UHS will be providing flu shots to the students, staff and faculty of UMBC for $20. UHS will accept cash, personal checks or UMBC campus card.

Wed, Oct 12 - 11-2 p.m., UC Ballroom
Thurs, Oct 13 - 11-2 p.m., Commons Main Street

Questions or concerns about individuals in high risk categories, or those who would like to bill their health insurance, please contact UHS at x5-2542.

JOB SUMMARY:

• Support Corporate Audit initiatives

• Interaction with Business Unit and corporate personnel to support program goals for management testing of key controls for compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

• Participate in other risk-based audits

• Other ad hoc activities, as needed

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• Pursuing Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting or equivalent

• Time management skills

• Strong computer skills (Excel & Word)

• Detail-oriented

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills

• High integrity

• Knowledge of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Statement of Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 70 preferred but not required

COMPANY INFORMATION:

Constellation Energy (www.constellation.com) is a leading competitive supplier of power, natural gas and energy products and services for homes and businesses across the continental United States. It owns a diversified fleet of generating units, totaling approximately 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity, and is a leading advocate for clean, environmentally sustainable energy sources, such as solar power and nuclear energy. The company delivers electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in Central Maryland. A FORTUNE 500 company headquartered in Baltimore, Constellation Energy had revenues of $14.3 billion in 2010.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:

Apply via UMBCworks - position number 9229842

Six CSEE graduate students will present their research First Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning is a one-day event to be held at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore on Friday, 23 September 2011. Its goal is to bring together students taking computational approaches to speech, language, and learning, so that they can introduce their research to the local student community, give and receive feedback, and engage each other in collaborative discussion. The students and the titles of their presentations are:

• Niyati Chhaya, Joint Inference for Extracting Text Descriptors from Triage Images of Mass Disaster
• Lushan Han, GoRelations: An Intuitive Query System for DBpedia
• Niels Kasch, Concept Modeling for Scripts
• Justin Martineau, DIVA: Domain Independence Verification Algorithm for Sentiment Analysis
• Varish Mulwad, Automatically Generating Linked Data from Tables
• Jennifer Sleeman, A Streaming Approach to Linking FOAF Instances
• Xianshu Zhu, Finding Story Chains in Newswire Articles

Attendance is open to all and free but space is limited, so online registration is requested by September 16. The program runs from 10:00am to 5:00pm and will include oral presentations, poster sessions, and breakout sessions.

IS, CMSC, Media & Communication Majors etc Needed

Apply today via UMBCworks for the positions below:

Student Profile

Farhan Saifudin, Information Systems major

Title:  Federal Software Specialist

Internship Site:  PaRaBaL Inc. & InTTensity Corp.

Assignment:  At PaRaBaL, Inc. we are taught how to market to federal entities, so that our software and services may improve their capabilities. We are working with government agencies to assist them with cyber-security and social media monitoring, practices that are quickly becoming important in our ever-connected future. As an intern I was able to gain valuable experience in several areas of interest including IT consulting, QA, and web development.

Benefits of Interning:  As the summer is progressing, I am getting a taste of the real world that will allow me to get acclimated with the norms of professional life.  The first-hand experience that I have gained has been extremely valuable and cannot be duplicated in any class or textbook.

“This internship has given me insight on professional life that can only come from dedication and hard work. Whether or not you are sure what you want to do when you graduate college, an internship is a great way to gain valuable skills that will help you no matter what industry or profession you pursue.”

Drunken moose in apple trees?! What’s going on, Sweden?

For many who celebrate the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, today will be sadly bereft of mooncakes.

A happy ending to a scary story.

Courtesy of Al Jazeera English

As the USDemocrazy team desperately attempted to provide you with relevant news for the less eventful 9/12, we turn our eyes south to Chile.

Chile mourned a different tragedy on 9/11— the beginning of brutal reign of General Augusto Pinochet in 1973.

More than 3,000 Chileans were killed in the violence that followed the military coup…similar to the numbers of people lost in the US on 9/11.

A march to mark the sad day took place this year. It began peacefully until it reached the presidential palace where there was a violence confrontation with Chilean police.

Pinochet was backed by the US in his coup, even though he overthrew a democratically elected leader Salvador Allende (a relative of the internationally acclaimed author Isabel Allende),

The death of Allende, who took his own life during the uprising marked the beginning of a brutal era in Chile.

Reports suggest 80,000 people were interned and 30,000 tortured under Pinochet’s regime which ended in 1990.

Today Chile is a thriving democracy but the scars of that dark day in 1973 are still apparent.

Like America, Chile has its own 9/11 burden to bear.