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UMBC Cybersecurity MS student wins best prototype award in Generative AI Hackathon at Universities at Shady Grove

Chinwe Okpala, a UMBC MS in Cybersecurity student, and Daniela Pineda Iriarte received the Best Real-World Potential award for their MedBridge project in the Prompt to Prototype: A Generative AI Hackathon held last week at the Universities at Shady Grove. The award recognizes the project that judges believe was most likely to be pursued, funded, adopted, or implemented. Their MedBridge project...

UMBC AI

AI-powered fitness and nutrition IPhone app released by UMBC MS Data Science student Manikanta Sirumalla

Manikanta Sirumalla is an MS student in the UMBC Data Science program who recently released RepTrack Pro, an AI-powered fitness and nutrition app for iPhones. He’s currently building it out through an award from the UMBC Launchpad Accelerator 10-week, cohort-based summer program that helps student founders validate their ideas and launch early-stage ventures. Hosted by the Alex. Brown Center for...

Division of Information Technology (DoIT)

5 Tips for Posting Accessible Images & Stories to Social Media

Social media is one of the most powerful tools departments use to share news, celebrate achievements, and build community. It’s also one of the most consistently inaccessible corners of institutional communication. The good news is that most major platforms now have built-in accessibility features, and the habits that make social media accessible also tend to make it more engaging for everyone....

Exempt Staff Senate

Bookstore Sale

The UMBC Bookstore is running their annual summer sale. The in-person sale is active and runs through Friday, June 26. The online sale is active and runs through June 30. The Bookstore is physically closed from June 27 through July 1 to conduct their annual physical inventory. Orders placed after tomorrow, June 25, will be processed starting July 2. Please see the attached flyer for more details.

Announcements - Faculty and Staff

The UMBC Connection | Summer Updates from Across UMBC

Dear UMBC Faculty and Staff, With summer in full swing, this edition of The UMBC Connection brings together a few updates, opportunities, and highlights from across UMBC. You’ll find information on new federal policies, employee resources, research and athletics accomplishments, and opportunities to connect with the UMBC community this summer. Opportunities & Events Opportunities to attend,...

Office of Student Disability Services

IMPORTANT Reminder: Submit Your Semester Requests for Summer Session II and Share Your Feedback!

We hope your summer has been going well! If you haven't submitted your semester requests for Summer Session II yet, now is the time to do so. Please log in to Accommodate to submit your requests as soon as possible. Submitting early ensures your accommodation letters are sent to your faculty in advance of classes, providing timely support. While you're there, we would greatly appreciate it if you...

UMBC News & Magazine

Thyme to grow—UMBC’s Little Seed Library starts spreading its roots

Each plant, whether a small wild buttercup or a massive oak tree, starts out as seed—packed with potential to grow well beyond its original size. By this logic, The Garden’s new Little Seed Library—co-sponsored by Retriever Essentials and the Office of Sustainability and installed by Facilities Management—is seeded with infinite potential. Based on the now-familiar concept of Little Free...

UMBC Graduate Student Association

GSA Year-End Reflection and Leadership Transition

As we prepare to close out the 2025–2026 GSA year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on what we have accomplished together and thank the graduate student community for allowing us to serve. Over the past year, GSA has worked to advocate for graduate student needs, strengthen communication and transparency, and create more opportunities for graduate students to engage with one another and with...

Retriever Exchange

Need a portable 3x2 ft or small whiteboard

If organization is a virtue then what could be more virtuous than loaning us a whiteboard for the Summer... To help us organize!!!!! We need a portable 3x2ft or smallish whiteboard to help our team track daily schedules for our Summer Enrichment Academy staff. If you have a 3x2 ft whiteboard we could use for the Summer (until the first week in August) the sun will shine a little brighter on you,...

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Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP)

OSP Monthly: Did You Know...

