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<Title>First CNMS GradFest fosters interdepartmental interaction among grads, postdocs</Title>
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    <p>On April 12, more than 150 students, staff, and faculty attended the first College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) GradFest in the University Center Ballroom. The event was the result of listening sessions held with CNMS graduate students last summer, and it addressed their desire for more opportunities to forge interdepartmental connections and present their research.</p>
    
    
    
    <p>“Every day, I hear about the great work being done by graduate students and postdocs in CNMS departments,” <strong>William R. LaCourse</strong>, CNMS dean, shared in his opening remarks. “Today is my chance to meet all of the graduate students the faculty are always bragging about.” </p>
    
    
    
    <p>The event began with six “lightning talks,” where Ph.D. students were challenged to present the big idea of their thesis projects in only five minutes. <strong>Naghmeh Akhavan</strong>, mathematics, led off, presenting her project on cell migration in fruit fly development. She is co-mentored by <strong><a href="https://userpages.umbc.edu/~bpeercy/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Brad Peercy</a></strong> in mathematics and <strong><a href="https://starzlab.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Michelle Starz-Gaiano</a></strong> in biological sciences. <strong>Misti Cartwright</strong>, chemistry and biochemistry, discussed her work with <strong><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/umbc.edu/smithlab/home" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Aaron Smith</a></strong> on a post-translation protein modification called arginylation. </p>
    
    
    
    <p><strong>Sandra Cheng</strong>, physics, talked about her work with <strong><a href="https://physics.umbc.edu/people/faculty/pittman/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Todd Pittman</a> </strong>in quantum computing, and <strong>Manju Ojha</strong>, chemistry and biochemistry, explained her work on RNA-based plant viruses with <strong><a href="https://koiralalab.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Deepak Koirala</a>. Ji Li</strong>, statistics, described a protocol he developed under the mentorship of <strong>Yi Huang </strong>to improve data sets for randomized controlled trials. And <strong>Prableen Chowdhary</strong>, biological sciences, explained her work with <strong><a href="https://brewsterlab.umbc.edu/meet-the-lab/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Rachel Brewster</a> </strong>on zebrafish development<strong>.</strong></p>
    
    
    
    <img width="1200" height="687" src="https://umbc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CNMS_GRADFEST_2024_52a0018-1200x687.jpg" alt="group of nine people stands in front of a beige curtain" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;">GradFest lightning talk presenters and the planning committee, from left to right: Ronita Sequeira, Ally Kido, Ji Li, Sandra Cheng, Misti Cartwright, Manju Ojha, Prableen Chowdhary, Naghmeh Akhavan, and Ayokunnumi Ogunsanya. (Image by Melissa Penley Cormier, M.F.A. ’17)
    
    
    
    <p>After the talks, two sessions featuring 46 posters allowed attendees to learn about the presenters’ research, ask questions, and make suggestions. A novel arrangement of posters in the ballroom facilitated interaction: Placing four posters each on round tables allowed guests to meander among the posters in many directions, unimpeded by long, linear poster displays.</p>
    
    
    
