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Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2020

Free-of-charge all-videoconferencing edition on Wed Sept 30

OKLAHOMA SUPERCOMPUTING SYMPOSIUM 2020 Wed Sep 30 2020, 9:00am-5:00pm Central Time Our first all-videoconferencing edition! Contact: Henry Neeman (hneeman@ou.edu)...

Posted: September 10, 2020, 8:54 AM

Covid-19 Scams Are Still Active

Some More Tips To Identify Contact Tracing Scams

With Covid-19 being something we all face in our daily lives, malicious actors are not giving up on scamming people out of not only their personal and financial information, but are also trying to...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 8:09 PM

Covid-19 Contact Tracing Scams

Contact Tracing Scammers Are Still Active

With Covid-19 still very present in our day to day lives, many states have started to roll out contact tracing programs to help control the spread of disease. This is done by informing people who...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 7:52 PM

Job Scam "Internship" From A Compromised UMBC Account

Check The "Reply-To" Address

The job scam below was recently reported to DoIT. The subject of the email is just “Internship” and has a very short message as can be seen below. The name and email of the from and to fields were...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 7:42 PM

HPCF Update

Request for publications

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, This is my regular reminder, coming from the HPCF Governance Committee as well as from the PI/co-PIs of the NSF MRI grant that funded a lot of the...

Posted: September 9, 2020, 10:38 AM

USM OnTrack: New Resources on How to Use Labster Available!

Recommendations for enhancing traditionally taught courses

USM OnTrack is continuing to support adoption of Labster for online courses. Please see below recommended resources for enhancing traditionally taught courses with Labster below:     A...

Posted: September 8, 2020, 7:06 PM

USM OnTrack: Understanding Students’ Readiness to Learn

New online resources to help identify and address challenges

USM OnTrack WEBSITE  New Online Resources:  Understanding Students’ Readiness to Learn  Last spring’s move to emergency remote teaching may impact how ready students are to learn coming into...

Posted: September 8, 2020, 6:59 PM

New USM Workshop! -Responding to Academic Integrity Concerns

Attend this Virtual Session on 10/2 from 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.!

USM OnTrack would like to invite you to attend a virtual workshop on Academic Integrity in Online Learning.  Register Now: https://forms.gle/9jJDwzCFeMq26WhKA   Responding to Academic...

Posted: September 8, 2020, 6:30 PM

FAKE Offer Of A "Personal Assistant" Job

NOTICE: "Ryan Glenn" Does NOT Want To Hire You.

In the last several days, the UMBC community has received thousands of fake job offers from "Ryan Glenn".  An example is shown below: You are eligible to apply for an opening as...

Posted: August 31, 2020, 3:01 PM

Fake Cisco Phishing Job Scams

Cisco Systems Is NOT Offering You A Job In A Mass Emailing!

DoIT has been notified of another malicious actor sending out phishing emails claiming to offer job opportunities with Cisco Systems. The email below is similar to the previous phishing attempts,...

Posted: August 31, 2020, 2:06 PM