Author: Alex Taylor
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CSEE Faculty Mentioned in Article about Catonsville HS Cyber Club
CSEE Faculty members Rick Forno and Marie desJardins were mentioned in a recent Baltimore Sun article, in which the Catonsville High School Cyber Club is interviewed as they prepare for the final round of the Maryland Cyber Challenge. The Maryland Cyber Challenge & Competition, designed by Dr. Rick Forno, was created to encourage more high school students to consider STEM…
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UMBC researcher spotlighted in celebration of National Chemistry Week
October 19-25th is National Chemistry Week (NCW). The theme for this year is “The Sweet Side of Chemistry: Candy.” In conjunction with this week-long celebration of chemistry, each day the National Science Foundation has been highlighting a different “sweet molecule” in a stop-motion video post. These posts also give mention to the lead scientist(s) working…
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CYBR students present @ NCCoE Open House
UMBC CYBR MPS students Zack Rich and Jeff Scheier (pictured) are interns at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in Rockville, MD. On October 15, 2014, they presented NCCoE use case projects to leading cybersecurity experts from both the private and public domains at the NCCoE’s fall Open House on education and workforce…
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UMBC partners on national cybersecurity research center
UMBC will play a role in strengthening our nation’s cybersecurity infrastructure through a new Federally Funded Research and Development Center announced this week. NIST awarded a contract to operate the center to MITRE, which will partner with the University System of Maryland to carry out the center’s goals. UMBC and the University of Maryland, College…
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CS Alumna to be honored at UMBC Alumni Awards, 6:30 pm, 10/9 PAHB Concert Hall
Computer Science alumna (M.S. ’89, Ph.D., ’94) Claudia Pearce will be honored at this year’s UMBC Alumni Awards on Thursday, October 9, 2014, in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. For more information and to register, click here.
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Talk: Embodied Interaction: Systems, Experiments, Models 1pm 10/10 ITE325
Prof. Rob St. Amant from North Carolina State Univ. talks on ‘Embodied Interaction: Systems, Experiments, Model’ at UMBC at 1:00pm on Friday Oct. 10 in room 325b in the ITE Building.
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CS Alumna Claudia Pearce to be honored at UMBC's 2014 Alumni Awards
Computer Science alumna (M.S. ’89, Ph.D., ’94) Claudia Pearce will be honored at this year’s UMBC Alumni Awards on Thursday, October 9, 2014, in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building. Pearce is the Senior Computer Science Authority at the NSA. She has also served on the Advisory Board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women…
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hackUMBC '14 concludes
Last weekend, over 170 college and high school students converged upon UMBC for the second hackUMBC hackathon. This free event, spanning 24 continuous hours, brought students together to create, make, or otherwise “hack” together new technology projects, either individually or as a team. As with many hackathons, there was no limit to the type of…
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CS Alumna Claudia Pearce (M.S. '89, Ph.D., '94) is UMBC Alumna of the Year for Engineering and Information Technology
Each year, the UMBC Alumni Association presents awards to honor alumni for their professional and personal achievements and service to the University. The 2014 awards will be presented on Thursday, October 9, 2014, at an awards ceremony in the Performing Arts and Humanities Building on the UMBC campus. This year’s Alumna of the Year for…
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CYBR students participate in cybersecurity wargame
On September 18, students from UMBC’s Graduate Cybersecurity Program joined others from Penn State, Penn State Harrisburg, and the Dickinson College of Law at the U.S. Army War College’s Center for Strategic Leadership and Development to participate in a scripted wargame considering the strategic aspects of cybersecurity during the 2014 Intelligence Community Center of Academic…