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Technical.ly
6 days ago
- Health
- Technical.ly
This Week in Jobs: Stay ahead of the edge of change with these 25 tech career opportunities
This week in tech history saw one of the biggest, most world-changing launches in modern times, on scale with the invention of the light bulb, radio and automobile. And if you were around at the time, even as an adult, you probably didn't notice. On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee made the World Wide Web public. The internet and even websites did exist before that date, but there was no real way to navigate it. Pre WWW users either signed on (with their landline telephone) to bulletin board systems or, if they worked for an especially tech-forward company, to access an internal network. Everything was text based — no color display, photos or videos. If the average person saw it, it would have looked pretty boring. A few visionaries saw it as anything but boring, and they started building the digital world we live in today. The internet changed everything. With AI, we're standing at the edge of a similar change. We've been here before, and when it comes to jobs, be a visionary ready to build what comes next. The News AI-based resume scanners and productivity trackers can unwittingly discriminate against people with disabilities, but tools designed with accessibility in mind can level the field. University of Baltimore's Center for AI Learning and Community-Engaged Innovation will serve as a space where AI technology is not only studied, but actively applied to address local needs. The mid-Atlantic region has the potential to be a power region with the advent of AI, as the US tech economy starts to become less concentrated on the West Coast. With the boom in data centers, municipalities confront the impact of 'large load' customers on residents — and their electric bills. DC startup JotPsych builds AI tools for behavioral health, and just closed a $5M seed round. A growing 'nursineer' movement blends tech and medicine to fix healthcare from the inside. Philly-founded Melanated Women's Health, centered on culturally affirming care for communities often left out of traditional therapy models, is expanding across Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh and into neighboring states, New Jersey and Delaware. Partner Spotlight At self-storage company CubeSmart, team members say it's what's inside that counts. The CubeSmart team is made up of people who have a can-do attitude, are committed to their own success and the success of the company, and lead by example. Learn more about CubeSmart's culture and explore job openings including Database Engineer and Web Application Developer. The Jobs Greater Philly Comcast is looking for an AI Enablement Advisor. Clerri is hiring a hybrid Product Marketing Manager, Sales Development Representative and Content Marketing Manager. Crossbeam is seeking a hybrid Business Development Representative, Activation Specialist. Databricks is hiring a Senior Solutions Engineer. CapitalOne has an open listing for a Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack (Bank Tech). DC + Baltimore Booz Allen Hamilton in DC is hiring a Lead AI Solutions Engineer. Brooksource in Baltimore is seeking a Financial Systems Security Admin. Scale AI in DC is seeking a Solutions Engineer. Amazon Web Services in Arlington has a listing for a Generative AI Solutions Architect. Atlassian is seeking a Senior Security Engineer. Pittsburgh Duolingo has a listing for an AI Product Engineer, Generated Sessions. Proofpoint is seeking a Staff Product Manager. Oculus VR needs a . Gray Swan AI has listings for a Software Engineer and a Marketing Manager/Director. Arcadis is seeking a Senior Toll Systems Analyst. The End History repeats, and this time, you're working on it.
