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CSEE Faculty Involved With NSF’s CS10K Teacher Training Project

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    CSEE’s Marie desJardins is currently collaborating with Maryland educators and researchers for the NSF-funded CS10K Teacher Training Project. The project seeks to change how computer science is taught by high school teachers. Researchers work together with high school teachers to craft new curricula for high school computer science programs. This project is unique in that actual high school teachers are creating the new curricula, rather than professional curriculum writers. The CS10K Maryland Project team includes faculty from UMCP, as well as high school teachers from Charles County and Baltimore County. The CS10K team has facilitated the creation of “a complete curriculum package for a new College Board… Continue Reading CSEE Faculty Involved With NSF’s CS10K Teacher Training Project

U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, Visits UMBC

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Last week the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, visited UMBC to meet with President Hrabowski, faculty and students. WBAL’s Tim Tooten covered the visit. Tooten reported that Moniz explained that there was a growing need for underrepresented minorities to help fill the energy-related jobs of the future. Moniz first met with a group of students from UMBC’s prestigious Meyerhoff Scholars program. Students said that Moniz’s remarks made a big impact on them. “I think I am going to go and look more into what energy can do and what I can do in research for energy,” Aida Berhane ’17,… Continue Reading U.S. Secretary of Energy, Ernest Moniz, Visits UMBC

Marie desJardins Collaborates with Howard County Parents and Teachers for HowGirlsCode

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CSEE’s Marie desJardins recently collaborated with a group of Howard County parents and teachers to create HowGirlsCode, an educational program that “educates and inspires young girls to pursue computer related activities, courses, and careers.” The program–originally called Computer Mania Club–is based out of Fulton Elementary School. Over the course of ten weeks, students meet for weekly two-hour sessions, working on projects such as Lego Mindstorm robots and 3D printing. Students also work with programming tools such as MIT’s Scratch program. The curriculum for the program is largely based off of materials from the Code.org website. UMBC alumna Katie Egan and her husband Kent Malwitz… Continue Reading Marie desJardins Collaborates with Howard County Parents and Teachers for HowGirlsCode

Anupam Joshi named an IEEE Fellow

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CSEE Professor Anupam Joshi has been named an IEEE Fellow, recognized for his for contributions to security, privacy and data management in mobile and pervasive systems. This designation is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors on individuals with an outstanding record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. No more than 0.1% of the total IEEE voting membership can be selected in a year. Dr. Joshi joined UMBC’s faculty in 1998 and currently is the Oros Family Professor of Technology… Continue Reading Anupam Joshi named an IEEE Fellow

UMBC Hosts Inaugural Research Forum on The Nexus of Social Sciences and Human Health

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On Friday, November 21, UMBC hosted its inaugural Research Forum, the first event in a new, semi-annual series to bring together researchers and scientists from across UMBC and partner institutions to establish collaborations around common research themes. The first event was titled, “The Nexus of Social Sciences and Human Health Research,” and it was sponsored by the Office of the Provost and the Office of the Vice President for Research. The forum aimed to advance intra-campus and inter-campus collaborations in the social and health sciences and to initiate conversations about the role of social sciences in basic and translational research.… Continue Reading UMBC Hosts Inaugural Research Forum on The Nexus of Social Sciences and Human Health

New Hope for People Living with Paralysis

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UMBC and UMB scientists are working together to build sensors that can be sewn into clothing to detect the gestures of people with paralysis. This technology has tremendous potential as a cost-effective way to empower people with limited mobility, such as enabling a person to turn on a light by waving a hand over their arm or knee. The goal says, Nilanjan Banerjee, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering is to, “use these sensors,” to sense “gestures for controlling the environment.” So that patients could control light switches or call 911. Learn more by watching the video. http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/?id=231786… Continue Reading New Hope for People Living with Paralysis

Renetta Tull, Graduate School, to Chair Session at World Engineering Education Forum

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Renetta Tull, associate vice provost for graduate student development and postdoctoral affairs and director of PROMISE, will chair the “Women in Engineering, Partnerships and Professional Development” session at the 2014 World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF), which will host the International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning. She will also present her research on graduate student diversity and Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) at the conference. Additionally, Tull has been invited to participate in meetings for the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies based on her work with women in STEM through the National Science Foundation ADVANCE project… Continue Reading Renetta Tull, Graduate School, to Chair Session at World Engineering Education Forum

NSF Features UMBC Researcher for National Chemistry Week

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Gymama Slaughter, an assistant professor of computer science and electrical engineering, was featured by the National Science Foundation, NSF, as part of National Chemistry Week for creating a wireless, implantable sensor to monitor blood sugar levels. The sensor is powered by the glucose itself. Learn more about the research

UMBC Undergraduate Research Conference a Success

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UMBC held its 17th annual undergraduate research symposium on October 25. This event was open to students from outside UMBC, with participants coming from Maryland universities and colleges, as well as participants coming from as far away as Massachusetts and Alabama. The conference was by all accounts a tremendous success with 500 participants from 16 states.

Penny Rheingans on Tech Firms Offering Egg Freezing as a Benefit

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Penny Rheingans, a professor in computer science and electrical engineering, talks with the BBC about the benefit that some tech companies are now offering women — paying for female employees to freeze eggs. Rheingans tell the BBC, “my initial reaction is negative.” She says that the companies are suggesting that, “their culture and work expectations might be incompatible with raising a family.” Furthermore, she says, “they’re saying to women that they should wait to have those babies until the company is done with their technically productive years.” Listen to the complete interview

From Antarctica to the Chesapeake

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In the Chesapeake Bay Quarterly, published by the Maryland Sea Grant program a recent article discusses seal level rise due to the melting of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Antarctica is, in many ways, the king of the cryosphere. Greenland is melting at a faster rate, but the southern continent holds a lot more ice, says Christopher Shuman, a geoscientist at the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, a collaboration between the University of Maryland Baltimore County and the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In total, there’s enough ice on Antarctica to raise the world’s oceans by more than… Continue Reading From Antarctica to the Chesapeake

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