Save the Date – Orientation for New Graduate Students (8/15/13)

Orientation for New Graduate Students for Fall 2013 will be held on Thursday, August 15, 2013. 

More information will be posted soon!

Register for the 8th Annual GSA Awards Ceremony (5/13)

Deadline to Register: May 6th, 2013 @ 5pm

Please Join the Graduate Student Association for the 8th Annual GSA Awards Ceremony where we celebrate our year as well as those who have positively impacted the graduate student community!

This event will take place on Monday, May 13th from 5:30 pm-7:30 pm in the Library Gallery

Format of Evening:

5:30 pm- 6:00 pm Reception
6:15 pm- 7:00 pm Ceremony
7:00 pm- 7:30 pm Mingle/Chat & Pictures

The dress code for the event is business casual

To register and for more information, please click here:  http://my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa/news/27906

Monday, 5/13/13, 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Library Gallery

UMBC Office of Student Life’s Mosaic Center Still Accepting Applications for 2013-2014 Graduate Coordinator Positions

The Office of Student Life is still accepting applications for two open Graduate Coordinator positions within the Mosaic Center for Fall 2013 – Spring 2014. We are particularly interested in students who will be entering a graduate program in the Fall or will have at least two years remaining in a master’s and/or doctoral program at UMBC.

For full details, see position announcements:

GC for Cultural Programs 2013-2014
GC for LGBTQ Programs 2013-2014

Questions?  Please contact Lisa Gray, Assistant Director of Student Life for Cultural and Spiritual Diversity, at 410-455-8478.

Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled and can be submitted via email, mail or hand delivery. Only complete applications will be considered for an interview.  For best consideration, applicants should apply by May 3rd.

SUBMIT APPLICATIONS TO:

Sheryl Gibbs, Office Manager
UMBC Office of Student Life
The Commons, Suite 336
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Ph: 410-455-2605; Fax: 410-455-1097; Email: shergibbs@umbc.edu

GSA/Pigtown Food for Thought Community Celebration (5/11)

GSA partnered with Pigtown Food for Thought in the beginning of this year to give Baltimore City youth and UMBC Grad Students the opportunity to learn about food justice and nutrition through cooking classes and gardening.

On Saturday, May 11th, at 12:30 pm they want to cook for YOU!  Come for music, learning, eating, and fun!  Bring your camera and a friend.  Food and fun will be provided.

Please see the  May 11 2013 event flier  for more information about the event. If you are interested in helping with the preparation of the event, please contact Romy at rjones12@umbc.edu. We will start preparing at 9:30am.

Robert Deluty, Associate Dean, Publishes his 41st Book

Robert Deluty, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, has published a new book, titled “Entering Through the Window.” In his review, Dr. Ronald Pies writes:

“Robert Deluty’s poems truly do ‘enter through the window,’ surprising and sometimes startling us into new awareness. At times, we experience these short poems with the intensity of a Zen koan; at times, with the power of a perfectly timed joke, as in ‘Yom Kippur/ the quarter-Jewish man/ skipping dessert’ or ‘offered horseradish/ their teen declines, stating/ she’s a vegan.’ As we have come to expect with this prolific poet of the microcosm, Deluty manages to reveal an entire world through a very small window.”

“Entering Through the Window,” as well as Dr. Deluty’s other books, may be purchased at the UMBC Bookstore.

PROMISE Friends and Family Cookout & Celebration of 2013 Graduates (5/4)

Join us Saturday, May 4, 2013 for the PROMISE Friends & Family, and Celebration of Graduates Cookout!

Location:
High Ridge Park
10100 Superior Ave
Laurel, MD 20723

1:00 – 4:00 PM

(Rain Location: UMBC’s Game Room in the Commons)

Calling all graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni! Bring your family and friends to the annual PROMISE Cookout! Graduate students from all disciplines and all levels (1st year masters to doctoral candidate) are invited to participate!

This is an annual event! Feel free to bring games, cards, and athletic equipment. This park has the following amenities:

• basketball      court
• tennis      court
• playground
• open      grass play field

All PROMISE participants who are graduating from a masters or doctoral program from any school within the University System of Maryland will be celebrated! Send your name, school, department, and degree to promisestaff@gmail.com. Family and friends are invited to celebrate with you.

This event is free, but please register so that we can have an accurate count and can use our funds wisely.

Please register for the cookout here:http://promisecookout2013.eventbrite.com/

PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP

Saturday, 5/4/13, 1:00 – 4:00 pm, Laurel, MD

Joe Tropea ’06 History B.A. and ’08 Historical Studies M.A, in the Baltimore Brew

A film by Joe Tropea ’06 History B.A. and ’08 Historical Studies premiers locally at the Maryland Film Festival next week. The Baltimore Brew covered the film in a May 1 story entitled “A fiery act of civil disobedience in Catonsville still resonates, 45 years later.”

“Hit & Stay’ tells the story of nine Catholic activists who protested the Vietnam War by burning draft files in Catonsville on May 17, 1968. Tropea and fellow filmmaker Skizz Cyzyk tell the story using old footage, recent interviews with surviving members of the group and their supporters, images of war horrors, and the reflections of eminences of the Left such as Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Bill Ayers and Amy Goodman.

Tropea undertook the six-year process of making the documentary after writing on the subject for his masters thesis. “I had had no idea about the amount of strategy and coordination and about how all these things were connected,” he said.

“Hit & Stay” will have two screenings at The Maryland Film Festival. (Tickets available here.)

• Thursday, May 9, 7:30 p.m. at Charles Theatre, 1711 N Charles St.
• Saturday, May 11, 1:30 p.m. at MICA’s Brown Center, 1300 Mount Royal Ave.

The anniversary of the action will also be commemorated with a May 10 event at UMBC, “Looking Forward from the 45th Anniversary of the Catonsville Nine Actions.”

This article was originally posted in UMBC Insights.