As many veteran grant applicants can tell you, it can be tedious (and sometimes confusing) work to keep a CV up to date. But for federal sponsors like the NIH, NSF, and NASA, Biographical Sketches and Current and Pending (Other) Support documents remove the guesswork by streamlining a researcher's CV into a concise and standardized format; these documents help reviewers to determine an...

Canva Announcements

Transitioning from Canva Pro

Dear Students, We have learned that Canva is raising its enterprise version pricing to a level that is not sustainable; as a result, we will not be renewing our Canva enterprise contract for the coming academic year. What this means for you is that access to the Canva enterprise account will end on Thursday, August 6, 2026, andafter this date, unfortunately, you will no longer have access to any...

Office of the Provost

Byrd Named Vice Provost of Enrollment Management

Dear colleagues, I am excited to welcome Alan Byrd as the next vice provost for enrollment management at UMBC, effective August 3. Alan joins us from George Mason University where he has served as the dean of admissions since 2020. Alan brings more than 25 years of experience in college admissions and enrollment management to UMBC. He has an extensive track record of implementing successful...

Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research II

GESTAR II Researchers Recognized with a Variety of Awards

Congratulations are in order for the following researchers! Sean Foley (616/Morgan) attended the EarthCARE 2026 Science and Validation workshop, hosted by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and ESA (European Space Agency) in early June 2026 in Oxford, UK. For his poster presentation, "PACE / EarthCARE Matchups (PEM): An intercomparison library in Python for the NASA Plankton, Aerosol,...

Non Exempt Staff Senate (NESS)

UMBC Bookstore Summer Sale (up to 40% off)

The UMBC Bookstore is running their annual summer sale. The in-person sale is active and runs through Friday, June 26. The online sale is active and runs through June 30. The Bookstore is physically closed from June 27 through July 1 to conduct their annual physical inventory. Orders placed after tomorrow, June 25, will be processed starting July 2. Be patient, turnaround times on the online...

UMBC News & Magazine

A global perspective on aging: Alfred Boakye’s gerontology journey from Ghana to Japan and the U.S.

Alfred Boakye first began thinking deeply about the care and well-being of elders and their families while caring for his centenarian grandmother, Margaret Nyarko, in his home city of Tema, on the Atlantic coast of South East Ghana. She was in charge of her essential self-care routine—bathing, dressing, eating, toileting, transferring from sitting to standing, and continence—and more complex...

UMBC Department of Theatre

UMBC Department of Theatre's 2026 - 2027 Production Season

the serpent under't An Adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth Conceived and Directed by Nigel Semaj UMBC Proscenium Theatre October 29 - November 8, 2026 Tickets Available Soon! About the Show: the serpent under't is an experimental dance theatre adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It explores the shadows of the human psyche where ambition, guilt, and fate intertwine with the supernatural....

Division of Information Technology (DoIT)

Colin Corcoran Wins May 2026 Gritty Award

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is thrilled to announce that Colin Corcoran has been awarded the May 2026 DoIT Gritty Award! This recognition celebrates Colin’s exceptional dedication, technical resilience, and ten years of continuous support for a vital community initiative. Every year, the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provides seamless, free tax preparation...

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Faculty Development Center

Trevett-Smith Named Faculty Development Center Director

Dear colleagues, UMBC is thrilled to welcome Matthew “Matt” Trevett-Smith as the incoming director of the Faculty Development Center beginning on June 29. Matt joins us from the University of Delaware, where he served as the director of the Center for Teaching and Assessment of Learning (CTAL) since 2019. Matt is an educational developer with over 15 years of leadership experience at...

Office of Accessibility & Disability Services

Accessibility Tour: Wayfinding, Skywalks and Resources

Celebrate Disability Pride with Accessibility Awareness · Whether you are motivated by personal circumstances or just generally want to be more aware of UMBC's accessibility - join us! Navigating UMBC's campus-on-a-hill as a person with a disability brings out overt and sometimes more subtle features of its accessible design. Join us to learn more (which can extend to being an effective Accessibility Ally!) and discuss: What are the features? We have...

Discussion Groups

Federal Order Updates

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