Below are just a few of the new Internship positions posted to UMBCworks in the past week. Check them out today!

2015 Summer Public Af fairs/Communications Internship(9269400)
United States Department of Labor - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DUTIES INCLUDE:
-Writing/editing press releases, media advisories, news briefs, blogs, Tweets, Facebook posts, and informational blurbs for DOL’s weekly online national newsletter.
-Writing feature stories and photo captions for DOL internal website LaborNet and internal, monthly e-magazine Frances Magazine.

Media and Marketing Intern (9268667)
Maryland New Directions (MND)- Baltimore, Maryland
The Media and Marketing Intern will work with Maryland New Directions (MND) staff to develop creative ways to convey MND’s mission and story to the public, share news and successes to spread awareness and interest in the organization. The Intern’s role is to engage the public and share updates from MND through various media outlets.

Part-Time Marketing Intern (9269311)
IMS, Inc. - Beltsville, Maryland
IMS is looking for a Part-Time Marketing Intern to work in our Calverton, MD office. The Marketing Intern must be a creative and motivated individual who can provide innovative ideas and work independently. Help define and execute a social media strategy. Collaborate with teams to develop communications plans for web page and more!

Graphic Arts Marketing Intern (9269310)
Itaberco - Baltimore, Maryland
Responsibilities:
-Intern will, under supervision, work on design work related to packaging, website, print and other media.
-Marketing intern will also continuously update website and social media networks with new products and news.
-Intern will have to work with Product Development and Sales team in developing new ways to market products.

Social Media Internship (9269372)
Claire's Gourmet - nationwide, United States
ADKO Associates, Inc. is the parent company of Claire’s Gourmet and Challenge4kids. ADKO Associates, Inc. needs a creative and pragmatic intern that is interested in gaining experience in marketing and social media in an enjoyable and professional environment.

Human Resources Intern (9269297)
Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. - Columbia, Maryland
Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. seeks a Human Resources Intern to join our team. We’re looking for a talented person who wants to gain valuable work experience in the Human Resources field through Nemetschek Vectorworks’ Internship Program.
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Kate Phelps

Role at the UMBC Career Center: I help technical students find internships and full-time opportunities by helping students with their resume and other professional documents. Additionally, I help oversee the 0 credit PRAC course.

Q: Where have you earned your college degrees?

A: Florida State University (FSU)

Tallahassee, FL

M.S. Higher Education Administration-Student Affairs Concentration

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN

B.A. Communication Studies

Q: What program(s) did you study? How did you choose your major?

A: M.S. Higher Education Administration- Student Affairs Concentration
- I worked on campus in the Student Activities Office at UT. I was also involved in many other aspects of campus life. I asked my advisors and mentors how they earned their job, and they helped my find my career path into Student Affairs.

B.A. Communication Studies
- I came to UT as an undecided student. My freshman year, I took a career class to explore different majors. I discovered quickly that I wanted to be in the College of Communication. I spoke with a communication advisor and took a few classes to choose Communication Studies.

Q: Tell me about the job and internship process when you were in college. Were you able to find job/internship positions that were related to your major or your career interests?

A: In undergrad, I was lucky enough to have 3 paid internships for different non profits. I diversified how I applied to these positions as I used friends, Hire-a-Vol (our version of UMBCworks), and just a generic company website positing.

My student worker job in the student activities office along with my campus involvement helped me find a GA in the Career Center in grad school.

Q: What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

A: You only have one chance to make a first impression. Use that time well.

Q: Why should students visit the Career Center?

A: Students should not wait until they are a senior to come to the Career Center and get their resume reviewed and attend our events.

We want them to come early in their career and start working toward their professional presence to find internships and jobs!

Q: What is your favorite aspect about UMBC?

A: Students are excited to try new things and approach a problem with a new set of eyes.

Q: What is one item on your bucket list?

A: Visit all 50 states. I love to travel!

Q: What is one aspect of the DC/Baltimore area that you often explore?

A: I live right in the middle of downtown Baltimore. I love finding a new restaurant, exploring a festival, or just taking in the different events Baltimore brings in throughout the year.

