Accommodation Available
Permanent accommodation is available at Maiden Choice Apartment.

1BHK apartment, just in front of the bus stop (Paradise), a 15-minute walk to the UMBC campus.

Available from February 
Rent 1223$
Dm for more details 
+1 309-612-4407
]]> Permanent accommodation is available at Maiden Choice Apartment. 1BHK apartment, just in front of the bus stop (Paradise), a 15-minute walk to the UMBC campus. Available from February ... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/146786/guest@my.umbc.edu/8ceaf8fea04657aa998f47a538068994/api/pixel Classifieds https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/classifieds https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/xsmall.png?1434550723 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/original.png?1434550723 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/xxlarge.png?1434550723 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/xlarge.png?1434550723 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/large.png?1434550723 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/medium.png?1434550723 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/small.png?1434550723 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/xsmall.png?1434550723 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/001/081/27816fed47150f6fda5f96e75013749f/xxsmall.png?1434550723 Classifieds 0 0 false Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:43:57 -0500 Fully furnished rooms are available to rent in a townhouse in Elkridge Two rooms are ready to rent from Feb 1st (2025)

Two rooms in a fully furnished townhouse are available to rent from Feb 01, 2025. 

> 12 mins drive from UMBC

> You may choose to take one or both rooms. 

> The master bed has an attached bathroom

> The rent is negotiable based on which room you are taking

> Some photos are attached herewith. Check it out.



Please Contact: +1 801-860-3887

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**Accommodation Available – Master Bedroom in 3BHK**  

We have one **master bedroom** available in a 3BHK apartment starting **February 2nd**. The room can be rented as **private** or **shared** accommodation, open to both male and female.  

### **Details:**  
- **Apartment Features:**  
  - One full bath  
  - In-unit laundry and dryer  
  - Central heating and AC  

- **Rent Options:**  
  - **Private Room:** $800/month + utilities  
  - **Shared Room:** $400/month per person + utilities  

- **Security Deposit:**  
  - $800 (private) or $400 per person (shared)  

- **Location:**  
  - Gloria Ave, Halethorpe, Maryland  
  - 5 minutes' walk to UMBC  
  - 2 minutes' walk to UMBC Transit  
  - 10 minutes' walk to Weis, Dollar Tree, Walgreens, etc.  

*Contact:* For more information, reach out via WhatsApp only at
 +91 79074 18784
+91-8897875572.
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Accommodation Available – Master Bedroom in 3BHK

We have one master bedroom available in a 3BHK apartment starting February 2nd. The room can be rented as private or shared accommodation, open to both male and female.

Details:

Contact: For more information, reach out via WhatsApp only at +91-8897875572.

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We hope that you had a great start to the semester and that you started it off strong! Be on the lookout for our upcoming general body meetings (GBMs) and events this semester!

We look forward to seeing you all this semester!

-the SACNAS E-Board
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Thank you to those who attended and participated in the first Full-Circle Climate Communication Workshop held at UMBC between January 13 to 17, 2025. The workshop successfully brought together over 50 people from a wide range of disciplines and with varied expertise to consider how best to communicate issues regarding climate resilience. 


During the workshop, participants were challenged to strategize and develop new and innovative ways to communicate in a transdisciplinary team. Each team consisted of a variety of experts from a wide range of fields that included but were not limited to Public Policy, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization, Visual Arts, Performance Arts, Geography, Storytelling, Media Communication, and Behavioral Sciences. 


We truly thank everyone who made the workshop a success. 


Full-Circle Climate Workshop Committee:  Dr. Lee Boot, Dr. Anita Komlodi, Dr. Eric Stokan, Dr. Rebecca Williams, Dr. Josephine Namayanja, Nikki Monczewski


Those who helped support, and we could not have done it without them, include: Jasmin Diaz, Xiaofei Xie, and Hemanth Chelluri, as well as graduate student volunteers from iHARP.


This workshop was organized by the NSF HDR Institute for Harnessing Data and Model Revolution in the Polar Regions (iHARP) in collaboration with the Imaging Research Center (IRC), and the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3)., .  


If you are interested in joining, participating, or speaking at the next Full-Circle Communication Workshop, please click here to join our mailing list. 

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We are excited that Chemical engineering students, Amaya Carroll and Mikayla Bryant, were highlighted in the UMBC magazine (2024, December). Both Amaya and Mikayla are chemical engineering majors on the environmental engineering and sustainability track.

