UMBC’s Department of Information Technology highlighted the work of two of its student security technicians who have played a critical role in ensuring that UMBC’s digital environment remains safe and uncompromised. They are Grace Robinson and Ouwen Dai, who have served in their DoIT roles during their academic careers and are now taking the next step into the professional world. Both are 2026 graduating CSEE seniors who have followed the cybersecurity track in the Computer Science program.

Read more about Grace and Ouwen and their work in DoIT’s Meet the Seniors Behind UMBC’s Cybersecurity post.

Never again will students have to make the trek to the ITE building over the weekend to finish up that Matlab assignment. Thank UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) for developing a virtual desktop solution that allows students to connect to a standard UMBC computer lab image from their MAC, PC, or iPad.

The virtual desktop is based on a Dell solution named “Virtual Desktop Environment (VDE) and it allows remote access to software like SPSS, SAS, Matlab, Comsol, Mathematica, and more.  

To try out the VDE system, visit virtual.umbc.edu.