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Hey everyone who enjoyed listening to our first season of our podcast, Kaleid, we have dropped 4 new episodes in a series we call Making Identities. We worked with 4 young producers—"digital natives"—to help them tell their stories about what it is like establishing who you are when you're smack in the middle of a media landscape few know how to manage. This will be relevant to others in their twenties, but also parents, teachers, and anyone concerned with what new media mean for young folks. This season starts with episode #4. https://www.irc.umbc.edu/kaleid

The IRC Faculty Research Fellowship is back for two tenured or tenure-track faculty members, one in CAHSS and one in COEIT.

Deadline: March 1, 2022

The Office of the Vice President for Research, the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Dean’s Office, the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) Dean's Office, and the Imaging Research Center (IRC) are pleased to announce a funding opportunity for two tenured or tenure-track faculty members, one in CAHSS and one in COEIT, to collaborate together, and with the IRC, on new research. The Fellowship can be used to advance a current project or begin an entirely new project.

IRC Faculty Research Fellowship | Imaging Research Center The 2022 IRC Faculty Research Fellowship The Office of the Vice President for Research, the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS) Dean’s Office, the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) Dean's Office, and the Imaging Research Center (IRC) are pleased to announ...

Join Artist Lynn Cazabon for a Zoom program about the moving exhibit now at the Maryland Center for History and Culture this Thursday night at 6pm. Register at mdhistory.org/events/

Opening today, at the Maryland Center for History and Culture, artist Lynn Cazabon's exhibit, Losing Winter! See the mobile app created through her collaboration with the IRC to capture peoples' stories and memories about winter.

Losing Winter Exhibition Opening – Maryland Center for History and Culture The public is invited to enjoy winter in July during the opening celebration of the Losing Winter exhibition, Saturday, July 24, 12-3 p.m.

Kaleid Ep 1: Media History, Media Now

We speak with US Civil War Historian Anne Rubin about the ways different forms of media—from the penny press to social apps—can divide people and fragment ideas. We discuss the challenge of engaging the public in the real complexity of issues given that media prefer tiny sound bites. The conversation turns to the national discord around removing monuments, looking at monuments themselves as a kind of media.

https://kaleid.simplecast.com/episodes/media-in-history-media-now

What it takes to make realistic images of the world has changed over the centuries. Once, it was understanding light, form and perspective. Now, it's being able to generate random numbers.

In their article in the Journal of Computer Graphic Techniques Marc Olano and Mark Jarzynski evaluate methods of generating random to achieve realism.

Check out our project write up to learn more about the pursuit of depicting reality throughout history .

https://www.irc.umbc.edu/research/hash-functions-for-gpu-rendering

Professor George Derek Musgrove, Associate Professor in the UMBC History Department, partnered with the IRC to tell the story of Black Power in DC "across time and space" using ArcGIS Story Maps.

Read more about the process in our latest project description.

https://www.irc.umbc.edu/projects/black-power-in-dc/

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UMBC’s 2021 starts tomorrow! 2/24 + 2/25. 36 hrs to make a difference!

The IRC is part of UMBC's College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences mission to prepare thoughtful citizens in a complex world.

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