Upcoming Trainings from Talent Learning & OD

Upcoming Trainings from HRSTM:

Change: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

There are three ways to engage in this training: 

3-Part Program for Managers & Leaders (6 hr. overall program, attend all sessions)

Change Conversations - For Individual Contributors & Leaders (2 hr. programs, attend one)

Change Book Discussion (1 hr/week, 5 weeks)

Click here for more information on all sessions.

Calling all Leaders! UMBC's LEAP Academy 

UMBC's LEAP Academy is a 5-month leadership development experience designed to provide the critical professional competencies and people skills that new people managers need to be effective at leading others and teams. This program is also appropriate for existing supervisors who need a tune-up on today's critical foundational managerial competencies to better support their team. 


This cohort-style program (3 separate 20-person cohorts) will be delivered in a hybrid format with live in-person instructional sessions and virtual team coaching sessions. Participants will also receive an All-Access Pass to FranklinCovey's Impact Portal where they will have access to additional resources. 

Applications for the cohort are due June 14. The program will kick off on August 19, 2024 and continue through the fall semester. Click here for more information and a program overview.


HRSTM Week is almost here! Have you registered for any sessions yet?

Human Resources & Strategic Talent Management (HRSTM)  invites all staff & faculty to join us to explore and connect with the HRSTM units and learn more about the services and resources available to help your professional growth and personal well-being!

Help us kick off the week and join us for our open house: Meet us at the boardwalk! Come explore our boardwalk-themed event and learn more about our units, meet HRSTM staff, and enjoy games, snacks, and prizes! Then on Tuesday, visit us at the RAC for our Community Wellness Day featuring a wide variety of wellness services and events. 

Check out the HRSTM website for more information and to register for events.

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Students will meet at the bus in Lot 8 at 8:30am and will be dropped back off at Lot 8 by 5:30pm. 

Be sure to either bring a lunch or money for lunch. Students who miss the bus are responsible for their own transportation.

Be sure to email Lydia DeRidder at lderidder@umbc.edu by END OF DAY April 8th to sign up!
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AGENDA

NESS MEETING

4/10/2024

11:30-12:30

ALL VIRTUAL

Join Webex Personal Room meeting

ID: 643239917

(US) +1 202-860-2110 (toll)

Access code: 643 239 917

  1. Last meeting's Action points. 


  1. Results of the Election of Senators starting their two-year term in July 2024. (Sharon Paul)

  2. Welcome to the new Senators (Helena)


  1. The new look of myUMBC and the Phone App. (Collier Jones, DoIT)

  • Feedback from the group


  1. Moving the May meeting to May 15, 2024


  1. Nominations for President, Vice President, and Treasurer for NESS (Helena Dahlen)

  • Who can be nominated

  • Voting poll at the end of April

  • Presentation of the results at the May 15 meeting.


  1. Information from the last University Steering Committee meeting with the President (Helena and Barbara)

  • How do you feel about the reported incident?

  • How do you feel about the leadership transitions the President announced on April 2nd?

  • How do these changes affect your job?

  • If affected, do we get enough information to feel secure and do our jobs properly?


  1. Reports from different committees:

  • IT Steering Committee (Helena Dahlen)

  • Any other committee???

9.Professional Development Week

10. University Information General

-Updated Active assailant Training available 


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The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

Shaping Opinion and Influencing Societies through Narrative Construction


Anupam Joshi
CSEE Professor and Acting CoEIT Dean

12–1pm, Friday, April 12, 2024 via WebEx

There has been a significant body of work that explores “misinformation” or “disinformation” in the media. Research has explored how to identify misinformation, and how it spreads or goes viral. When detected, individual pieces of misinformation can be debunked. However, there is evidence that state actors (and others) are starting to launch more sophisticated information operations that try to craft a narrative that will shape public opinion. This involves combining factual information/hard news with opinions and potentially small elements of disinformation to persuade people, particularly in open societies typically found in democracies. While such influence building operations have been a tradition in statecraft, the ability to spread information fast provided by social media, and the removal of gatekeepers from the more traditional media sources, have provided a new potency to this approach. In this talk, we'll talk about disinformation, how easy it is to generate plausible “facts” in the era of Large Language Models, and narrative constructions. We'll also describe our recent work (with PhD student Priyanka Ranade) in creating computational approaches that might detect when a narrative is being constructed.

Anupam Joshi is the Oros Family Professor and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).  He also serves as the Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity.  He was previously the Chair of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, and is an Adjunct Professor at IIT Delhi's School of IT.  He is a Fellow of IEEE and of the InCSCoE. He has published over 300 technical papers with an h-index of 91 and over 32,000 citations (per Google scholar), been granted nine patents, and has obtained research support over $22M from National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Dept of Defense (DoD), NIST, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin amongst others.

