The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, UMBC is offering an off-site internship opportunity this summer 2020. An internship at CADVC is taken for a letter grade and can be taken for one credit or up to six credits a semester, repeatable up to 12 credits. Each credit is worth 40 hours.

Summer interns will be fully integrated into the off-site work that CADVC staff have been involved in since the campus went online in mid-March. As such it is important that interns have reliable online access and know how to use collaborative files on Google Drive and BOX.

Interns will be expected to attend weekly online meetings via WebEx and to be available for occasional unscheduled phone calls or virtual meetings during the business day. Hours and dates of the internship are flexible. Accommodations can be made for time off for travel or to extend internship summer hours into the fall semester, etc. as needed.

As with all CADVC internships the student must register for PRAC with the UMBC Career Office and for ART 498 CADVC Internship after receiving permission to register by the CADVC supervisor. CADVC Internships are awarded on a competitive basis, so you must attend a virtual interview and be accepted in order to register for the internship.

To apply, please send your resume, the completed (first page only) of the attached form, and a cover email letter to abbotts@umbc.edu. In the email state what you want to accomplish with a virtual CADVC internship this summer and write "INTERNSHIP - (your name)" as part of your email subject line. Also attached here are some documents listing various project ideas. Please comment on any that may be of interest to you in your email as well.

Hello Retrievers!

Please read the information below regarding a summer internship opportunity with Ardent Privacy!

If you are looking for a summer internship opportunity, you might consider applying for this new internship with Ardent, a local firm based in Catonsville at BW Tech near UMBC. I have included the information below. Please submit your resume to advisor@ardentsec.com

And this is a paid internship ($12-18 hourly), but pay is dependent on your experience.

*Internship Position: Privacy Marketing intern *

Ardent is seeking motivated graduate students, law school students, and very talented upperclassmen who are experienced in *technology policy, fintech and/or cybersecurity*.

This role will be best suited for students who are passionate about privacy and technology. The internship will total between 200-300 hours, and you will get to work out of the Ardent office in Catonsville and/or remotely over the summer, depending on the pandemic.

*Qualifications:*

   - Demonstrated passion for relevant technology policy issues;

   - Excellent communication skills

   - Proven research and analytical skills;

   - Excellent writing skills;

   - Resourcefulness, determination, and tenacity;

   - Comfort talking to potential customers and partners

   - Technical knowledge, skills, and aptitude a plus.

*Responsibilities:*

 - Contribute research and writing to projects that may include a broad range of tech policy issues, consumer privacy, financial technology, and cybersecurity.

- Contribute to data privacy technology development

- Identify and analyze emerging issues in tech policy

 - Assist with administrative tasks, social media posting, and events

   - Other tasks as directed.

Location: bwtech @UMBC Research & Technology Park, 5520 Research Park Drive | Suite 100

Catonsville, MD 21228

www.ardentsec.com

Hello Retrievers!

This is an important message about the ENTR URA research opportunity from the Director of Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships

There are many changes happening to student research as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and campus closure. The URA selection committee has some advice to encourage you to apply for a URA and start to plan your research, even if there are some unknowns for the summer and fall semesters.

1. We have moved the application deadline back to May 15, 2020 in order to give students some extra time to prepare their research proposals.

2. Some research that was scheduled to start this summer may be delayed until the fall or spring semester- that’s ok! The URA is good for the entire year, June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2121. You can complete the research at any point during that time frame.

3. Our expectations for a final product are fluid and relaxed. If the research plan doesn’t work out exactly as you proposed, that’s ok- it’s the nature of doing research.

4. Be creative in the ways you think about your project. You may have to focus instead on doing a thorough literature review, using a pre-formed data set to analyze, or looking at case studies, rather than collecting in-person data, or conducting research in a lab.

5. Methods such as lab benchwork, participant observations, focus groups, travel-related, in-person interviews, or other real-time collection methods may need some re-thinking. How can you collect data via online interviews, the internet, or other technological interventions?

6. Creative arts projects may incorporate some kind of online delivery method. We are hoping to be back on campus for URCAD 2021, but consider how VoiceThread might be used to display your creative work.

*Remember:*

URAs provide up to $1,500 to undergraduate students to support their research, scholarship, or creative work with a UMBC faculty mentor on an original project. UMBC students of all years and disciplines are invited to apply, as long as they remain enrolled at UMBC long enough to complete the proposed work.

Deadline: May 15, 2020

Applications require a research proposal and mentor statement of support.

Speciality URAs will be awarded to Social Scientists and Entrepreneurs- see below for more details. ur.umbc.edu/ura