The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) seeks an enthusiastic and experienced Sales Associate to play an essential role in the success and operation of the BMA Shop. The ideal candidate will aid in maximizing revenues while acting as an ambassador for the institution using their excellent communication and customer service skills, and product management.
]]>The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) seeks enthusiastic and experienced Museum Gallery Attendants to ensure a positive and welcoming experience for BMA visitors and members. The ideal candidate will have impeccable communication and customer service skills and will be comfortable managing multiple priorities while working in a fast-paced, team-based environment. Regular schedule includes weekends.
]]>Name: Yash Bhatt
Pronouns: He/Him
Semester of Internship: Summer 2025
Major: MS Engineering Management
Current Class Level: Master's Student
This semester I completed a(n)...: Internship
Internship, Co-op, or Research Site (Company/Organization Name): allBETS LLC
Location of the Organization (City, State): Washington D.C.
Title of position: Project Management & Market Research Intern
Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities:
As a Project Management and Market Research Intern at allBETS, I worked across three mission-driven verticals including fintech (allBETS), healthcare (LarCare), and education (Pay Your Tuition Foundation) to lead product operations, AI research, and process optimization initiatives. My day-to-day included managing sprint tasks in Motion AI, building internal documentation and workflows in Notion AI, and supporting HIPAA, PCI and SOC2 readiness through Vanta compliance implementation. I also contributed to UI/UX and feature testing for the allBETS mobile application, helping coordinate the rollout of new features with the dev team. On the LarCare side, I helped streamline the website onboarding experience and backend workflow, improving operational clarity for internal staff and caregivers. Additionally, I led early planning for an AI-powered chatbot expected to support 1,000+ users across our platforms, while developing onboarding/offboarding SOPs and contributing to cross-functional strategy reports.
Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
I took a proactive approach to my internship search and began applying early in the Fall 2024 semester. I discovered the opportunity on Handshake and submitted my application in November 2024. To strengthen my materials, I participated in two resume review sessions offered by Farhan Nadeem and Stephanie from the UMBC Career Center, which helped me tailor my application to the position type and industry expectations. I was invited for a first-round screening interview in late December, followed by a technical interview in January 2025. After a thorough evaluation process, I received my offer in the final week of January. Preparing early and leveraging the Career Center's resources were instrumental in helping me secure this opportunity.
What resources did you use to find your current experience?
UMBC Career Center, Career Fairs, Networking events (UMBC Connects, Info Sessions, Arts With a Purpose, etc.), Alumni Networking, Faculty Connections, Handshake, LinkedIn or other social media
What have you enjoyed the most about your position and organization?
I've most enjoyed the ability to work directly with leadership while owning initiatives that touched real users and critical operations. From feature testing for allBETS' app to streamlining LarCare's caregiver workflows, I felt trusted to lead and empowered to ask questions, solve problems, and innovate.
How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?
My work helped drive HIPAA, PCI and SOC 2 readiness across multiple business units, while improving internal clarity through SOPs, dashboards, and project documentation. I helped test and support the release of new features for allBETS' mobile app, coordinated with dev leads to resolve bugs, and refined the onboarding experience for LarCare's caregiver portal. These contributions accelerated operations, enhanced user experience, and supported the broader mission of using technology for community impact.
What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
Be proactive in building relationships, not just resumes. Many opportunities are born from conversations. Attend events, follow up with intention, and don't be afraid to pitch yourself. Start early!!! Don't wait for a perfect resume, start applying for internships from August for next summer. Seek advice and help from the career center. Get your resume peer reviewed.
Please provide a short reflection or quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / working with the Career Center.
"I appreciated the trust and ownership I was given at allBETS, I got to lead high-impact work alongside leadership. The UMBC Career Center helped me refine my resume and pitch, giving me the confidence to step into the role ready to contribute."
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Language as personal and communal expression: an interactive zine-making workshop
Dr. Joyhanna Jung Yoo and Shengxiao "Sole" Yu will lead participants through an exploration of their personal relationship to their heritage language(s). The workshop will ask participants to reflect on the relationship of language in their lives as it pertains to identity, family, thought, and more. The workshop aims to bring together students and broader community members to think about the connections between issues of language to broader community and social concerns.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
2-4pm
Location: CADVC Gallery, Fine Arts 105
Attendance is capped at 25 participants. Priority will be given to students.
