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Eugene Ferguson’s Journey Behind the Camera

DoIT's graduating student success story

Congratulations to DoIT New Media Studio student employee, Eugene Ferguson! He will be graduating with his Bachelors degree in Information Systems Major on December 18, 2025.  Check out his...

Posted: December 16, 2025, 4:04 PM

Retriever Dog statue with a graduation cap on it's head and a diploma in it's mouth.

Downtime Evening of Thurs Dec 18

To all chip users, The chip cluster will be brought offline for a few hours Thursday Dec 18 starting at 1800ET. This brief downtime is to patch our cluster management head-nodes to avoid...

Posted: December 15, 2025, 2:01 PM

Google Calendar Invitation Settings Change

Block spam, keep plans. New settings Dec 19.

Greetings UMBC Community, We have been seeing an increase in Google Calendar being used as a new type of method for phishing. In several instances, these calendar invites are added to a user's...

Posted: December 15, 2025, 12:44 PM

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WT2026 Instructional Technology Update

The UMBC Instructional Technology Update is provided by the Division of Information Technology for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions or need help, please consult the Blackboard...

Posted: December 10, 2025, 3:47 PM