Are You a Female Student Age 25 or Older? News: Returning Women's Group Now on Facebook!

  • Are you a female student 25 years of age or older? 
  • Are you returning to college to finish your degree? 
  • Are you beginning school at the age of 25 or older? 

If you can answer yes to any of these questions then please join us at the Women's Center for our Returning Women's meetings. Get support from other returners and non-traditional age female students and learn what resources are available for you.

 Visit our Facebook group page and "LIKE" us to stay updated on events and meetings designed for students just like you!  

https://www.facebook.com/returningwomen

Returning Women's Meetings
Every Wednesday
12pm - 1pm

Complimentary tea and coffee.
(Feel free to bring your lunch.)







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Serving the Delaware Valley since 1832, WSFS is the seventh oldest bank in the United States continuously operating under the same name.

WSFS Bank has exciting Summer Intern Opportunities for ALL Majors from IT, Human Resources, to Finance available. Our goal is to partner with gifted professionals to help us achieve our vision and maintain our culture. 

Work-life balance, great benefits, service oriented culture, and career development are a few reasons to consider a career at WSFS Bank.

WSFS Bank employs over 700 Associates in more than 40 offices. Our Corporate headquarters is located in downtown Wilmington, Delaware with locations spread across New Castle, Sussex, and Kent County in Delaware as well as Chester and Delaware County in Pennsylvania.

If you are a driven, innovative, team player, and if you stand for service too, WSFS has exciting career opportunities for you. Come join the WSFS team...

TO APPLY, send your resume to Christine Routzahn, Director of Internships at The Shriver Center at routzahn@umbc.edu.




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student volunteers seeking meaningful work experience related to their academic
studies. The work assignment may or may not award academic credit.
The VIP:
• Provides exposure to the work environment as a means of developing
the volunteer’s work ethic;
• Provides an opportunity to become involved in early career exploration; and
• Enhances knowledge in new or developing occupations and professions.

INTERNSHIPS RELATED TO THE FOLLOWING FIELDS OF STUDY:
Accounting, Aging, Business Administration, Computer Science, Criminal Justice, Economics, English, History, Health Administration, Information Systems, Political Science, Law, Psychology, Public Administration, Sociology, and more.

HOW TO APPLY
Eligible students may apply by sending an electronic copy of their:
• Resume
• Cover letter
• Unofficial transcripts or grade report
To: dchr.seep@ssa.gov

POSITIONS in Washington, DC and Baltimore- Woodlawn.

QUESTIONS:  Contact Christine Routzahn, Director of Internships, at The Shriver Center at UMBC routzahn@umbc.edu)

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I am at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute.

What is your project?
I am working on Malaria, seeing if we can use bacteria already stabilized in the mosquito to secrete effector cells that will stop parasite transmission within the mosquito. I am working specifically with Asaia bogorensis, a bacteria, to see if it can become well-adapted and be passed on to future progeny in the mosquito vector, Anopheles gambiae.

How did you find out about research opportunities for Summer 2011?
I found out through searching universities and institutes that dealt with research summer programs. Also, Meyerhoff Scholars Program, which I am in, helped me search for summer research opportunities.

When did you start looking for a position? How many places did you apply?
I started looking for a position in October of last year. I applied to 17 institutions.

Was this your first research experience? What background did you have before starting this summer research?
This was my first summer research experience, but in my senior year of high school, I worked and interned at United States Department of Agriculture.

Are there other undergraduates involved in the same research this summer? Who do you work with directly each day?
Yes there are other undergraduates in this summer program. I work directly with one of the post-doctoral fellows in my lab.

What did you gain from this experience?
I learned that research is an ocean, filled with different parts and things that you can focus on. It is vast but it is also a place where you don't look at the time often and time goes by very quickly. I gained a great deal of lab experience that I will take on with me to my future lab positions. I now have more networking opportunities and I am a better presentation speaker. This experience has also supported my educational and career goals in a positive way.

What is your advice to other UMBC students about summer research?
Summer research is an awesome opportunity that can open up doors for you, sharpen your mind and technical skills, and can also allow you to delve into topics that are truly important in this world and in our future.

Can you tell us your major and your plans for the future?
I am a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major. I am graduating from UMBC in 2014, and I plan to attain my MD/PhD at an accredited institution.

