Pre-Allied Health Social: Connect with Future Healthcare Professionals Network, relax, and meet other UMBC students interested in a

Join the UMBC Pre-Physician Assistant Society for our Pre-Allied Health Social!
This event is designed to bring together students interested in allied health professions—including Pre-PA, Pre-Nursing, Pre-Physical Therapy, Pre-Occupational Therapy, and more.

Come enjoy light refreshments, meet other students pursuing similar paths, and learn about opportunities within UMBC's health-related student organizations. 

Open to all UMBC Students

Located in Commons Skylight Room

Date/Time: March/April 2026 (Exact time TBD)

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UMBC's Department of Mathematics and Statistics will hold a teaching circle series on "Active Learning and In-class Assessment in the Age of AI", moderated by Professor Manil Suri. The sessions will explore the pedagogical pitfalls and possibilities that new AI systems have opened up, with a focus on Math 200 and 300 level undergraduate courses.

The first session will be held 12-1pm on Monday, October 27, in 409 Sondheim Hall, with subsequent sessions on November 10 and December 8. Participants are encouraged to share their own AI-related classroom experiences at the first meeting.

Get more information and register for the October session here.


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Job Description - 2026 Intern - Pricing & Estimating - Hunt Valley, MD (333800)
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✅ Only 124K miles
✅ Well-maintained & ready to drive
✅ Perfect for campus commuting
✅ Budget-friendly

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From May 10-22, 2025, UMBC Earth and Space Institute (ESI) faculty Dr. Vanderlei Martins, Dr. Lorraine Remer, Dr. Xiaoguang Xu, Dominik Cieslak, and Ian Decker led a special field campaign, based in Bolivia, to study the way sunlight reflects off mirror-like or homogenous natural surfaces. Lake Titicaca and salt pan Salar de Uyuni, two of the highest natural calibration sites in the world, are used by the Earth science community to update the calibration and monitor the performance of many remote sensing climate instruments on-orbit. The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP2), a multi-angle polarimeter instrument built at ESI, makes near-daily measurements of the region from NASA’s currently orbiting Plankton Aerosol Cloud ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite. The goal of this particular field campaign was to measure the lake and salt pan during PACE overpasses to validate HARP2 measurements. Extra measurements at different times and different geometries will help further characterize these sites for PACE and other current and future Earth observation missions.

The ESI group collaborated with Dr. Marcos Andrade at Universidad Mayor de San Andres in Bolivia to organize the campaign and charter a boat to launch a local drone, which would fly DroneHARP, a HARP2-like instrument, for the field measurements. For the campaign's first week, they focused on data from the Salar, which is extremely bright and white at all angles. The next week, the team obtained data over Lake Titicaca; at certain viewing angles, the lake’s smooth water surface acts like a mirror, resulting in sunglint. At these angles, the lake has a much stronger signal, and the signal’s width and brightness depend on the surface wind speed. 

The team flew 28 flights in total over both targets. With real-time predictions from ESI’s Drs. Anin Puthukkudy and Brent McBride at UMBC, DroneHARP flew underneath more than eight Earth science satellites as well, including NASA’s PACE, Terra, and Aqua, plus the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 and EarthCARE. In La Paz, Bolivia, Dr. Andrade’s team supported the DroneHARP measurements with ground-based sensors, including an Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sun photometer, handheld microtops, and a Pandora ceilometer for trace gas estimation. This team also deployed a portable weather station to measure wind, temperature, humidity, and solar radiation.

Now, the ESI team is in the post-campaign phase. UMBC Atmospheric Physics graduate students Tashin Ahammad and Connor Thompson are studying the geometric calibration (the relationship between each image pixel and its light path through the optics) and the accuracy of the internal monitoring unit (IMU), which logs the roll, pitch, and yaw of the drone. These steps are important to get DroneHARP data ready for science. In tandem, Drs. Xu and McBride along with Mr. Cieslak, Mr. Decker, and Mr. Ahammad are leading the quantitative calibration (i.e., the connection between the instrument pixel counts and the light energy being reflected from each target in the imagery). The final product is a dataset where every pixel is georectified on the Earth’s surface and contains a physical measurement of reflected energy.

The ESI team also plans to study the bi-directional reflectance (and polarized) distribution functions (BDRF and pBRDF) of the lake and salt flat with DroneHARP data. These metrics not only describe how much light is expected to scatter from a surface at a specific angle, they also can improve aerosol retrievals (which can be contaminated by surface reflections) or they can be used for vicarious calibration, the process of comparing HARP2 data to theoretical surface models to monitor and update data quality. However, DroneHARP measurements may not compare well with HARP2, unless we understand how spatial scale plays a role. For example, a single pixel for HARP2 is 5 km, which blurs much of the surface details, while DroneHARP can see hexagonal structures and small mounds on the salt flat surface as well as individual wave slopes on the lake – both of which are essential to understanding BDRF and pBRDF.

