Spring 2025 Student Employee Gritty Award Winners: AV Student Team!
Congratulations Roza, Jordan & Josh
UMBC AV Team Shines at Maryland History Day
UMBC’s AV student support team, Roza Zareidoodeji, Jordan Pierre-Scott and Josh Cheeks, delivered exceptional service during this year's Maryland History Day, showcasing the institution's commitment to professional excellence and earning them the Spring Semester Student DoIT Gritty Award!
Roza, Jordan, and Josh were the backbone of the event's technical operations, meticulously preparing campus facilities and ensuring seamless technological support. Their comprehensive pre-event preparations included detailed equipment checks, from projector functionality to sound systems and wiring integrity.
Despite challenges like limited power in the Engineering building due to ongoing renovation work, the team maintained a high standard of service. They professionally guided visiting organizations through the technical setup and remained readily available to address any questions or concerns.
The event utilized most of the campus's classrooms and lecture halls, with the tech team guaranteeing that each space was fully operational and presentation-ready. Their collaborative approach and problem-solving skills demonstrated UMBC's dedication to supporting educational initiatives.
Attendees from across Maryland experienced firsthand the university's technical proficiency and supportive environment, with the tech team playing a crucial role in the event's success.
For all of your exceptional efforts and commitment to excellence, we are proud to present you all with the Spring 2025 DoIT Student Gritty Award. Congratulations!
Thank you, Roza Zareidoodeji, Jordan Pierre-Scott and Josh Cheeks for your outstanding teamwork and professionalism!
The DoIT Community & The DoIT Gritty Committee
Erica D’Eramo
Ally Hepp
Carlos McKinney
David Toothe
Dondre Hatef
Kashka Donaldson
Mariann Hawken
Nick Beech
Tony Finneran
Roy Prouty
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AI Literacy for Faculty: Mastering Core Skills for Teaching with AI
Wed. June 4, 9:00-10:30am, UMBC:ISLB 201 or online
Faculty everywhere are asking: Is AI a threat or an opportunity? Find your own answers in this workshop led by national expert, author, teacher, and AI specialist Mike Kentz. This hands-on session translates AI complexity into powerful, classroom-ready insights and skills. Kentz champions a "teacher-first" approach, positioning educators as central to AI integration as seen in his book, AI in Education: A Roadmap For Teacher-Led Transformation.
Move beyond the AI hype into your own practical AI toolkit. Flexible attendance—either in person or online — makes participation simple. We encourage in-person participation to engage with your peers and the speaker fully.
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FEAT - Faculty Entrepreneurship AcceleraTor Fund
A Funding Initiative to Broaden UMBC's Technology Pipeline
With support provided by the Office of Institutional Advancement
(OIA) and the Office of Research and Creative Achievement (ORCA), we are
happy to announce our continued funding initiative called FEAT. The program is
designed to help broaden the technology pipeline, while also assisting
with later stage technology commercialization. It is available to UMBC’s
entrepreneurial PIs to advance their technical concept, or their idea
(social/behavioral/policy related) in conjunction with technology,
towards commercial success, and out to meet societal needs. FEAT is
flexible to assist UMBC researchers in obtaining additional
commercialization funding, and providing mentorship services.
FEAT will support things like prototype builds, market surveys,
business plans, CEO support, mentoring assistance, special facility or
equipment access -whatever your specific needs are to obtain your next
commercialization funding (MII, MIPS, SBIR/STTR, Momentum Funds, etc.).
This program will also enable UMBC, through OTD and bwtech, to identify
for faculty existing resources, as well as provide new resources (like
Market databases) based on faculty requests.
Proposal and Award Requirements: UMBC PI eligible applicants must submit a one-page proposal which details the following:
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Deliverable – After the project is completed,
awardee will provide a brief summary of how the funding assisted in the
advancement of the technology. This can be relatively short (MII
requirement satisfied, proposal submitted, award received, technology
licensed, start-up formed).
