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<Title>Reminder: Graduate Assistants Orientation</Title>
<Tagline>Only New Graduate Assistants (GA, TA &amp; RAs) must attend</Tagline>
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    <h4><strong><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa/events/118476" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">CLICK HERE TO RSVP</a></strong></h4>
    <div><strong>August 24, from 1PM to 4PM Online</strong></div>
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    <strong>This event is mandatory for all NEW Graduate Assistants, this includes teaching assistants, research assistants, graders and peaceworkers. </strong><span>We encourage the additional participation of any graduate student who may be teaching in the future or as a refresher for returning GAs.</span>
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    <div>Join us for this need-to-know information session (orientation) for new GAs on <em><strong>August 24, from 1PM to 4PM Online.</strong></em> It will include an introduction to key resources on campus that you may need throughout your semester, from back-end technical support, to your benefits and policies governing graduate assistantships at UMBC. We look forward to meeting you and being part of your welcome back to UMBC!</div>
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<Summary>CLICK HERE TO RSVP  August 24, from 1PM to 4PM Online     This event is mandatory for all NEW Graduate Assistants, this includes teaching assistants, research assistants, graders and...</Summary>
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<Title>iHARP researchers present at IEEE IGARSS Conference</Title>
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    <p><span>iHARP students, senior researchers and faculty members: Atefeh Jebeli, Chhaya Kulkarni, Naomi Tack, and Drs. Don Engel, Bayu Adhi Tama had the opportunity to have their papers accepted into IGARSS this year for their 43rd Annual Symposium! This group attended the week-long symposium in Pasadena, California where they presented their research papers and findings this July of this year.</span></p>
    <br><p><span>As part of their experience at IGARSS, our researchers were able to meet with researchers from all over the world, including NASA, NOAA, and other academic institutions; attending tutorials, speeches, and presentations. iHARP researchers plan to expand their work to continue to integrate data science and polar science for physics-informed, data-driven discoveries.     </span></p>
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    <span>The papers presented at </span><a href="https://2023.ieeeigarss.org/technical_program.php" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>IGARSS </span></a><span>focused on ice layer annotation using AI methods and evaluating the snow melt in the various parts of the Greenland icesheet.</span>
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    <div><span>Photo credit: Dr. Don Engel</span></div>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="134683" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/posts/134683">
<Title>Research Opportunity with Blueprint Labs at MIT</Title>
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    <p><span>I’m excited to share a job opportunity, great for a junior researcher interested in inequality and economics research. <a href="https://blueprintlabs.mit.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blueprint Labs</a> is
     a research lab based at the Department of Economics at MIT. They are 
    hiring multiple research fellows to start as soon as possible, but no 
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    in close collaboration with MIT professors Joshua Angrist, Parag Pathak,
     David Autor, and/or Nikhil Agarwal, as well as with affiliate 
    researchers at other institutions. Fellows will have the opportunity to 
    work on leading-edge, policy-relevant research in a collaborative 
    workplace environment.</span></p>
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    <p><span>Learn more and apply <a href="https://blueprintlabs.mit.edu/careers/research-fellow/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>, and check out their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOAE7utv3k4&amp;t=1s" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">"Working at Blueprint Labs" video</a> for a glimpse into the day-to-day environment. If you have questions, please email <a href="mailto:hiring@mitblueprintlabs.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">hiring@mitblueprintlabs.org</a>.</span></p>
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<Title>Meet your Transfer Thrive Team!!</Title>
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    <div>Continued Success on your Educational Journey!</div>
    <div>-The Transfer Success Group</div>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="134680" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/posts/134680">
<Title>Prof. Emeritus Norris and Mateczun publish new primer</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Public Policy Professor Emeritus Don Norris and Ph.D. student Laura Mateczun have published a new primer on cybersecurity, aimed specifically at elected officials and top managers in US local governments.<div><br></div>
    <div>Read the primer <a href="https://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/176/2023/08/Cybersec_Primer_NorrisMateczunAug2023.pdf" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here.</a> </div>
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    <div>Explore other white papers <a href="https://publicpolicy.umbc.edu/research/white-papers/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a>.</div>
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