Read more about Chinwendu's research, “Towards Paratrangenisis: Selection of Bacteria that are Vertically Transmitted by Mosquito Vectors” at the link below.
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Thursday, December 8, 2011 · 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Fine Arts : 529

Erle Ellis (GES), Tim Oates (CSEE) and Anita Komlodi (IS)
will talk about moving from a good idea to a large interdisciplinary grant from the National Science Foundation.

Sponsored by Interdisciplinary Studies.

Cider, wine and cheese will be served.

RSVP: lanoue@umbc.edu or 410-455-2004

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TKF is a private nonprofit that funds publicly accessible urban green space.  The mission of the TKF Foundation is to provide the opportunity for a deeper human experience by inspiring and supporting the creation of public green-spaces that offer temporary sanctuary, encourage reflection, provide solace and engender peace and wellbeing.  Each garden that TKF helps to create includes a Bench with a Journal attached.  In the Journal, visitors share words or images of the experience of being in a sacred space.  More than a simple diary, record, or log of daily events, a Journal is a collection of inspiring thoughts and reflections that attest to our need for opportunities to connect with each other and be in nature.  


We are looking for volunteers to translate foreign language journal entries into English.  Entries are written in various languages including, but not limited to:  Spanish, French, Chinese, Greek.  If you are interested in volunteering please send an email to info@opensacred.org.  Please include your contact information and the languages you can help translate.

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Baltimore Cash Campaign provides working families access to the tools and services needed to maximize their earning dollars.  The Campaign doesn't end with tax preparation.  Working with financial institutions and community development organizations, the Campaign links families and individuals to asset building resources.

Trainings for tax season begin in January 2012.  Contact George Connelly, Volunteer Coordinator, at 443.692.9487 or George@baltimorecashcampaign.org.

Any questions?  Contact Clare Greene (clare6@umbc.edu) with The Shriver Center's Service-Learning Program for more information.
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Each year, approximately 20 undergraduate students from across the country are selected to become i3 Scholars. Those students undertake a year-long experience which prepares them for graduate study in the information sciences and ultimately a rewarding career that matches their interests. The i3 program includes three core components: 

Interdisciplinary and open to all majors and years! Deadline Jan 20!

Learn more at their website

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Just over a month ago, DARPA announced The Shredder Challenge competition to develop a system to solve puzzles by reassembling images of shredded documents with a $50,000 prize for the winning entry. Yesterday the prize was won by All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S., a San Francisco-based team that was the first to correctly reconstructed each of the five challenge documents.

UMBC Assistant VP for
Research Don Engel

It's unfortunate that there was no prize for second place, because that honor was won by Schroddon, a two-person effort including UMBC Assistant Vice President for Research Don Engel. While most of the top teams had a handful of software engineers and used commercial crowdsourcing services, Schroddon was a part-time effort by Dr. Engel and his wife, Dr. Marianne Engel.

Both Don and Marianne have Ph.D.s in Physics, but Don also has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science, did graduate work in computational linguistics, and develops software in his spare time for fun. Two of his active software development projects are ShowMe3D, an application for Mac and iOS that can be used to take and view 3D photos, and When2meet, a free web-based tool for finding the best time for a group to meet.


The Shredder Challenge was the latest competition run by DARPA as a low cost way to spur research on new problems. The press release describes it this way.

"The Shredder Challenge represents a preliminary investigation into the area of information security to identify and assess potential capabilities that could be used by war fighters operating in war zones to more quickly obtain valuable information from confiscated, shredded documents and gain a quantitative understanding of potential vulnerabilities inherent to the shredding of sensitive U.S. National security documents."

"Lots of experts were skeptical that a solution could be produced at all let alone within the short time frame,” said Dan Kaufman, director, DARPA Information Innovation Office. “The most effective approaches were not purely computational or crowd-sourced, but used a combination blended with some clever detective work. We are impressed by the ingenuity this type of competition elicits."

Over 9,000 teams registered for the Shredder Challenge and it is quite an achievement for the Engles to have placed second, especially against many much larger teams. If you are interested in seeing what the data is like, you can download it from the DARPA site.

These challenge competitions are becoming more common and are a great way for students to get involved in independent research and maybe win fame and fortune.

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Not sure if you requested a shirt? Check here: tinyurl.com/cwitshirt2011
If you didn't order a t-shirt but would still like one, we will have extra available at a later date!

*Just a side note, next semester, we plan on making the first MONDAY of every month- "CWIT Days". We encourage you all to wear your t-shirts to show our presence on campus :)
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