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Don't miss the electrifying Champions League clash between Newcastle United and PSG!

Join us at the Sports Zone tomorrow (Wed 10/4) at 3:00 PM for a live streaming experience that's bound to keep you at the edge of your seats!

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Books & Boys is a paid longitudinal study on cis hetero Black women's collegiate romantic experiences, sexual self-definition, and sexual health. This study will be one of the first to focus on Black college women’s intimate lives, beginning with their first semester, throughout their college career, and following up with them after college. 


The principal researcher on the Books & Boys project is Dr. Mercedez Dunn-Gallier, an assistant professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health. She’s also an affiliate faculty member in Gender, Women’s, + Sexuality Studies.  

 

She is a proud alumna of Spelman College (C’2013) and earned her Master of Public Health in Health Behavior and Health Education and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan.


Interested in participating? Visithttps://umbc.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9NaPwgR7CKam7oG. 


For more information on the study, contact Dr. Dunn-Gallier at mdunn@umbc.edu.


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Name: Ariel Agustin

Pronouns: He/him

Semester of Internship: Summer 2023 

Major: Environmental Science

Current Class Level: Senior

This semester I completed a(n)...: Internship 

Internship, Co-op, or Research Site (Company/Organization Name): Northrop Grumman Corporation

Location of the Organization (City, State): Linthicum, MD

Title of position: Global Supply Chain Specialist: Procurement (Planner)

Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities:
My internship was mainly remote. I went into the office maybe less than 5 times throughout my 10-week internship. My day-to-day responsibilities included: cleaning up Purchase Order Histories, renewing/following up with C832 forms for Suppliers, attending virtual meetings for weekly/quarterly performances/goals, creating a Planner Guide, and emailing/calling to coworkers about status of items.

Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
It all started at the UMBC Career Fair in Fall 2022. I dressed up in a suit with a laptop case bag with resumes inside and a pool cue billiard case. I heard from the Resume Help workshop that Northrop Grumman was a Gold Hire, which means they hire a lot of students from UMBC. The first stall I visited was them, and I got really lucky that I was one of the first ones in line. NG had two more career events that I attended and networked with the same person I saw at the fair. From there, she told me to apply to any positions that interest me. There were no internships, only full time positions, and I got rejected from them. Fortunately, in that rejection letter, they told me it's because I'm a student that cannot work full time hours but that they'd take me in as an intern, which they sent me a link for to submit an application. And I got accepted. 

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.)

What have you enjoyed the most about your position and organization?
I loved that it was remote and the feeling of job security post grad.

How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?
I believe I made an impact by cleaning up old issues that no one wanted to fix because everyone is focused on cleaning up current issues instead of issues from the past.

What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
Put your best foot forward. First impressions are everything. Dress to impress. I also got lucky because the person who scouted me and is my current manager used to be a state champ billiards pool player (I think) so when she saw my billiards case + my attire + my resume + my professionalism got my foot in the door. From there, be personable. Smile, laugh, engage. 

Please provide a short reflection or quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / working with the Career Center.
You might think the Career Center won’t help much, but their help can get you closer to landing an internship/job. Take any and all help that you can get.

Do you want the chance to be the next Intern of the Week? Fill out this form to be considered!
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The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

MalDICT: Benchmark Datasets on Malware Behaviors, Platforms, Exploitation, and Packers


RJ Joyce,  CSEE Department, UMBC

12-1pm ET, Friday, 6 October 2023, via WebEx

Joint work with Edward Raff, Charles Nicholas, and James Holt

Existing research on malware classification focuses almost exclusively on two tasks: distinguishing between malicious and benign files, and classifying malware by family. Malware, however, can be categorized according to many other types of attributes, and the ability to identify these attributes in newly-emerging malware using machine learning will provide significant value to analysts. In particular, we have identified four tasks which are under-represented in prior work: classification by behaviors that malware exhibit, platforms that malware run on, vulnerabilities that malware exploit, and packers that packed the malware. To obtain labels for training and evaluating ML classifiers on these tasks, we created an antivirus (AV) tagging tool called ClarAVy. ClarAVy's sophisticated AV label parser distinguishes itself from prior AV-based taggers with the ability to parse 882 different AV label formats used by 90 different AV products accurately. We are releasing benchmark datasets for each of these four classification tasks, tagged using ClarAVy and comprising nearly 5.5 million malicious files in total. Our malware behavior dataset includes 75 distinct tags -- nearly seven times more than the only prior benchmark dataset with behavioral tags. To our knowledge, we are the first to release datasets with malware platform, exploitation, and packer tags.