Deadlines: Rolling submission, due the first Monday of the month, monthly reviews. Submit your one-page proposal to Enidia Santiago-Arce at esantia2@umbc.edu. Reviewed monthly, proposals are funded at the level deemed necessary to achieve the goals outlined in the proposal.
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Building Bridges in STEM
UMBC Mathematics Partners with the Ingenuity Project
In early 2024, the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics at UMBC launched an exciting partnership with the
Ingenuity Project, a premier STEM magnet program housed at
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. While the department’s
Enrollment Growth and Outreach Committee had been engaged in outreach to local high schools, Ingenuity presented a unique opportunity to collaborate with some of the region’s most talented high school mathematics students.
The department committed faculty and UMBC student support to foster connections, raise awareness of UMBC’s programs, and strengthen ties within the Baltimore STEM community. Over the past year, the partnership has flourished—Math & Stat faculty visited Ingenuity’s Math Modeling Club, offered consultation for their Research Methods course, and contributed to their annual Research Conference and Symposium.
This spring, the department welcomed over 20 Ingenuity students and their instructor for a special campus visit, featuring classroom drop-ins, student Q&As, and conversations with Math & Stat majors and participants in UMBC’s renowned Meyerhoff Scholars Program.
Additionally, the department joined a campus-wide coalition—including the Meyerhoff Scholars, the College of Engineering and Information Technology, and The Institute for Extended Learning—to sponsor this year’s STEM Research Conference and Symposium with over $7,000 in sponsorship support. UMBC honor societies Pi Mu Epsilon (Mathematics) and Mu Sigma Rho (Statistics) will also participate in this year’s Research Conference.
This growing partnership reflects UMBC’s commitment to inclusive excellence and community engagement in STEM.
Click on the thumbnail images below to view full-size photos from the recent visit of Ingenuity students to UMBC.
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CNMS Summer Reads 2025
Your Summer Reading Challenge!
Welcome to our 2025 CNMS Summer Reading Challenge! We’ve asked your professors and advisors for their top recommendations in fiction and nonfiction, plus some self-help books to keep your learning skills fresh. You can view our list of suggested readings HERE. The best part? The book recommendations are all directly related to your interests, major, and careers. Some of them may even give you insight into your upcoming classes this Fall!
Why a summer reading challenge? It’s essential that you keep up your reading skills during the summer because before you know it – you will be thrown right back into your textbooks and other reading-heavy assignments. Don’t let the summer deteriorate your hard-earned skills!
So what does this mean? Read ANYTHING but do it regularly! It’s like you are exercising your reading muscles and keeping them toned for the fall! Even 20-30 minutes of reading a day for at least 4-5 days of the week will help. Fiction, non-fiction, magazines, graphic novels, journals, you name it – we want to know about it!
Check out our flyer below and visit our website for our top picks if you’re not sure where to start.
Be sure to follow @cnmsadvising, #CNMSSummerReads, and #RetrieversRead on Instagram.
UMBC’s Alumni office is also kicking off a university-wide reading program this summer – RETRIEVERS READ! You can find out more information, request a packet (while supplies last), and get started with your challenge. Everyone who participates gets a starter prize pack PLUS the opportunity to win more goodies the more you read! #freepizza
CNMS Advising will be promoting one book a week over on our Instagram page PLUS offering tips on how to engage with specific scholarship in your field of interest. Let’s have the best summer yet!
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PLAITS 2025 - June 16, 2025
Privacy & Liberty in the Age of AI & Immersive Technologies
Date: June 16, 2025
Time: 10am - 5pm
Location: Glass Pavilion, Johns Hopkins University
Food: Free Lunch provided & coffee throughout!
Join leading voices in AI, neuroscience, national security, cybersecurity, public policy, and human-rights for the Privacy and Liberty in the Age of AI and Immersive Technologies (PLAITS) Conference, a free, full-day event hosted at Johns Hopkins University on June 16.
