The Dean of Medical Education's Inaugural Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) is a six-week program for six undergraduate students who are rising juniors and seniors interested in pursuing medical studies. 

All students are encouraged to apply, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in the health professions and those who identify as first-generation college students. 

This program will engage selected participants in:

• Clinical experience
• Guided research
• Immersive service at Georgetown University
• Greater DC community on issues of health equity

Program Dates & Benefits:

Preference will be given to permanent residents of the District of Columbia (DC).

Complete program details may be found in the application.  

Applications are due by March 19th, 2017 at 5 PM EST. 

For more information on GU ARCHES, please contact Nickole Sharp, Director of Diversity and Inclusion in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University, via phone (202) 687-7320 or email Nickole.Sharp@georgetown.edu with the subject heading "GU ARCHES Question".

Governor’s Summer Internship Program Fellowship

This fellowship program introduces Maryland’s “best and brightest” college students to the rewards and challenges of working within Maryland state government. Students are paid a stipend of $3000.

The fellowship has 4 components:

Experience - Fellows are placed at a government agency full-time, 4 days a week, under the mentorship of a senior-level professional

Exploration - Fellows attend an orientation and seminars to strengthen their understanding of the functions of state government and policy making

Exposure - Fellows attend meetings, events, field trips, and networking opportunities to connect with Maryland’s leaders 

Practice - Fellows work together in groups to put their knowledge and skills into practice, researching and preparing a policy analysis and recommendation to present to the Governor

Eligibility criteria for fellows

·         Rising Junior or Senior

·         Attending a Maryland institution OR a current Maryland resident attending an out-of-state institution

·         GPA 2.7 or above

·         Available May 31-August 11, 2017

2017 GSIP Important Dates:

    December 5- Applications Live

    March 1- Application Priority Deadline

    March 15- Application Deadline

    April 15- Applicants Notified

    May 31-June 2- Orientation

    June 5- Opening Celebration

    August 10- Closing Celebration

To apply go to: http://publicservicescholars.umbc.edu/apply-to-gsip/

Walter Sondheim Jr. Maryland Nonprofit Leadership Program

The Sondheim Nonprofit Leadership Program introduces Maryland’s undergraduate and graduate students to the nonprofit sector.  Fellows are paid a stipend of $3,000 for their participation in the program.

The Fellowship Has 4 Components:

Experience - Fellows are placed at a nonprofit organization full-time, 4 days a week, under the mentorship of a senior-level professional

Exploration - Fellows attend an orientation and seminars to strengthen their understanding of the functions of nonprofits and examining community needs and social challenges

Exposure - Fellows attend meetings, events, field trips, and networking opportunities to connect with Maryland’s leaders

Practice - Fellows work together in groups to put their knowledge and skills into practice, researching a challenge impacting Maryland and design an innovative way to address the challenge

Eligibility criteria for fellows:

·         Rising Junior or Senior, or graduate student

·         Attending a Maryland institution OR a current Maryland resident attending an out-of-state institution

·         GPA 2.7 or above

·         Available May 31-August 11, 2017

2017 Important Dates:

    December 5- Applications Live

    March 1- Application Priority Deadline

    March 15- Application Deadline

    April 15- Applicants Notified

    May 31- June 2 Orientation

    June 5- Kickoff Celebration

    August 9- Closing Celebration

To apply go to: http://publicservicescholars.umbc.edu/apply-to-snlp/

Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Fellows Program

The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) Fellows Program exposes Maryland’s college students to careers in the state sector within Maryland’s integrative transportation system.  Fellows of all majors are placed in full-time assignments in one of MDOT’s units, mentored by senior-level administrators.

With the knowledge gained at their placements, and through seminars, trips, and networking, fellows research and create a proposal to solve a transportation challenge.  The program is administered by the Shriver Center in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of Transportation.

Fellows are paid a stipend of $3,500 for their participation in the program. 

The fellowship has 4 components:

Experience - Fellows are placed in an MDOT office and perform substantive work, full-time for 8 weeks under the mentorship of a senior-level professional

Exploration - Fellows attend an orientation and seminars to strengthen their understanding of the functions of state government and policy making

Exposure - Fellows attend meetings, events, field trips, and networking opportunities to connect with Maryland’s leaders

Practice - Fellows put their knowledge and skills into practice, researching and proposing a solution to a transportation challenge.

