Each year 55 of Maryland’s best and brightest college students are given the opportunity to explore careers in public service and nonprofit organizations.

Students are provided this annual opportunity through the Walter Sondheim Jr. Public Service Summer Internship Scholarship Program, as established by House Bill 269. 

Every year the Shriver Center at UMBC coordinates the Public Service Scholars programs on behalf of the State of Maryland to ensure that students across Maryland would have an opportunity to intern in various nonprofit, state, and/or local government entities each summer while earning a $3,000 scholarship.

The five programs are as followed:

1. Governor’s Summer Internship Program
2. Walter Sondheim Jr. Maryland Nonprofit Leadership Program


3. Maryland Department of Transportation Fellows Program*
4. Baltimore RISE Fellows (new in Spring 2016-an exploratory program for UMBC students examining cross-sector approaches to addressing social issues)

*The Shriver Center administers the MDOT Fellows Program on behalf of the Maryland Department of Transportation.  The program was created out of the success of the Governor’s Summer Internship Program in order to expose more students to the rewards and challenges of careers in Maryland’s integrated transportation system.  MDOT Fellows receive a stipend of $3,500 for an 8 week fellowship.*

Applications for all programs are now live and are due March 15. 

Each program requires a separate application.

Information for all programs can be found by visiting http://shrivercenter.umbc.edu/publicservicescholars/

Below are featured events and internship/employment opportunities that have recently been posted or have application deadline dates that are quickly approaching!  To see all that the UMBC Career Center has to offer YOU, please visit our myUMBC group page HERE or log into your UMBCworks account!

FEATURED EVENTS….

NEW! Inside Scoop: Opportunities in Health  - Monday, March 7, 2016, 12 pm – 1 pm   

UMBC Connects: NSA- Wednesday, March 2, 2016, 11 am – 2 pm, No need to stay for the entire event, come when you are able!

UPCOMING ON THE ROAD EVENTS….

 On the Road - General Electric- Friday, March 4, 2016, 9 am – 2 pm

NEW! On the Road:  Domino Sugar (ARS) – Friday, April 1, 2016 – 9:15 am – 1 pm, Deadline to register:  March 25

NEW! On the Road:  National Security Agency (NSA) – Friday, April 8, 2016 9 am – 3 pm, Deadline to register:  March 21

NEW! On the Road:  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) – Friday, April 15, 2016 – 9 am – 4 pm, Deadline to register:  March 9

INFORMATION SESSIONS….

NEW! Information Session: Amazon.comMonday, March 7, 2016, 5 pm – 8 pm

NEW! Information Session: Capgemini Government SolutionsTuesday, March 8, 2016, 5 pm – 7 pm

NEW! Information Session: Children Achieving Maximum Potential, IThursday, March 10, 2016, 12 pm – 1 pm

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NEW! On-Campus Interview Deadlines

PayPal
Software Engineer Intern
Deadline to Apply:  March 8
Interview Date:  March 22

srcLogic
Technical Consultant
Deadline to Apply:  March 9
Interview Date:  March 23

Enterprise Holdings
Management Trainee
Deadline to Apply:  March 10
Interview Date:  March 24

Harford County Public Schools
Teacher
Deadline to Apply:  March 29
Interview Date:  April 1

Triumvirate Environmental
Environmental Specialist
Deadline to Apply:  March 31
Interview Date:  April 14

FEATURED FULL-TIME & PART-TIME JOBS, INTERNSHIPS, AND RESEARCH POSITIONS

Northrop Grumman Extern Program for International Students

Summer 2016 Maryland Manufacturing Internship Program

Government Affairs Summer Internships - Exelon/Constellation

Keep an eye on the Career Center website (http://careers.umbc.edu/) for all upcoming events and programs!  Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors….this is an excellent opportunity for you to learn more about career paths…whether you are exploring possibilities or searching for an internship or full-time opportunity!

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All UMBC students registered for classes within the past year are included in the job-internships email list. Because the list is auto-populated by the Registrar, you cannot unsubscribe, but you can change your reception mode to not receive any more messages.