As emerging technologies—from AI (e.g., LLMs, Gen-Art) and algorithmic curation to brain-computer interfaces and smart glasses—become woven into the fabric of our everyday lives, we face urgent questions:
- What does it mean to think and act freely in a world of surveillance and algorithmic manipulation?
- How do we preserve autonomy, privacy, and shared reality in the age of immersive tech while not stifling innovation?
PLAITS 2025, as a mini think tank, brings together experts across academia, industry, and public policy to tackle these issues head-on through talks, panels, and interactive workshops. Spots are limited,
so register early.
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WGEC Suggested Summer Readings
Looking for your next feminist read? The Women's, Gender, & Equity Center has got you! We've curated a list of books for students, faculty, and staff to read at their leisure and boost their feminist knowledge this summer. Relevant to work that's happening on the ground and at UMBC, these books embody the principles that the Women's, Gender, & Equity Center seeks to fulfill. You can also
check out our Summer Book Club here.
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"Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm" by Kazu Haga - This book introduces a philosophy of nonviolence rooted in Kingian principles, offering a powerful guide for engaging conflict and harm with empathy, accountability, and transformative justice. Haga blends activism, healing, and community care into a practice of "fierce vulnerability." This book is being read as part of the Center for Social Justice Dialogue's Summer Read program.
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"From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expanding Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education" by Tia Brown McNair, Estela Bensimon, and Lindsey Malcolm-Piquex- This practical guide challenges institutions to move beyond symbolic gestures by embedding equity and racial justice into policies, assessment, and leadership. It provides tools for higher education professionals committed to sustainable change.
- "White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color" by Ruby Hamad - Hamad explores how white feminism has historically excluded and harmed women of color by upholding systems of white supremacy and colonialism. She weaves personal narrative with historical and cultural critique to challenge dominant feminist frameworks.
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"On the Wrong Side: How Universities Protect Perpetrators and Betray Survivors of Sexual Violence" by Nicole Bedera - Drawing on ethnographic research, Bedera exposes how campus Title IX systems often protect accused students--particularly privilege white men--while retraumatizing survivors. She critiques the myth of neutrality in institutional responses and calls for equity-centered reforms that prioritize survivor safety, inclusion, and voice.
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"Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City" edited by P. Nicole King, Kate Drabinski, and Joshua Clark Davis - Edited in part by UMBC's very own Dr. Nicole King and Dr. Kate, this book is recommended for community members looking to learn more about the politics and battlegrounds in the city they learn from. Covering a range of topics, from environmental justice, capitalism and gentrification, to indigenous roots and rights, Baltimore Revisited is the activist's guide to Baltimore.
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"Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From Marine Mammals" by Alexis Pauline Gumbs - Beginning as a pandemic social media campaign, Gumbs' unlikely comparison between Black women's experiences and the objectification of marine mammals creates an "emergent strategy," one that has helped many reimagine their relationship with change. This book is recommended for community members that are looking to engage with feminist materials for the first time, or those looking for a new way to envision change.
The Women's, Gender, & Equity Center is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy. Summer is the perfect time to crack open a new feminist book--but feminist books pair best with feminist conversation. Join the Women's, Gender, & Equity Center this summer for our annual Summer Book Club to discuss our chosen book in community!
"Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice" by Judith Herman - Pioneering trauma expert Judith Herman redefines justice from the perspective of survivors, emphasizing healing, accountability, and the need for community-based responses beyond punitive systems. It centers the voices of those often ignored in traditional legal frameworks.
Book club meetings will take place virtually and in-person at the WGEC Lounge (Commons 004) simultaneously. Each meeting will discuss one part of the book as outlined below. Copies of the book are available to read in the Women's, Gender, & Equity Center.
