    <p>This research study examined the role of personal and demographic characteristics towards performance, enrollment frequency, and retake odds in Research Methods in Political Science, alongside the transferability of course skills towards upper level political science electives. Determinants for success in POLI 301 and its utility towards departmental curriculum have remained under focus, with widespread reputation as the most challenging course in the political science major (even after a major redesign in Fall 2019). We employed a quantitative design, analyzing course performance data from Fall 2020 to Spring 2024 and course to course performance comparisons from Fall 2020 to Spring 2022 using bivariate analysis, regression analysis, paired analysis, and ANOVA. Our research found that political science GPA, admission type, and biological sex were significant predictors of performance and enrollment frequency in POLI 301 when controlling for competing covariates. Political science GPA and admission type also significantly explained retake odds for the course. Additionally, we found that performance in STAT 121 significantly predicted POLI 301 performance. Lastly, we did not find added benefit in completing POLI 301 towards performance in political science electives or increased conformity in performance between POLI 301 and upper level electives through greater inclusion of research methods skills.</p>
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<Title>Interested in Joining SWE's Eboard?</Title>
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