WHEN:

Friday, June 5, 2020 · 3 PM - 3:30 PM

The Career Center is inviting you to the Northrop Grumman FTL Information Session. This event will be held ONLINE at the following link: https://umbc.webex.com/umbc/onstage/g.php?MTID=e7d0d534d1846a81bdd54a408b814d3b2.

Event number: 471 716 279

Event password: qhUXj53Drh4

Northrop Grumman Future Technical Leaders (FTL) Program

WHO: 
Master's and Ph.D. candidates in science, technology, engineering & math

U.S. Citizenship is Required

At Northrop Grumman, we’ve developed the Future Technical Leaders (FTL) Program - a professional development opportunity aimed at identifying and investing in Northrop Grumman’s next generation of technologists, engineers, architects and leaders. 

The FTL Program is seeking talented STEM MS and PhD 2020-2021 graduates interested in learning more about our exclusive three-year professional development program aimed at identifying and investing in Northrop Grumman’s next generation of technologists, engineers, architects and leaders. U.S. citizenship required.

If you qualify, please see job ID # 9316554 in UMBCworks.

Interviews for selected candidates will be held in September.

Please visit ftlprogram@ngc.com for more information.

Are you interested in investing your money, but you don't know where to start?

Check out this article from The Penny Hoarder:

Have you been experiencing financial distress recently due to the COVID-19 crisis? 

UMBC FinancialSmarts is dedicated to help you with accessing resources that can get your finances back on track! 

These featured courses from the "Smart About Money" program created by the National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) are designed to help people manage their finances during this difficult time:

Emergency Fund

Life Events and Transitions

Click on the link below for more information!

During the  COVID-19, unemployment numbers have been rising and more people are looking for work. Some people have unknowingly gotten involved in breaking the law. According to the article from Idaho News 6 linked below, police found thousands of dollars worth of stolen merchandise in a garage belonging to a homeowner who thought he was renting space to people  working on a reshipping job.

The article warns that malicious actors post legitimate looking “work from home” help wanted or job openings on places like social media, message boards and even job posting sites. These ads will claim the work will be easy, pays big, and can be done from home. The malicious actor uses stolen credit cards to purchase goods and has the victim reship the items. In fact, the malicious actor is using the victim as part of a money laundering operation.

The article encourages readers to stay safe while job searching, to make sure that the employer has a readily available phone number for human resources, and has a company website. Scammers on the other hand usually will communicate through email or messenger only and are very secretive about the work, their business, and what the employee will be doing. The article also warns against paying upfront fees since malicious actors will often ask for fees for background checks or other pre-employment checks.

For more information, please check out:

https://www.kivitv.com/news/bbb-watch-for-work-from-home-scams

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Saturday, May 23rd and Thursday, May 28th.  While many of the systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are some systems which require the downtime of key services.  The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.

Saturday, 05/23/2020 between 9am and 11am(most systems will only be down for a short period during this time):

• myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality
• Wiki will be unavailable
• The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable

Thursday, 05/28/2020 between 4pm and 10pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time): 

• Between 4pm and 5:30pm only: LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account authentication and logins will not be affected.
• Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)
• All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is patched
• All HFS (user) servers will be offline
• Between 9:15pm and 10pm only: Certain software licenses will be unavailable (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica). 
• Between 9:15pm and 10pm only: The web hosting environments (virthost) will be partially unavailable (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)

Please let us know if you have any concerns or questions.

Thanks!

Tim Champ

Manager of Unix Infrastructure

UMBC DoIT