Part 1 Chapters 1-3: Power - June 26, 1-2pm
Part 2 Chapters 4-6: Vision - July 17, 1-2pm
Part 3 Chapters 7-9 Healing - August 7, 1-2pm
This book club is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy. Jianyu “Kevin” Zheng, a postdoctoral fellow with the Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR) Center II, whose work focuses on remote sensing for dust aerosols, is the recipient of the 2025 Elsevier/JQSRT Richard M. Goody Award. This honor recognizes early-career researchers for outstanding contributions to the fields of atmospheric radiation and remote sensing. Zheng, Ph.D. ’23, atmospheric physics, will accept the award in June at the 21st Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference in Milazzo, Italy.
Zheng researches microscopic particles from deserts that drift across the globe, influencing Earth’s climate. These particles play a dual role in the planet’s radiation budget, which describes how much heat is trapped or reflected.
“Aerosols can scatter solar radiation, but they can also absorb thermal radiation from the Earth. If the scattering effect is stronger, that will cause cooling. If the absorption effect is stronger, then it causes warming,” Zheng says. “That causes uncertainties, because right now we still don’t know to what extent aerosols are warming or cooling in different circumstances, due to our limited understanding of how aerosols’ properties change during global transport.”
Zheng’s research digs into this complexity, offering insights that could sharpen the accuracy of climate predictions.
A dust aerosol size surprise
Using satellite data, Zheng studies dust as it travels from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean. His findings show that dust particles are on average larger than most scientists expected. Other emerging research using samples collected from ocean-mounted buoys has also shown that large particles can stay aloft for weeks or months—much longer than researchers had assumed.
“Particle size on average generally decreases over time during transport,” Zheng says, “but our study shows that it remains relatively constant as dust transports over the North Atlantic until it reaches Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.”
He also identified seasonal shifts in particle sizes. Current climate models assume a constant rate of particle shrinkage as dust travels across the Atlantic, and they completely overlook seasonal dynamics, so Zheng’s discoveries are pushing experts to rethink how aerosols are represented in climate models.
Today Zheng is expanding his work to investigate particle size variability over land, an even more complex dynamic than over the ocean.
Left: Zheng also recently received the NASA Goddard Outstanding Scientific Achievement Award. (Courtesy of Zheng)
Finding his niche
Zheng’s academic journey began in China, where he completed a bachelor’s degree in geography and a master’s focused on atmospheric science. Then a chance encounter with Zhibo Zhang, professor of physics, changed his trajectory.
“I hadn’t thought about coming to the U.S., but Zhibo invited me to consider UMBC when we met at a research conference,” Zheng recalls. “I thought the United States might be a good choice to try learning in a different environment.”
With Zhang’s guidance and access to collaborators at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Zheng has honed his expertise in dust aerosol research over several years.
Jianyu Zheng (right) graduated with his Ph.D. in December 2023, conducting research with Zhibo Zhang (left). (Courtesy of Zheng)
“Zhibo is the reason I ended up taking this postdoc position at NASA Goddard, because of the close collaborators that he has there who were engaged with my Ph.D. project,” Zheng says. At Goddard, Zheng is mentored by Hongbin Yu, a research physical scientist.
“I have to give thanks to both of them, Zhibo and Hongbin, for keeping me motivated to continue this work. It helped me build up a reputation in this specific field early in my career,” Zheng says. “I think it’s the most important reason that I got this award, because right now I am an early-career scientist who is considered as rising in this field among the scientific community—they recognize this work.”
In his current role, Zheng continues to explore the frontiers of atmospheric science. His work not only deepens our understanding of aerosols but also lays the groundwork for more reliable climate models—with implications that reach far beyond the lab.
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Cell Migration
A collaborative Math-Bio research
Naghmeh Akhavan defended her doctoral dissertation last month. The interdisciplinary research, under the supervision of her mentor, Dr. Brad Peercy, and in collaboration with fellow graduate student Alex George and Dr. Michelle Starz-Gaiano of Biology, has led to an article published in iScience.
For the full story, read the UMBC News article in the link below.
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