To cap off this semester's informative and intriguing EHS seminar presentations and discussions, tomorrow's final seminar is being led by our own EHS Professor Diane Flint, who will be talking about public policy vs public administration, and how they affect EMS and health care at large.

• How does policy affect implementation?
  
• How does administration affect policy?
  
• How can we work with both to obtain the best outcomes for our public?

Wednesday, December 5, 2017 in Sherman Hall Rm 305, 3:00pm - 5:00pm. 

As always, if you want to view remotely and don't know how, please contact Kara Buckmaster for assistance (by 2:30pm, 12/05/17 please).

ASB consists of several student-run, week-long, service-learning trips, which provide an opportunity for students to learn about and address social issues by working with community partners, policy makers, and government representatives in the Baltimore area. This year’s trips focus on:

• Public Health

• Health Education

• Food Access & Food Insecurity

• Economic Disparity

The application is available here or can be found at tinyurl.com/ASB2018UMBC. Applications are Due November 22, 2017, by 11:59 p.m.

Each trip is led by a Trip Leader and all trips will take place in Baltimore to better connect students to the city and introduce them to opportunities for long-term community engagement beyond ASB.

 U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) is currently accepting applications for its 2018 AFRL Repperger Research Internship Program. This civilian research opportunity is a 10-week summer program intended for MS/PhD candidates pursuing degrees in STEM. Each year the laboratory will appointment a couple exceptional undergraduate students into the program.  There are 36 posted opportunities, once the application January 21, 2018 deadline passes, each application will be reviewed and AFRL will fund 15 participants for the summer period.  Check out the opportunity catalog to review all of the available opportunities, there are available research opportunities in nearly every STEM field! Please apply to no more than (3) Repperger opportunities and only apply to opportunities in your applicable educational background.

2018 AFRL Repperger Research Internship Program Catalog:

https://www.orau.org/maryland/Repperger%20Intern%20Project%20Brochure%20-%202018.pdf

To qualify, applicants must be pursuing their Master or PhD (some outstanding bachelor students will be considered as well), have a minimal 3.2 GPA in a STEM discipline and be a U.S. citizen. Selected participants will receive a $12,000 stipend for their participation in the internship which runs from June 4- August 10, 2018. All complete applications must be submitted by January 21, 2018. To apply, visit https://www.orau.org/maryland/repperger.html.  For more information, visit: www.orau.org/maryland, or email Recruiter@orau.org.

Please remember we have a lot more opportunities available with the Department of Defense! Please explore the U.S. Army Research Lab Summer Journeyman Fellowship (BS-PhD candidates) and the U.S. Army Institute for Institute for Surgical Research Summer Internship Program (BS Candidates) opportunities. Additional summer and postgraduate opportunities (Bachelor–Postdoctoral opportunities) are posted to the ORAU Maryland website, currently over 200 open research opportunities: www.orau.org/maryland.

Army Research Lab –Summer Journeyman Fellowship

http://www.orau.org/arlfellowship/applicants/how-to-apply-summer-journeyman.htm

Army Institute for Surgical Research Summer Internship Program

https://www.orau.org/maryland/isr.html

Public Policy Assistant Professor Dr. Pamela Bennett co-authored (with Amy Lutz and Rebecca Wang) an article on affirmative action and higher education which was published online Nov. 13, 2017, in Ethnic and Racial Studies entitled " Mismatch and academic performance at America's selective colleges and Universities"

to link to this article go to:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2017.1392030