We have scheduled our annual “Welcome to UMBC!” event to welcome our new colleagues to the UMBC community.
Please put Thursday, September 15, 2-4 p.m. on your calendar, and if possible avoid scheduling other campus-wide events at this time.
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Join the Ancient Studies Department and other UMBC programs at the National Museum of Natural History, Saturday, April 16.
The bus will leave the UMBC Commons Circle at 9:30 a.m., take us to the National Mall in DC and deposit us at the National Museum of Natural History for the Cyprus: Crossroads of Civilization exhibit. There will be time to visit other museums as well and spend time in DC. The bus will depart for UMBC at 4 p.m.
To reserve a place, sign up with Sara Short (FA 452) at ext. 5-6265 or sshort@umbc.edu. Be sure to include your cell phone number.
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The Office of Off-Campus Student Services invites you and members of your department to participate in the annual celebration of “Jest for Fun, for a cuase: Commuter Carnival,” Wednesday, May 4, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in The Commons Quad.
Jest for Fun is a popular community-building event. The program provides information and assistance to students living off-campus and all students in transition. The event features a community service project, housing fair, transportation information, campuse service, food, fun and entertainment. The entire campus is invited to attend!
Here is how your department can get involved:
Donate to the school supplies collection drive
As part of the “Good Neighbor” campaign, we will collect items for donation to Riverview Elementary School in Lansdowne, through Wednesday, May 4. Riverview Elementary is one of Baltimore County’s most economically disadvantaged schools with over 80% of students coming from low-income families. The school has requested the following items: pencils, zipper pencil cases, backpacks, pocket folders with brackets, hand sanitizer, tissues, Ziploc bags, dividers, crayons, scissors, flash cards and umbrellas. Collection boxes are located on the first floor of the Administration Building, in The Commons near the Information Desk and at other locations around campus.
Set up an information table at the Campus Resource Fair on May 4, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
This will be a great opportunity to let students know (or refresh their memory) about the array of services available at UMBC.
Post, distribute, announce and attend
Whether you want to provide information about new or existing programs, or just want to connect with new and returning students, we welcome your participation! Call ext. 5-2770 or email ocss@umbc.edu for more information. All events are free and open to al members of the campus community.
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The 2011 UMBC Arbor Day celebration and PLANT award presentation will be held Wednesday, April 6, at noon in the University Center Plaza, sponsored by the Landscape Stewardship Committee. There will be music, poetry and more. President Hrabowski will read the Arbor Day Proclamation at 1 p.m. on the UC plaza.
Students, faculty and staff are invited to sign up as groups or as individuals to plant and tag 220 trees for the service learning tree planting project, part of the campus stream bank buffer restoration behind the Commons Garage. The UMBC Arborist, staff and student helpers will be onsite to assist. Tree planting times are available between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sign up by email with subject “Arbor Day Community Service project to d_anderson@umbc.edu. Include name of contact and number in the group.
Mama’s Boys, Straight Up Tribal, the Steel Drum Band Club, the Musical Theatre Club and the English Department will perform. The YMCA Child Care, Women’s Center and Education Department will collaborate on activities for young children.
The evening activities continue with a tour of the Herbert Run Greenway at 4 p.m. for those who want to know more about the benefits of trees, history of the campus and to see the county’s largest Post Oak.
Sustainability activist Nick Cooney will be on Main Street in the Commons at 6 p.m., hosted by Daejayon, translated “Great Nature,” an international volunteerism group on campus whose focus is sustainability and eco-feminism.
For the movie goers, the Independent Film Series movie “Tapped” will can be seen in the Skylight Lounge at 7 p.m.
The Arbor Day event is sponsored by the Landscape Stewardship Committee.
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A lecture by Stanley Burns will be held 4 p.m., Thursday, April 14, on the April 11–May 31 Library Gallery exhibit.
