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Update on Facilities Emergency as of Friday, Oct. 23

Following Tuesday morning's electrical incident originating in the mechanical room of Building 42, power disruptions impacted Buildings 32, 38, 39, 42, 43 and 47.

Power has since been restored to Buildings 38, 39, 43 and 47. Buildings 56 and 71 were not impacted by this incident. Additionally, Buildings 44, 46 east and 46 west were unaffected and remained fully operational throughout the event.

The university's electrical contractor continues to assess the damage and determine options for restoring and redistributing power to Buildings 32 and 42. As a result, Buildings 32 and 42 will remain closed through Monday, Nov. 2, while assessments are completed and necessary repairs or equipment replacements are identified and implemented.

Academic Operations

  • The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) will remain under Emergency Remote Instruction (ERI) while Buildings 32 and 42 are unavailable.
  • Classes for all non-SEAS students will resume normal operations.
  • Classes at the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, Community College, Congress Heights campus and DCA Aviation Hangar will continue as scheduled.

Administrative Operations

  • Administrative and support functions at the Van Ness campus will resume normal business operations and maintain regular business hours.

Guidance for SEAS Faculty and Staff

  • SEAS staff should contact their immediate supervisors regarding remote work expectations.
  • SEAS faculty should consult their supervisors for ERI-related guidance.
  • The Center for the Advancement of Learning (CAL) remains available to support instructional continuity, including Blackboard, Zoom and other teaching and learning technologies.

CAL Faculty Support Resources

Guidance for SEAS Students

  • Due to this facilities emergency, SEAS in-person operations will remain suspended through Monday, Nov. 2. Instruction will continue remotely through both synchronous and asynchronous formats.
  • Courses requiring laboratory, clinical, studio or other hands-on instruction may require makeup sessions. However, every effort will be made to maintain academic continuity through virtual learning whenever possible. Faculty conducting synchronous instruction should continue to meet during published class times to minimize disruptions to student schedules.

The safety and well-being of our students, faculty, staff and community remain our highest priority. We will continue to provide updates as additional information becomes available.

Please continue to monitor the university website and official social media channels for the latest information.

For safety concerns, contact OPSEM at 202-274-5050. For emergencies, call 911.

Thank you for your flexibility, cooperation and continued commitment to UDC and our students.

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Marzieh Savadkhoohi

March 1, 2023
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Marzieh SavadkhoohiMechanical Engineering and NSF-CREST supported PhD candidate Marzieh Savadkhoohi won the overall First Prize at the “ Emerging Researchers Network (ERN) Conference in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics hosted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Inclusive STEM Ecosystems for Equity & Diversity (ISEED) Programs and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Human Resource Development (HRD). The objective of the conference is to help undergraduate and graduate students to enhance their science communication skills and to better understand how to prepare for science careers in a global workforce. Marzieh will be graduating by summer ‘23 as the first PhD student in Mechanical Engineering from UDC. Her faculty advisor is Dr. Pawan Tyagi. Marzieh has several journal papers already under her belt, including papers in collaboration with NIST.

Biography
Marzieh Savadkoohi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Engineering & Computer Science doctoral program at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and works in the NSF-CREST center of Nanotechnology, Research, and Education (CNRE) under the supervision of Prof. Tyagi. She is also a research associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) since the Summer of 2021. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics and a master’s degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics. Her main research focus is nanotechnology and the fabrication of molecular-based magnetic tunnel junctions for computer memory devices. She is seeking an unprecedented magnetoresistance ratio in such elements to advance the magnetic tunnel junction field. In her research collaboration with NIST she is studying another type of memory device called Spin-transfer torque Random Access Memories (STT-RAMs). She is an expert in device fabrication and characterization using photolithography, thin film deposition, and various microscopy techniques (i.e., AFM, MFM, SEM, etc). She also holds keen interests in the area of data analytics and Artificial Intelligence to discover insights, find new patterns, and discover relationships in quantitative and qualitative data.

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