    <p>Tasty mocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and desserts rounded out a successful event that brought graduate students and postdocs—collectively, the research engine of UMBC—together to socialize, practice presenting, and learn about each other’s work. </p>
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<Title>Dance &amp; Bmore seeks Elder Arts and Wellness Program Coordinator</Title>
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<Title>2024 PSS &amp; CUSS Elections - Vote Today!</Title>
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    <div><span>Elections for Professional Staff Senate (PSS) Senators and Council of University System Staff (CUSS) Representatives run through Friday, April 26, 2024. </span></div>
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    <h5><strong>Click BOTH links below to vote:</strong></h5>
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    <strong><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/2020psselection/posts/141058" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Vote for your PSS Senators</a><br></strong><strong><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/2020psselection/posts/141061" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Vote for your CUSS Representatives</a></strong>
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    <span><br>Open the </span><strong><a href="https://umbc.account.box.com/login?redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fumbc.app.box.com%2Fs%2Fr4w8dcqs6s8601h76se37whvmvkwdrnz" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Voter Guide</a> </strong><span>t</span><span>o view detailed information about each candidate. </span><em>All exempt staff can vote!</em>
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    <strong>What are PSS &amp; CUSS? <br></strong><br>
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    <div>The Professional Staff Senate represents the interests and concerns of the exempt staff at UMBC; certifies elections of members to committees as provided in the Plan of Organization; provides a forum for discussion and recommendations on matters involving exempt staff and the welfare of UMBC; reviews academic and administrative policy as it affects the exempt staff; develops committees and acts within these committees as a vehicle to serve the membership.</div>
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    <div><strong>Council of University System Staff (CUSS)</strong></div>
    <div>CUSS provides a voice for staff concerns about basic decisions that affect the welfare of USM, its constituent institutions, and its employees. CUSS functions in an informed advisory role in administrative areas and in the functional support aspects of academic matters. Bringing together CUSS representatives from campuses within the USM system, CUSS meets once a month, alternating meeting locations at various USM campuses.</div>
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<Title>URCAD Selfie Contest Winner: India Kelly</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">India and her mentor, Dr. Michael Lane are a mirror image in this winning selfie from URCAD! India will receive a $50 gift card tot he UMBC Bookstore. <div>
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    <p><span>When Puigpardines was Lord of Karditsa</span></p>
    <p><span>India Kelly</span>, Ancient Studies<br>Mentor: Michael Lane, Ancient Studies</p>
    <p>In “When Puigpardines Was Lord of Karditsa,” I aim to understand what life was like in Frankish Greece under the rule of Catalonian Lord Pedro de Puigpardines. The circumstances surrounding Puigpardines’s rule were peculiar: there are no traces of his residence, no administrative records left behind, and only a single ruined church left to suggest his possible alliance with a particular French knight. Focusing on the relationship between Lord Puigpardines, the existing Frankish nobility, and the Greek peasantry, this project argues that Puigpardines was an absentee landlord who, astonishingly, allowed the enemy he once fought in battle to retain control over his territory in the province of Boeotia. This project draws information from secondary sources written in English, Greek, and Catalan and relies on local informants and material culture sources during my visit to the town of Karditsa (now Akraifnio). I also employed online mapping to find possible areas for Puigpardines’s castle. As few primary sources exist about the period of Catalonian Rule during the Duchy of Athens, this project will be the first work specifically about the lordship of Karditsa during the period, and one of the few works other than “The Chronicle of the Morea” on Frankish Boeotia.</p>
    <p><small><em>This work was funded, in part, through an Undergraduate Research Award from the UMBC Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.</em></small></p>
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<Title>Talk: Swarm Intelligence for Numerical Optimization, 4/24</Title>
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    <div><strong>An Application of Swarm Intelligence in Numerical Optimization</strong></div>
    <div><strong>Speaker: Emoke Galambos</strong></div>
    <div><strong>Discussant: Prof. <a href="https://baek.math.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Sengchul Baek</a></strong></div>
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    <strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Swarm intelligence</a> </strong>(SI) was first introduced and used in the context of robotic cellular systems and has become a subfield of artificial intelligence. The collective behavior and self-organization skills of different animal populations are used in the design of different SI techniques to solve computational problems, especially in the field of optimization. SI techniques, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_swarm_optimization" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Particle Swarm optimization</strong></a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_colony_optimization_algorithms" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Ant Colony optimization</strong></a> algorithms are often used together with the Gradient Descent, the Gradient Conjugate and some Quasi-Newton methods to improve the effectiveness of high-dimensional optimization problems. In my talk, I would like to introduce a hybrid model that demonstrates how to avoid local minimum traps in a global, non-convex problem.</div> <div>
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    <p>CAHSS students, are you ready to study abroad? <strong>Kimberly Moffitt,</strong> dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and the Social Sciences (CAHSS), has established the <a href="https://studyabroad.umbc.edu/scholarships/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">CAHSS Dean’s Education Abroad Scholarship</a>.  </p>
    
