Intern of the Week: Daniel Sanchez-Mendoza for Biochemistry!
Check out his internship with NIH!
Name: Daniel Sanchez-Mendoza
Internship, Co-op or Research Site: National
Institute of Health, National Eye Institute, Ophthalmic Genetics and Visual
Function Branch
Position Title: Summer Intern
Major(s)/Minor(s): Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Current Class Level: Sophomore
Work Term: Summer 2019
Tell us about your internship, co-op, or
research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities.
I was handling a temporary project looking into
characterizing ZNF503 zebrafish mutants by CRIPSR CAS9 mutagenesis and
identifying a viable male and female mutant to produce 100% mutant offspring.
ZNF503 is a gene associated with optic coloboma, defects in eye development.
Specifically, it causes the malformation of the optic fissure closure, which
prevents a complete fusion of the optic cup that leads to blindness. My duties
included setting up multiple breeding pairs on a weekly basis, collection of
any embryos from the breedings, performing PCR to amplify the desired deletion
mutation, and performing gel electrophoresis to identify any mutants and
confirm whether the pair is viable to produce mutants. Afterwards, I set up
some of the embryos for cryosectioning and, using those slides, I immunostained
them with specific antibodies that are prevalent in the eye.
Describe the process of obtaining your position.
When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
I heard about the internship
last summer from my neighbor. He told me that the National Eye Institute has a
DIVRO program focused on diversity in visual research and ophthalmology which
sounded like an amazing opportunity for me. The application window ran
throughout the winter where I applied sometime in February, and by late March I
received an email with a position offer.
What have you enjoyed the most about your
position or organization?
Getting to know everyone at the
branch and learning about the research that they have dedicated many years to.
Much of this research has direct impact on human lives.
How do you believe you have made an impact
through your work?
Although my work was
preliminary, it has provided the foundation for further studies down the line.
What advice would you give to another student
who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
Reach out and get connections with people in the
area of research that interests you. Look into the research that the Private
Investigators are working on to get an idea of their work and show similar
interest when you reach out. Also, fill out the application early to get a
better chance of getting a position.
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Cooperative Education Program
NSA Now Accepting Applications!
The National Security Agency (NSA) is now accepting applications for the Cooperative Education Program! Our application will be closing on November 15th, 2019.
What is the Co-op Program?
The Cooperative Education Program is a rotational program, in which students will alternate semesters between full-time SCHOOL and full-time WORK (including the Summer) until graduating with their Bachelor’s Degree for a minimum of 52 weeks worked with the Agency. In this type of program, they will be able to gain a wealth of knowledge and experience the many aspects of the Agency as it relates to their intended career path.
Who is eligible?
The Cooperative Education program (Co-op) is offered to second semester freshman and sophomores. We are looking for the following majors:
o Computer Science
o Computer/Electrical Engineering
o Cybersecurity (Technical track only)
o Chinese, Russian, Korean, Arabic, and Farsi Language-focused majors.
Students must have a 3.0 or higher G.P.A. in order to apply and must maintain this G.P.A throughout the program.
Benefits to the program?
o Travel Reimbursement and Subsidized Housing (For colleges 75+ miles from Ft. Meade, Maryland)
o Tuition Assistance
o Paid Time off
o Mentoring opportunities
o Competitive pay
o Employment Opportunities upon graduation
Where to apply?
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Consumer Compliance Information and Resources
Dear Members of the UMBC Community,
This is to remind you of an important resource for UMBC faculty, staff and students – the Consumer Compliance Information website. In accordance with the Higher Education Act, as amended by the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), UMBC makes available to current and prospective faculty, staff, and students important disclosure information regarding policies and disclosures. While UMBC has a long history of sharing consumer and compliance information, the website was designed to provide all disclosure information in one location. In addition, our one-page UMBC Drug and Alcohol Prevention Quick Reference Guide is a consolidated reference document to assist employees with navigating available policies and resources.
If you have any questions regarding the information contained in the Consumer Compliance Information website, we encourage you to contact the respective administrative department (Enrollment Management, Office of the General Counsel,University Police or the Human Resources Department) at UMBC.
