This conference is designed fornew professionals,graduates studentsandundergraduate studentslooking to pursue careers in student affairs.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

9:30-10:30 am: Registration

West Village Commons-3^rd Floor

10:30 am: Welcome and Conference Overview

10:45-11:40 am: Workshop Session I

·           -Researching and Applying to Graduate School

·            -Work-Life Balance

·            -Navigating Politics Without Losing Your Integrity

·           -Semester @ Sea and Study Abroad

·            -Social Media: Engaging your students

·           - Balancing Personal Style and a Career: Is there a place for me in     Student Affairs?

11:45-12:45 pm: Workshop Session II

·            -Student Affairs 101

·            -NODA and ACUHO-I Internships

·            -Supervision: skills, Strategies and Considerations

·            -Embrace Being a New Professional (1-4 years)

·            -Assessment: How to become an expert

·            -Networking and Collaboration, your greatest asset

·            -Avoiding the “Accidental Career” Creating a Professional Development   Plan

12:45-1:45 pm: Lunch

1:00 pm: Welcome Address with Deb Moriarty, President-NASPA Region II

1:15 pm: Keynote, Dr. Marijo Russel O’Grady, Dean of Students, Pace University

1:30-2:15 pm: Post-Lunch Caucus: Hot Topics

2:30-3:30 pm: Panel Presentation

·            -Types of Institutions

·            -Types of Graduate Programs

·            -Jobs You May not Have Considered

·            -Lesson Learned from Professionals in the Field

3:35-4:45 pm: Speed Networking

On-Campus Interviews offer students a chance to conveniently interview for professional positions on campus.  Employers travel to our campus for the specific purpose of interviewing preselected students for currently open positions.  This is a great opportunity to interview with employers specifically interested in UMBC students and offers the advantage of a smaller applicant pool.  Interviews take place during the fall and spring. The logistics (viewing positions, applying, signing up for interview time slots, etc.) are all handled via UMBCworks.

Don't miss out on employers coming to UMBC to recruit YOU this fall! The following is a list of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews with application deadlines within the next month.

Dupont

Position:  Associate Investigator - Early Career R&D - 9260355
Resume Submission End:  September 27, 2013

T. Rowe Price
Position:  Investment Fellowship - 9260121
Resume Submission End:  September 27, 2013

SB & Company, LLC
Position:  Audit Staff - 9260581
Resume Submission End:  September 30, 2013

GE
Position:  Information Technology Leadership Program - 9259928
Resume Submission End:  October 3, 2013
Position:  GE Aviation Summer 2014 Engineering Co-Op - 9259930
Resume Submission End:  October 2, 2013

Lockheed Martin
Position:  Engineering Career Opportunities (CS/CE) - 9260278
Resume Submission End:  October 3, 2013

DRC
Position:  IT Consultant - 9260559
Position:  Engineer - 9260565
Position:  Developer - 9260561
Resume Submission End:  October 10, 2013

Deloitte
Position: Federal Security & Privacy Consultant - 9259839
Resume Submission End:  October 14, 2013

A full list of On-Campus Interviews scheduled is available on our website calendar and on UMBCworks, please check regularly for any updates or changes that may occur.

Security expert Linda McCarthy has written a 48-page book, Digital Drama: Staying Safe While Being Social Online, aimed teens and their families on how to manage online behavior to enhance safety, security and privacy. McCarthy is an author and computer security consultant with more than twenty years of industry experience in educating families, security auditing, consulting, training, research and development, and leading high-performing teams.

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In support of National Cyber Security Awareness Month, Microsoft has provided support to allow her to offer free downloads of Digital Drama from Amazon in both English and Spanish. The free offer is only available this week, from today through 3:00am (EDT) Saturday, September 28.

Kim Sanchez, who heads Microsoft’s Online Safety – Trustworthy Computing Communications efforts, interviewed McCarthy last week about her new book and it’s goals. “Digital Drama has something for everyone.”, McCarty said about who she write the book for. “Parents can read it and get ideas about how to talk with their kids about online safety. Even if you don’t have kids, you’ll find guidance that will help you, a family member, or a friend. So download the ebook and share it with everyone you know.”

Here’s how the book is described on McCarthy’s site:

Every day, millions of teens log on and make decisions that can compromise their safety, security, privacy, and future. If you are like most teens, you are already using social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook and have your smartphone super-glued to your hand. You tag your friends in photos, share your location and thoughts with friends, and post jokes online that later may be misunderstood. At the same time, you might not realize how that information can affect your reputation and safety, both online and offline. We’ve all heard the horror stories of stolen identities, cyber stalking, pedophiles on the Internet, and lost job, school, and personal opportunities. All teens need to learn how to protect themselves against malware, social networking scams, and cyberbullies. This book helps you learn crucial skills:

• Deal with cyberbullies
• Learn key social networking skills
• Protect your privacy
• Create a positive online reputation
• Protect yourself from phishing and malware scams

Microsoft (@Safer_Online) will hold an online Twitter chat at 3:00pm (EDT) on September 25 with Linda McCarthy (@ddramabook) and other online safety experts about how her ebook can help people talk with kids about digital safety. Use #ChatSTC to ask questions or join the conversation.

