The Diversity Summer Internship Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has an opening for a fall internship (minimum of 10 hours/week) supporting the Day at the Market initiative based in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering and The Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. 

The Day at the Market is a multifaceted program of outreach and engagement sponsored by the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus. The program takes place at the Northeast Market the first Tuesday as well as every second and last Wednesday of every month.  The Northeast Market is where Johns Hopkins meets the community and is an important venue where Johns Hopkins can bridge the disconnect regarding the lack of access to resources and information. Our Johns Hopkins faculty, staff, students and researchers participate in Market Day and use this program as a learning tool for being a better partner with the community, as a dissemination vehicle to return what they have learned to the community, and as a means to deepen interactions with community partners and members. The goals of the initiative include providing patrons with pertinent educational materials, answers to questions from experts, and services or resources that will help them make positive behavioral changes for health. 

The internship includes opportunities for translating research, developing health promotion messages and products, while engaging with the local community.

DSIP is designed to assist students in preparing for graduate school and includes:        

·         Community or lab based research internship with a faculty mentor

·         Completion of a formal research writing project (research paper, evaluation, proposal, etc)

·         Public health and professional development

·         An NIH funded stipend of $10/hour  (August- January with flexible start and end dates)

·         Flexible hours based on academic schedule

Requirements

·         A genuine interest in public health and community engagement

·         Strong communication skills

·         Willingness to learn

·         Able to work in a team and independently

·         Availability for in-person participation on market days

·         Students currently in their second year (or higher) from all majors are encouraged to apply including biology, chemistry, public health, environmental health science, health education/science, pre-med, and psychology.

Undergraduate students who are US citizens or permanent residents and who are currently enrolled in a degree-seeking program within a U.S. college or university are eligible to apply. Applicants should have completed two years of study prior to beginning the program. Students from underrepresented minority groups and those from economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in careers in public health, science, and medicine are encouraged to apply.

How to apply

Submit the attached application with all requested materials by July 27 to jharring7@jhu.edu .  

UMBC Recreation is seeking 1-3 Marketing Intern for the Fall 2018 semester.

Preferred Experience:
Print, web, social media, and/or visual marketing skills. 
Experience with appropriate software applications (such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere or similar video editing programs).
Interest in health and fitness.

Position Overview: Assist in marketing and promotion of all UMBC Recreation programs and services. Programs include: fitness and wellness, club sports, intramural sports, open recreation and physical education. Collaborate with Campus Recreation professionals and student employees to assist executing a marketing plan.

Responsibilities Include:

• Submit announcements to myUMBC, listservs and social media platforms.
• Maintain UMBC Recreation Event calendars.
• Assist with maintaining Social Media outlets (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram)
• Photograph and video events throughout the year, update and manage photo galleries online and within the department network drive.
• Seek avenues for increasing visibility of UMBC Recreation.
• Update and regularly monitor the department website including posting
• Blogs, Announcements, Building Hours, etc. to assure that information is current.
• Assisting with creating print publications for UMBC Recreation and events (such as posters, fliers, bulletin boards, social media posts, weekly/monthly updates).
• Distribute posters/fliers to campus outlets.
• Assist with updating the bulletin boards in the RAC.
• Attend special events throughout the year and assist with marketing and tabling (Game Room collaborations, annual races, wellness events)

This internship is unpaid. 120 hours. Some weekends and evenings may be necessary. Interested applicants should e-mail wohlstet@umbc.edu.

Robot Governance – Institutions and Issues

Dr. Aaron Mannes, ISHPI Information Technologies

10:30-11:30 Tuesday, 24 July 2018, ITE 346

Inexpensive sensors and information storage and processing have enabled the large-scale production of robots: autonomous systems capable of acting on the world. These systems represent an enormous technological and economic opportunity that will change society in countless and unpredictable ways. They will also bring new policy challenges. This presentation examines the missions the government will need to undertake to address the challenges raised by this new technology, identifies critical gaps the government faces in carrying out these missions, and discusses institutional options to address these gaps.

Dr. Aaron Mannes is the Senior Policy Advisor at ISHPI Information Technologies, where he supports the Apex Data Analytics Engine (DA-E) at the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate. In supporting DA-E, Dr. Mannes collaborates on big data projects that support the Homeland Security Enterprise and researches technology policy. He started at DHS as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Policy Fellow in September 2015. From 2004 to 2015, Dr. Mannes was a researcher at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) where he was the subject matter expert on terrorism and international affairs collaborating with a team of inter-disciplinary scientists to build computational tools to support decision-makers facing 21st century security and development problems. Dr. Mannes earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy in 2014. His dissertation topic was the evolving national security role of the vice president.

Dr. Mannes is the author or co-author of four books on terrorism and has written scores of articles, papers, and book chapters on an array of topics including Middle East affairs, terrorism, technology, and other international security issues for popular and scholarly publications including Politico, Policy Review, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Journal of International Security Affairs, The Huffington Post, The National Interest, The Jerusalem Post, and The Guardian.

This research was conducted with the support of the Apex Data Analytics Engine in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T). In no way should anything stated in this seminar be construed as representing the official position of DHS S&T or any other component of DHS. Opinions and findings expressed in this seminar, as well as any errors and omissions, are the responsibility of the presenter alone.

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Plan Ahead! 

The Baja Racing Summer Enrichment Experience introduced high school students to the Baja SAE competition, an international collegiate design competition where students design and build an off-road vehicle. SEE participants worked side-by-side with members of the UMBC Baja team to learn how to design and build a vehicle. During this one-week summer camp experience, students used computer-aided-design and analysis, gained hands-on experience machining and welding, worked on an actual Baja vehicle, and then drove the vehicle on the UMBC Baja test track!

The program was taught by Dr. Neil Rothman, Professor of the Practice, Mechanical Engineering, from July 9th to 12th, to future engineers entering 9th to 12th grades.

Day 1 – CAD design

Day 2 – Fabrication

Day 3 – Foundery tour (field trip)

Day 4 – Hands-on with car

Day 5 – Drive day