UMBC Computer Science undergraduate student Natalie McCourt is currently working with Dr. McBride to assess the salt flat from the HARP2 perspective. Ms. McCourt developed a mission-wide database that logged all HARP2 measurements of the Salar de Uyuni for later processing. This database will help the team understand how sunlight scatters off these surfaces throughout the year, how the salt flat scatters light differently after rain and in drought, will validate the DroneHARP data during the campaign days, and will clarify if any of the high-resolution surface features imaged by DroneHARP translate to the signal measured at the top of the atmosphere by HARP2.
Nine images of salt flat, lake, drone harp, salt crystal, researchers from both field teams with a clear blue sky. Described in the photo collage caption.
Photo collage:
(a) Panoramic of the Salar de Uyuni salt flat on a heavy cirrus day.
(b) Zoom of a cuboid salt crystal aggregate from the Salar de Uyuni.
(c) Dr. Lorraine Remer and Dominik Cieslak (foreground) walks on the water-covered Salar de Uyuni. After a rain, the salt flat becomes an “infinity mirror”.
(d) DroneHARP on the chartered boat, about to take measurements over Lake Titicaca.
(e) Undergraduate student Wara Carvajal taking calibration measurements with a microtop, near an AERONET sun photometer and a PANDORA.
(f) Drs. Richard Xu, Marcos Andrade, and Vanderlei Martins at the Uyuni Welcome Center.
(g) Snapshot of the Salar de Uyuni from DroneHARP 300 m in the atmosphere.
(h) Ian Decker catching the DroneHARP on the boat after a lake observation.
(i) Dominik Cieslak (foreground) with DroneHARP and the ESI and Bolivia field teams.
Photo credits: Members of ESI and Universidad Mayor de San Andres
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All are welcomed to attend! 

For more details, contact Arisbeth at 
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The Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation is turning 25, and we want you to be part of the celebration!

Join us at our Alumni Tent (on Erickson Field) on Saturday, October 11, from 4–5 PM during Homecoming for an hour of reconnecting, reminiscing, and celebrating your role in our journey. Enjoy delicious food, refreshing drinks, and the first 50 alumni to stop by will receive a commemorative gift!

Come mingle with fellow entrepreneurial Retrievers, catch up on what's new at the Center, and help us honor 25 years of innovation and impact. We're incredibly proud of all you've accomplished and can't wait to welcome you back! Vivian and the rest of the team look forward to seeing you there!

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Why join Omicron Delta Kappa? If you are a leader, our Society is the best organization to recognize your leadership accomplishments and connect you with other individuals who value collaborative and inclusive leadership. O∆K is the oldest leadership honor society and is highly selective. Fewer than five percent of students on campus will be invited to join. Our Society is also unique in that, in addition to accepting sophomores, juniors, seniors, graduate, and professional students for membership, we also invite faculty, staff, alumni, and community leaders to join.

Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society, recognizes and encourages superior leadership and exemplary character. We support collaboration among students, faculty, and other members of all ages and across the five pillars celebrated by O∆K: academics, athletics, service, communications, and arts. Since our founding in 1914, we have continued to honor and develop leaders through scholarships, workshops, career opportunities, leadership resources, and a lifelong connection to other O∆K members.

Beyond the prestige and professional network, membership in O∆K has tangible monetary benefits that more than cover the cost of the National Initiation Fee.

Want to learn more? Come on out to our November GBM or check your email for recent updates. 
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We are proud to announce that the New Media Studio Team: Dustin Roddy, Matt Baker, Mary Arsenault, and Lenny Frieson have been awarded the DoIT Gritty Award for their critical support of the campus-wide events from convocation to athletic events. Since the beginning of the Fall semester, the New Media Studio team has completed 163 videos, productions, and live events, in addition to onboarding and training a new student team!

Black and Gold Award certificate for the Gritty Award. A dog trophy and stars are besides the winner's names "New Media Studio Team, Mary Arsenault, Lenny Frieson, Matt Baker, & Dustin Roddy"

Below are a few examples of the incredible work that was completed by the New Media Studio Team since the start of the semester:

Video camera is aimed at a speaker being interviewed in front of a geometric screenA laptop and screen sitting on a table with many wires and AV equipment in the backgroundWide lens view of Convocation in the Retriever Center. Faculty, staff, and students sitting in rows of chairs listening to the convocation speakers on stageDigital display and sound board of an athletic gameStudent employees in the soccer recording studio watching the game and running production

The Gritty Award is in recognition of outstanding work within the Division and beyond. Full-time DoIT employees, DoIT student employees, and teams are eligible to be nominated for going above and beyond! Anyone in DoIT can nominate someone for the Gritty by completing this short Gritty Nomination Form. 

For their exceptional efforts and commitment to excellence, we are proud to present the New Media Studio team with the DoIT Gritty Award. Congratulations!

Thank you for your outstanding teamwork, strategic planning, and commitment to high-quality production!

The DoIT Community & The DoIT Gritty Committee

Erica D'Eramo
Ada Crutchfield
Andrew Shebest
Anthony Finneran
Carlos McKinney
Daniel Loftus
Dave Souder
David Toothe
Debbie Michaels
Dondre Hatef
Josh Abrams
Khalil Alston
Matt Baker
Nick Beech
Peter Ariev
Susan Biro

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