Want to connect with Kate or any of our great Career Center team? Call our office at 410-455-2216 or check out our contact us page here: http://careers.umbc.edu/aboutus/

Often when we talk about race in the United States, the classic picture is that race is polarized into two: black and white. Starting from a very young age, I had never truly understood these divisions, and felt confused as to where I fit in. If I was labeled into a color, it was always “yellow” and it was often said as an offensive joke.  I didn’t understand my place…I wasn’t white and I wasn’t black. I remember looking around the demographics of my classrooms noticing that I often felt alone. In history class, we talked about Columbus, the slave trade, and 9/11, but rarely did we ever engage in dialogues about asians, much less Koreans, except in passing when we note that North Korea is still radically separate from its southern counterpart, and the fact that the United States fought in the Korean War.  I remembered a clear moment in my U.S history class when we discussed apartheid in the United States, and I sat in the room wondering which restroom and school, if any, would I have been able to use and attend if we were still in that time? Was I a person of color?

The ever familiar sense of liminality and not quite fitting in was also manifested in my college life through my labeled identity as an “ undocumented” student, or from opposing side’s terms, an undocumented alien. Already, I had felt a sense of confusion growing up all my life in a country where I didn’t always find people who looked like me or understood me or my background. My identity as a Korean-American was treated as a novelty, an exquisite chance for somebody to stumble through the two or three Korean words and Korean people they knew, as well as informing me how much they loved Korean food. Of course, many of these statements were harmless and were not meant to create the sense of separation and isolation that often came as a consequence. Statements like, “So, where are you originally from?” have been scattered throughout my life, and I felt a sense of guilt or confusion as I always explained (much more thoroughly than someone expected) how I lived in Maryland most of my life, lived in Washington State for when I was young, and oh, yes, if this is what you were really asking- my family is from Korea and I was born there.

Overall, I am still exploring my multiple identities and it has been quite a journey. Through my work at the Women’s Center and beyond, where I am surrounded by people who are ready and willing to engage in thoughtful and critical dialogues, I am inspired and gradually feeling that I am worthy and do belong in this space equally.

A really awesome and affirming article from Time, brought a lot of my insecurities and feelings to light, explaining that, this idea that Asian Americans are “tech” oriented and know how to sit in front of a computer, overlooks the disproportionate amount of Asian American tech workers and those in leadership. In addition,  “What it says is this: Asians and Asian-Americans are smart and successful, so hiring or promoting them does not count as encouraging diversity. It says: there is no such thing as underrepresentation of Asians and Asian-Americans. The problem with this belief, historians and advocates assert, is that it not only obscures the sheer range of experiences within Asian and Asian-American populations, but also excludes them from conversations about diversity and inclusion in leadership and non-tech sectors.” This statement rang true in so many aspects as I have had students and faculty alike, assume me to be in a STEM field or that I would be “good at math”, etc. I look forward to bringing to light these cultural stereotypes, assumptions, as well as working to break them, to work to have representation of Asian Americans as the diverse and whole people that we, and everyone else, are.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I had my first mammogram today. I am still in the waiting room as I write these thoughts into the notepad of my iPhone. Despite the very hopeful notion I have that everything will be okay, I also have the overwhelming feeling of wanting to cry. All the Octobers of pink and more pink have created a sense within me that the question of breast cancer for me as a woman is not an if but when. Somewhat like the rape schedule most women live with on a daily basis I’ve realized through this process of doctor’s visits and tests that I operate in a sort of breast cancer schedule as well. The inevitability feels all too real.

Watching shows like L Word and Parenthood with main characters who were diagnosed with breast cancer always sends me into overwhelming sadness as I delve into their plot lines. I cry. I cry for the fictional characters but I also cry in fear. That could be me. My partner. My best friend. It has already been my aunt. My cousin. Co-workers. Friends of friends. I have created a chosen family for myself completely centered in women and womanhood. As I grow older, I know this list will only grow.

And, as I sit in this waiting room for my results I question if my fear is warranted. Or is just the onslaught of October Pink that has conditioned me to believe this is a real reality for me? Am I too hyper-vigilant? Is this real or just another social construction that inhabits within me due to my gender and gender socialization? Did all the Race For The Cures and pink ribbons and Denim Days of my childhood not only create an awareness but a deeply rooted fear?

