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....
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...
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.
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
UMBC CS PhD student Shubhashis Roy Dipta received a $20k Google Cloud research grant through the Gemini Academic Program to support his LLM agentic research in the final year of his PhD program. He is working with his advisor, Professor Francis Ferraro, to make Large Language Model-based systems more reliable. His dissertation research involves using reinforcement learning to address three areas...
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...
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...
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....
The Bookstore's annual Summer Sale is here from June 22 - June 30. Enjoy 40% off UMBC logo merchandise! Shop in-store and online to enjoy this hot deal.** *See our website for our store hours. **All sales may not be combined with any other promotions. Offer excludes Carhartt, diploma frames, drop ship items, books, gift cards, electronics, school supplies, clearance items, health & beauty...
The MS in Artificial Intelligence program prepares students to lead in a field reshaping education, computing, energy, data analysis, information systems, and nearly every sector of the modern economy. Designed for students seeking to go beyond a general computing degree, the program offers a focused, rigorous pathway into AI research, development, and deployment, equipping graduates to drive...
A new paper led by K. Fred Huemmrich (618/UMBC) titled "Observing fall foliage with PACE pigment indices" was published in Remote Sensing Letters (May 2026) and co-authored by Skye Caplan (616/SSAI). Dr. Huemmrich explains that "This new paper is using the PACE [satellite] data to look at the timing and extent of fall foliage colors. We can produce indices related to the amount of different...
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...
A live storytelling show about finding community at UMBC · Join us for the final performance of Your Story Belongs Here! A live storytelling show featuring stories about finding community on UMBC's campus. When: June 30, 2026 at 2:00pm Where: Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Our Student Storytellers include: Aidan Chambers (Biochemistry major) Sarah Christie (Business Technology Administration major) Gouri Gupta (Global Studies and Political Science major)...