RJ Joyce (joyce8@umbc.edu) is a PhD student at UMBC under the supervision of Dr. Charles Nicholas and Dr. Edward Raff. Presently, RJ works as a data scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton performing research at the intersection of malware analysis and machine learning. RJ is also a visiting lecturer at UMBC and is teaching CMSC-426 Principles of Computer Security course this semester.

Host: Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681.  The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1pm.  All meetings are open to the public.  Upcoming CDL meetings: Oct. 20 (1-2pm) Josh Benaloh (Microsoft), ElectionGuard; Nov. 3, Jason Rheinhart (Sandia), Risk analysis; Nov. 17 (1-2pm) Austin Murdoch (Sixmap); Dec. 1, Enis Golaszewski (UMBC), Automatic cryptographic bindings; Jan. 16-19, 2024, UMBC SFS/CySP Research Study.

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The Mid Autumn Festival is a harvest festival and holiday that takes place on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Lunar calendar. Predominately observed across Asian countries such as China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and many other ethnic Chinese communities. 


While celebrating the autumn harvest as a whole is a focus of this time of year, depending on which Asian culture and country you are focusing on, you will find different cultural traditions and beliefs such as an emphasis on the moon, gathering with family, and even honoring those who have passed. Across all of these countries, the importance of gathering with family and loved ones can be seen.


Each country has its own name or reference for the Mid Autumn Festival, here are some of them (for additional viewing, please see the attached photo): 



During the Mid Autumn Festival, you will find many people eating and gifting Mooncakes, a pastry filled with different rich flavors such as red bean or lotus. You may also find crescent-shaped rice cakes called Songpyeon (Korean) filled with either red bean, chestnuts, or even toasted sesame seeds. Similar to other holidays across the world, food plays an important aspect to many during the Mid Autumn Festival. 


To learn more about The Mid Autumn Festival across a couple of different cultures, check out the links below! 


Chuseok in Korea 

Tsukimi, The Moon Festival 

Hong Kong Celebration of The Mid Autumn Festival


Angelina, our Assistant Director of The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity wishes all a Happy Mid Autumn Festival, and from her own culture and language: 추석잘보내세요! (Happy Chuseok)! 

]]> The Mid Autumn Festival is a harvest festival and holiday that takes place on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Lunar calendar. Predominately observed across Asian countries such as China,... Image https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/attachments/0f8b4ff7d24d7062b59ddc77276023f2/6a7ef56f/news/000/135/877/1b08dce51a8c1681b8d7f4b86cc9717b/Mid Autumn Harvest Festival.png?1696006375 https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/135877/guest@my.umbc.edu/2f3e7f5c0c8f8330a7d3e44926655021/api/pixel The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/themosaic https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xsmall.png?1755890395 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/original.png?1755890395 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xxlarge.png?1755890395 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xlarge.png?1755890395 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/large.png?1755890395 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/medium.png?1755890395 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/small.png?1755890395 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xsmall.png?1755890395 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/079/8da8369525d899e6fa49decd5a80b73f/xxsmall.png?1755890395 The Mosaic: Center for Cultural Diversity (i3b) https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/xxlarge.jpg?1696003943 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/xlarge.jpg?1696003943 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/large.jpg?1696003943 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/medium.jpg?1696003943 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/small.jpg?1696003943 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/xsmall.jpg?1696003943 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/135/877/c553672841d91b92498945ab65b8d745/xxsmall.jpg?1696003943 5 0 true Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:58:49 -0400 The Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships is Hiring!
The Office of Financial Aid & Scholarships is hiring Front Office Assistants. We are looking for focused and detail-oriented undergraduate students to fill vacancies beginning November 13th. The position does require on campus availability.

This position will allow you to work on your communication and problem solving skills as well as provide great work experience. Students who are hired may continue with our office until they complete their undergraduate degrees.  

Front Office Assistants are an integral part of the Financial Aid Office. They assist thousands of students and families with questions on the financial aid process. No previous financial aid experience is required for consideration. 

