The third annual COEIT Research Day on Friday, May 1, 2026, showcased research from across the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) at UMBC. In its third year, the event drew over 250 presenters and attendees from across the COEIT community. It provided a venue for researchers and potential collaborators to network and foster interdisciplinary innovation.

The keynote speaker for the event was Dr. Susan Gregurick, Associate Director for Data Science and Director of the Office of Data Science Strategy (ODSS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Other speakers included additional representatives from NIH, the Army Research Laboratory, and the Maryland Department of Commerce and Industry.
Photo: Dr. Susan Gregurick delivers the keynote address at COEIT Research Day 2026 (Photo courtesy of Chloe Evered)

The agenda included a series of parallel sessions, a college-wide poster day, and keynote talks, with a goal to spark new research ideas and partnerships. The research day event is designed to lead into a follow-up seed funding initiative, COEIT Innovations and Interdisciplinary Projects. These COEIT-funded projects support cross-departmental teams designed to stimulate and support the development of new research projects and expand existing projects.

To all chip users,

The DoIT Research Computing & Data (RCD) Team is continuing to work on the storage system performance issues that have been impacting the chip cluster since early February. For some users this is intermittent or even not noticeable, for others the issue is persistent. When present, these issues are manifesting as unusually long file read/write/load times for operations as simple as “ls” or “cd” when navigating the filesystem or as complicated as long slurm job runtimes. The RCD Team has been working with support vendors and other institutions to better understand the problem that is affecting the storage system. We apologize for this interruption to productivity and want users to understand that this is not expected behavior and that we are working to resolve the issues.

The team feels we have a better understanding of the issue at large, and are continuing to work with our support vendor to apply mitigation strategies as well as benchmarking. In the meantime, understand that we have increased the amount of machines handling metadata five fold, effectively spreading the workload more evenly, and helping ensure that when a metadata service fails it doesn’t fail all at once, killing all client connections. Please understand that this does not mean an increase in speed is expected. 

The team continues to encourage all users to send in any issues that seem to arise from an issue with client connections to their data. This will reveal itself in mostly I/O intensive actions such as large package installation or large movement between files in directories (locally or from the internet). 

The team will give weekly updates and give substantive updates as they develop.

Max Breitmeyer

HPC Specialist

UMBC DoIT

Join the Wisdom Weavers Board!

The Wisdom Weavers are accepting nominations for their Executive Board for the 2026-2027 school year!  (Applications due by May 16th)

The Wisdom Weavers are a student interest group with the Erickson School of Aging Studies that are dedicated to building a community that values every stage of life. Our mission is to:

● Promote outreach and service to older adults in our local community. 
● Provide intergenerational opportunities for connection and growth.
● Spread positive messages about aging and dismantle stereotypes.
● Increase awareness of the diverse and rewarding career opportunities in this field.

Submit your board application HERE or via the QR code in the attached flier.

Join the Wisdom Weavers Board!

The Wisdom Weavers are accepting nominations for their Executive Board for the 2026-2027 school year!  (Applications due by May 16th)

The Wisdom Weavers are a student interest group with the Erickson School of Aging Studies that are dedicated to building a community that values every stage of life. Our mission is to:

● Promote outreach and service to older adults in our local community. 
● Provide intergenerational opportunities for connection and growth.
● Spread positive messages about aging and dismantle stereotypes.
● Increase awareness of the diverse and rewarding career opportunities in this field.

Submit your board application HERE or via the QR code in the attached flier.

If you want to join the work ABA does in creating events, uplifting black artists, and putting on the bi-annu Art Symposium and Exhibition, then sign up for the 2026-2027 ABA E-Board!! Application is now open and we will be accepting apps all weekend. We are so excited for you to join the work we do!🤎 Link to the application is provided in this below.

ABA 2026-2027 E-Board Application: https://forms.gle/hCBqWUFtHHhEy3nGA

commonvision Spring Hours

commonvision's spring operating hours will remain in place until Friday, May 22. We are currently open Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and are closed weekends and UMBC Holidays. 

Wednesday, May 13

commonvision, UMBC Student Design and Print Center will close early on Study Day (May 13). commonvision's hours Wednesday, May 13 will be 9 – 11 a.m. We are closing early to recognize our seniors and student staff. All inquiries after close can be emailed to commonvision@umbc.edu and will be addressed on Thursday, May 14!

Saturday, May 23 – Sunday, May 31: CLOSED

commonvision will be closed, along with the UMBC campus for Memorial Day. We will remain closed for the rest of the week following Memorial Day. 

Monday, June 1: commonvision will re-open with our summer operating hours.

Monday – Thursday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Closed weekends and during UMBC closures. 

Questions? Send us an email at commonvision@umbc.edu – feel free to send in inquiries during our closure and we will address them when we reopen on Monday, June 2.

Help Us Celebrate 30 Years of IMDA!

This year marks 30 years of artists graduating from the Intermedia and Digital Arts MFA program at UMBC. Please join us in celebrating innovative creative research and cutting edge art with a free evening of art, music, food and fun!

Our current grad student studios will be open alongside featured artwork by alums, a Panel Talk featuring IMDA alumni Cyriaco Lopes (02), Marian Glebes (09) and Mollye Bendell (18) starting at 4pm, and delicious catered food by Mera Kitchen Collective. And we will announce the winner of the 2026 Dr. Kathy O’Dell IMDA Award!

When: May 16th, 3pm-6pm, The Alumni Panel talk begins at 4PM.

Where: Lions Brothers Building, 875 Hollins Street

This event and free and open to the public! Please kindly RSVP here.

Attention Students,

Attending conferences is a great way to learn about exciting things in the field and to meet and network with professionals.  

LeadingAge Maryland Annual Conference

May 19th-20th, Owings Mills, Maryland

This two-day event features more than 35 keynotes, breakout sessions, and deep dives designed for professionals and stakeholders working in the field of aging services.

STUDENT RATE: $29

Learn more and sign up here: https://www.leadingagemaryland.org/page/2026ACTo get the discount code, just email dbellin@leadingagemaryland.org. 

James Allen (616/MSU) is among the four scientists featured in the latest NASA GSFC Early Career Scientist Spotlights. The NASA Goddard Association of Postdoctoral and Early Career Scientists (NGAPS+) compiles these spotlights monthly, highlighting research, motivation, and accomplishments across four divisions of the Sciences and Exploration Directorate: Earth Sciences, Astrophysics, Heliophysics, and Planetary Sciences. 

Dr. Allen provides informative and insightful responses to the interviewer, such as this aspect of enjoying his work: "I also love the cross-pollination. There’s such a wide range of expertise that ideas travel in surprising directions. For example, I’ve been able to incorporate workflows that astrophysicists use to study galaxy formation for my own ocean remote sensing. And I’ve even had the chance to help out with modeling cosmic dust in our solar system with my own ocean particle models, which sounds like a big stretch until you realize that in both cases, we’re just trying to infer the properties of tiny particles from the way they interact with light!"

Good afternoon everyone,

Due to technical issues, Dine On Campus is currently not populating menus for True Grit’s at this time. Our team is actively working to correct the issue as quickly as possible.

We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding while we work toward a resolution.

Thank you!