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    <div class="html-content">Reposting!<div><br></div><div>Access the original post <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">here</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><span>On the heels of the successful “<a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/629863162864603e9f3bdcb05a3754c3/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutube.com%2Fplaylist%3Flist%3DPLTzS9-qybtgtXUlejp9VuC1Gjxq_YgC98%26si%3DnxxmZDo80EVt9Wmg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">AI, Privacy, and Ethics Symposium</a>” of April 2024, we’re back with a new iteration! Please join us for this fall’s AI Symposium, titled “Exploring the Gadgets &amp; Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit.” This fall’s series will highlight various topics ranging from Google Gemini and its integration into UMBC platforms, to the broader legal implications of using generative AI, and much more! This <strong>free symposium</strong> will be held <strong>virtually at noon via Webex on Wednesdays beginning October 1st through November 12th. </strong></span></div><div><span><strong><br></strong></span></div><div><span>Below you will find the individual links for each discussion:</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/aeebdc3cd11dc298fd1bb79bc32ae506/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144136" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, October 1st @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/aeebdc3cd11dc298fd1bb79bc32ae506/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144136" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Dr. Mariann Hawken (Director of Instructional Technology, UMBC) </strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/aeebdc3cd11dc298fd1bb79bc32ae506/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144136" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Google Gemini: AI Tools for Research, Teaching, &amp; Learning</a></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/3b6c18f68750a04dc6b5a25c878fcc36/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144144" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, October 8th @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/3b6c18f68750a04dc6b5a25c878fcc36/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144144" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Brianna Hughes (STEM Reference &amp; Instruction Librarian, UMBC)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/3b6c18f68750a04dc6b5a25c878fcc36/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144144" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Assembling an AI Toolbox: Access-Oriented Approaches to Scholarship and Instruction</a></span></div><div><span><strong><br></strong></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/d0bd73a22f25b1b08dcbc078d079c441/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144145" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, October 15th @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/d0bd73a22f25b1b08dcbc078d079c441/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144145" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Nina-Simone Edwards, JD (Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Technology Law &amp; Policy)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/d0bd73a22f25b1b08dcbc078d079c441/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144145" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Beyond the Hype: Embedding Ethics in AI Policy for Libraries and Higher Ed</a></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/5a35fcc301cec908f6666f8dfb3f6e6b/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144146" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, October 22nd @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/5a35fcc301cec908f6666f8dfb3f6e6b/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144146" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Jennifer Posada, (PhD student, Human-Centered Computing, UMBC)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/5a35fcc301cec908f6666f8dfb3f6e6b/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144146" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Making Sense of Data with AI: Lowering Barriers, Expanding Who Participates</a></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/e859137f3c687d2220640d0d1787ae08/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144147" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, October 29th @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/e859137f3c687d2220640d0d1787ae08/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144147" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Dr. Manas Gaur (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science &amp; Electrical Engineering, UMBC)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/e859137f3c687d2220640d0d1787ae08/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144147" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Yash Saxena (PhD student, Computer Science, UMBC)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/e859137f3c687d2220640d0d1787ae08/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144147" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia through Structured, Interpretable Knowledge Retrieval and Source Attribution</a></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/ebd4ccc94e5d53f9527d4c10892f486a/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144148" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, November 5th @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/ebd4ccc94e5d53f9527d4c10892f486a/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144148" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Dr. Roberto Yus (Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science &amp; Electrical Engineering, UMBC)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/ebd4ccc94e5d53f9527d4c10892f486a/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144148" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">The Privacy Paradox of GenAI: What It Knows, Why It Matters, and How We Fight Back</a></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/fc6bd1cd3b1088271090f2a7664d6631/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144149" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Wednesday, November 12th @ 12pm EST:</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/fc6bd1cd3b1088271090f2a7664d6631/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144149" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><strong>Dr. Eric Stokan (Associate Professor, Department of Political Science &amp; Director of CS3, UMBC)</strong></a></span></div><div><span><a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/library/posts/151504/4186f/fc6bd1cd3b1088271090f2a7664d6631/web/link?link=https%3A%2F%2Fmy3.my.umbc.edu%2Fgroups%2Flibrary%2Fevents%2F144149" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Advanced Opportunities with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs): Examples from the Social Sciences</a></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Our symposium was made possible thanks to the following sponsors:</span></div><div><span>UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT), The Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Department of Computer Science &amp; Electrical Engineering, the Department of Information Systems, and The Hackerman Foundation.</span></div></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@omilaev?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Igor Omilaev</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-computer-chip-with-the-letter-a-on-top-of-it-eGGFZ5X2LnA?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Unsplash</a><br></span></div></div>
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    <Title>Build Your Research Toolkit: New Grad Student Workshops from AOK Library! Post</Title>
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  <Title>Simons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and Evolution Policies and Procedures Open Application Deadline July 31, 2025</Title>
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    <Title>Grad Voices Matter: Listening Sessions for UMBC Graduate Students</Title>
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  <Title>Damon Runyon-St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship Award - Request for Applications</Title>
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