Do you plan to pursue an unpaid internship or service opportunity for Summer 2021 at a Maryland small business or nonprofit? Whether you have already accepted a position or are in the process of applying, you may be eligible to apply for a financial stipend.

The UMBC Career Center and Shriver Center are proud to re-launch the annual UMBC Student Internship & Service Fund, thanks to the generous support of our  alumni, campus and community members. This year, we will direct our funding to unpaid interns and volunteers at Maryland-based small businesses and nonprofits that have been impacted by COVID-19, or that serve communities affected by the pandemic.

STIPEND AMOUNTS:

• $1,500 stipend for unpaid internships totaling 120 hours or more this summer
• $750 stipend for unpaid volunteer service totaling 60 hours or more this summer

ELIGIBILITY:

• GPA of 2.5 or higher 
• You must be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student who will return to UMBC in Fall 2021.
• You must have obtained, OR plan to obtain an unpaid position with a Maryland small business or nonprofit organization for Summer 2021.
• If you have not already obtained an unpaid position for summer, you must secure a position by May 1, 2021.

HOW TO APPLY:

For best consideration, please submit your resume, unofficial transcript, and a personal statement in UMBCworks (details about the personal statement are given in the posting). Search the Job ID: 9322922.

Deadline: Sunday, March 14

Questions? Contact Kacie Lawrence, Associate Director of Internships & Employment, at klawrence@umbc.edu.

Event title: Expedition EY Business Track

Students pursuing the following majors may be interested in attending:

Accounting
Economics
Financial Economics
Statistics
Mathematics
Other business related majors

Interest Form Deadline: Friday, March 12th, 11:59 PM local time https://ey.recsolu.com/external/form/RZ_4rnNtIV_ugXYlnAO22g

The opportunity

Everything we do comes back to building a better working world, and that takes colleagues with a wide variety of experiences, perspectives and skills. Our Expedition EY program is just one platform designed to support and develop students exploring careers within professional services, offering the perfect place to fuel a career in this ever-evolving industry. Expedition EY aims to prepare first- or second-year students from all over the country for a career path in professional services while exploring the EY culture, offerings and opportunities.

Consistent with our commitment to recruiting diverse professionals, students who identify as Black, Latinx, or Native American are strongly encouraged to apply to Expedition EY Business.

Expedition EY is more than just a Zoom seminar or series  it's an interactive, gamified experience that brings you and the brightest and most diverse college students together nationwide. Together, you'll learn what it takes to be a strong candidate through on-demand learning modules, explore career possibilities within professional services, engage in hands-on learning activities, network with current and future EY professionals - and have fun! 

What to expect 

Students will have the flexibility to select and complete on-demand learnings and tasks or attend optional live virtual sessions all at their own pace. As you select your personalized learning and upskilling expedition, you'll unlock additional opportunities to participate in career and leadership development activities, as well as team-building exercises that will put you on a path to a career adventure unlike any other. You'll engage with our unique people culture, which celebrates inclusiveness, diversity of thought and the global mindset you'll need to thrive on teams.

To Qualify

Because of EY's desire to attract diverse students, students who identify as Black, Latinx, or Native American are strongly encouraged to apply to Expedition EY Business.

Expedition EY Business:

Be three or more years away from graduation

Intend to pursue a degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, Finance, Math, Statistics or a related subject

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy, transaction and consulting services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. So that whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. 

Additional requirements 

All participants must be currently enrolled in a US university (in person or online) at the time of the submission.

Interest Form: https://ey.recsolu.com/external/form/RZ_4rnNtIV_ugXYlnAO22g

Event title: Expedition EY Technology Track

Student pursuing the following majors may be interested in participating:

Data Analytics
Information Systems
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Other technical majors

Interest Form Deadline: Friday, March 12th, 11:59 PM local time  https://ey.recsolu.com/external/form/2pYf7KjFTCEs7p2PBwqrMQ

The opportunity

Everything we do comes back to building a better working world, and that takes colleagues with a wide variety of experiences, perspectives and skills. Our Expedition EY program is just one platform designed to support and develop students exploring careers within professional services, offering the perfect place to fuel a career in this ever-evolving industry. Expedition EY aims to prepare first- or second-year students from all over the country for a career path in professional services while exploring the EY culture, offerings and opportunities.

Consistent with our commitment to recruiting diverse professionals, students who identify as Black, Latinx, Native American, female, trans or non-binary are strongly encouraged to apply to Expedition EY Technology.