Dr. Joshi obtained a B.Tech degree from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. His research interests are at the intersection of AI and Systems. He did some of the earliest work in data management and security for mobile and ad-hoc networks using AI approaches. Over the last decade, he has been exploring this intersection to improve Cybersecurity—using Distributed AI approaches for attack detection and resilience in CPS/IoT systems, and policy driven approaches to security and privacy. This work has led not just to papers but technology transfer to small Maryland companies. 

Host: Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the NSF under SFS grant DGE-1753681.

 
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An official ballot dropoff box is now available in The Commons between the CIC desk and Flat Tuesdays. Any registered Maryland voter may submit a mail-in ballot. For more information, contact the Center for Democracy and Civic Life at civiclife@umbc.edu

President Sheares Ashby has signed the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge's commitment to 100% voter participation. UMBC has joined more than 625 college presidents and chancellors in committing to full student voter registration and participation in all elections. By signing the pledge, UMBC has committed to ensuring all eligible students are able to register to vote and cast informed ballots in the general elections and beyond. Further, the University has committed to fostering campus cultures that support nonpartisan student civic learning, political engagement and student voter participation. 

The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge is a nonpartisan, national initiative of the 501c3 Civic Nation, recognizing and supporting campuses as they work to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement and full student voter participation. The Challenge encourages higher education institutions to help students form the habits of active and informed citizenship, and make democratic participation a core value on their campus. 

In April 2023, UMBC was recognized for increasing democratic engagement, and Musa Jafri ‘24 was named to the Student Voting Honor Role. 


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The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

Shaping Opinion and Influencing Societies through Narrative Construction


Anupam Joshi
CSEE Professor and Acting CoEIT Dean

12–1pm, Friday, April 12, 2024 via WebEx

There has been a significant body of work that explores “misinformation” or “disinformation” in the media. Research has explored how to identify misinformation, and how it spreads or goes viral. When detected, individual pieces of misinformation can be debunked. However, there is evidence that state actors (and others) are starting to launch more sophisticated information operations that try to craft a narrative that will shape public opinion. This involves combining factual information/hard news with opinions and potentially small elements of disinformation to persuade people, particularly in open societies typically found in democracies. While such influence building operations have been a tradition in statecraft, the ability to spread information fast provided by social media, and the removal of gatekeepers from the more traditional media sources, have provided a new potency to this approach. In this talk, we'll talk about disinformation, how easy it is to generate plausible “facts” in the era of Large Language Models, and narrative constructions. We'll also describe our recent work (with PhD student Priyanka Ranade) in creating computational approaches that might detect when a narrative is being constructed.

Anupam Joshi is the Oros Family Professor and Acting Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).  He also serves as the Director of UMBC’s Center for Cybersecurity.  He was previously the Chair of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, and is an Adjunct Professor at IIT Delhi's School of IT.  He is a Fellow of IEEE and of the InCSCoE. He has published over 300 technical papers with an h-index of 91 and over 32,000 citations (per Google scholar), been granted nine patents, and has obtained research support over $22M from National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), US Dept of Defense (DoD), NIST, IBM, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Northrop Grumman, and Lockheed Martin amongst others.

Dr. Joshi obtained a B.Tech degree from IIT Delhi in 1989, and a Masters and Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1991 and 1993 respectively. His research interests are at the intersection of AI and Systems. He did some of the earliest work in data management and security for mobile and ad-hoc networks using AI approaches. Over the last decade, he has been exploring this intersection to improve Cybersecurity—using Distributed AI approaches for attack detection and resilience in CPS/IoT systems, and policy driven approaches to security and privacy. This work has led not just to papers but technology transfer to small Maryland companies. 

Host: Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the NSF under SFS grant DGE-1753681.

 
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Dance As Language: A Choreographic Exploration of the Interpretation of Idiomatic Phrases in the English Language

Time and location: 1:35-1:50pm in UC 312

Katelyn O’Connor, Dance
Mentor: Ann Sofie Clemmensen, Dance

This research addressed an interpretation of English idioms on a literal to figurative scale, with the presentation being dance performance. The motivation for this research stemmed from interacting with a variety of people with English as their second (or non-primary) language. There are an estimated 25,000 idioms in the English language, and while there are idioms in other languages as well, research has shown it is not nearly as extensive as in the English language. Through personal interpretations, surveys collected from over seventy native and non-native English-speaking adults, and in-depth choreographic exploration, this research showed that there is a large depth of interpretations when it comes to English idioms, ranging from extreme ends of the scale of literal to figurative. The final presentation included an exploration of body, object, and space, utilizing props and movement in tandem to convey the tension between the literal and figurative language.

This work was funded, in part, through an Undergraduate Research Award from the UMBC Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

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If interested in this great opportunity, text me at 443-851-3047 or email at akrami1@umbc.edu.
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