The Office of Undergraduate Education would like to thank all of those who attended our New Student Book Experience event with Sheryl WuDunn, co-author of “Half the Sky” on November 1.

We would also like to especially thank our partners in this event whose assistance made this program possible: the Office of Institutional Advancement, the Social Sciences Forum, Student Life and the Division of Undergraduate Academic Affairs.

A special thank you to Professor Emeritus Dr. Mary Rivkin for sharing Half the Sky bookmarks with our attendees.

We also would like to thank Ms. WuDunn who stayed afterwards to sign her book for all students, faculty and staff.

Spring 2018 Registration Advising Appointment Information

http://advising.coeit.umbc.edu/registration/

What about Winter Classes?

http://www.umbc.edu/winter/

What If I'm a New Student for the upcoming Spring semester?

Newly admitted students for the spring semester may not register for courses until Orientation. Please sign up for winter Orientation.

http://orientation.umbc.edu/

What If I Still Have Questions?

Acts 4:29-31 – “Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness. Stretch out your hand to heal and perform signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus. After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.”

“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus’ miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” [T. Keller, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism]

Application: Let’s pray like the early church for the Lord’s empowering to speak the gospel with great boldness. Let’s pray for the demonstration of God’s power and for the ultimate redemption for our world, salvation in Jesus Christ.

– MK

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

Winning NCCDC, and its practicality in the real world

Bryan Vanek, CSEE, UMBC

12:00noon–1pm Friday, 3 November 2017, ITE 231

The National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) takes place every year and gives students an environment where they can develop understanding and operational competency in managing and protecting corporate network infrastructure and business information systems. Competitors participate as the blue team, and try to protect their machines from being infiltrated by the red team, while simultaneously keeping critical services up and running in order for a mock business to stay up and running. After an immense amount of preparation and strife, the UMBC Cyber Defense Team took home its first national title for the competition this year. But what exactly did the team do to prepare for this competition? What exactly happened at the different stages of the competition? And just how practical are these situations in the real world? One of the winning team members will be covering these questions in this week’s CDL, so we hope to see you there!

Bryan Vanek is a UMBC undergraduate computer science major and mathematics minor. In addition to being one of the winning team members for NCCDC, he is currently serving as the president for the UMBC Cyber Defense Team, and is a CWIT T-SITE scholar. He currently works at Interclypse Inc. as a security engineer and software developer, and has had multiple internships and jobs dealing with aspects of computer development and security. Most recently he has completed his second internship at the Department of Defense  in the Summer Internship Program for Information Assurance. Upon graduation he will be returning to the DoD as a member of the Computer Network Operations development Program.

Host: Alan T. Sherman, *protected email*

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