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UMBC makes The Princeton Review’s 2013 list of green colleges

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From innovative student ideas to campus programs and campaigns, UMBC is going green—and getting noticed. The Princeton Review has recognized UMBC as a college raising the bar on sustainability in its 2013 Guide to 322 Green Colleges. The annual guide profiles higher education institutions in the U.S. and Canada that demonstrate a strong commitment to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation. To determine which schools qualify, colleges and universities are rated based on institutional data such as the school’s energy consumption, green transportation programs, and the level of dedication for sustainability in and out of… Continue Reading UMBC makes The Princeton Review’s 2013 list of green colleges

New campus smoking policy covered by Fox News

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On Monday, July 8, Fox News visited the UMBC campus as part of a story on the new USM requirements that all state institutions become smoke free by July 1. Students interviewed for the story shared their thoughts on past rules for smoking and how the new policy will impact life on campus. “On one side you kind of want to have personal freedoms, but at the same time we’re at a public university that’s getting public money,” said a UMBC student. Read the full article »

UMBC student places third in Microsoft Cybersecurity 2020 contest

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UMBC first-year Cybersecurity (CYBR) MPS student Andrew Shiffer placed third in Microsoft’s “Cybersecurity 2020” student essay contest. The contest allows Microsoft to solicit original research about cybersecurity policy challenges from university students at any stage in their educational careers. Andrew’s paper is entitled “A Cybersecurity Triumvirate: Policies, Outcomes, and Emerging Trends.” Andrew will receive $2,000 and the opportunity for his work to be published by Microsoft. Andrew says the money will go toward his studies at UMBC. According to Microsoft, Andrew is the only American finalist.

UMBC Alumni named to Daily Record’s ‘VIP’ and ’20 in Their Twenties’ lists

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Erin O’Keefe ’08, MPP, has been named to the Daily Record’s VIP list, which honors leaders under 40 for their professional accomplishments and commitment to inspiring change in their communities. Erin is the director of the York Road Initiative at Loyola University. Greg Sileo ’11, MPP, was named to the Daily Record’s 20 Under Twenty list, which honors Maryland up-and-comers who are in their 20s. Greg is the Director of the Office of Home Energy Programs at the Maryland Department of Human Resources, and was formerly the Director of Community Outreach for the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services. Chosen by… Continue Reading UMBC Alumni named to Daily Record’s ‘VIP’ and ’20 in Their Twenties’ lists

Nicole Else-Quest, Psychology, on WYPR’s Midday with Dan Rodricks

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Nicole Else-Quest, assistant professor of psychology joins WYPR’s “Midday with Dan Rodricks” to address gender gap in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) industry, and to discuss findings from her latest study on math and science attitudes and achievement as it relates to gender and ethnicity, published in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly. “Our first goal was to conduct a study that examined how boys and girls achieved in math and science and feel about math and science,” said Dr. Else-Quest. “And what we found was girls and boys perform equally in math and science, for the most… Continue Reading Nicole Else-Quest, Psychology, on WYPR’s Midday with Dan Rodricks

Shaun Kane, Information Systems, in Discovery News

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Access Lens, a research project from Shaun Kane in the Department of Information Systems, was recently covered by Discovery News. This research was presented at the 2013 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2013).  

From UMBC to the World

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Over Spring Break, a group of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering students, Aaron Gibson, Dagmawi Tilahun, Kevin Tran, and Don Wong, led by Professor Govind Rao, and accompanied by Dr. Theresa Good and Ms. Geetha Ram, went to India in order to get end user data for a low cost neonatal incubator the team is developing for use in resource-poor environments. If you listen to the students, they’ll tell you the project started in Professor Rao’s 2011 Sensors class, a senior elective, where students learned that over 340 neonates die an hour in their first week of life, with 99%… Continue Reading From UMBC to the World

Rick Forno, Cybersecurity, on The World

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Earlier this week, a security research company released a report providing technical documentation and near-certain proof that China is engaging in cyber-espionage activities against the US.  While that’s not exactly a new discovery, it provided a much deeper degree of public information used in presenting its findings. On Public Radio International’s program, The World UMBC’s Rick Forno discussed the report’s implications. Forno says he was on the program to discuss American cybersecurity readiness in light of the heightened media interest in cybersecurity following the report’s release. The fact that the networks and our critical infrastructure systems are still vulnerable after… Continue Reading Rick Forno, Cybersecurity, on The World

UMBC Chess Team Ties for First Place Following the “World Series of Chess”

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“The University of Maryland, Baltimore County chess team tied four other college teams for first place at the Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship on Sunday — maintaining its record as one of two colleges with the most top finishes in the history of the international event,” wrote Kevin Rector in the Baltimore Sun. The UMBC chess team tied for first place December 30, 2012 in the Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship, advancing to the 2013 President’s Cup, known as the “Final Four” of chess. The team headed into the 2012 Pan-Am Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship with a record nine titles to its… Continue Reading UMBC Chess Team Ties for First Place Following the “World Series of Chess”

Hillol Kargupta, Professor of Computer Science, Wins 2012 10-Year ICDM Highest-Impact Paper Award

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Hillol Kargupta, professor of computer science, is the winner of the 2012 10-Year ICDM Highest-Impact Paper Award for the ICDM 2003 paper on “On the Privacy Preserving Properties of Random Data Perturbation Techniques.” Researchers, Souptik Datta (UMBC), Qi Wang (Washington State University), and Krishnamoorthy Sivakumar (Washington State University), were also authors on the paper. ICDM is the premier international conference on data mining (with an acceptance ratio of approx. 8-12% in the last ten years). The 10-Year ICDM Highest-Impact Paper Award is awarded every year since 2010. The first ICDM was held in 2001.

Josiah Dykstra, Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, Wins Award for Best Case Study

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Josiah Dykstra, a Ph.D. student in Computer Science, won the Outstanding Case Study Award for 2012 of the The American Academy of Forensic Sciences, based on his presentation of a paper by Dykstra and his advisor Alan Sherman, published in the Journal of Network Forensics. Dykstra will accept the award in February at the Academy’s annual meeting.

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