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In its ongoing effort to stem the spread of COVID-19 in the UMBC community, UMBC has partnered with Maryland Genomics (https://marylandgenomics.com/) to create and distribute a phone app that will...

Update Mar 22, 2021: After extensive internal review to identify and resolve unanticipated challenges, the waitlist process will be discontinued.  Update Mar 9, 2021: Language has been...

Below is an example of a job scam that has been reported to the Department of Information Technology (DoIT) at the end of last year. This scam follows the pattern that has been seen a lot for...

Below is an example of a phishing email that has been reported to the Department of Information Technology (DoIT).  From: k chan <kkchan3275@aol.com> Date: Sun, Jan 10, 2021  Subject:...

In this first of a series of updates, we’ll give a brief description of what Salesforce is, provide an overview of UMBC’s goals for the project, and summarize what we’re currently working on and...

We are excited to offer you the opportunity to register for an upcoming series of webinars on high-demand topics in OER, hosted by the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative in...

To All Taki Users, The Taki cluster will be down from 8AM on Monday, January 25 to 5PM on Tuesday, January 26. This downtime will allow HPCF Administrators and an external consultant to...

The Call for Proposals for the 2021 Faculty OER Mini-grants is now open. The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) Initiative has several grant opportunities for faculty who are interested in...

It’s a new year UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is still seeing scammers sending out phishing emails offering fake jobs to students. Below is an example of one of these job scam...

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has been notified that a scammer is sending out phishing emails claiming to offer a part-time job as an Administrative Assistant the UMBC’s Academic...