Learn, Connect, and Grow Together. · This discussion group is centered around experiences of students on the autistic spectrum and the unique challenges they may face as students in everyday life as well as on UMBC’s campus. This group is designed to allow students to learn from each other and find community. Some possible discussion topics are executive dysfunction, masking, life skills and self advocacy. This event is centered...
Mark your calendars, you won’t want to miss this! · In celebration of ADHD Awareness Month, join us for From Stuck to Start, a 60-minute virtual, interactive experience led by Shayne Swift of SwiftLyfe Coaching and Consulting. Feeling overwhelmed by your to-do list or struggling to figure out where to start? This session is an engaging, experiential session designed for ADHD and neurodivergent individuals who often find themselves overwhelmed,...
Paint pumpkins! Decorate goody bags! Enjoy sweet treats! · Join us at the AOK Library on Thursday, October 22 from 3 - 5 p.m. for some drop-in mini pumpkin painting, goody bag decorating and sweet treats and other goodies to fill your goody bags. All supplies will be provided, the only thing you need to bring is your creativity! A perfect way to get in the spooky season mood.
Come talk about the new class schedule for Spring 2027 with fellow GES undergrads! What you like about classes, what you didn't like, and honest professor reviews. Join us in the Cart Lab in Sondheim 001 Friday October 23 from 2-3pm!
This past week, UMBC invited DEVCOM to recruit students into their genocide-complicit company. We cannot have that on our campus. Our university should not fund or have any partnerships with companies that profit off war and have committed numerous human rights violations. We demand job oppurtunities that serve the people, not oppression across the globe! UMBC MUST DIVEST AND END ALL PARTNERSHIPS...
Name: Monica D. Green Pronouns: she/her Title: Program Administrative Specialist, Student Conduct & Community Standards Years in Student Affairs/at UMBC: 1 year What is something you do as part of your position that people may not be aware of? One thing people may not realize is how much behind-the-scenes coordination goes into supporting the student conduct process. In my role with Student...
As we mentioned earlier this semester, as part of our continued growth, evolution, and commitment to fostering an accessible and inclusive campus environment for individuals with disabilities, the offices of Student Disability Services (SDS) and Accessibility & Disability Services (ADS) have officially unified under a new name: the Office of Disability Access & Resources. As part of this...
Repost from the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) What is Happening? Newly identified safety flaws have been discovered in PHP—the underlying engine that powers a massive portion of the web, including publishing tools like WordPress, Drupal, and custom site platforms. If left unaddressed, these flaws allow unauthorized users to disrupt web pages, leak sensitive data, or take control of...
Update: Time of Status Update: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM Affected Service: UMBC’s Single Sign-On Services, Impacting Access to Downstream Systems Update: Please be advised that issues impacting UMBC’s Single Sign-On services have been resolved. DoIT Staff are still monitoring the situation closely to determine the root cause. If you continue to have any issues, please contact the...
B.S.: Astrobiology and Abiogenesis Major, Minor, Certificate, and/or Honors: Biology Chemistry Degree Mentors: Dr. Stephen Freeland| UMBC Associate Dean for Undergraduate Academic Affairs Dr. Dillon Mahmoudi| UMBC Graduate Program Director for Geography and Environmental Systems (GES) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Steven McAlpine| UMBC Individualized Study Assistant Teaching Professor...
The air in the room is cold. You walk in to see an abundance of officers scurrying around. Photographers take pictures of the crime scene; flashes of light scatter your field of vision. In the center of all the movement is the detective, who stands still and unphased by the disorganized nature of the crime scene. You open your mouth to ask a question, but the detective is already talking. "The...
The History Department is pleased to share our offerings of new & returning courses available for Spring registration that count towards our program requirements! Be sure to check out what's available from this list. For advising, please visit our Undergraduate Advising page! Additional questions can be emailed to remley1@umbc.edu.
Dear Students, We hope you had a restorative fall recess! It is hard to believe we are at the mid-point of the semester. Around this time, we hear from some students that they experience a “mid-semester slump.” Worrying about grades and course load or a lack of motivation and engagement is normal, but remember, if you are feeling overwhelmed or stressed, it is more than okay to ask for help....
New this week, Plastic film recycling has been streamlined and relocated to a central drop off location in the AOK Library lobby. Anyone wishing to recycle plastic film such as plastic bags, bubble mailers, bubble wrap, case overwrap, and similar items that can NOT go in our regular recycling can drop off here at their convienience. This bin will be checked and emptied by sustainability...
Nominations are open Oct. 20–Dec. 4, 2026. Spots are filled first-come, first-served. re-IGNITE is the new foundational leadership program of the HRSTM LEADS Academy. Over one semester, a cohort of UMBC leaders at all levels builds two critical capabilities that matter most right now: leading yourself with emotional intelligence, and leading others by adapting your approach to what each person...
The 2026 Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics (HBG) Awards Ceremony was held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center on September 28, 2026. GESTAR II is pleased to share the recognition of the following people in their individual and team efforts: Jeanne Sauber 61A/UMBC, Career Achievement Citation: For extraordinary, sustained innovations in synthesizing diverse multi-mission instrument data to...
Planned System Maintenance Notice Date: October 21, 2026 Time: 9:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT Please be advised that the RT system will undergo scheduled maintenance tonight from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM. During this two-hour maintenance window, RT will be temporarily unavailable. What We Are Doing We are proactively upgrading RT from version 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 to apply essential security fixes and ensure the...
A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding the original Word or PowerPoint file, or opening Adobe Acrobat, and then uploading the PDF again. Ally’s newest PDF quick fix makes this much faster. When Ally flags images in a PDF that have no...
Congratulations to Math and English major Ryan Supplee on receiving a $1,000 Undergraduate Research Award (URA) for his research project, “Reverent Ableism: Conceptualizing the Medieval Cyborg." His mentor is Professor McKinley. Supplee previously received a 2025-2026 URA for "Medieval Moralization, Dehumanization, and Demonization of the Disabled Body in Giovanni Boccaccio and Geoffrey Chaucer"...
Dear UMBC Community, Last week, we celebrated 20 years of the Sherman Scholars Program and the 345 teachers it has prepared to serve children in and around Baltimore. It was a wonderful celebration that brought together alumni, current students, faculty, staff, and friends who have made this extraordinary work possible. What stayed with me most was hearing our current student teachers and...