1. Go to https://lists.umbc.edu

2. Login with your myUMBC account or email address

3. Go to https://lists.umbc.edu/sympa/suboptions/jobs-internships

4. Under "Your list options" change the "Receiving mode" to "no mail"

5. Hit the Update button

A post written by Women’s Center student staff member, Carrie Cleveland

I have never been one to label myself a feminist. I think it is because what comes into my mind when I think of feminism is the 1960s – 1970s pop culture version where women were marching in the street and burning their bras (come to find out that this idea in my head is actually a myth). I never really identified with those women, so I pushed the topic to the side. THEN….. I started working here in the Women’s Center.

As a staff member, we are all encouraged to actively learn and one of the ways that I’m doing that is by reading. My background on all things feminism is much more  grounded in pop culture than it is theory. I’ve never taken a Gender and Women’s Studies class, like so many of my Women’s Center peers. Sometimes I struggle with the language and the theory so we thought this would be a good way for me to start my learning. Jess suggested that I dip my toe into the feminist blogosphere and start with some more approachable topics and accessible authors. As I’m reading and clicking and getting lost in all things women, I came across this blog written by Jamie Kennedy titled 10 Things Feminist Moms Do Differently Than Any Other Parents.

As I was scrolling, I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. One of the first ideas the author presents is about disrupting gender norms. Now I have three girls and a VERY handy husband. He’s always building or fixing something so we did not hesitate to get my kids a tool set when they were little. When my husband was beginning a project, my daughter would run down and grab her hammer so she could help her dad with something. Perhaps these experiences are why she sees being a scientist and an astronaut as career options. I never thought of that as feminist idea, more so that she wanted to hang out with her dad. Look at that! I did not even know I was challenging gender norms. Go me! 

One of the next topics explored that resonated with me was about consent. There was a time where another daughter was playing soccer and this boy pushed her. It was not part of the game; he just walked up to her and pushed her down. She came off the field and on the sideline we were having a conversation about her telling that boy that he had no right to touch her in that way. The blog pointed out to me that this was laying the groundwork about consent. It also opened the door for more conversation about personal space, boundaries, and expectations for ourselves and others. Again, my purpose was not intentional, but woohoo!

I basically found myself nodding my head to the memes about vaginas and of supporting whatever choice a woman makes about working. Ranting (which is explained in the blog as way to show our children we are passionate and thoughtful people too!), well I truly thought that was the Jersey in me and not the feminist, but why can’t it be both, right?More feminism that I did not even know about. As I reflect about who I am now and what the word feminist means, I’m starting to understand that feminism has a broader meaning. I now feel like I can embrace the label “feminist” and be more cognizant of my parenting choices when talking about women and gender. Next time my daughters say something about boys and girls, I imagine these ideas will come to mind when I thoughtfully choose to my words.

My oldest daughter visiting NASA Goddard with the Girl Scouts.

I want my daughters to know that they can do anything. My oldest is determined to be an astronaut and I realize now that she has no idea that Sally Ride did something unthinkable to many in 1983 because it is not unthinkable to her. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) put together this report on why women in STEM is so important and here is another blog post about how we don’t even recognize successful women who are already in STEM.

My daughter, Vivian, hanging out at the Women’s Center working away

Moms know we are often very reluctant to sing our own praises, but hopefully I am doing something right with these three girls. Who knows, maybe one of them will be the director the Women’s Center one day.

Spatiotemporal Data Mining and Analytics:
Issues, Methods, and Applications

Shen-Shyang Ho, Nanyang Technological University

12:00pm Thursday, 3 March 2016, ITE325b, UMBC

The extensive and ubiquitous uses of sensors (e.g., satellites, in-situ sensors) and smartphones have resulted in the collection of huge amount of time-stamped data with location information. These large-scale dynamic datasets present many research challenges and application opportunities. In this talk, I describe my research work on spatiotemporal tasks related to (1) application-specific pattern mining, (2) prediction methods, (3) similarity search, and (4) privacy issue. Moreover, I highlight my new research direction in array-based distributed database for spatiotemporal domains.