Technical.ly
6 days ago
- Business
- Technical.ly
UBalt is launching an AI center that focuses on access, not just innovation
Baltimoreans now have a new place to learn about and explore AI, thanks to the University of Baltimore. Announced July 28, the Center for AI Learning and Community-Engaged Innovation (CAILI) will serve as a space where AI technology is not only studied, but actively applied to address local needs. CAILI, led by Jessica Stansbury, UBalt's director of teaching and learning excellence and the center's inaugural director, wants to ensure AI doesn't widen the existing digital divide. 'It's not that CAILI is just a place for AI innovation,' Stansbury told 'It's more that CAILI is a place of AI innovation with and for Baltimore.' Stansbury and her colleagues believe CAILI will set itself apart from other university-run centers — like the two-year-old Johns Hopkins Data Science and AI Institute, for example — by prioritizing public understanding and practical engagement over research. 'We're really looking to make sure that people are aware of what AI is, that folks are AI literate, particularly with respect to working professionals and people who are going to need to manage how others are using AI in the workplace,' said Aaron Wachhaus, associate provost at UBalt. Created with collaboration, with goals to boost community impact The center, which will be supported by the provost's office for the first three years, was born out of two years of AI-focused initiatives and research within the university. Initial efforts included 'Learn with Me' sessions for faculty and students exploring tools like ChatGPT. By mid-2023, UBalt had joined a national research initiative led by an education research nonprofit Ithaka S+R, collaborating with other institutions to explore AI in higher education. The university hosted its first AI Summit in June 2024, which brought together students, faculty, local organizations and industry leaders to collectively define 'AI literacy.' The summit became a catalyst for deeper community involvement and helped shape the vision for CAILI. 'We can't be blindly developing curriculum if we don't understand how it's impacting the community and industry,' Stansbury said. 'So we brought everyone to the table.' Those conversations led to the creation of a free AI in Practice webinar series, featuring industry experts discussing the use of AI in higher education. UBalt partnered with JHU and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County on the series. 'I really firmly believe, not only with my faculty background, but my administrative background, that this is a space where we cannot afford to compete,' Stansbury said, underscoring her commitment to cross-institutional partnership. Helping Baltimoreans understand and navigate AI While CAILI doesn't yet have a physical space, it will operate through open-access venues like the university library and travel to partner organizations for lunch and learn workshops. Stansbury is still recruiting partners for the center, but hopes to develop AI literacy workshops at libraries in the future. Stansbury also wants to use the center to address the ethical concerns surrounding AI use. UBalt has already experimented with new educational tools like MoodleBox, a platform that allows students to interact with multiple AI engines. Last fall, students in an AI ethics and philosophy course used the tool to explore generative AI models and learn about biases within the technology. Dean Merritt, a UBalt alum and vice president of sales at Baltimore-based SaaS company Mindgrub, has participated in AI in business panels hosted by the university. He sees UBalt as uniquely positioned to help Baltimoreans understand and navigate AI, given its strong ties to the local community and its focus on serving working adults and nontraditional students. 'The university as a whole has always been very accessible to all levels of education, all generations, those that are working and trying to learn and level up their careers as well as those who are going into it full-time,' Merritt said. 'It's a great place to focus on the real-world application of AI.' Maria Eberhart is a 2025-2026 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Project that pairs emerging journalists with local newsrooms. This position is supported in part by the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation and the Abell Foundation. .
CBS News
26-06-2025
- Business
- CBS News
University of Baltimore faces 8% budget cut as enrollment declines
The University of Baltimore will implement an 8% budget cut due to dropping enrollment, according to the Baltimore Banner. In an email to staff Wednesday evening, the university's chief financial officer, Barbara Aughenbaugh, said the cuts will be enacted through a combination of reductions to "personnel and non-personnel budget lines." She did not specify how many layoffs, if any, might occur. Aughenbaugh added that there will also be "other actions," which the university is finalizing with external constituents, including "strategic academic program closures and re-designs" across several colleges. The Banner said that the university's enrollment has fallen by nearly half over the past 10 years. Results of a 2020 report conducted by a task force appointed to study financial problems facing the university revealed that tuition and revenue are UB's primary revenue sources—and revealed a need to stabilize enrollment. The university has four colleges for arts and sciences, business, law, and public affairs, along with a campus at the system's Shady Grove program. Maryland universities face financial strain University of Baltimore's cuts come after the slash of more than $150 million from the University System of Maryland in Gov. Wes Moore's effort to resolve the state's $3 billion deficit. Each of the USM's 12 universities now faces cuts around 7%. The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) announced layoffs of 30 full-time staff and the elimination of 30 vacant positions due to these federal cuts, alongside "modest salary reductions" affecting about 1,000 employees, including leadership. Johns Hopkins University reported laying off 2,200 workers in March 2025, citing the loss of USAID funding and new caps on indirect research costs imposed by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On June 5, JHU said it was pausing pay increases and reducing spending due to funding uncertainty. The university said those cost reductions will extend through at least the 2026 academic year, and possibly longer. Then on June 19, Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland sued the U.S. Department of Defense over research funding cuts.