About the speakers:
Joyhanna "Joy" Yoo (she/they) is a linguistic anthropologist whose work examines the circulation of Korean popular cultural genres with fieldwork based in Seoul, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. Their research examines the meanings generated by language as it pertains to race and gender when cultural genres circulate. Joy has also published on Asian American racialization and linguistic appropriation in mediatized contexts. Her newer work examines the relationship between language loss, grief, and Korean diasporic belonging. They are especially passionate about student-centered teaching, mentorship, and student advocacy.
Shengxiao Yu, known by her nickname Sole, is a speaker, facilitator, writer, and social justice educator. She is the creator of Nectar, a space where she provides political education for the community through giving keynote speeches, facilitating workshops, and providing thought leadership. In 2024, Sole served as the activist-in-residence at the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. In this capacity, Sole conducted research to more deeply understand the AAPI electoral landscape and the role of mis- and disinformation. Sole is a writer for the Xin Sheng Project, a platform combating misinformation in the Chinese diaspora community by publishing in-language, progressive articles that shift perspectives and build intergenerational power. As a generation 1.5 Asian American, Sole is also working to build community among her fellow Asian Americans in order to build socio-political power and to lift up her lineage. Sole is inspired by BIPOC activists, grassroots community leaders, and all the intersectional movement ancestors who have paved the way.
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This event is part of the Reframing Global Asias Conversation Series. For the conversation series this fall, the Global Asias Initiative is hosting guest speakers Shengxiao "Sole" Yu and Dr. Joyhanna Jung Yoo for a series of workshops & lectures.
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This event is open for full participation by all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or any other protected category under applicable federal law, state law, and the University's nondiscrimination policy.
Hi everyone! Welcome to the KDC myUMBC page!
UMBC K-pop Dance Club is a performance/interest group for students interested in K-pop and K-pop Dance! We are a diverse group of students that are dedicated to creating a welcoming environment whether you're a dancer or someone who is simply interested in K-pop idols and music! We aim to create a space where dancers, new or experienced, can come together in a space where anyone interested in K-pop/dancing can learn choreography and have the opportunity to perform at on and off campus events throughout the year, in addition to events in-person and virtual where students can meet each other and bond over similar interests!
We host GBM (general board meetings!) where we come together as a club and play online games, deco + scrapbook or even do Random Dance Plays! We also teach dance workshops taught by our club leadership and other club members!
To learn more about our club, please go to the "Files" tab and click into the Contact Us folder. There are links to our social media as well as videos of past performances. Feel free to check them out and leave a like/follow!
Make sure to join our myUMBC group and turn notifications on to be updated on all of our events and activities through your UMBC email!
We look forward to meeting everyone, whether that's during Involvement Fest, through social media, or something else! We hope you stick around, and you're always welcome to join KDC at any time during the semester!
The International Cyber Security Center of Excellence (INCS-CoE), of which UMBC is a charter member, will hold an online seminar on Security Challenges for Immersive Technologies from 7:00 to 8:30 am EDT on Thursday, October 9 via Zoom. The seminar will consist of two talks.
Enhancing Security and Privacy in Augmented Reality - Through the Lens of Eye Tracking, Bo Ji, Virginia Tech
Augmented Reality (AR) devices distinguish themselves from other mobile devices by providing an immersive and interactive experience. The ability of these devices to collect information presents challenges and opportunities to improve existing security and privacy techniques in this domain. In this talk, I will discuss how readily available eye-tracking sensor data can be used to improve existing methods for assuring security and protecting the privacy of those near the device. Our research has presented three new systems, BystandAR, ShouldAR, and GazePair, leveraging the user's eye gaze to improve security and privacy expectations in or with AR. As these devices grow in power and number, such solutions are necessary to prevent perception and privacy failures that hindered earlier devices. This work is presented in the hope that these solutions can improve and expedite the adoption of these powerful and useful AR devices.
Shaping the Metaverse: Policy engagement with immersive technologies in the UK, Jesus Martinez del Rincon, Queen's University Belfast
Queen's University Belfast completed a two-phase Metaverse technologies horizon scanning project in July 2023 and 2025. This talk will cover a summary of the most relevant findings and outcomes. In the first phase, we presented a broad landscaping report of UK interests and activities in related technical areas. Building on areas where the UK might benefit from the emerging Metaverse, the second phase, deepens the analysis in three main areas: a) interoperability standards: where we highlighted current metaverse standards development organisations and identified the strategic aims of such participation; b) privacy, security and regulations: investigating two complementary aspects: (1) the evolving regulatory and legal landscape related to data collection by metaverse service operators; (2) a thread analysis of the metaverse and a technical analysis of the privacy preserving technologies that could enable metaverse data platforms; c) a horizon-scanning of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and their application to the Metaverse.