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Mapping Education to Career ROI

How Lumen won the hackUMBC DoIT track

This past September 26 to 27, student developers, designers, and innovators gathered to journey together over a 24-hour period at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for hackUMBC...

Posted: October 13, 2026, 1:00 PM

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RESOLVED: Rapid System Restoration Following Scheduled Maintenance

Overnight system access issues swiftly resolved

Service Disruption:  On October 12, 2026, during routine planned system updates to address critical security vulnerabilities, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) detected brief access...

Posted: October 13, 2026, 10:07 AM

6 Ways to Make Social Science Content More Accessible

Where evidence lives shouldn't decide who can reach it.

A student opens the assigned dataset the night before discussion, ready to test a hypothesis about voting patterns in urban counties. But the chart won't resize, the color-coded legend is...

Posted: October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM

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Before You Paste

A fake fix can install real malware

Some cyber scams don't start with an obvious threat. It can begin with a prompt that seems routine: “Verify that you are human.” “Your browser needs an update.” “This document cannot be...

Posted: October 12, 2026, 1:00 PM

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 graphic with the text “Before You Paste” and a copy-paste icon. UMBC Division of Information Technology logo is present.