Meet Samantha, she is an Anthropology and a INDS major. 

The focus of her research will be to preserve a part of Baltimore's history by documenting the memories of those living in Charm city. By investigating the many facets of Baltimore's identity (both positive and negative) through the stories of real people, she will fill a void in the publics perception of this city.

How did you find your mentor for year research project?
I met Professor Sarah Chard after taking her Anthropological Research Methods course last semester. I loved her passion and commitment to the field and thought she’d make an excellent mentor. To top it off, she teaches the Urban Anthropology course at UMBC-- it was as if we were meant to work together!

I’m a local titleholder in the Miss America Organization! As a titleholder I serve as a goodwill ambassador for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and a representative for the Miss Maryland Scholarship Organization. I frequently travel the state to perform my talent, speak at community events, and raise money for local charities.

Read her abstract here...

Professor Charles Nicholas has received research funding from the National Science Foundation to develop better ways to detect malicious software (malware) and defend computers against it. The award will provide up to $75,000 over the next year to support the research of Dr. Nicholas and his students.

The process of creating malware has become more automated in recent years, as a result of so-called exploit kits, such as the Blackhole exploit kit. The UMBC project will investigate ways of characterizing these exploit kits, as well as the malware they produce. Developing models of how current kits work will help to predict what exploit kits will look like in the future as well as suggest better techniques for detecting the malware they are used to produce.

On challenging problem the research will address is dealing with polymorphic malware, malware that makes new versions of itself as it moves from machine to machine, in the hope of avoiding detection by conventional, signature-based anti-virus software. The research will characterize malware families that exist as products of a specific exploit kit as well as those that develop through polymorphism.

Dr. Nicholas is the faculty advisor of UMBC’s Cyber Defense Team, a student group that studies information security, intrusion detection, cybersecurity, and network security and participates in competitions such as the Maryland Cyber Challenge. He is also teaching a special topics class this semester on Malware Analysis for both undergraduate and graduate students.

The following full-time positions have been posted within the past week to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings!

Entry-Level Copywriter - Agora Incorporated - 9260803
Laboratory Research Technician - University of MD, Baltimore - 6260790
GA/R & D Chemist - Randstad North America - 9260809
Medical Scribe in ER Department - Scribes STAT - 9258445
Marketing and Communications Coordinator - Business Suites of Columbia - 9260758

Benefits Operations Administrator - Aon Hewitt - 9260740
Sales - Beverage Division - PepsiCo - 9260710
Research Assistant - Boox Allen Hamilton - 9260668
Software Developer - PCR Educator - 9260683

On-Campus Interviews offer students a chance to conveniently interview for professional positions on campus.  Employers travel to our campus for the specific purpose of interviewing preselected students for currently open positions.  This is a great opportunity to interview with employers specifically interested in UMBC students and offers the advantage of a smaller applicant pool.  Interviews take place during the fall and spring. The logistics (viewing positions, applying, signing up for interview time slots, etc.) are all handled via UMBCworks.

Don't miss out on employers coming to UMBC to recruit YOU this fall! The following is a list of employers coming to conduct on-campus interviews with application deadlines within the next month.

Dupont

Position:  Associate Investigator - Early Career R&D - 9260355
Resume Submission End:  September 27, 2013

T. Rowe Price
Position:  Investment Fellowship - 9260121
Resume Submission End:  September 27, 2013

SB & Company, LLC
Position:  Audit Staff - 9260581
Resume Submission End:  September 30, 2013

GE
Position:  Information Technology Leadership Program - 9259928
Resume Submission End:  October 3, 2013
Position:  GE Aviation Summer 2014 Engineering Co-Op - 9259930
Resume Submission End:  October 2, 2013

Lockheed Martin
Position:  Engineering Career Opportunities (CS/CE) - 9260278
Resume Submission End:  October 3, 2013

DRC
Position:  IT Consultant - 9260559
Position:  Engineer - 9260565
Position:  Developer - 9260561
Resume Submission End:  October 10, 2013

Deloitte
Position: Federal Security & Privacy Consultant - 9259839
Resume Submission End:  October 14, 2013

A full list of On-Campus Interviews scheduled is available on our website calendar and on UMBCworks, please check regularly for any updates or changes that may occur.

The Workforce Recruitment Program for College Students with Disabilities (WRP) is a recruitment and referral program that connects public and private sector employers nationwide with students and recent graduates with disabilities who are qualified and interview through the program. 

This year they have decided to conduct phone interviews.The deadline to initiate the registration online is September 25, 2013.  Deadline to complete the application is September 30, 2013. Phone interviews will be scheduled sometime between October 1st and October 18th.

To qualify for the program students must have 1) a disability, 2) be a U.S. Citizen, 3) be a current full-time student or have not graduated prior to December 2012 (unless the severity of the disability precludes the student from taking a full-time course load).  

To be eligible to interview the student must follow the steps on the attached flyer.

The possible opportunities are for both full-time and internships for all majors.

The program is run on an annual basis (fall semester).  Students who interviewed with the WRP last semester will need to reapply this semester.