Valerie A. Thomas, Associate Vice President, Human Resources
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Education Week Trial
Free access for three weeks!
UMBC now has free access to the content and tools of Education Week - the trial runs from Monday, September 9th through Friday, September 27th. With the trial you can view all all the options for searching and analysis, including:
- Education Week Online, featuring daily news, commentary and analysis on policy, legislative and overall shifts and trends in the U.S. K-12 space.
- Education Week digital edition, an electronic replica of the print edition, days before the print edition is delivered.
- Teacher Channel perfect for teachers and professional development with daily news, stories and content focused on the teaching profession, including videos, case studies and best practices.
- Digital Directions with daily online features for education technology trends and insights, geared towards IT specialists and media/technology professionals.
- Industry & Innovations for K-12 decision-makers, reporting on the intersection of K-12 schools and districts and vendors, trends, best practices and much more.
- Quality Counts, Diplomas Count and Technology Counts annual reports and archives, and special reports, story packages and archives.
- State Highlight Reports which provide over 40 data indicators to assess and compare performance in key areas, by state.
- 33 years of fully-searchable archives, so you can research and focus on specific hot-button issues and events.
- Exclusive online-only content, including 60 blogs on vitally important K-12 topics.
- Multimedia tools, including district geographic maps, videos & infographics and photo galleries.
- Ed Week Research Center, with special reports, surveys and access to our staff of full-time researchers for customized research needs.
- Education Counts database, where you can build customized tables and reports by state and other indicators.
Comments and feedback are greatly appreciated!
There are four sessions available starting the week of October 7, 2019 and ending the week of November 4, 2019.
Mondays 4-5:30pm
Thursdays 2:30-4pm
Fridays 11am-12:30pm
Fridays 1:30-3pm
Apply by Monday, September 30, 2019 at 11:59pm.
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UMBC Shady Grove Student - Bus to Career Fair!
UMBC Fall Career & Internship Fair
RSVP TO RIDE THE BUS HERE
The annual UMBC Career & Internship Fair will be held on the main UMBC campus Wednesday, September 25, 2019, 11:30 am - 3:30 pm.
The UMBC Career Center is sponsoring a bus to transport UMBC students participating in classes on the Shady Grove campus to the fair. Below are the logistics:
BUS DEPARTURE FROM SHADY GROVE: 10:30 am
The bus will pick-up students on Lot 5 (Far side of Building 3)
We are anticipating the bus will arrive at UMBC around 11:30 am, for the beginning of the fair.
BUS DEPARTURE FROM UMBC: The bus will depart UMBC at 1:00 pm with a drop-off at Shady Grove expected around 2:00 pm.
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Latest grants from the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation
UMBC is proud to announce the projects selected to receive grants in the 2018-2019 rounds of the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation competition.
IMPLEMENTATION & RESEARCH AWARDS (Spring 2019)
Ethical considerations in data science curricula — A multidisciplinary team led by Vandana Janeja (Information Systems) will develop a pedagogical module to infuse ethics into data science and related curricula. The team will work with faculty partners across campus to design lectures (in person and online) to discuss ethical considerations in data science, particularly focused on decision making throughout the data life cycle. The modules will be evaluated by pre- and post-surveys, including scenarios of decision making during the development of a data science project. Colleagues from other academic units involved in ethical reasoning and data science education will be invited to participate throughout the round-tables and utilize the module for their own classes. This project will provide leadership opportunities to engage with partners across the country in future opportunities.
Understanding, Assessing and Improving Student Teamwork — A multidisciplinary team led by Simon Stacey (Honors College) aims to understand, assess and improve student teamwork skills and behaviors. The team will focus primarily on the textual interactions of students collaborating through online platforms and will also transcribe a limited set of face-to-face interactions in the later stages of the project. The interactions will be analyzed by 1) generating statistical data focusing on the form of the interactions and 2) exploring the content of the interactions by identifying the characteristics and behaviors of successful interactions using qualitative content analysis and machine learning techniques. The ultimate goal will be to use the qualitatively coded interactions to train a neural network to perform qualitative coding. The team will provide information to instructors, teams, and team members in real time to allow for changes in behavior, adaptations, support and interventions.
