Are you interested in an internship in politics, public policy, or public administration? 
    
    Each spring semester, the UMBC Political Science Department sponsors an internship program in Policy, Politics, and Public Administration. Students accepted into this program obtain internships with local and state legislators, members of Congress, political parties, interest groups, think tanks, lobbyists, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. While gaining practical experience and making important contacts in the Baltimore, Annapolis or Washington areas, as well as taking a companion course, students earn 7 upper-level credits.  
    
    Students interested in an internship with Maryland’s legislature, the General Assembly, should try to meet the priority application deadline of Monday, Oct. 22. If we hear from you first, however, General Assembly internships applications may be accepted after this date. The deadline to apply for all other internships is Friday, November 9. 
    
    Read more details and download the application instructions at the Political Science Department’s website, http://www.umbc.edu/politicalsci/internships/ 
    
    For more information, contact me at lhussey@umbc.edu.

The NGP faculty is large and diverse, but we have kept the number of graduate students relatively small, so grad students have great access to highly accomplished scientists. The NGP faculty includes many highly recognized senior scientists as well as a growing number of outstanding junior faculty members. Our graduates go on to excellent postdoctoral positions and a wide variety of positions in academics and industry as well as science-related jobs like science writing and work with foundations. There are vignettes about the experience of a few of our graduates at our website. Some areas in which we excel include membrane biophysics and structural biology;synaptic physiology, neuronal signaling and gene regulation, neuroendocrinology and neurobiology of disease. As a medical campus, we have strong connections to the clinical departments with their translational and clinical research activities. All students receive a graduate stipend that covers all fees, tuition and living expenses.

We have a great program and we are located in one of the most livable and beautiful cities in the United States Check out the NGP website (www.ohsu.edu/ngp ), and  feel free to have your students contact us for more information – I think they will be excited about the quality of our program and the opportunities for a great PhD experience. The application deadline for next fall is December 1, 2012.

CSEE Colloquium

Experiences Teaching Thousands Online

Professor Michael L. Littman
Computer Science, Brown University

1:00pm Friday, 26 October 2012, ITE 227, UMBC

Last Fall, a pair of well-respected computer scientists at Stanford offered their AI class for free to people everywhere via the Internet. Over 160,000 students signed up, spurring a worldwide conversation on the impact of online teaching on higher education and sending universities throughout the US scrambling to announce initiatives in this space. I had the good fortune to teach a class for one of the startups and will share my experiences.

Michael L. Littman is a professor of computer scientist at Brown University. He works mainly in reinforcement learning, but has done work in machine learning, game theory, computer networking, partially observable Markov decision process solving, computer solving of analogy problems and other areas. He has held faculty positions in the computer science departments at Duke University and Rutgers University, where he chaired the department from 2009 to 2012.  In the summer of 2012 he taught a massive open online course (MOOC) on graph algorithms.

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On-Campus Interviews offer students a chance to conveniently interview for professional positions on campus.  Employers travel to our campus for the specific purpose of interviewing preselected students for currently open positions.  This is a great opportunity to interview with employers specifically interested in UMBC students and offers the advantage of a smaller applicant pool.  Interviews take place during the fall and spring. The logistics (viewing positions, applying, signing up for interview time slots, etc.) are all handled via UMBCworks.

Don't miss out on employers coming to UMBC to recruit YOU this fall! The following is a list of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews with application deadlines in the next month.

**ARINC

Interviewing on 10/19/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  10/14/12)
Positions:  Junior Communication Analyst, Junior Integration Engineer, Junior Network Engineer, Junior Software Engineer
Majors:  IS, CMPE, CMPS, ENEE

**SB & Company, LLC

Interviewing on 10/22/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  10/19/12)
Position:  Staff Auditor
Majors:  ECON, FIEC, Accounting

**Plan B Technologies

Interviewing on 10/29/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  10/15/12)
Position: Junior Engineering Development Initiative Program
Majors:  College of Engineer and Information Technology - All Majors

**BASYS, Inc.

Interviewing on 10/30/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  10/16/12)
Position:  Associate Software Engineer
Majors:  CMPS, CMPE

A full list of On-Campus Interviews scheduled this fall is available on our website calendar and on UMBCworks, please check regularly for any updates or changes that may occur.