If you’d like to be part of Maryland’s biggest Cybersecurity battle this October, then don’t forget to register before September 19, 2012.

In its second year, The Maryland Cyber Challenge & Competition (MDC3) will pit teams of high schoolers, college students, and industry professionals against one another in a series of “hackathons” that test their problem solving mettle.

Last year 150 finalists competed for the MDC3 title and more than $100,000 in prizes. In the end, three teams prevailed, one at each level: Team ICF (Industry level), Towson University (College level), and the Sherwood Cyber Warriors from Sherwood High School.

To be held at the Baltimore Convention Center on October 16 and 17,  MDC3 features a series workshops, panels and talks by industry professionals, including a keynote speech from UMBC president Dr. Freeman Hrabowski  called “Creating the Cyber Generation.”

You can learn more about the competition at a special Information session this Friday, September 7, 2012 at the UMBC Training Centers in Columbia, MD. The session will go over rules, format, and scoring of the competition, as well as the CyberNEXS competition platform.

To learn more and to register for the Maryland Cyber Challenge & Competition, visit the CyberMaryland 2012 website.

The Johns Hopkins Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine seeks an intern to assist with the administrative and scientific components of four clinical trials examining psychological and physical function outcomes following severe burn injury.

The internship provides an opportunity to gain exposure to and an understanding of clinical trial coordination and management. Specifically, the student will learn the structure and organization of prospective, longitudinal research. The internship provides valuable experience working as part of a research team and an opportunity to become familiar with the research priorities surrounding burn and trauma rehabilitation. The intern will work closely with the research study coordinator and also function independently.

Qualifications include:

Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, attention to detail

Interest in program management, clinical research and/or psychology

Basic understanding of quantitative research methodology

Intermediate proficiency using Microsoft Excel, Word and Access

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

 Data entry

Database management

Creation of data summary reports

Participant recruitment and retention

Office organization (file sorting, photocopying)

Opportunities are available to attend lectures and grand rounds

 The intern must be able to devote 10 to 20 hours per week to the position throughout the fall semester.

IF INTERESTED, APPLY VIA UMBCworks today!  Search Intern listing by keyword.

Mobile Touch and Gesture Interaction for Children

This study seeks to determine what differences lie in adults and children’s touch interactions with mobile devices. The overall goal is to provide research findings that will help application developers create better touch user interfaces for children.

• Hourly paid position
• Begins fairly soon (this Fall) with potential to be extended for the Spring semester
• Time commitments would vary, but an average of 10 hours a week is expected