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WT/SP2025 Courses Created in Blackboard on November 22, 2024

Prepare your Ultra courses for the upcoming term

Blackboard course shells for WT/SP2025 were created on November 22, 2024. All courses now use Ultra per our earlier announcement.  Course Materials Publisher Integration Updates in December...

Posted: November 22, 2024, 12:36 PM

Quarterly patching downtime - 11/22 & 12/7

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, December 7th.  While many of...

Posted: November 22, 2024, 8:25 AM

DoIT Gritty Award Announcement

Congratulations Eric Ludy

We are proud to announce that Eric Ludy has been awarded the DoIT Gritty Award for his exceptional work in managing the complex Federal Student Aid system changes to UMBC's Peoplesoft Campus...

Posted: November 21, 2024, 11:53 AM

Scheduling Downtime for ada GPU Cluster

To all HPCF Users, On Wednesday Nov 27 from 0900-1200, the ada cluster will be taken offline. During this time, DoIT will be physically installing new GPU hardware. General notes for...

Posted: November 19, 2024, 10:35 AM

Downtime complete

To all HPCF Users: We have completed the required maintenance as a part of this downtime. Keep an eye out for correspondence from hpcf-admin@umbc.edu. DoIT will be working with a number of...

Posted: November 14, 2024, 11:41 AM

4 Faculty, 2 Staff Named 2024-25 LA Fellows

$2k professional development awards renewable annually

To continue our commitment to fostering and sharing effective data-informed teaching and learning practices, the Provost's Office has provided funding through the Learning Analytics Fellowship...

Posted: November 14, 2024, 10:22 AM

Free Webinar: LLMs for Science

Hi Everyone, We wanted to make you aware of a free webinar offered through the Internet2 consortium. Title: From Knowledge to Discovery: Harnessing Large Language Models as Co-pilots for...

Posted: November 13, 2024, 8:22 AM

Quality Matters Impact (QMI) Program - Call to Participate

Faculty can apply by Dec. 6 for Spring/Fall 2025 Cohorts

As an extension of the award-winning PIVOT program, the Quality Matters Impact (QMI) program is an initiative to formally recognize courses that meet Quality Matters standards and demonstrate...

Posted: November 5, 2024, 4:46 PM