Retrievers Shutout Georgetown, 2-0, Behind Fefel’s One-Hitter
UMBC senior Amanda Fefel (Baltimore, Md./Catonsville) allowed just one hit and struck out a season-high seven batters as the UMBC softball team (17-14) blanked Georgetown (14-18) by a score of 2-0 Tuesday afternoon at UMBC Softball Stadium.
Fefel went the distance and improved to 3-2 on the season with the first shutout by a Retriever pitcher since junior Stephanie Weigman (Elkridge, Md./Archbishop Spalding) blanked Liberty, 5-0, on Feb. 20. It was Fefel’s sixth career shutout and her first since April 2, 2009, against Morgan State.
Amanda Fefel tossed her sixth career shutout with a one-hitter against Georgetown.
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Visual Culture and Evolution Online Symposium
The Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences will co-host the Visual Culture and Evolution Online Symposium with UMBC's Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture (UMBC) and Johns Hopkins University's Master of Arts in Museum Studies Program.
Visit the symposium: http://www.vcande.org
Follow the discussion: http://vcande.blogspot.com
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Quadmania 2010 Features Third Eye Blind
The Student Events Board (SEB) is preparing UMBC's annual spring festival, Quadmania, next weekend, April 16-18.
The popular event features carnival rides, vendors, games, performances and much more. On Friday and Saturday, there will be a great line-up of student acts including performances by Major Definition (hip hop dance troupe), Mama's Boys (a cappella group), and the Flying Eyes (psychedelic/blues/rock) as well as local acts including Dangerous Ponies (rock/afro-beat, indie), The Ambitions (rock/soul), and many more. On Sunday, there will also be a concert featuring Third Eye Blind.
Spring College Fair Season Approaches: Prepare for it!
UMBC Admissions Counselor, Ryan Mitchell, blogs about how students can most effectively use their time at college fairs... as only an insider could.
For every student who efficiently navigates the onslaught of vivacious and/or droopy-eyed admissions counselors at college fairs, there are five others who seem lost amid the carnival daze. It’s easy to understand why.In some ways college fairs are very much like a carnival. The counselors are the ‘carnies’ beckoning you to step right up, take a chance, and eventually pay us a lot of money to leave the carnival with a big fluffy stuffed bear, or in this case, a bachelor’s degree.
This is a somewhat cynical perspective, one that you can avoid adopting if you prepare for the college fair. The students who obtain the most valuable information from college fairs are inevitably those who prepare for the experience. If you avoid the idle chatter and seek the real answers, you’ll feel a lot closer to the bachelor’s degree, and much further away from the Big Top.
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Science from the Start
As a child, he spent weekends with his father, a veterinarian and microbiologist, performing necropsies (animal autopsies) in a lab. When his mother, dean of mathematics at San Bernardino College, couldn’t find a babysitter – she brought him into the classroom, and he performed basic math problems in the back. These moments had a considerable amount of influence on his career choice, said Kinde, but his experience afterward – specifically with UMBC’s Meyerhoff Scholars Program – transformed his early fascination into a research career.
"Coming to UMBC was the best decision I could have made for a career as a reseacher,” said Kinde.
Born and raised in Southern California, Kinde learned about the Meyerhoff Program, which was established to increase diversity among future leaders in science, technology, engineering and related fields, from his brother Isaac Kinde ‘05, now a 5th year M.D./Ph.D. student at the Johns Hopkins University.
Since enrolling in the program, Benyam Kinde has been able to pursue research opportunities he hadn’t imagined – which are now leading him to Germany. This summer, he will attend the 60th Interdisciplinary Meeting of Nobel Laureates. Selected from a pool of more than 20,000, he’ll join 500 young researchers and network with leading scientists in the fields of medicine or physiology, physics and chemistry. Kinde was nominated to attend by Peter Agre, a medical doctor, professor and molecular biologist at Hopkins who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry and received an honorary degree from UMBC in 2009.
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