SEED AWARD (Spring 2019)
Text + Code = Better Machine Learning Education — Tim Oates (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) will write the first several chapters of a Machine Learning textbook in a format that allows free intermingling of code, data, interactive visualizations, and professional quality typesetting. The tools used to write and represent the book are based on the default technology stack for modern machine learning, which enables active experimentation with live examples. Students can read about a concept or algorithm and then text their understanding interactively inside the textbook. Tim will use surveys to evaluate the utility of the proposed format by measuring differences in engagement and understanding between the proposed format and a standard print textbook.
SCHOLARSHIP OF TEACHING & LEARNING AWARDS (Spring 2019)
The Influence of the “Seeing White” Podcast Course on Racial Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills among Undergraduate Students — A team led by M. Nicole Belfiore (Social Work) will evaluate the effect of a semester long course based on the “Seeing White” podcast on undergraduate students’ racial attitudes, knowledge, and skills. The course requires listening to podcast episodes, attending integrative seminars, reflective journaling, and completing a self-evaluation analysis paper. The team is interested in the innovative use of a podcast for content delivery, as well as the effect on student growth and commitment to social justice around race issues. The team ultimately hopes to develop coursework on race, discrimination, and oppression issues for undergraduate students guided by this study for integration into the curriculum.
Effectiveness of Disciplinary-Decoupled Mathematical Reasoning — A team led by Kathleen Hoffman (Mathematics and Statistics) will decouple the foundational proof-writing skills from the disciplinary course of real analysis, Math 301, and develop a new course in Mathematical Reasoning that will focus on fundamental skill development in the area of proofs in order to increase success in Math 301 and upper level mathematics courses. Much of the material taught in the lower level mathematics courses is “calculational” in nature and does not prepare students for the theorem-proof based classes at the upper level. As a result, in the “bridge” class to the upper level courses, Math 301, students are required to learn the foundational skills of proof writing at the same time they master the disciplinary topic of real analysis. The team will collaborate with an active researcher in mathematics education to study course effectiveness with an approach that includes active learning and contemporary pedagogical techniques.
IMPLEMENTATION & RESEARCH AWARD (Fall 2018)
Development and evaluation of a supplemental hands-on social statistics training materials using the open source application – R Commander — A multidisciplinary team led by Takashi Yamashita (Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Administration and Policy) will develop ready-to-use supplemental social statistics training materials with the open source statistics application, R Commander. Students’ lack of statistical analytical/reasoning skills, often referred to as the “quantitative gap,” has been a serious concern in social science programs. This project combines two known strategies for improving learning outcomes as well as students’ attitudes toward statistics: development of teaching materials focusing on concepts rather than the mathematics and increasing opportunities for students to practice statistical analysis.
SEED AWARD (Fall 2018)
Competitive active learning games for inclusive computer science classrooms— Benjamin Johnson (Computer Science and Electrical Engineering) will create competitive active learning exercises as hands-on games to allow students to practice abstract skills. While many of the abstract concepts covered in high level computer science classes are easy to grasp from an explanation, they require a great deal of practice before they can be intuitively understood by students. The variety of games will be designed with consideration of scoring methods that evaluate whether the students benefit from the exercise, accessibility, inclusivity, and generalizability of the creation in other fields of study.
Proposals for the next round of Innovation Fund grants are due by October 25, 2019. For more information and to apply, visit UMBC's Faculty Development Center.
The Hrabowski Fund for Innovation exemplifies UMBC's commitment to investing in faculty initiatives that fuel creativity and enterprise and also create opportunities for student engagement.
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Student Event Planning Roundtables
Join us for food & conversation about future student events
This semester Event & Conference Services is rolling out a series of Event Planning Roundtables! We wanted to provide a space where student organizations with similar missions and interests can come together to plan and execute events for the Spring 2020 semester based on the timeline for SGA Finance Board budget proposals in tandem with the Large Scale Event Planning Timeline. This may seem like planning too early but please keep in mind that Spring 2020 budgets are due in October.
