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• Fall Intern - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
  
• On-Campus RC Helicopter pilot- UMBC Geography & Environmental Systems
  
• Research Assistant / United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
  
• Protocol Development Intern- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Student Mental Health Research Assistant - Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Volunteer Opportunities in Mental Health- Sheppard Pratt Health System
  
• Research Assistant / ExecuQuest Corp.
  
• Research Assistant- Sage Policy Group
• Research Clinical Extern- UMB School of Medicine
• Disaster Caseworker-American Red Cross
• Paid Research & Marketing Interns- BioMarker Strategies
• Paid Parent-Child Interaction Video Coder-University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
• R&D Intern- Quantum Medical Metrics, LLC
• Research and Policy Assistant- United States Department of Education
• Research Development Intern- iHire, LLC
• Research Intern- The Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
• Nutrition Intern- University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
• Paid Research Technician Intern- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
• Volunteer Policy/Research Intern- Minority Business Roundtable
• Research Assistantship- Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland
• Advancement Department Intern- American Red Cross 
• Assistant Proposal Coordinator- Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX)
• Big Data & Cloud Software and Research- Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX)
• Paid Research Assistant- UMBC Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education(CUERE)
  

The Baltimore Sun recently chronicled UMBC’s rise over the past two decades into a nationally-recognized powerhouse for academic innovation.

As the campus approaches its 50th anniversary in 2016, UMBC sports enviable credentials, the Sun wrote: “It’s cited as America’s top up-and-coming university and a leader in undergraduate teaching by U.S. News. It has an endowment of about $60 million, built from less than $1 million when Hrabowski took over. Research funding has risen from less than $10 million to about $90 million.”

While UMBC is known for excellence in a wide range of fields, the Sun notes that the university has found remarkable success in areas where higher education nationally has struggled. “Educational heavyweights such as MIT and Stanford have been to Catonsville to study the methods with which UMBC churns out elite black graduates in the sciences. How, they want to know, has a 46-year-old university, founded to serve commuters, cracked the code to one of American education’s most vexing problems?”

The piece comes as President Hrabowski marks his 20th year leading UMBC, and it paints a picture of university and leader both deeply committed to students’ success.

“This is a guy who’s on a flight to speak somewhere every other day,” Jeremy Brickey ’12, English, said of President Hrabowski. “But here he takes the time to talk with me for 30 minutes all the time. It’s amazing.”

Miguel Calderon ’12, Visual Arts, seconded that: “I can’t speak to other universities. But from what I hear, it’s not an everyday thing to see the president asking students, ‘How are your classes? What did you get on your last test? You didn’t do well? Maybe you need a tutor.’ It’s really a miraculous thing.”

More than that, though, President Hrabowski stressed that it’s a sign of the culture of UMBC, and of the dedication of so many faculty and staff members. It’s who we are.

“It is part of the work of education to have substantive relationships with your students,” President Hrabowski told the Sun. “What people don’t realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.”

Musician Devin Walker ’89, political science, took his “Uncle Devin” show to the U.S. Capitol this summer, sharing educational music with children and parents alike.
Walker, who plays the drums, calls the show “a live, interactive musical experience for children five and over by renowned drummer Devin Walker. The show cultivates the minds of children through percussion instruments and is a dynamic cross between Fat Albert and Schoolhouse Rock.”
View photos from the show here.  Read more about the show here.
Walker and his jazz band, A Sense of Urgency, will be one of three alumni-driven bands playing at this year’s Homecoming Crab Feast on Saturday, October 13. (The others are: Fiddlin’ Around, an Irish folk band featuring UMBC’s own staff and faculty members Terry Aylsworth, Eric Ebersole, and William Farrell, and alums David Aylsworth ’74, Tara Ebersole ’08 and Sara Moreland ’97; and Black Falls, a blues and classic rock band featuring alumnus Philip Medenbach, Jr. ’87.)
For more information about the event, visit the Homecoming website here.

Musician Devin Walker ’89, political science, took his “Uncle Devin” show to the U.S. Capitol this summer, sharing educational music with children and parents alike.

Walker, who plays the drums, calls the show “a live, interactive musical experience for children five and over by renowned drummer Devin Walker. The show cultivates the minds of children through percussion instruments and is a dynamic cross between Fat Albert and Schoolhouse Rock.”

