To The UMBC Community, October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, but in reality, we all need to be vigilant 24/7, 365 days a year. As such, I encourage you to watch this brief (under 2 min) video...
A Glance at How Student Affairs Spruced Up Their Workflow
Before you start working in an office, it might be hard to believe how much of your workday can be spent sending emails. Even after you’ve gained enough experience to be comfortable drafting...
The Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) is a cooperative Agreement between UMBC and the Earth Science Division of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to integrate scientists with...
Experience and Expertise come together on Walker Ave.
Back in 2016, Trisha Wells from Student Affairs left a meeting with Assistant Vice President of Business Systems Joe Kirby to attend a campus budget meeting. She and Kirby had discussed plans to...
UMBC Columbus Center Reaps the Benefits of E-signatures
Any frequent visitor to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor will recognize the striking architecture of the Columbus Center. Located near the Baltimore Aquarium and the Hard Rock Cafe, the Columbus Center is...
Human Resources One of Many Departments Now Using DocuSign
An important, yet often overlooked, business practice is to break down and analyze each step of a given process to look for redundancies, bottlenecks, and particularly inefficient or slow...
Hello. Patching of the systems in the announcement below has been pushed to Saturday, 9/29/18. All other details remain the same. Original announcement: ---------------------- As part of...
As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting quarterly system patching on Saturday, September 22nd for a handful of key services. The schedule...
“Thank you for the information. I’m really excited!” When sophomore Jason Mendries (pictured at right) sent an August 8 thank-you response to UMBC Residential Life’s main email address after...
As part of our commitment to modernization and security, DoIT has upgraded the Linux GL environment to be most up to date version of Fedora Linux. This change upgrades most software packages to...