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Meet Khalid Muqueeth & Learn About His 2 Years Working in IT

Student worker reflects on the TSC before he graduates

Khalid Muqueeth, a senior in information systems, is a student worker at the Technology Support Center (TSC), which is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and...

Posted: April 12, 2017, 12:03 PM

Improving Lives with Urban Forestry

NMS, MCS & the USFS partner to document research and impact

An ongoing collaboration between the USDA Forest Service (USFS), UMBC’s Department of Media & Communication Studies and New Media Studio is giving students an opportunity to explore and...

Posted: April 4, 2017, 7:45 PM

Clicker Orders Due to Bookstore by April 24!

Get your orders into the bookstore for fall 2017

Faculty who plan to use clickers for instruction during the ​​Fall 2017 semester will need to have device order(s) submitted to the Bookstore no later than Monday, April 24. This deadline allows...

Posted: April 3, 2017, 8:33 AM

Looking Back at Betty Blanchette and Her 24 Years at UMBC

“You can always count on her to get the job done”

After 24 years at UMBC, Betty Blanchette, Software Developer for DoIT, is retiring. Blanchette not only leaves behind a varied career, but a positive impact on UMBC and the many people she has...

Posted: March 30, 2017, 2:24 PM

REX Tools for Teaching Available to Instructors

Get a Bird's Eye View of Your Course Across Campus

In recent years, the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support  (IRADS) has installed or built a nifty set of “bird’s eye view” reports about teaching & learning in the campus’...

Posted: March 28, 2017, 2:09 PM

Meet Lily Prokop: Student IT Consultant & Oboist

Technology Support Center is a place for all sorts of majors

The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests. The TSC is made possible thanks to its many student workers, who all...

Posted: March 27, 2017, 11:53 AM

2017-03-17 RT Scheduled Downtime

As part of DoIT's ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching  for RT on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 6pm.   For more...

Posted: March 16, 2017, 7:58 AM

Residential Network Outage Monday Evening

Monday evening around 7:15 pm there was a power outage on part of the campus which caused some of the core switches in the Residential Network to crash and their configuration became corrupted. ...

Posted: March 14, 2017, 10:01 AM

Computer Replacement Initiative Deadline is March 29

Faculty & staff can fill out the DoIT web form

The Computer Replacement Initiative (CRI) is a UMBC campus-wide initiative designed to replace faculty and staff laptops and desktops. For the 2017-2018 academic year, within Academic Affairs, the...

Posted: March 9, 2017, 4:24 PM

System patching on Friday, March 17th starting at 5pm

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 10pm.  While many systems will be...

Posted: March 9, 2017, 2:52 PM