You can see Amaya in the cover photo and Mikayla in the photo within the article.

To read full article: https://umbc.edu/stories/the-world-is-finally-watching-womens-sports/

Left to right: Katana Nelson, Jada James, Tiara Bellamy.

Left to right: Katana Nelson, Jada James, Mikayla Bryant.



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Dear Members of the Nigerian Graduate Student Association,

Welcome to a new semester! As we step into this exciting chapter, we’re thrilled to continue building a vibrant and supportive community where we can grow, celebrate our culture, and support each other in all aspects of graduate life.

Whether you’re a returning member or new to the NGSA family, we’re so glad to have you with us. This semester, we’re looking forward to engaging events, meaningful connections, and opportunities to thrive together.

Stay tuned for announcements about upcoming programs and initiatives—we have a lot in store! In the meantime, we encourage you to share any ideas or suggestions that can make our community even stronger.

Here’s to a semester filled with success, growth, and shared achievements. Together, we’ll keep raising the flag high!


Warm Regards,

Lekan Ajiboye

NGSA President

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Their project examines how the impact of COVID-19 on adults with disabilities, including prevalence, healthcare access and use, and employment. 

Learn more about the project here.

The School of Public Policy at UMBC, in collaboration with the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, the University of Baltimore, and Westat, has been awarded a five year cooperative agreement from the Social Security Administration through its Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC) program. Our RDRC – Promoting Equity in Retirement, Disability and Health, is one of six RDRCs funded nationally and will support research, evaluation, and data development; and training and education on retirement and disability policy.


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Rohan Putatunda, iHARP Research Assistant successfully defended his PhD Proposal on Monday, January 27, 2025. Join iHARP in congratulating Rohan on his successful PhD Proposal defense!

Title
Deep Learning for Ice Calving Front Analysis: Advancing Understanding through AI-Driven Techniques

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Abstract
Ice calving, the process where large ice masses detach from a glacier’s terminus, is a significant driver of ice mass loss and contributes to global sea-level rise. In ice calving, ice calving fronts refer to the terminus regions where these events occur, often producing icebergs as large as Manhattan, which eventually fragment into smaller pieces, or "chicklets." These chicklets, influenced by environmental forces such as ocean currents and winds, follow complex trajectories that can disrupt maritime routes. Although traditional methods for monitoring ice-calving fronts rely heavily on manual reviews of time series satellite imagery, they are time-intensive, prone to human error, and lack scalability. Recent advances in deep learning have introduced automation in segmenting ice-calving fronts, but critical challenges such as predicting future calving front positions and forecasting chicklet trajectories remain underexplored. This thesis addresses three fundamental challenges in understanding and predicting ice-calving processes. First, it tackles the challenge of accurate segmentation of ice calving fronts, characterized by sparse pixel representation, through SEATTNET, a novel hybrid attention model that combines squeeze-and-excitation (SE) blocks with spatial attention gates to enhance feature representation and segmentation accuracy. Second, it explores forecasting future ice-calving front position, where the absence of explicit spatiotemporal data and the nonlinear nature of latitude-longitude temporal sequences present significant challenges. To address these, a georeferenced dataset derived from segmentation masks is utilized alongside the GlaSpectra model, which employs spectral convolution layers along with FFT and IFFT to capture global and local spatial relationships, enabling precise trajectory forecasting. Finally, this thesis also proposes to tackle the challenge of predicting the movement of calved ice fragments, known as icebergs or "chicklets," whose trajectories are highly unpredictable due to the influence of ocean currents, winds, and other environmental factors. To address this, we used spatiotemporal data of iceberg movement over time and applied ConvLSTM layers to capture both the spatial patterns and temporal dynamics. To make predictions more accurate, we developed a custom drift loss function that focuses on two key aspects: how the size and shape of the chicklets change over time and how their movement patterns evolve. The loss function incorporates the principle that the larger the volume of the ice mass, the slower its movement pattern is likely to be, ensuring that the model captures this critical physical relationship. This approach enables our proposed deep learning based model to not only predict the trajectory of the icebergs but also understand the relationship between their motion and their changing dimensions. By addressing these complexities, this research not only advances the use of AI in glaciology, offering practical, and scalable, tools for studying and predicting ice calving and its after-effect of ice chicklets behavior, but also has potential applications in studying landslide movements, and coastal erosion movement.

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