Yahoo
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Baltimore Sun Hall of Fame 2025: Stuart O. ‘Stu' Simms, lawyer and leader
How do you get difficult things done? Stuart O. 'Stu' Simms has a theory on that. The onetime Baltimore state's attorney, former secretary to two Cabinet-level state agencies and partner at Brown, Goldstein & Levy boils it down to this: It's about getting the right people in the room. Oh, that doesn't mean it's going to be easy or fast. You can expect a lot of different ideas and personalities. But if you can get people who know their stuff, who genuinely seek to solve problems and not promote personal agendas, the 74-year-old Harvard Law-trained lawyer says, the resulting conversation can put you on the right road. An example? Years ago, Baltimore Police regularly had big backlogs of arrestees. The legal community wondered: Why not locate a court to review bails next to the jail? Some people in the judiciary balked. But thanks to Simms and others advocating for that reform, eventually it happened —and it helped. 'You have to come to the table and be open to some solutions,' Simms says. And that is a philosophy that has guided his career. Simms, now retired, may be remembered as one of the most successful — and perhaps most low-key — leaders in public safety that Maryland has seen over the past 40 years. Colleagues say his quiet competence commands respect. University of Baltimore President Kurt Schmoke, who chose Simms as his deputy when he was Baltimore state's attorney, traces it back to Simms' days on the gridiron. The Harlem Park native was a fullback and star at Gilman School and then Dartmouth College, where he started three years and helped lead the school to three straight Ivy League football championships. 'He was willing to take those tough jobs like running back,' recalls Schmoke, himself a former star quarterback at Baltimore City College in the same mid-1960s era. 'In his professional life, he demonstrated the same kind of determination as he did as a distinguished athlete in high school and the college level.' But Simms' outlook wasn't just forged on the playing field; it was also shaped by his turbulent times: the late 1960s and the Civil Rights Movement as Black men and women sought to redefine their place in this country. It would have been easy for the son of a steelworker father and public schoolteacher mother to question authority. But he also found inspiration during his senior year at Dartmouth: While on a fellowship in Atlanta, he was introduced to Maynard Jackson, the lawyer and civil rights leader who in 1974 would become the city's first Black mayor. He ended up working for him for almost a year. 'It was a life-changing experience to work with him,' Simms recalls. He considered postponing law school; Jackson told him not to wait. He was needed on the playing field of public service and the law. He was needed to be a change-maker. After Harvard Law, the U.S. Department of Justice eventually beckoned. Simms spent four years there as a prosecutor, gaining trial and investigative acumen. He recalls those days as 'challenging' but enjoyable, learning from the talented courtroom rivals who advocated for criminal defendants. Then came his days as deputy state's attorney in Baltimore, only to find himself promoted to the top job when his boss was elected mayor. Simms was elected state's attorney in 1990 and reelected in 1994. In 1995, then-Gov. Parris Glendening came calling, hiring him first to run the Department of Juvenile Services and in 1997 to serve as secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, one of state government's most challenging assignments. 'If ever I was in a foxhole fighting a war, I'd want Stu there with me,' said U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a Baltimore Democrat who has known Simms for 45 years. 'He has a strong sense of commitment and dedication. And he has a moral compass we don't always find these days with people.' It is notable that those two agencies have been immersed in much controversy in recent years but not so when Simms was running them. Indeed, the fact that his name was rarely in the news may have worked against him when he ran a hastily arranged campaign to be Maryland attorney general in 2006 and lost the Democratic primary to Montgomery County State's Attorney Douglas F. Gansler. 'Decency. That's the word that suits Stu,' said Larry Gibson, the longtime Democratic organizer and law professor who managed his political campaigns. 'He is an intelligent, decent, productive person. Not someone who seeks limelight or has a large ego.' In more recent years, he's also someone who has been supporting many civic and professional causes, serving as chief counsel to Maryland Legal Aid and on the boards of the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Gilman and others. In 2022, he lost his beloved Candace, his wife of 49 years. They first met in high school and developed a lasting bond in college. He is a father of two and grandfather of two. His hope for the future? That others will look to do the right thing and not spend time 'thinking about the damn headlines,' as he was once told by his coach at Gilman. 'I took the job seriously,' he says. 'I wanted to do the right thing.' Peter Jensen is an editorial writer at The Baltimore Sun; he can be reached at pejensen@ Age: 74 Hometown: Baltimore Current residence: Baltimore Education: Gilman School; Dartmouth College; Harvard Law School Career highlights: Staff counsel to U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes; assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland; Baltimore state's attorney; secretary of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Justice and the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; partner, Brown, Goldstein & Levy; Maryland Legal Aid chief counsel Civic and charitable activities: University of Maryland School of Law advisory board; board member for Baltimore Museum of Art, president of the Baltimore Educational Scholarship Trust and past board member of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, Gilman School, Sinai Hospital, St. James Episcopal Church, United Way of Central Maryland, Baltimore Community Foundation, Associated Black Charities and the Baltimore NAACP Family: Wife Candace died in 2022; two sons; two grandchildren
