Handel Choir of Baltimore will hold community member and professional chorister auditions for the 2018-2019 concert season Friday and Saturday June 8 and 9, 2018.

Handel Choir of Baltimore performs choral and choral-orchestral music of the highest artistic integrity, specializing in baroque, classical and early-romantic styles, to sustain the art form and enrich the lives of Baltimore area residents through concerts, education programs and community collaborations.

2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning

The 2018 Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL) is a student-run, one-day event on speech, language & machine learning research to be held at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County  (UMBC) from 10:00am to 6:00pm on Saturday, May 12.  There is no registration charge and lunch and refreshments will be provided.  Students, postdocs, faculty and researchers from universities & industry are invited to participate and network with other researchers working in related fields.

Students and postdocs are encouraged to submit abstracts describing ongoing, planned, or completed research projects, including previously published results and negative results. Research in any field applying computational methods to any aspect of human language, including speech and learning, from all areas of computer science, linguistics, engineering, neuroscience, information science, and related fields is welcome. Submissions and presentations must be made by students or postdocs. Accepted submissions will be presented as either posters or talks.

Program

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Professor Milton Halem receives UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award

Dr. Milton Halem, Research Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department, has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the UMBC Research Faculty Excellence Award. The award recognizes overall excellence in research, and where appropriate, significant contributions to teaching and service/leadership while at UMBC.

Dr. Halem joined UMBC in 2003, after retiring from a highly successful career at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he still holds an Emeritus position as Chief Information Research Scientist to the Director of the Earth Sciences Directorate.

Upon joining UMBC, Dr. Halem served as the founding Director of UMBC’s Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research (CHMPR) and today continues to serve as the UMBC Site Director for this major NSF-supported multi-institutional center that works closely with government and private sector sponsors in the areas of big-data computation, next generation computing and software tool development.

In 2013, Dr. Halem was instrumental in negotiating and securing a major equipment donation from NASA Goddard that significantly enhanced our high-performance computing capacity through the donation of a 512 -node supercomputer to the UMBC campus.

Dr. Halem’s scholarly achievements include more than 150 scientific publications in the areas of atmospheric and oceanographic sciences and computational and information sciences. He is most noted for his groundbreaking research in simulation studies of space-observing systems and for development of four-dimensional data assimilation for weather and climate prediction.

Over the years, Dr. Halem’s achievements have earned him numerous awards including the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement, the NASA Medal for Outstanding Leadership, and NASA’s highest award – the NASA Distinguished Service Medal – in 1996.

Keith J. Bowman, Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology, comments: “Dr. Halem’s exceptional vision and his unrelenting drive for excellence continue to serve our UMBC community well. His dedication to pushing the scientific and engineering boundaries serves as a model for our campus and beyond.”

Karl V. Steiner, Vice President for Research, adds: “ I could not think of a more deserving member of our UMBC research community to receive this inaugural Research Faculty Excellence Award than Milt Halem. UMBC is the academic home to over 180 Research Faculty who contribute their expertise and personal commitment to making UMBC a destination for cutting-edge research while providing our students with remarkable insights and opportunities. Milt Halem is clearly one the leaders in the field of high-performance computation and his energy and expertise have been a major factor in UMBC being recognized as a major contributor to high performance computation and data analytics.”

Adapted from a news article on the UMBC Office of the Vice President for Research site.

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Happy end of term!

Below is a partial run-down of stipends (teaching pay) for adjunct faculty in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC. Stipends are for teaching a 3-credit course per semester unless noted otherwise. Based on information received and public record. Corrections, clarifications, additions welcome. 

AMST. When I became adjunct II, it went up to $3,800. That's where it is now.

ANCS. Happy to help!  $3,500 for a 3-credit course, for an Adjunct I. Stipend may be split between two departments. 

Asia Studies. In my department pay is $4000 per semester for adjunct faculty. Hope this helps. 

DANC.  [From the chair:] “The Dance Department pays an average of $3300 for a 3 credit course, depending on the meeting pattern for the course.” 

ECON. The stipends vary depending on course level. Basic accounting stipend is $3,600 per section. More for Intermediate or Advanced Accounting. 

Education. Stipend for Adjunct II may be $5,000 per course. 

Emergency Health Services. Minimum stipend for adjunct faculty is $3,000. 

ENGL.  Stipend for a 3-credit composition course is $3,300 for Adjunct I and $3,600 for Adjunct II. One 4-credit course (English 110) pays $4,300 for Adjunct I and $4,700 for Adjunct II. No differentiation for PhD or for teaching upper-level courses. Stipends for some literature classes in ENGL have differed from stipends in writing sections. 

HIST. Stipend varies with rank of adjunct. Affiliated Adjunct Professors in History may be the best-paid category of adjunct faculty in CAHSS. [From the chair:] "Adjunct pay in History varies by rank of adjunct. Minimum stipend is 4500 for a three credit course."

Linguistics. $3,500 per course in Linguistics. May be higher for Adjunct II. 

Modern Languages. Grad students have priority in teaching, but compensation includes tuition. The stipend covers living expenses. Grad students have mandatory health insurance. Stipend for Adjunct II may be up to $3,700 for a 4-credit course. Further information would be helpful.

Music. Instrumental music classes may be one credit hour. Adjunct stipend may go down to $954.45 per class. Adjunct stipend for a 3-credit course $3,500. 

PHIL. [From the chair:] “The Philosophy Dept. pays all Adjunct I’s $4,000 and all Adjunct II’s $4,300 per course.”  

Psychology. Adjunct stipend is $3,500 or $4,000 per course. Difference for rank or PhD not known. 

SAHAP. Adjunct faculty varies with PhD or MA as well as between Adjunct I and Adjunct II. Adjunct I Master's: $3,600 for 3-credit course; Adjunct I PhD: $3,850. Adjunct II Master's: $3,900 for 3-credit course; Adjunct II PhD: $4,150. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Baltimore Sun state employee salary database for 2017:

https://salaries.news.baltimoresun.com

Data are available for state employees for 2016:

http://salaries-archive.news.baltimoresun.com/state/cy2016/

(See linked site for previous years.)

Related FAQ - Where is my summer course after the Ultra Experience upgrade?

Blackboard's navigation to courses will be upgraded on Friday, May 25, 2018 beginning at 3 PM EST as part of DoIT’s routine Blackboard maintenance. This upgrade will modernize the overall dashboard with the new Ultra Experience base navigation.

Important: Courses will NOT change in appearance or functionality.

No downtime is expected, but the login page located at blackboard.umbc.edu will be temporarily unavailable while it is also updated by DoIT. Faculty, staff, and students can still log into Blackboard by clicking on the Blackboard icon via myUMBC or going to my.umbc.edu/go/blackboard.

Once the Blackboard upgrade is complete, please clear your Internet browser cache and cookies before logging in using these step-by-step instructions. 

How does the Ultra Experience change Blackboard for faculty & students?