Expedition EY is more than just a Zoom seminar or series - it's an interactive, gamified experience that brings you and the brightest and most diverse college students together nationwide. Together, you'll learn what it takes to be a strong candidate through on-demand learning modules, explore career possibilities within professional services, engage in hands-on learning activities, network with current and future EY professionals - and have fun! 

What to expect 

Students will have the flexibility to select and complete on-demand learnings and tasks or attend optional live virtual sessions - all at their own pace. As you select your personalized learning and upskilling expedition, you'll unlock additional opportunities to participate in career and leadership development activities, as well as team-building exercises that will put you on a path to a career adventure unlike any other. You'll engage with our unique people culture, which celebrates inclusiveness, diversity of thought and the global mindset you'll need to thrive on teams.

To Qualify

Because of EY's desire to attract diverse students, students who identify as Black, Latinx, Native American, or who identify as female, trans or nonbinary are strongly encouraged to apply to Expedition EY Technology.

Expedition EY Technology:

Be three or more years away from graduation

Intend to pursue a degree in a technology-related field (such as Analytics, \Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering or Management Information Systems)

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, strategy, transaction and consulting services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. So that whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime. 

Additional requirements

All participants must be currently enrolled in a US university (in person or online) at the time of the submission.

Interest Form: https://ey.recsolu.com/external/form/2pYf7KjFTCEs7p2PBwqrMQ

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The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab presents

Startup Lessons Learned

Richard Carback (Ph.D. UMBC CS 2010)
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12:00–1:00pm ET, Friday,12 February 12 2021
WebEx: https://umbc.webex.com/meet/sherman

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This talk will explore the technology and lessons learned by UMBC alumnus Richard Carback from his experience co-founding and closing the security startup Lexumo, which provided the only automated service that continuously monitors IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities. In addition to covering some of the hard problems and Lexumo’s technical approach for monitoring all the world’s open-source software to assist companies in managing their vulnerabilities, Dr. Carback will discuss the mistakes and complexities of getting funded, delivering a product, and finding customers.

Dr. Richard Carback is a UMBC Alumnus (CS Ph.D., 2010) who is an entrepreneur who currently runs a private consultancy for computer security, computer forensics, cryptography, and smart contracts. He is a privacy-preserving systems expert with a background in elections and anonymity networks. While the group leader for the embedded systems security group at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories, he spun out an IoT vulnerability startup called Lexumo that provided the only automated service that continuously monitored IoT software platforms for the latest public vulnerabilities. At UMBC, he worked with Alan Sherman on secure elections and was the primary researcher behind Takoma Park’s deployment of the Scantegrity voting system, the first usage of voter-verifiable end-to-end election technology in a municipal election. email: *protected email*

Host: Alan T. Sherman, *protected email*. Support for this event was provided in part by the NSF under SFS grant DGE-1753681. The UMBC Cyber Defense Lab meets biweekly Fridays 12-1 pm. All meetings are open to the public. Upcoming CDL Meetings:

• Feb 26, Vahid Heydari (Rowan University)
• Mar 12, Chao Liu (UMBC), Efficient asynchronous BFT with adaptive security
• Mar 26, Jeremy Clark (Concordia)
• April 9, (UMBC), MeetingMayhem: A network adversarial thinking game
• April 23, Peter Peterson (University of Minnesota Duluth), Adversarial thinking
• May 7, Farid Javani (UMBC), Anonymization by oblivious transfer

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Two UMBC alumnae featured in The CyberWire podcast

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The CyberWire produced a special podcast, In the clear: what it’s like working as a woman in the cleared community, that features three women working on cybersecurity atNorthrop Grumman. Two are UMBC alumnae, software engineering manager Lauren and cyber software engineer Priyanka.

Lauren received a BS in Computer Science in 2015 and an M.S. in Computer Science in 2017. As an undergraduate student, she worked part-time as an IT Security Analyst tracking, locating, and performing forensics on infected computers located on campus. She joined Northrop Grumman in 2015 and continued her studies as a part-time graduate student, doing research on investigating different ways of characterizing cybersecurity exploit kits and the malware they produce.

Priyanka received a BS in Computer Science in 2018 and an MS in Computer Science in 2019. Her MS research was on multilingual text alignment for cybersecurity. She has been a lecture in the UMBC Computer Science program and the UMD Advanced Cybersecurity Experience for Students (ACES) program. She is currently working on a Computer Science Ph.D. at UMBC focused on how AI can help protect cybersecurity systems from data poisoning attacks.

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Listen to the 47 minute podcast here.

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