    
    
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    <div>The next CyberPaws CTF challenge has been released! Please submit your flag to the <strong>"Prize Pup Bot"</strong> on our Discord via DMs, using the `!submit` command! You have until our next meeting to submit. <em>The flag will always be in the following format: Paws{ex4mpl3_fl4g}.</em>
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    <strong>Category: </strong>Reverse Engineering</div>
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    <div>The same group of cyber criminals whose Python encryption scheme you looked at last week, are back at it again! </div>
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<Title>Intern of the Week: Zahra Siddiqui</Title>
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    <h4>2024 Presidential Faculty &amp; Staff Awards</h4>
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    <div>All are welcome as we honor faculty and staff who have consistently contributed above and beyond to the campus community.  </div>
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    <div>This event will be held in person and virtually. Doors will open for the in-person event at 11:30 a.m. The program, <a href="https://youtube.com/live/lKFY1VfWPWM?feature=share" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">and the virtual event</a>, will begin at 12 p.m.</div>
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    <div><strong><a href="https://umbctickets.universitytickets.com/w/event.aspx?id=3183" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">RSVP Here </a></strong></div>
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    <h5>2024 Presidential Faculty &amp; Staff Award Recipients</h5>
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    <strong>Amy Froide</strong>, Professor, History</div>
    <div>2024-2027 Presidential Teaching Professor</div>
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    <strong>Tülay Adali</strong>, Distinguished University Professor, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering</div>
    <div>2024-2027 Presidential Research Professor</div>
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    <strong>Fritzie Charne-Merriwether</strong>, Acting Associate Vice President for Student Engagement and Diversity</div>
    <div>2024-2025 Presidential Distinguished Professional Staff</div>
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    <strong>Laura Weathers</strong>, Library Services Supervisor, Serials Department</div>
    <div>2024-2025 Presidential Distinguished Non-Exempt Staff</div>
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    <h5>University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Faculty Awards</h5>
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    <strong>Liang Zhu</strong>, Professor, Mechanical Engineering</div>
    <div>2024 Excellence Excellence in Mentoring</div>
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    <strong>Vandana Janeja</strong>, Professor and Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering and Information Technology</div>
    <div>2024 Excellence in Scholarship or Research</div>
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    <h5>University System of Maryland Board of Regents’ Staff Award</h5>
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    <strong>Stanyell Odom</strong>, Director of Alumni Engagement, Office of Institutional Advancement</div>
    <div>2024 Award for Extraordinary Public Service to the University or Greater Community</div>
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    <strong>Margo Young</strong>, Director Earth and Space Research Administration, Goddard Planetary Heliophysics Institute</div>
    <div>2024 Award for Effectiveness and Efficiency</div>
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    <h5>2024 Diane M. Lee Teaching Awards</h5>
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    <strong>Janet Gross</strong>, Lecturer, English Department</div>
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    <h5>2024 Jakubik Family Endowment Staff Award</h5>
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    <strong>B. Collier Jones</strong>, Campus Portal Architect,  Division of Information Technology</div>
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    <h5>2024 Karen L. Wensch Endowment Award for Outstanding Non-Exempt Staff</h5>
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    <strong>Donique J. Lewis</strong>, Executive Administrative Assistant II, College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT)</div>
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    <h5>2024 Marilyn E. Demorest Awards for Faculty Advancement</h5>
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    <strong>Lee Blaney</strong>, Professor, Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering </div>
    <div>College of Engineering and Information Technology (CoEIT)</div>
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    <strong>Tim Topoleski</strong>, Professor, Mechanical Engineering </div>
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    <h5>2024 Teresa Lupinek Endowment Award</h5>
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    <strong>Sunji Jangha</strong>, Director of Pipeline Programs, Upward Bound Mathematics and Science Center, Graduate School, Office of Academic Opportunity Programs</div>
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    <h5>2024 UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award</h5>
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    <strong>Roberto Fernandez Borda</strong>, Senior Research Engineer,  Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research </div>
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