UMBC Mic'd Up
UMBC Mic'd Up
Latest Episodes
How Great Leaders Create Trust, Growth, and Innovation
What separates a good leader from a truly effective one?In this episode of UMBC Mic'd Up, host Dennise Cardona, M.A. '23 sits down with Karl Douglas, L.H.D. (Hon.), Graduate Faculty in UMBC's Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Leadership ...
How to Develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset in Any Career
What separates people who act on ideas from those who stay stuck in overthinking?In this episode of UMBC Mic'd Up, host Dennise Cardona, M.A. ’23, sits down with Shawn Wolf, D.S.L., graduate faculty member in UMBC's Entrepreneurship, Inn...
Preparing Students for an AI-Powered Workforce
How should colleges prepare students for an AI-driven world? In this episode of UMBC Mic’d Up, Dennise Cardona, M.A. ’23, sits down with Professor Ron Wilson from UMBC’s Geographic Information Systems Master’s program to explore how ar...
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How Data Science Helped Build a Smarter Fitness App
Manikanta Sirumalla, a graduate student in UMBC’s Data Science program, shares the story behind Rep Track Pro — an AI-powered fitness app designed to bring workouts, nutrition, recovery, and progress tracking into one place.In this conve...
More Than a Degree: Becoming a Systems Problem Solver
In this episode of UMBC Mic’d Up, we sat down with Gordon Quach, M.S. ’25, to talk about his journey through the Systems Engineering graduate program at UMBC.Gordon shares what led him to pursue a master’s degree, how he balanced work an...