View photos from the show here.  Read more about the show here.

Walker and his jazz band, A Sense of Urgency, will be one of three alumni-driven bands playing at this year’s Homecoming Crab Feast on Saturday, October 13. (The others are: Fiddlin’ Around, an Irish folk band featuring UMBC’s own staff and faculty members Terry Aylsworth, Eric Ebersole, and William Farrell, and alums David Aylsworth ’74, Tara Ebersole ’08 and Sara Moreland ’97; and Black Falls, a blues and classic rock band featuring alumnus Philip Medenbach, Jr. ’87.)

For more information about the event, visit the Homecoming website here.

University of Maryland, Baltimore “Frontiers in Genomics” Symposium (10/18)

The University of Maryland, Medical School’s Institute for Genome Sciences will hold a free symposium this coming October at the UM BioPark located at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

The symposium, marking IGS’s fifth anniversary, will be ”a day of innovative discussion and scientific exchange” that “host[s] internationally recognized scientists who are unlocking new discoveries in genomics, bioinformatics and personalized medicine,” according to the invitation to the symposium.

The symposium will run from 8:45 am to 3:30 pm on Thursday, October 18. The event is free, so those interested in attending are encouraged to RSVP as soon as possible. UMB asks that faculty at other institutions encourage their students to attend.

For questions and RSVPs, please contact via e-mail through email to igs-event@som.umaryland.edu, or fax to 410.706.6777.

AASHE is pleased to announce that L. Hunter Lovins, president and founder of the Natural Capitalism Solutions (NCS), will kick off the AASHE 2012 Conference & Expo as the featured keynote speaker.

In her "Innovation in Higher Education: Leading the Change" keynote, Lovins will outline ways that higher education institutions can take a lead role in creating the next generation of thought leaders by including sustainability as part of their campus management programs, curriculum and offerings.

"In a field that did not exist when I went to school," says the Bainbridge Graduate Institute professor and Time Magazine 2000 Hero of the Planet, "most of the thought leaders are still among us, and are making it up as we go forward. This may challenge academic traditionalist but it excites students. Unleashing this creativity will create the future for higher education."

Also dubbed a "Green Business Icon" by Newsweek in 2009, Lovins has co-authored nine books including Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution with Amory Lovins and Paul Hawken, and her latest, The Way Out: Kickstarting Capitalism To Save Our Economic Ass, released in April 2012.

Lovins' areas of expertise include natural capitalism, sustainable development, globalization, energy and resource policy, economic development, climate change, land management, and fire rescue and emergency medicine. She developed the Economic Renewal Project and helped write many of its manuals on sustainable community economic development. She was a founding professor of business at Presidio Graduate School, one of the first accredited programs offering an MBA in sustainable management.

Don't miss Lovins on Sunday, October 14 in Los Angeles! For more information and to register for the conference, visit the AASHE 2012 website. Registration ends October 8.

Four students in UMBC's Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering have been selected for major scholarships to study cybersecurity in the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Scholarship for Service (SFS) CyberCorps program.   Each student will receive full tuition, fees, and a nine-month stipend ($20,000 for undergraduates, $25,000 for MS/MPS students, and $30,000 for PhD students) for up to  two years (three years for PhD).  For this first year of the program at UMBC, recipients are Oliver Kubik (BS student in computer science), Brendan Masiar and Brandyn Schult (MPS students in cybersecurity), and Mary Mathews (PhD student in computer science).  

While in the program at UMBC, each student will participate in paid summer internships and have opportunities to engage in mentored research opportunities at the UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance (CISA) and its partners from industry and government.  Following graduation, each student must work for the government (for pay) for one year for each year of scholarship received.  Drs. Alan T. Sherman and Richard Forno direct the program using support they received from their recently awarded $2.5 million NSF grant.  The CyberCorps program will produce highly-qualified professionals to meet the increasing need to protect American's cyber infrastructure.

Each year students may apply for SFS CyberCorps scholarships at UMBC, with application deadline in mid January.  For details, see www.cisa.umbc.edu.  In each of the next three years, UMBC expects to make six new awards.   Applicants must be accepted to a full-time degree program in a cybersecurity-related field (CS, CE, cyber, EE, IS, math, physics, education, public policy).