Apply to the University of Michigan's Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) for summer 2013. SROP is a great way for you to take part in faculty-led research projects while exploring doctoral studies at U-M. Students who are admitted into the program will work for eight weeks (May 28th - July 27th) on research projects under the guidance of in a wide range of academic disciplines. In addition, students will be introduced to life in Ann Arbor and U-M's community of scholars. 

The online application for SROP at the University of Michigan will be available on December 1st. The application deadline is February 10th, 2013, but we encourage you to complete your application as early as possible. If admitted into the program you will receive:

•A stipend of $4,000 for the summer

•Round-trip transportation to and from the University of Michigan

•Campus residential housing and meals

•Participation in a GRE prep course

•Weekly seminars to help you understand the graduate school application process

•Participation in a Research Symposium held at U-M

• College is not merely preparation for life. It is life.

• People always respond to the entire context of a communication, not just to the words it contains.

• Criticism reveals and reflects upon the critic.

• In-the-moment negative emotions such as guilt or fear can be extremely useful in illuminating a situation. They can provide clues about the motives, understandings, insecurities and emotional states of other people, especially those whose behavior is sparking the negative emotions. They can deepen self-understanding. The trick is to learn to read these emotions without either suppressing or being overwhelmed by them.

• Sometimes the hardest thing in the world to see is what is right in front of you.

• People sometimes view choices you make for yourself, but which they would not (or did not) make for themselves, as judgments against them. This is all the more true if the path you choose is one which, at some level, they regret not having chosen. It is easy to be confused by their resulting hostile reactions, but it would be a mistake to be deterred by them.

• Every new insight subtly alters your knowledge and perspective about everything you thought you already knew. Each new experience subtly alters your perspective on every aspect of your past.

• You aren’t really from somewhere until you go somewhere else.

• Changing the world for the better does not mean seeking a stable point beyond which the world stops changing. People need to be involved in ongoing, challenging, cooperative work to advance the common good. An essential aspect of being human is confronting and contributing to the mitigation of life’s imperfections.

• Love involves giving and receiving permission to be who you truly are.

• A mouse trapped in a maze never sees the maze, only a series of straight paths and corners.

• Knowledge derived from breaking things or processes down into their smallest component parts is incomplete. It excludes the broadest patterns, most subtle and profound connections and deepest meanings.

• All people yearn, at some level, to become whole, connect authentically with the universe, be who they really are and fulfill their potential.

• What feels like inability and weakness may actually be undiscovered or unrevealed talent and strength.

• Winning an argument is not the same thing as achieving progress toward the objective at the heart of the argument. Sometimes winning an argument can hinder such progress.

• Staying too close to an admired person for too long can stunt one’s growth. When the admired person is nearby, adopting the person’s admirable behaviors and thought processes may feel presumptuous or unnecessary.

• All conscious perceptions involve value judgments and assumptions, as do all descriptions of things or situations in the world. No word can precisely express any objective meaning.

• A part of the judgment involved in human perceptions is the filtering and prioritization of inputs. In order to focus on the highest-priority information, people take vast portions of their experiences and environments for granted. They adapt to their environments unconsciously, absorbing and relying on a common set of values and assumptions, some of which they might reject if they ever became fully aware of them.

• Instincts, intuitions, emotions and dreams are extremely important sources of knowledge. The knowledge they reveal is intrinsic: located within the unconscious mind and relatively untainted by conditioning. Much intrinsic knowledge relates to people’s own true identities and deepest yearnings. The suppression of intrinsic knowledge causes depression and anxiety, and stunts personal growth.

• Symbols need not take the form of words, numbers and pictures. All things, people, actions and failures to act are symbols. Symbols can reveal fundamental truths because the unconscious mind invokes intrinsic knowledge to decode them.

• The contributions of the greatest scientists, poets, authors, artists, builders and leaders change not just our experience but our capacity to imagine. As a result of great works, there are more available thoughts.

• Great teachers empower students to think new thoughts, and expand the scope of their free will.

• Excellent teaching is not primarily about transmitting academic content from the mind of the teacher to the mind of the student, but about liberating knowledge and capacities already present in the student.

• True teaching transforms the teacher. True leadership transforms the leader. True love transforms the lover. True life is transformation.

UC Berkeley Amgen Scholars Program An Undergraduate Summer Research Program
in Science and Biotechnology

The Amgen Scholars Program is a national program to increase research opportunities for students committed to pursuing careers in the sciences. This program provides outstanding science undergraduates with research experience and increases participants’ competitiveness as candidates for admission to prestigious graduate and professional institutions. Additionally, this program encourages participants to pursue a Ph.D. or the joint M.D./Ph.D. degree and research careers in the sciences and biotechnology. Applicants from diverse populations and backgrounds are encouraged to apply.

2013 Program Dates: May 27 - August 2, 2013

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.

**Sherwin-Williams

Interviewing on 12/7/12 (Deadline to apply via UMBCworks:  11/23/12)
Position:  Management/Leadership Training Program
Majors:  All Majors

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.

The following part-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!

9254715 - Internet Brands/SatisFacts - Operations Assistant
9254652 - YMCA of Central Maryland - Before & After School Enrichment Group Leader
9254717 - IT Help Desk - Baltimore Aircoil

The following full-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings! 

9254745 - Northrop Grumman Corporation - Business Process Analyst
9254867 - Concrete Technician - Bonsal American
9254756 - OSA Science and Engineering Congressional Fellow - Optical Society of America
9251161 - Rehabilitation Counselor - Humanim