For more information on the application requirements, and to apply, please complete the google form application by 4:00 PM on Thursday, October 12th.  Note that you will need to be signed into your myUMBC account in order to access the google form application. Any additional questions regarding the application should be sent to Natalie Smith, Financial Aid Services Coordinator at nasmith2@umbc.edu. 

Please note that this position is only available to current UMBC undergraduate students, that are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents. Graduate students are not eligible.
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Community Detection in Multilayer Networks:
Algorithms and Applications

Prof. Selin Aviyente, Michigan State University

1-2pm Tue 3 October 2023, ITE 325b

Modern data analysis and processing tasks typically involve large sets of structured data, where the structure carries critical information about the nature of the data.  Typically, graphs are used as mathematical tools to describe the structure of such data. Traditional network models employ simple graphs where the nodes are connected to each other by a single, static edge.  However, in many contemporary applications, this relatively simple structure cannot capture the diverse nature of the networks, e.g., multiple types of entities and interactions between them. Multilayer networks (MLNs) allow one to represent the interactions between a pair of nodes through multiple types of links. MLNs can further be categorized based on the homogeneity of the nodes and complexity of topological structure as: i) multiplex networks where each layer has the same set of entities of the same type and inter-layer edges are not shown as they are implicit; ii) heterogenous multilayer networks where the set and types of entities may be different for each layer and the relationships of entities across layers are shown using explicit inter-layer edges. A core task in the complexity reduction of these high-dimensional networks is community detection. In this talk, a joint nonnegative matrix factorization approach is proposed to detect the community structure in both multiplex and multilayer networks. The proposed approach considers the heterogeneity of layers and formulates community detection as a regularized optimization problem. Applications of the proposed approach for social and biological networks will be highlighted.

Selin Aviyente received her B.S. degree with high honors in Electrical and Electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering: Systems, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Michigan State University in 2002, where she is currently a Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. Her research focuses on statistical and nonstationary signal processing, higher-order data representations and network science with applications to neuronal signals. She has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. She is the recipient of a 2005 Withrow Teaching Excellence Award, a 2008 NSF CAREER Award and 2021 Withrow Excellence in Diversity Award. She is currently serving as the chair of IEEE Signal Processing Society Bioimaging and Signal Processing Technical Committee, on the Steering Committees of IEEE SPS Data Science Initiative and IEEE BRAIN. She has served as an Associate Editor and Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing and Digital Signal Processing.

Host: Prof. Tulay Adali

 
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SBP protocol prevents session hijacking by binding application session to underlying network session

The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

Formal-Methods Analysis of the Session Binding Proxy Protocol:
Advantages and Dangers of Oblivious Protocol Participants

 12-1:00 pm, Friday, 29 September 2023, via WebEx

Enis Golaszewski, PhD Student, CSEE, UMBC

Joint work with Alan T. Sherman, Edward Zieglar, and Kirellos Abou Elsaad

We present a formal-methods analysis of the Session Binding Proxy (SBP) protocol, in which we highlight the advantages and dangers of an oblivious protocol participant: an unaware web server residing behind an SBP reverse-proxy. We carry out our analysis using the Cryptographic Protocol Shapes Analyzer (CPSA) on three deployment variations of SBP: a server that embeds a proxy, a stand-alone proxy on a private network, and a stand-alone proxy on a public network. Our analysis reveals fundamental issues affecting oblivious protocol participants in a Dolev-Yao (DY) network: to mitigate adversarial protocol interactions, deployments of SBP must ensure that the server authenticate and communicate exclusively with a legitimate proxy by establishing a private communication channel, deploying mutual authentication such as mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS), or embedding the proxy with the server.

Our work identifies benefits and risks of wrapper protocols such as SBP, which wrap existing legacy or third-party systems to mitigate known vulnerabilities. Additionally, we identify minimal requirements for cryptographic binding, a vital tool for resisting protocol interactions, implement a "tailgating" attack on SBP, and discuss the pitfalls of ad-hoc, overly constrained adversarial models.

About the Speaker. Enis Golaszewski (golaszewski@umbc.edu) is a computer science PhD student at UMBC working with Prof. Alan T. Sherman, where he studies, researches, and teaches cryptographic protocol analysis.

Host: Alan T. Sherman, sherman@umbc.edu. Support for this event was provided in part by the National Science Foundation under SFS grant DGE-1753681.

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