Here are the winners of the 4th annual Baltimore Innovation Awards

Dean Julie Ross of UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology, has been named to the Executive Committee of the Global Engineering Dean’s Council. She will serve a three-year term on the committee, and will work closely with engineering deans from around the world to advance engineering education, research, and service globally.

In her role on the council, Dean Ross will attend the annual conference of the GEDC in Seoul, Korea in early November.

UMBC’s engineering and IT programs and leaders have increasingly received national and international recognition, and become major players when it comes to innovating engineering and IT education, both in universities and in K-12.

In 2015, Renetta Tull, associate vice provost for graduate student development and postdoctoral affairs, was named one of just three global finalists for the prestigious GEDC Airbus Diversity Award, in recognition of her work to promote inclusion and diversity in STEM fields. The honor focused on her leadership in the PROMISE Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) program, which works to increase the number of future engineering faculty from underrepresented groups.

Dean Ross and Associate Dean Marie desJardins, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, have recently participated in multiple White House events examining the future of computer science education, particularly how giving more kids exposure to computer science early on could diversify the tech workforce of the future.

Image: Julie Ross. Photo by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC.

The following statement was released early to The Retriever. From Patrick Dawson, AOK Library Director:

Yesterday the first floor of the AOK Library & Gallery suffered a water leak inside the Retriever Learning Center.  The water has been cleaned up and there is an ongoing effort to remove the remainder of moisture from all spaces that were affected by the leak. Environmental Safety & Health (ESH) has been monitoring air quality in the building since the leak occurred and the results indicate healthy indoor air quality.

The library building remains open and is operating on its regular schedule. However, during the cleanup effort, some areas within the library will be closed: The Retriever Learning Center, Writing Center and Math Lab, the Basement, and Gallery.

All efforts are being made to recover from this leak as quickly as possible and to ensure that the drying process is complete before reopening the affected areas. We anticipate that the library will be fully operational by the weekend.

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 Chris Geddes, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and director of the Institute of Fluorescence, won a phase III award in this round for Lyse-it, a company that produces a low-cost portable device that breaks open cells and chops up their DNA to prescribed fragment sizes, a step required in many sample-preparation procedures in the biomedical research and health care industries. The phase III funding will facilitate production of a large inventory of the Lyse-it product and support development of a rapid marketing strategy.