Meet Stephanie,

She is a double major student working on her degrees in Computer Science and Psychology. She is a member of the Honors College, the Vice President of the Computer Science Education club, a member of the Retriever Robotics Club, a CWIT affiliate, and the Curriculum Development Coordinator for the Creative Coders Program. She is also a Research Assistant for CS Matters in Maryland and a Research Assistant for the Multi-Agent Planning and Learning (MAPLE) lab. Previously, she was the Secretary of QUMBC. Her future ambitions are to continue researching Artificial Intelligence or a related field and to continue with outreach in computer science education.

Stephanie's research will explore a recently developed method of hierarchical planning: a hierarchy of abstract Markov decision processes (AMDPs). AMDPs seek to address the immensely challenging problems that decision-making agents face when operating in large environments to solve complex tasks. A hierarchy of AMDPs provides a framework for decomposing such problems into distinct, related subtasks. Her previous tasks for research in this area were to design an AMDP hierarchy for a house-building domain and to collaborate with her lab members to research and write a paper combining the R-MAX algorithm with AMDPs. Currently, she is working with her lab members to research and write a paper on constructing and reasoning over composite objects.

Read more about her research here…

Not sure how to get on course with your study habits this semester? 

Need help identifying what is challenging you?

Want resources to help you be more successful at UMBC? 

You can make an appointment with Jordan White, the Study Skills Specialist at UMBC’s Learning Resources Center.

Jordan White 

Please use this link to select an appointment time, at least 24 hours in advance.  Choose one of the grey appointment blocks and then click save.

If you need to cancel your appointment, please go to your MyUMBC Google Calendar, find the appointment you registered for, and delete it. This will open up the slot for another student.  You can then use the link above to schedule another time.

We want to help you achieve your academic goals this semester, and we look forward to meeting with you.

The Learning Resources Center’s services are free of charge and open to all enrolled students.

UPDATE as of 3/13/17: 

Due to the anticipated inclement weather approaching the Baltimore area tonight, the Petrovich Lecture scheduled for this Wednesday, 3/15, is postponed. The rescheduled date and time will be announced in the near future. Thank you for your understanding & support with the event! 

The Library is testing a new service allowing students to reserve Study Rooms. We've set aside 6 study rooms on the 3rd floor for this pilot program.  To reserve one, use this form or try the touchscreen kiosk near the 3rd floor elevators.

These are the rules we're starting with:

1. Reservations are limited to 3 hours per person or group each day.
2. Reservations can be made up to five days in advance.
3. Although the room is a more private space, please be mindful not to disturb others.
4. Clean up the room before you leave.
5. Reservations containing inappropriate language may be canceled without warning.

Let us know what you think!

The First Year Intervention Program (FYI) is one of the many services that the Learning Resources Center offers to UMBC students. 

The purpose of the program is twofold: to notify students in their first year at UMBC that they are in danger of receiving a D or F in a certain course and to provide them with resources to improve their grade in that course and preserve their GPA. 

By alerting students early in the semester, students have the ability to make the necessary changes to improve their grade and become successful in their academic careers. 

When do FYI alerts get sent?

The FYI reporting period for the Spring 2017 semester is scheduled to begin on  Monday, February 27, 2017 and end on Friday, March 31, 2017. 

I got an alert, but I’m not in my first year at UMBC.

The alert program is designed to notify students in their first year at UMBC; however, instructors have the ability to send alerts to any student who is in danger of receiving a D or F in the course. If you received an alert, it means that your grade is in jeopardy and you should take action immediately.

Help! I got an alert in one of my courses! What should I do?

Your professor sent you an alert because you are in danger of receiving a D or an F in that course. The first thing you should do is to contact your professor to figure out what your exact grade is and what you can do about it. Next, visit our website to see if there’s any services at UMBC that can help you improve your grade.

You can also schedule a meeting with Jordan White, UMBC's Study Skills Specialist at the Learning Resources Center. 

If I’m in danger of receiving a D or an F, doesn’t that mean I could still be passing?

It is possible, but you could just barely be passing. If you are in a course that has a second level to it (such as MATH 150, or BIOL 141), you MUST receive a C or higher to move on to the next level. If you are trying to fulfill your GEP requirements with a course, you MUST have a C or higher for it to count. This is why we ask professors to let you know if you are in danger of receiving a D.  

If you have any further questions about the FYI program, please email fyi@umbc.edu

Michael Raup

• a UMBC student (undergrad or grad)?
• able to meet with our researchers for 1 hour in the next 2 weeks?