Listening sessions on AI and higher education in AOK Library, room 259
A student-only opportunity
The UMBC AOK Library invites UMBC students to participate in upcoming student-only, student-focused, in-person sessions to share their thoughts on the use of AI on campus. Faculty will not be present, and conversations that occur within the space will remain anonymous to protect students' identities. All levels and all majors are welcome!
There will be free pizza and drinks, and participants can get free swag, in addition to bonus library privileges!
The scheduled sessions are:
These listening sessions are supported by the AOK Library, in partnership with Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, and the Dresher Center.
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UMBC Library 2025 AI Symposia
Online 12-1pm EST on seven Mondays starting on Oct 1
UMBC’s Library will hold a weekly series of seven online AI seminars from 12-1 pm EST on Wednesdays starting on October 1, 2025, on the theme Exploring the Gadgets & Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit. The fall series will cover various topics ranging from Google Gemini and its integration into UMBC platforms to the broader legal implications of using generative AI, and much more.
10/1: Dr. Mariann Hawken (Director of Instructional Technology), Google Gemini: AI Tools for Research, Teaching, & Learning
10/8: Brianna Hughes (STEM Reference & Instruction Librarian), Assembling an AI Toolbox: Access-Oriented Approaches to Scholarship and Instruction
10/15: Nina-Simone Edwards, JD (Senior Institute Associate, Institute for Technology Law & Policy), Beyond the Hype: Embedding Ethics in AI Policy for Libraries and Higher Ed
10/22: Jennifer Posada (PhD student, Human-Centered Computing), Making Sense of Data with AI: Lowering Barriers, Expanding Who Participates
10/29: Manas Gaur (Asst. Professor, CSEE), and Yash Saxena (PhD student), Building Trustworthy LLM Agents for Academia through Structured, Interpretable Knowledge Retrieval and Source Attribution
11/5: Roberto Yus (Asst. Professor, CSEE), The Privacy Paradox of GenAI: What It Knows, Why It Matters, and How We Fight Back
11/12: Eric Stokan (Assoc. Professor, Political Science & Director of CS3), Advanced Opportunities with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs): Examples from the Social Sciences
The seminar series is made possible by the following sponsors: Division of Information Technology, Center for Social Science Scholarship, CSEE Department, IS Department, and the Hackerman Foundation.
