My current roommate is moving out so an unfurnished bedroom to rent is available starting September 1st up to (at least) one year, which is in a two-bedroom (smoke-free) apartment with a shared bathroom. The rent itslef is $475 and also the electricity and the internet are totally around $50 for each person. Kitchen is equipped with oven, fridge, dish washer and microwave, and almost anything you may need in a kitchen. Living room is furnished with sofas and coffee tables, no dining table though. Laundry room with washing machine and dryer in the same building (and in case in the neighbor buildings). You can also count on a beautiful balcony. 
Very convenient for UMBC students since the shuttle stop is half a minute away (you can literally see the stop from the window). MTA Route 23 bus to Downtown Baltimore stops right on the corner as well. 
Very quiet and safe area. 15-minute walk to Safeway, Shoppers, Sam's Club, CVS, Burger King, McDonald's, Chick-Fil-A, and more. 15-minute walk to Downtown Catonsville, where you can find plenty of shops and restaurants, as well as a farmer's market. Conveniently located 1 minute away from Royal Farms.
No pets allowed.

If interested, please contact me through 

ahmad.s.mousavi@gmail.com (prefered) or smousav1@umbc.edu

Hi

If you are looking for a nice, clean, quiet place to live , this is an ideal apartment. The rent is $562 plus utilities (BGE, internet) it comes to around $600-620. Its a three bedroom apartment with washer/dryer right outside your bedroom. We are two females in their late and early twenties working and studying in grad school.

Click here for pictures: http://baltimore.craigslist.org/roo/5011926762.html

If you are interested . Please let me know.

arya1@umbc.edu

410 599 2874

CSEE faculty Alan Sherman and Dhananjay Phatak and Education Professor Linda Oliva received a research grant from the Department of Defense to create educational assessment tools to improve the teaching of cybersecurity. The one-year funded project is a collaboration with Geoffrey Herman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The research is being carried out at the UMBC Cyber Defense Laboratory.

The project will create infrastructure for a rigorous evidence-based improvement of cybersecurity education by developing Cybersecurity Assessment Tools (CATs) targeted at measuring the quality of instruction. The first CAT will be a Cybersecurity Concept Inventory that measures how well students understand basic concepts in cybersecurity after a first course in the field. The second CAT will be a Cybersecurity Curriculum Assessment that measures how well curricula prepared students graduating from college on fundamentals needed for careers in cybersecurity. Each CAT will be a multiple-choice test with approximately thirty questions.

Inspired by the highly influential Force Concept Inventory from physics, the investigators are following a three-step process. In fall 2014, with MS student Geet Parekh, they carried out two Delphi processes to identify an initial set of important and difficult concepts in cybersecurity. The second step will involve interviews with students to uncover their misconceptions about these concepts. In the final step, the team will draft and psychometrically evaluate questions whose incorrect answers are driven by the uncovered misconceptions. Information on the work and its results will be available on the Cybersecurity Assessment Tools web site.

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Summary:

On July 23, James Smalls, professor of Visual Arts and affiliate professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, published an article in The Conversation that discussed the rationale behind his upcoming course, Roaming the Star Trek Universe: Race, Gender, and Alien Sexualities. Sensing that students often seem very “connected” but are simultaneously distanced from the overwhelming complexities of the world around them, Smalls set out to find ways in which to explore the difficult topics of race, gender and sexuality. “I found part of the answer,” he said, “by traveling back to the 1960s, when difficult social change movements around race (civil rights, black power), gender (the women’s movement) and sexuality (the gay and lesbian movement) were in full swing and paralleled the national obsession with technology, the space race and indulgence in popular culture as a way to both escape and liberate ourselves.”

“One way to do this,” he added, “is to ask probing questions so to get students thinking about ways in which interspecies conflicts among humans, Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons, Andorians, Betazoids, Cardassians and Bajorans, to name a few, are portrayed and how they mirror or parallel disagreements between today’s nations, races, genders, religions and classes.”

Read “A teacher uses Star Trek for difficult conversations on race and gender” in The Conversation.