I debate about posting these very personal thoughts on what for all extensive purposes is my work blog. Part of me feels these are not thoughts appropriate to share around the “water cooler” but thoughts meant to keep private or share only with close confidants. But my “water cooler,” my work – it is my passion. My work is the work rooted in these fears, these social constructions, these lived experiences of women. If I can’t or don’t talk about it as a professional who works in a women’s center, who believes in consciousness raising and “the personal is political,” who else will? Women’s centers and their community members exists to center these conversations, make space for inquiry, and give comfort for the fear. I share my thoughts to create brave spaces for us to critique the “pink industrial complex” while also validating the very real experiences of those living with breast cancer, those surviving breast cancer, those who have died from it, and those who wonder if it will happen to them.

In the waiting room, I got the answer I needed. I am fine and I can breathe a sigh of relieve… at least for now. And, yet I leave feeling I still have more questions than answers.

This post is written by Madison Miller. It was originally featured on the Women’s Center WordPress, which you can find here.

With much discussion in Women’s Center staff meetings about actively applying our work in the Center as student staff members to other areas of our lives, I have recently been thinking a lot about how my experiences and education in social justice and activism coincide with the various roles and responsibilities I hold outside of the Center. Currently in the process of working towards receiving teacher certification in elementary education, one of my most valued roles this academic year is my internship as a student teacher in a fourth grade classroom. Watching my students embrace new concepts and grow as individuals each week has not only brought an immense amount of pleasure and fulfillment into my life, but it has also caused me to think rather critically about how learning in the classroom translates outside to the “real world”. I’m not talking about how that math equation we learned last week can help us to calculate a tip on a restaurant bill, or how that new vocabulary word can be used to impress our relatives, but instead about how simple classroom dynamics can set a pretty important example for those of us who are long removed from our own elementary school classrooms.

Although we live in a society that preaches equality and fairness, perhaps one of the most important concepts I have learned in the classroom thus far is that equality and fairness are far from interchangeable terms. Imagine a classroom where students are instructed to independently read a chapter out of a textbook and take notes on what they are reading. Several students are reading quietly to themselves and taking notes on a sheet of paper, while another student is listening to an audiobook through headphones, and yet another student is talking to a classroom volunteer who is writing notes down for the student. If this were an equal environment, all students would be required to complete the assignment in the exact same way. But is equality in this situation really fair? Without certain accommodations, students with learning disabilities or special needs may be unable to complete the assignment on their own. The truth is, equality is only fair when everyone is the exact same to begin with. This is an extremely unlikely situation not only in the classroom, but in life in general. Instead of promoting fairness amongst individuals within a community, in actuality equality erases differences that exist within a group of individuals and only supports those with the most privilege. Equality is a “colorblind” approach to fairness and it can be especially harmful when it prevents students from lower income families and those who struggle with disabilities from obtaining the resources they need to succeed.

Because not all students (or people, for that matter) are born with the same abilities and some experience challenges that inhibit that their success, some individuals need more resources in order to just catch up to their peers. Therefore instead of talking about equality, we need to focus on another approach: equity. While equality simply seeks to level the playing field for everyone, equity seeks to provide more resources to those who need them. Take for example the large population of English Language Learners (ELLs) attending schools today. These students are often significantly behind their native-English speaking peers- not because they are unintelligent, but because they lack an upbringing that enables them to understand the language in which they are being taught. Therefore, these ELL students need more resources (perhaps in the form of ESOL classes or classroom accommodations) simply just to survive in the school system. Equity forces us to examine various privileges that exist within a community or a society and prompts us to make certain accommodations that will assist those with a lack of privilege. Instead of seeing just one route to success, equity forces us to pave multiple roads for multiple people. It isn’t an easy process by any means, but the extra work we put into through society through creating equitable situations brings us closer to fairness than equality ever will.

                                                          NEXT MONDAY!! 
A message from MIT: Lincoln Laboratory is committed to research and development. At MIT, scientists and engineers get to work on problems critical to national security.

If you are pursuing a PhD/MS/BS in any of the following majors, or a comparable scientific or technical field, our technical staff would like to meet you.

        We are currently recruiting the following majors:
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science or Cybersecurity
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Bioengineering

Come and learn more about what we do and how to get involved!

Join Admissions Representatives from the following institutions for an information session about public health and how their graduate programs might align with your personal goals!

**Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health**

**Yale School of Public Health**

**Harvard School of Public Health**

**Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health**

Next WEDNESDAY October 29, 2014 from 12:00- 12:50 p.m. in the UC Ballroom, University Center right here on campus!

Don't miss out! Also, check out some cool research opportunities and see what other students have done in your field !