Shen-Shyang Ho is a tenure-track assistant professor in the School of Computer Engineering at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore since January 2012. Before this, he was a researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2010 to 2011. He was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 2009 to 2010 and a NASA postdoctoral fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) from 2007 to 2009. Shen-Shyang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from George Mason University in 2007 and his Bachelor (Honors) in Science (Mathematics and Computational Science) from the National University of Singapore in 1999. His research was supported by NASA, JPL, and GSFC between 2007 and 2012. His current research is supported by the Ministry of Education (Singapore), National Research Foundation (Singapore), Rolls Royce (UK), and BMW (Germany). He has two US patents and one pending Germany patent. He has given technical tutorials at AAAI (2011), IJCNN (2011), and ECML (2014).

Host: Cynthia Matuszek

Learning models of language, action and perception
for human-robot collaboration

Dr. Stefanie Tellex
Department of Computer Science, Brown University

4:00pm Monday, 7 March 2016, ITE325b

Robots can act as a force multiplier for people, whether a robot assisting an astronaut with a repair on the International Space station, a UAV taking flight over our cities, or an autonomous vehicle driving through our streets.  To achieve complex tasks, it is essential for robots to move beyond merely interacting with people and toward collaboration, so that one person can easily and flexibly work with many autonomous robots.  The aim of my research program is to create autonomous robots that collaborate with people to meet their needs by learning decision-theoretic models for communication, action, and perception.  Communication for collaboration requires models of language that map between sentences and aspects of the external world. My work enables a robot to learn compositional models for word meanings that allow a robot to explicitly reason and communicate about its own uncertainty, increasing the speed and accuracy of human-robot communication.  Action for collaboration requires models that match how people think and talk, because people communicate about all aspects of a robot’s behavior, from low-level motion preferences (e.g., “Please fly up a few feet”) to high-level requests (e.g., “Please inspect the building”).  I am creating new methods for learning how to plan in very large, uncertain state-action spaces by using hierarchical abstraction.  Perception for collaboration requires the robot to detect, localize, and manipulate the objects in its environment that are most important to its human collaborator.  I am creating new methods for autonomously acquiring perceptual models in situ so the robot can perceive the objects most relevant to the human’s goals. My unified decision-theoretic framework supports data-driven training and robust, feedback-driven human-robot collaboration.

Stefanie Tellex is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University.  Her group, the Humans To Robots Lab, creates robots that seamlessly collaborate with people to meet their needs using language, gesture, and probabilistic inference, aiming to empower every person with a collaborative robot.  She completed her Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in 2010, where she developed models for the meanings of spatial prepositions and motion verbs.  Her postdoctoral work at MIT CSAIL focused on creating robots that understand natural language.  She has published at SIGIR, HRI, RSS, AAAI, IROS, ICAPs and ICMI, winning Best Student Paper at SIGIR and ICMI, Best Paper at RSS, and an award from the CCC Blue Sky Ideas Initiative.  Her awards include being named one of IEEE Spectrum’s AI’s 10 to Watch in 2013, the Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award at Brown University, a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2015, and a 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship.  Her work has been featured in the press on National Public Radio and MIT Technology Review; she was named one of Wired UK’s Women Who Changed Science In 2015 and listed as one of MIT Technology Review’s Ten Breakthrough Technologies in 2016.

Students,

In the Career Center, we use UMBCworks, powered by Symplicity. To build student feedback into their software development process, Symplicity is seeking creative individuals who are passionate about innovation, from schools who use Symplicity products, to apply for their Student Advisory Group. The group will be comprised of 20+ students from institutions all over the world.

As advisors to the company, students will be asked to participate in six virtual meetings each year (only a laptop and an internet connection is required), and will be compensated with a $25 Amazon gift card for each meeting attended.

It is a great way to provide input on a product used by our institution, help build an awesome student user experience for all students, and interact with peers from all over the world.

To apply: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/student_advisory

The application deadline is March 20th.

We appreciate your participation!