M I C K E Y L E L A N D

INTERN PROGRAM

ENERGY FELLOWSHIP

For more information please contact the MLEF Program Office:

Email: MLEF@hq.doe.gov

2012

PROGRAM                                                                                                               

The Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) is a 10-week

paid summer internship with opportunities in the US

Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, for women

and minority students who are currently enrolled in Science,

Technology (IT), Engineering, and Math majors at an

accredited college or university.

MLEF MISSION

Provide opportunities for educational advancement and

career development through an award winning internship

program for women and minority students in Science,

Technology (IT), Engineering and Math.

ELIGIBILITY

 Applicants must be a US citizen

 Undergraduate students completing their sophomore

     year in Spring 2012 through PhD candidates

 Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above

APPLICATION

Application deadline is December 31, 2011. The start

date for the summer internship program is June 4, 2012.

For more information about DOE/FE and to complete the

MLEF application, please visit our webpage:

http://www.fossil.energy.gov/education/lelandfellowships/index.html

• Are those gifts still in the plastic bags behind the dining room table?  
• Do you dread having to track down supplies of paper, scissors, and tape?   
• Are you a procrastinating giftwrapper?

M I C K E Y L E L A N D INTERN PROGRAM

ENERGY FELLOWSHIP

For more information please contact the MLEF Program Office.

Email: MLEF@hq.doe.gov

The Mickey Leland Energy Fellowship (MLEF) is a 10-week

 paid summer internship with opportunities in the US

 Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, for women

 and minority students who are currently enrolled in Science,

 Technology (IT), Engineering, and Math majors at an

 accredited college or university.

 MLEF MISSION

 Provide opportunities for educational advancement and

 career development through an award winning internship

 program for women and minority students in Science,

 Technology (IT), Engineering and Math.

ELIGIBILITY

·         Applicants must be a US citizen

·         Undergraduate students completing their sophomore

·         year in Spring 2012 through PhD candidates

·         Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above

  APPLICATION

  Application deadline is December 31, 2011. The start

  date for the summer internship program is June 4, 2012.

  For more information about DOE/FE and to complete the

  MLEF application, please visit our webpage:

  www.fossil.energy.gov/education/lelandfellowships/index.

You are invited to participate in the 6^th Annual Winter Student Leadership Retreat. The retreat is sponsored by the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMCP).

The purpose of the retreat is to provide an opportunity for underrepresented undergraduate who are majoring or who are planning to major in engineering and/or computer science to build their career, professional, and leadership skills; as well as to network with corporations and student leaders from 4-year colleges/universities and 2-year community colleges in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area. The 2011 retreat included students from: George Mason University, George Washington University, Howard University, Johns Hopkins University, Montgomery College, Morgan State University, Prince George’s Community College, UMBC, and UMCP.

The retreat provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to network with students from local colleges and universities who are studying engineering and/or computer science.  The retreat will be held January 21-22, 2012 (this is the weekend before classes begin at UMCP, UMBC, Morgan, Johns Hopkins).  The retreat will be held at the Sheraton Columbia in Columbia, MD.  The retreat is a two-day retreat with one (1) overnight stay.  There is no cost to students to participate in the retreat.  Students who participate have to commit to participating in all retreat activities over the course of the two days.  Transportation is provided, additional information will be forthcoming to students who participate. 

The retreat is funded by the CIA, W. L. Gore, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Accenture.  Representatives from these companies attend the retreat and facilitate most of the workshops.  If you are interested in attending the conference in January, Please go to http://www.cmse.umd.edu/events/retreat.html to find more information about the retreat.  Registration is now open!  The deadline to complete the registration form in December 21, 2011.

For more information, please contact LaWanda Kamalidiin, Associate Director for the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering, at lsaddler@umbc.edu.

Write or Radiate

Professor Christopher Rose
Rutgers University

1:00pm Friday December 9, 2011, ITE 227

Communication theory researchers do the relatively routine but deeply important work that maintains and expands our increasingly connected society. It is therefore easy to forget that communications research, by its very nature, is more than about telephones and the Internet, but is about interactions of any and every kind. That is, communication theory is an inherently profound subject and as communications researchers, we should be sensitive to the deeper questions our discipline often raises. In illustration, we describe how some routine wireless research had something surprising to say about how we might efficiently communicate across a wide range of distances and in so doing knocked on the door of one of the "big questions" — are we alone in the universe?

Christopher Rose was a semi-lifer at MIT from 1975 to 1985. He was paroled by his new wife and new baby in 1985 when he graduated with a Ph.D. in EECS. Almost immediately afterward he began what is now a 26-year-and-counting postdoc in communication theory starting at Bell Laboratories Research where he rubbed shoulders with a wide range of uniformly delightful technical angels and curmudgeons. He's currently an ECE professor at Rutgers, WINLAB and an IEEE Fellow cited for "contributions to wireless systems theory."

Chris has always been confused about his technical identity and has thus roamed over research terrain that has included introducing surprisingly good random switch architectures as an antidote to the "topology of the week" rage back in the late '80s, better-than-fiber superconducting coax with levitated center conductors during the heady days of High-Tc superconductors, and a variety of wireless problems, culminating in his proudest moment — an interview on NPR where a caller asked him about crop circles and ET communication. That interview (and the Nature paper which spawned it) has done wonders for his reputation as an expert witness.

He is currently thinking hard about (but not making loads of progress on) fundamental problems in bio-molecular communication. He is also thinking about communications as a lens on everything — with some already surprising initial results.