The dates are:
Hobbie & Intellectual Sports- Monday, September 16th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons 329
Academic/ Departmental, Career/ Professional, & Honors Societies- Tuesday, September 17th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons Skylight Room
Fraternities/ Sororities, Service, and Political- Wednesday, September 18th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons Skylight Room
Cultural/ Ethnic- Thursday, September 19th 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons Skylight Room
Arts, Performance, and Media- Monday, September 23rd 5 PM- 7 PM in Commons 331
Sign-ups will close on Sunday, September 15th at 11:59 PM, space is limited so act fast! The sign up link is below. Also, you do not have to be a scheduler to attend! Anyone involved with the planning process is encouraged to come. Please only sign up for the date that corresponds with your organization type, if you do not you will be politely reassigned. Please reach out to bspears@umbc.edu if you have any questions. It is encouraged that at least three but no more than six leaders from your organization attend. If all can not attend please come anyway! A full dinner will be served, so get excited!
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Tutoring is open!
Sherman 345 and Library 1st Floor
Tutoring has begun in the Academic Success Center!
Drop-in tutoring for math, biology, chemistry, economics, physics, computer science at the Math and Science Tutoring Center (1st floor, AOK Library)
Writing Center appointment and drop-in tutoring for any writing assignments for any course (1st floor, AOK Library)
Appointment Tutoring for many 1st and 2nd year courses at the Academic Success Center (Sherman Hall, 345)
You can view tutoring schedules online and book appointments using the ASC scheduling system, TutorTrac.
Click on the ASC Tutor Schedule to check for available tutors and reserve your sessions.
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Researcher of the Week: Maya Mueller
Say hello to Maya Mueller, a URA Scholar and Mathematics major, who will graduate in 2020!
Title of your research project:
“Comparing Predictive Data Assimilation Methods on S-I-R Epidemic Forecasts”
Describe your project:
My objectives are to compare two statistical tracking methods, specifically the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF) and the Ensemble Optimal Statistical Interpolation (EnOSI) method, to see which one more accurately predicts the spread of a S-I-R epidemic model for airborne infectious diseases.
Who is your mentor(s) for your project? Why did you choose them?
I took Dr. Sousedik’s Math 341 (Computational Methods) class. Dr. Sousedik teaches in a way that I don’t feel like I just learned the textbook material, but rather a better comprehension of mathematical logic and problem solving methods in general, so I knew Dr. Sousedik would be a perfect research mentor for me. My advisor also was invaluable for steering me in the right direction for who to ask for research opportunities.
How did you become interested in this project?
I’ve always been interested in classes that involved math modeling or data prediction, particularly when the variables dealt with demographic data. When Dr. Sousedik proposed a research topic about statistical tracking for epidemic models, I was very enthusiastic as the topic encapsulated all of my favorite math concepts.
What has been the hardest part about your research/what was the most unexpected thing about being a researcher?
There isn’t a website or a book that tells you clearly how to write the code for your program, or how to adapt an equation to the problem, so there were many hours where Dr. Sousedik and I just had to work things out on pen and paper, or invent a new way of dealing with an error from scratch. It can be unsettling to think there isn’t one right answer to a problem, but I was left with insight to how researchers apply math to real world problems.
What has been the most rewarding part?
When I first started the research, the related studies I read seemed at times like another language, but after some effort and time I realized I was capable of understanding and applying mathematical concepts that were incomprehensible a few months ago. This research opportunity gave me confidence in my potential to have a STEM career in the future.
How will you disseminate your research?
I intend to submit the research paper to the UMBC review and the SIAM Undergraduate Research Online. Ideally, our research will add enough novelty to existing methods to lead to a regular research journal publication.
What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research?
I would advise any student getting involved in undergraduate research to speak with the faculty in their department. The professors and advisors will more than likely be willing to go the extra mile to make any ideas for projects you have a reality.
What are your career goals?
After more research experience, I ultimately want to apply mathematical models to the planning of urban infrastructure. Ideally, I am interested in working collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team of computer programming, architecture, mathematics, and statistics experts to improve land-use allocation.
Be like Maya! Get started on an undergraduate research project and become a URA Scholar: ur.umbc.edu