Center for Women in Technology News

The UMBC Women’s Center has planned this year’s Critical Social Justice Week (CSJ) around the core idea that “a single light can’t illuminate a city or a nation, but it can ignite a movement that...

Busy teams of students clustered around laptops in a room overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on Tuesday, focused on solving as many challenges as possible during a “capture-the-flag” style...

Cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States and a recent Business-Higher Education Forum report calls Maryland the “epicenter of national cybersecurity.” The...

Kourtney Rutkowski B.S., Mechanical Engineering Minor: Psychology Cum Laude Hometown: Bel Air, Maryland Plans: M.S., mechanical engineering, UMBC UMBC has also helped to grow my...

Priyanka Ranade B.S., Information Systems Cum Laude Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland Plans: Cyber Software Engineer, Northrop Grumman Corporation As a woman minority in technology, I got...

Bryan Vanek B.S., Computer Science Minor: Mathematics Cum Laude Hometown: Frederick, Maryland Plans: Computer Network Operations Development Program, U.S. Department of Defense If it...

Katherine Dillon B.S., Computer Science Magna Cum Laude Hometown: Ellicott City, Maryland Plans: Software Engineer, Google; M.S., computer science, UMBC The CWIT program has prepared me to...

Global investment management firm T. Rowe Price is supporting cybersecurity research and students at UMBC through a new sponsorship of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity. The funding reinforces...

Cybersecurity is regularly a headliner in the news, especially when personal information stored online has been compromised, whether through a breach, hack, or threat. On Thursday, December 7,...

The UMBC community gathered for the 2017 UMBC Alumni Awards on October 5 in the Linehan Concert Hall to celebrate individuals who have made impressive contributions to society through their work....