Eligibility Criteria:

·         Rising Junior of Senior in Fall 2017

·         Attending a Maryland institution or are a Maryland resident

·         GPA 2.7 or above

·         Available Friday, March 31 for interviews

·         Available June 9-August 4, 2017

2017 Important Dates:

    December 3- Applications Live

    March 1- Application Priority Deadline

    March 15- Application Deadline

    March 31- Fellow Interviews

    June 10- Opening Kickoff and Orientation

    June 13- First Day of Internship

    August 5- Closing Celebration

To apply go to: http://publicservicescholars.umbc.edu/apply-to-mdot/

For more information, please email Hannah Schmitz: publicservicescholars@umbc.edu

Securing Networks by Detecting Logical Flaws in Protocol Implementations

Dr. Endadul Hoque
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University

12:00pm Wednesday, 22 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC

Implementations of network protocols are integral components of various networked computing systems, spanning from Internet-of-Things (IoT) to enormous data centers. Research efforts to defend these implementations by introducing new designs for security and advocating best practices in secure programming are not always feasible, nor effective. Even rigorous analysis of the design of a protocol is not sufficient, as indicated by the frequent reports of bugs discovered in protocol implementations after deployment. Hence, it is crucial to develop automated techniques and tools to help programmers detect logical flaws in actual implementations of protocols.

In this talk, I will first present an automated compliance checker to analyze operational behavior of a protocol implementation for detecting semantic bugs, which cause the implementation fail to comply with its specifications. Next, I will present an automated testing tool to analyze robustness of a protocol implementation against malicious attacks mounted to degrade its runtime performance (e.g., throughput). Finally, I will conclude with several directions for future research to aid the development of secure networked systems.

Endadul Hoque is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University in 2015. His research revolves around practical cybersecurity problems in the networking domain. His current research focuses on leveraging program analysis and formal verification techniques to create automated analysis tools for ensuring secure and reliable operations of networked systems. During his PhD, he received the Graduate Teaching Fellowship award in 2014 and the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship award in 2015. His research on automated adversarial testing has also been integrated into course curriculum at Purdue University for teaching secure distributed systems programming.

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A Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Big Data and Cloud

Dr. Karuna Joshi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

12:00pm Monday, 20 February 2017, ITE 325b, UMBC

With the explosion of Big Data and the growth of data science, there is an urgent need to automate the data lifecycle of generation, ingestion, analytics, knowledge extraction, and archival and deletion. With a promise of rapid provisioning, scalability and high computing capability, cloud based services are being adopted as the default computing environment for Big Data analytics.

To effectively manage their data on cloud, organizations need to continuously monitor the rules/constraints and performance metrics listed in a variety of legal contracts. However, these documents, like Service Level Agreements (SLA), privacy policy, regulatory documents, etc., are currently managed as plain text files meant principally for human consumption. Additionally, providers often define their own performance metrics for their services. These factors hinder the automation of steps of the data lifecycle, leading to inefficiencies in using the dynamic and elastic elements of the Data+Cloud ecosystem and require manual effort to monitor the service performance. Moreover, Cloud-based service providers are collecting large amounts of data about their consumers including Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like contact addresses, credit card details, bank account details, etc. They are offering customized service level agreements which indicate how such data will be handled. To see whether these agreements meet individual or corporate requirements, or comply with statutory constraints, currently involves significant human effort.

In this talk, we present the semantically rich approach that we have developed to automatically extract knowledge from large textual datasets, specially legal documents, using text analytics and Semantic Web technologies. We describe the OWL ontologies that we have developed, and the techniques to extract key terms and rules from textual legal documents. We will also illustrate application of our work in domains such as education, healthcare and cybersecurity.

Karuna P. Joshi is a Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research focuses on Data Science and Big Data Analytics, especially legal text analytics; knowledge representation and reasoning; privacy and security of Big Data and Cloud; and cloud enabled Health IT services. She has published over 30 papers, including in journals like IEEE Transactions on Service Computing and conferences like IEEE Big Data and IEEE CLOUD. Her research is supported by organizations like DoD, ONR, NIST, NSF, GE and IBM. She was also awarded the TEDCO MII award for exploring the commercialization of her research. She has been awarded the prestigious IBM PhD Fellowship. She also has over 15 years of industrial experience, primarily as an IT project manager. She worked at the International Monetary Fund for nearly a decade. Her managerial experience includes portfolio/program/project management across various domains. She received the MS and PhD degrees in Computer Science from UMBC and bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India.

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