Yahoo
23-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
FCC grads grateful for support systems, proud of their achievements
Ines Agopome said she is proof that with persistence, faith and the right support systems, people can break through barriers and generational curses they didn't think they could ever overcome. Agopome was one of two student speakers at Frederick Community College's commencement ceremony Thursday evening at Knott Arena in Emmitsburg. She received an associate degree in social sciences with a concentration in psychology. She plans to continue pursuing a bachelor's degree in counseling psychology at the University of Baltimore with a full scholarship. Agopome's parents are immigrants from Togo, a country in Africa. As she faced the crowd of hundreds at the arena, she told everyone important lessons she and her sister learned from her parents. One was that hard work and perseverance are not just tools, but survival skills. Another lesson was that no matter where people come from, the knowledge they carry can't be taken away from them. Before coming to FCC, Agopome was a student at Montgomery College. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Agopome gave birth to her daughter. She realized that to give her daughter everything she wanted, Agopome needed to reflect and look at what she personally wanted, too. She realized she was pursuing the wrong major and was not at the best school for her, so with the help of her family and friends, she found FCC. Agopome said her daughter is the main reason she could complete her associate degree and continues to have purpose in her actions and life. She thanked her own family and support systems during her speech, tearing up at the mention of her daughter. She told the arena to raise their imaginary glasses, cellphones or whatever else they preferred to cheer the class of 2025. "The world is already yours, you're capable of so much more than you know, and the knowledge you've gained here will never be taken away," Agopome said. FCC's class of 2025 has 915 graduating students, and about a quarter of the class consists of first-generation college graduates. The vast majority of the class — 90% — received associate degrees, while the rest of the graduates received certificates of accomplishment. As the graduates processed into the arena wearing their green robes, audience members cheered loudly and waved excitedly down at the graduates they came to support. Giulietta Jafari was the other student speaker for the ceremony, alongside Agopome. She also made it a point to thank her parents for the sacrifices they made, so Jafari could pursue her education. Jafari received associate degrees in English and paralegal studies. She will attend the University of Maryland in the fall to study philosophy and linguistics, according to a Facebook post from FCC announcing the 2025 commencement student speakers. Jafari said her father is Persian and fled to Iran to escape religious persecution. Her mother was 16 years old and alone, and had little money to support herself. While her parents' biggest concerns were survival, Jafari said, her biggest concerns were unplugging the family's Wii gaming console fast enough before her sister could beat her in the video game Mario Kart. Jafari said her dad would tell her to never give up and never surrender whenever she faced an obstacle. She keeps that sentiment in mind to this day. "I'll always be grateful for [my parents], for the opportunity and sacrifices that they made, so that I could graduate on this day with all of you today, so that I could attend university without denying who I am, so that I could grow into the best version of myself and seize every opportunity that comes my way," she said. FCC President Annesa Payne Cheek spoke about the diverse range of backgrounds in the graduating class. She said the class ages ranged from 18 to 68. Some people might have gone to FCC right after graduating high school, while others might have returned to school after years away. Cheek told the class to also remember the people who believed in them when the students didn't believe in themselves. She gave the graduates some words she said she would've needed to hear when she was graduating from college herself: "I belong," "I earned this" and "I'm ready." Jacques Mbengang said he feels accomplished now that he's graduated. He received an associate degree in STEM technology with a concentration in cybersecurity, as well as certificates of accomplishment in computer studies and information security and assurance. Mbengang began attending FCC right after he graduated from high school. He got his first job in information technology at Meritus Medical Center last month and will continue working there after graduation. He said his professors were hands-on and "really took care" of him in and out of the classroom. His father died while he attended FCC, and the college's staff helped him get through that hard period to get his degree. "In my culture, education is really important, and I believe that knowledge is very important," he said. "Being able to acquire it and finish it to the end, even when I could've gave up multiple times, the fact that I was able to keep moving was something that I really take pride in."
