Spring 2025 Undergraduate Data Science Scholars

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:35:43 -0500

We are pleased to announce the Undergraduate Data Science Scholars (DSS) program for supporting students in Spring 2025. The DSS program welcomes undergraduate scholars from multiple disciplines including non-STEM majors, who will examine all aspects of data and its impact on society. This year scholars will have the opportunity to be teaching fellows AND/OR research fellows. Scholars will be able to work on research projects in Climate Science, Deepfake detection, and other data science-related projects.

Students selected through this effort will be part of the Data Science Scholars program, which will be run in partnership with the Center for Women in Technology (CWIT), the Information Systems Department (IS), and the Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3). Selected scholars will be assigned to respective affiliations (CWIT/IS or CS3) depending on the student major, and the scholars' expectations per affiliation are as follows:

Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) Responsibilities:

Research Fellows

● Scholars who will work as research fellows, will work on a supervised research project and be mentored by faculty. Scholars will be paid $20.00/hour for specific tasks, for 5 - 10 hours per week.

● Scholars will attend at least two events in Spring 2025 and/or participate in research initiatives and professional development for their leadership growth and mentoring. Mentors will coordinate this at CS3.

● Scholars will also be expected to attend one mentoring meeting with the faculty.

Background and Skills:

ALL applicants should have knowledge in AT LEAST ONE of the following:

● Analysis of social, behavioral, economic, or geographic data

● Python or one of the data science tools and/or languages (such as R, Rapid Miner, Weka, Orange, Knime, ML on cloud computing)

● Jupyter Notebooks with Python or taken IS 296 in a prior semester.

Application Form:

Interested students should complete the Google Submission Form, OR access the form using the following link: https://forms.gle/mPRZQm44qcjqWYJe7 by January 24, 2025.

Questions:

For questions, please email Dr. Josephine Namayanja - jona1@umbc.edu

To learn more about potential projects, please check out the following websites:

➔ https://www.umces.edu/chesapeake-global-collaboratory

➔ https://iharp.umbc.edu

➔ https://mdabc.eduta.umbc.edu/deep-fake-detection/