UMBC has a total of nine open full-time positions for computing faculty including five tenure track professors, a professor of the practice and three lecturers.

UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department is seeking to fill five positions for the coming year. They include two tenure track positions in Computer Science, up to three full-time lecturers. See the CSEE jobs page for more information.

The College of Engineering and Information Technology has a position for a full-time lecturer or Professor of Practice to focus on the needs of incoming computing majors through teaching, advising, and helping develop programs in computing. This person will work closely with faculty in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department and Information Systems Department.

UMBC’s Information Systems department is accepting applications for three tenure track faculty positions in data science, software engineering and human-centered computing.

UMBC has a total of nine open full-time positions for computing faculty including five tenure track professors, a professor of the practice and three lecturers.

UMBC’s Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department is seeking to fill five positions for the coming year. They include two tenure track positions in Computer Science, up to three full-time lecturers. See the CSEE jobs page for more information.

The College of Engineering and Information Technology has a position for a full-time lecturer or Professor of Practice to focus on the needs of incoming computing majors through teaching, advising, and helping develop programs in computing. This person will work closely with faculty in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department and Information Systems Department.

UMBC’s Information Systems department is accepting applications for three tenure track faculty positions in data science, software engineering and human-centered computing.

PhD Dissertation Proposal

A quantum approach to the graph isomorphism
and knot classification problems

Omar Shehab

11:30am Monday, 08 December 2014, ITE 346

Simulating physics on a quantum computer can be reduced to solving mathematical problem using quantum mechanics. In this PhD dissertation proposal, I present two important mathematical problems to be investigated using quantum mechanical techniques. In the case of the first problem, the Graph Isomorphism problem, I, with another co-researcher, Kenneth M Zick, are able to present a quantum annealing algorithm with promising result. I am proposing to extend this idea so that we could study the Hamiltonian complexity of graph isomorphism. I propose to transform our previous work, the compact objective function, into a k-local Hamiltonian problem and investigate quantum adiabatic algorithms to solve it. In the case of the second problem, classification of knots, I present a mathematical framework with two restricted problems solved using quantum annealing. The restricted problems are defined for unknots embedded in two dimensional integer lattice. I propose to generalize them to higher dimension and complexity. I present how I envision to continue the rest of the study while writing the dissertation.

Committee: Drs. Samuel J. Lomonaco Jr. (chair), Alan T. Sherman, Yanhua Shih, William Gasarch

Psychology Professor Carlo DiClemente has been appointed to the National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. The council advises and makes recommendations to the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) secretary, and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) director on research program and policy matters in the field of alcohol abuse and alcoholism.

The council consists of 15 members appointed by the HHS secretary who are leaders in scientific disciplines relevant to NIAAA activities, including public health, behavioral and social sciences, public policy, law, health policy, economics, and management.

DiClemente’s research focuses on smoking cessation, motivation and stages of change for a variety of health behaviors, understanding the mechanism of change in alcohol and substance abuse, and Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training in medical residency programs.

Last year, DiClemente received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Addictive Behaviors Special Interest Group (AB-SIG) of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT). To learn more, click here.

The National Advisory Council on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism appointment is a four-year term. To learn more about the council, click here.

As many college athletic programs are preparing for the postseason and finishing fall regular season schedules, there has been an ongoing public discussion about the future of “mid-major” athletics. George La Noue, professor emeritus and research professor of public policy and political science, wrote an op-ed published in The Chronicle of Higher Education in which he analyzed the current state of mid-major athletic programs and discussed what he called their “muddled future.”

“While media attention is overwhelmingly focused on big-time intercollegiate athletics, a crisis is developing for most of the 351 Division I institutions that cannot afford to play at that level,” wrote La Noue.

La Noue discussed how the NCAA changed its governing structure this year to give more influence to 67 universities in the Power Five football conferences, which left the mid-major programs outside of those conferences to face financial challenges.

