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Campus website access restored

We have restored access to the campus and departmental websites that were experiencing long load times earlier today. We are still investigating the root cause of the issues, but through a...

Posted: November 16, 2021, 11:57 PM

Slow or unresponsive departmental websites

We are currently experiencing an outage with some of our central campus web servers. This outage is affecting a number of campus websites such as library.umbc.edu, dps.umbc.edu and news.umbc.edu...

Posted: November 16, 2021, 4:20 PM

Default Intel compiler is now 2020b

We have switched the default Intel compiler back to 2020b from the previous 2021a. The 2021a Intel compiler is still available, and you can load this module with the following command, "module...

Posted: November 9, 2021, 1:39 PM

Expanding PIVOT with Proactive Course Design Peer Reviews

Six faculty seek Quality Matters certification in UMBC pilot

By most accounts, UMBC’s PIVOT initiative has been considered a success in that 70 percent of all faculty participated, and 85% percent of students in PIVOT courses felt they were well organized...

Posted: November 9, 2021, 9:23 AM

Quarterly patching downtimes - 11/12, 11/13 & 11/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 12th, Saturday, November 13th and Friday,...

Posted: November 8, 2021, 1:45 PM