For as much as people of the 21st century avoid the subjects of death and postmortem photography, those of the 19th century embraced it. The living were depicted with their deceased loved ones with whom they were often not portrayed previously. The personal nature of postmortem imagery frequently makes it difficult for us to view memorial images from the past much less from our own time. This exhibition will survey memorial photography from the 19th through 21st centuries and show how the artistic efforts of the photographers contributed to the emotional qualities of the images. The imagery connects us across the generations to those who would have died unnoticed had they not been given by photographic means a kind of immortality.
A reception, sponsored by the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund, will follow the lecture.
For further information, see aok.lib.umbc.edu/admin/friends/events.php or contact the Library administration at aok@umbc.edu.
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The departments of English and psychology, the Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery and the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences present a poetry reading by UMBC faculty members, Tuesday, April 12, at 4 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. A reception, sponsored by the Libby Kuhn Endowment Fund, will follow the readings.
The participating faculty poets are:
For further information, see aok.lib.umbc.edu/admin/friends/events.php
or contact the Library administration at aok@umbc.edu.
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Join us as ancient studies students, faculty members, alumni and friends celebrate the department and its successes and eat delicious Greek food, Sunday, April 10, 1-4 p.m., and Dimitri’s.
The cost of $20 for current students and $25 for others includes a buffet lunch of tzedziki, Greek chicken, vegetarian mousaka, Greek salad, vegetable, cold (non-alcoholic) beverages and cake.
To reserve your place, please pay by cash in person or send (deliver) a check made out to the University of Maryland Baltimore County Foundation. Payments may be made in FA 452 to the ANCS administrative assistant, Sara Short, or send to her at the ANCS Department, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250. All reservations must be received by April 4.
This is a gathering not to be missed! Seats are limited, so don’t delay.
Dimitri’s is located at 2205 Frederick Road, Catonsville, MD, 21228.
This event is an activity of the University of Maryland Baltimore County Foundation and all proceeds will be used to benefit the Ancient Studies Dept.
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Update: Due to rain, Relay for Life has been postponed from April 8 to April 22.
Staff, faculty, students, friends and family are invited to Relay for Life, Friday, April 22, from 3 p.m.-3 a.m. on the Quad, outside the Commons. The event is free, but all are encouraged to sign up and donate online at www.relayforlife.org/umbc.
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From March 29-April 6, UMBC will host a variety of events designed to foster awareness and understanding of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and to raise funds for the victims of the disaster. Below is a schedule of events for the week.
Origami Rose Keychain Fundraiser
Tuesday, March 29-Friday, April 1, 12-1 p.m. in the Commons
The Japanese Culture Club will offer origami rose keychains, with proceeds benefitting disaster relief efforts. The keychains are meant to raise awareness and support for those suffering in Japan, and the red roses symbolize that there can and will be re-growth from a shattered Japan.
Help Japan! Arcade Day
Friday, April 1, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., Main Street in the Commons
The Japanese Culture Club will sponsor an “arcade day” to help raise money for disaster relief. For a donation, students will play a timed round of popular games on Wiis and Xbox360s that will be set up in the Commons.
Music for Japan Concert
Wednesday, April 6, 6-6:50 p.m., Recital Hall (FA 118)
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Lecture: Earthquakes, Tsunami, and “Meltdowns”—Japan’s Black Swan?
Wednesday, April 6, 7-8 p.m., Recital Hall (FA 118)
Constantine Vaporis, professor of history and Asian studies, and Kate Brown, associate professor of history, will discuss the potential effects of the triple disaster in Japan. Vaporis is an expert on Japanese culture and history. Brown has studied and written on the history of nuclear disasters.
Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program, Department of History.
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Enjoy games, food, giveaways, relaxation and stimulating conversation at Graduate Student Week 2011, April 4-10! All events are free and open to Grad Students. GSW 2011 will include t-shirt giveaway, Friends and Family Game Night, “Daily Deluty” Poetry Reading and much more!
For more information, visit us at my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa/events/6292. All questions can be sent to gsa@umbc.edu or ext. 5-2773.
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