Author: Web Master
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Dive into UMBC's sea of extracurricular activities during Involvement Fest
**Involvement Fest has been postponed until Monday, September 10th, due to the rain** "Pirates" is the theme of this year's Involvement Fest, which takes place Monday, September 10th from 12-3 p.m. on the Quad. For Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Electrical Engineering majors ready to dive into UMBC's vast sea of extracurricular activities, there will…
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Introducing the inagural batch of T-SITE scholars
Photo: The Retriever Weekly This August, UMBC welcomed its inagural batch of Transfer Scholars in Information Technology and Engineering (T-SITE) Scholars (pictured above). The brainchild of a team of seven women sprinkled throughout IT and Engineering departments in the College of Engineering and Information Technology at UMBC, the T-SITE scholarship program offers support–financial and otherwise–to…
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Apply for a Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship, courtesy Facebook
Photo: Gracehopper.org Facebook has announced that it will award scholarships to 25 women who wish to attend the upcoming Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference that will take place at the Baltimore Convention center October 3-6. This year's theme is "Are We There Yet?" Applicants must be women studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering,…
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Baltimore Innovation Week 2012 calendar released
An initial 20 event calendar for the first-ever Baltimore Innovation Week has just been released. Organized by local tech news site Technically Baltimore, the annual event, held from September 20-30, is a celebration of technology and innovation in Baltimore. Its goal is to encourage local innovation through programming focused on technology, collaboration, and improving the…
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All students invited to Office of Undergraduate Education Open House
This Friday, August 31, new and returning students are invited to the Office of Undergraduate Education's Open House. Held from Noon to 2 p.m. in the Academic IV Building (Room 114), the event is a chance to talk about First Year Seminars, The New Student Book Experience, Undergraduate Research, and an Introduction to an Honors…
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UMBC homepage gets make-over
If, in getting to this post, you navigated straight to myUMBC and bypassed UMBC's home page, you probably haven't seen its new look. The update is part of a long term project to improve UMBC's web presence. "Our marketing and recruitment efforts demand a cutting edge homepage, and the innovation and expertise of our faculty…
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Sherman and Forno receive $2.5 Million NSF grant for Cybersecurity scholarships
CSEE Professor Dr. Alan Sherman (PI) and Dr. Rick Forno (Co-PI), Graduate Program Director, Cybersecurity have received an NSF grant of $2.5 million over five years to fund 22 students studying Information Assurance (IA) and Cybersecurity. The scholarships are part of the Federal Cyber Scholarship for Service (SFS) program. Future scholars will come from UMBC’s…
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Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.) wins best student paper award at IEEE conference
Congratulations to Xianshu Zhu (CS, Ph.D.), who won the best student paper award at the 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration. The conference, which took place last weekend in Las Vegas, is a forum to discuss how we can maximize the reuse of information with the creation of simple, rich, and reusable…
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IEEE Colloquium on Energy Harvesting Devices, September 25
The IEEE Baltimore Electron Devices Society chapter, in collaboration with ARL, will be hosting a one day Colloquium on Energy Harvesting Devices at the University of Maryland, College Park on Tuesday, September 25, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Stamp Student Union Building, Benjamin Banneker Room (Room 2212). Invited speakers include: Dr. Edward Shaffer,…
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Baltimore unWIREd tackles the city's social ills
Photo: devanwells.blogspot.com While The Wire has been referred to by critics as “the greatest TV drama of all time,” its portrayal of Baltimore isn’t exactly an all-encompassing one. Because despite its reputation, Charm City has a lot that makes it charming: a growing entrepreneurial spirit, top-notch universities, and a pool of untapped talent. The brains…