“Those colleges are now faced with substantially increasing their athletic expenditures to try to preserve the pretense of Division I status. The Power Five institutions have budgets of three, four, or even five times as much as that of most mid-majors. They also now have NCAA authority to offer enhanced ‘full cost’ multiyear financial-aid packages to their recruits. The current playing field is decidedly not level. Division I is an unhappy family. Institutional choices for the leftovers will not be easy.”

To read the full op-ed titled “The Muddled Future of Mid-Major Athletics,” click here.

Name: Chinedu Okeke

Internship, Co-op or Research Site: Chevron | Title of Your Position: IT Business/Planning Analyst

Major(s)/Minor(s): Computer Engineering

Expected Graduation Year: May 2015

Briefly describe your internship, co-op, research, or service-learning opportunity, including your day-to-day tasks, responsibilities, and assignments.

I was an IT Business/Planning Analyst in Chevron's Information Technology Department. Generally speaking, my duties consisted of business planning, financial management, performance reporting and process improvement.

Describe the process of obtaining your internship, research, or co-op opportunity.

I applied to the internship position online. The resources that aided me were the resume help and mock interview session.

Which of the following resources did you use to find your current experience?

Career Center

What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization/company?

I enjoyed the fact that I was provided the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to the overall success of Chevron.

What have you gained from your experience that you could not have gained from another opportunity?

Through this internship experience, I've gained a better understanding of how to direct my passion and professional interests into a fulfilling career.

What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?

Don't be intimidated by challenging job positions or "big name" companies. If you're truly interested in the position you intend to take, then go for it! Even if you think you lack the experience to perform well, your drive and enthusiasm will definitely make up for it.

Please provide a short quote about what you liked most about your position / earning internship credit / the internship placement process.

Through interning at a fast-paced, multinational company such as Chevron, I've gained insights on how to pursue my intended career choice.

This week multiple internship positions have been posted to UMBCworks for engineering and math majors. Check out these new positions today:

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Multiple Positions with Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc.
Search "Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc." in the employers section in UMBCworks
Internships: Test Automation, Graphics, Software, Structural & Civil Engineering, HR & more!
Due: 1/23/2015

Spring 2015 - Photography Intern (9270426)
Historical Society of Baltimore County
Due: 3/05/2015

Multiple Positions with DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland
Search "DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the University of Maryland" in the employers section in UMBCworks
Internships: Development, Marketing, Consulting & more!
Due: 03/03/2015

Three Positions with Spotlighters Theatre
Spring 2015 - Marketing/Community Outreach/Development (9268693)
Spring 2015 - Ticket/Box Office Staff (9268694)
Spring 2015 - Tech Intern (9264286)
Due: 03/02/2015

Fine Arts Intern (9268620)
Hamilton Arts Collective/Hamilton Gallery
Due: 12/23/2014

Multiple Positions with Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
Search "Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts" in the employers section in UMBCworks
Internships: Exhibitions, Design, Public Art, Visual Arts & more!

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Maurice Berger, research professor and chief curator of the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, has been awarded a $30,000 Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation.

The grant supports research for Berger’s monthly column, Race Stories, for the Lens Blog of The New York Times. The blog explores the relationship of photography to concepts, themes, and social or regional issues about race not usually covered in the mainstream media.

Berger plans to conduct research on Robert Frank, focusing on contact sheets, notes, and shooting scripts for a two-part essay on Frank’s representations of race in The Americans. He will also conduct research for essays exploring parallel developments in African American, Latino, and Asian American photo-based art and photography from the 1960s to the present, focusing on the ways this work has challenged stereotypes and prevailing ideas about identity. More about the award can be found here.

Designed to support writing about contemporary art, as well as to create a broader audience for arts writing, the Arts Writers Grant Program aims to strengthen the field as a whole and to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts.

1. GES Majors listserv

2. Environmental Career Opportunities

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3. UMBC Career Services Center

4. UMBC Office of Undergraduate Research

5.  The Student Conservation Association

6.  Urban Resources Initiative Internships

7.  Check out other university's environmental program websites that might post various opportunities