DesignModo’s hugely popular set of resources ‘The Bricks’ is available once again through our sister site MightyDeals.com.

Massively popular with designers and developers, ‘The Bricks’ is a UI bundle carefully designed to make your projects run smoothly. When MightyDeals first ran the deal last year the demand from designers and developers alike was almost unprecedented, so we’ve managed to bring the deal back for anyone who missed out first time round.

Why is The Bricks so popular? Well, for starters it’s a very well put together set of resources. Secondly, it’s comprehensive; most UI sets cover one aspect of a site, but The Bricks has comprehensive coverage of almost everything you can imagine, meaning you won’t be left plugging the gaps yourself. Thirdly, the UI elements can all be easily edited, which means seamless integration with your existing design.

‘The Bricks’ is available through MightyDeals.com at a massive 83% discount. That’s a very mighty $240 saving.

Built on one of the most popular setups in the world, the 12-column grid, The Bricks is the ideal way to fast-track a design through to completion.

Broken down into four, highly compatible sub-sets, The Bricks features Words UI elements to help you develop text-based designs;

Elements UI to add consistency to your designs with key navigation elements;

Ecommerce UI set with elements designed specifically with e-commerce sites in mind;

and the Forms UI set, perfect for designing complex forms in a pinch.

The often requested deal is only available for a limited time. So head over to MightyDeals.com and grab this offer right now.

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We are living in a world where people work from multiple devices — phone, laptop, and computer – and need access to their files anywhere and anytime. UMBC’s active directory (AD) system serves the campus well but it doesn’t provide the level of flexibility for mobile devices and off-campus access that people need.

The higher education community, through an initiative by Internet2, has worked with a company named Box.com to provide a service that we believe will meet our needs and is secure. Box is an online file sharing system that you can access from multiple devices. Box also allows you to share your files and folders with others easily.

Students, faculty, and staff will now be allowed to have web-based storage that they can use their myUMBC login to access. Files can be easily shared with others on campus and off-campus. You can even send a user a “URL” that allows someone that doesn’t have the Box.com service to access the file.

One of the nice features of Box.com is that is has great support for collaboration. It integrates well with Google Docs and we feel that faculty research groups will love the flexibility this provides in sharing data with other members of their research team.

DoIT will be rolling out this service with a limited launch to departments, faculty and staff that want to be early adopters, after which we will make this service available to everyone, including students. 

During the spring we will also identify departments that need more flexibility for shared file storage than AD provides and transition them over to the Box.com offering.

You can access Box by going to box.umbc.edu.

All Internet users know that once a meme surfaces, more are sure to follow.

And once something is mocked and parodied by memes, frankly, it cannot be taken seriously.

The latest influx of North Korea memes to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and (insert various social media here) have turned the North Korean threat into the North Korean joke.  But why? 

The title of a recent video uploaded to Youtube by The Young Turks  raises an interesting question: “Why Do We See North Korea as a Joke & Iran as a Threat?“

Look around.  There aren’t that many memes on Iran’s nuclear program.  There are however, plenty of elected officials citing reports by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) detailing Iran’s nuclear violations.  

Even as North Korea tested an intercontinental missile while Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel prepared for his confirmation of office, Secretary Hagel reportedly mentioned Iran more than 170 times while occasionally mentioning North Korea a mere 11 times in his day-long testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in early 2013.

The question remains, why are we as a nation more inclined to fear Iran than North Korea?

Some cite the rise of Islamophobia, while others claim that Kim Jong Un simply cannot be taken seriously, perhaps because of his young age and relative inexperience in international politics, or his notorious high-top fade.  

Is the North Korean threat a legitimate one? Let us know in a comment below. 

by Trishia Domingo

On-Campus Interviews offer students a chance to conveniently interview for professional positions on campus.  Employers travel to our campus for the specific purpose of interviewing preselected students for currently open positions.  This is a great opportunity to interview with employers specifically interested in UMBC students and offers the advantage of a smaller applicant pool.  Interviews take place during the fall and spring. The logistics (viewing positions, applying, signing up for interview time slots, etc.) are all handled via UMBCworks.

Don't miss out on employers coming to UMBC to recruit YOU this fall! The following is a list of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews with application deadlines within the next month.

**  Insight Global

Position:  Recriter/Account Manager (9257146)
Resume Submission End:  April 10

** Basys

Position:  Associate Software Engineer
Resume Submission End:  April 10

A full list of On-Campus Interviews scheduled is available on our website calendar and on UMBCworks, please check regularly for any updates or changes that may occur.

The following full-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!

9257582 - Mathematical Statistician - U.S. Census Bureau
9257613 - Medical Assistant - Wellness Medical Center
9257617 - Tutors - C2 Education Centers 
9257576 - Web Developer - University of Maryland, Baltimore
9257578 - Graphic Web Designer - Agora Incorporated

The following part-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!

9257616 - Information Technology - US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
9257565 - Testing Technician -- Community College of Baltimore County
9257536 - Train Conductor - Amigo Train
9257525 - Group Leader (1300-221) - YMCA of Central Maryland