REPOST: Taxes & Tacos Join OCSS and The Women's Center! This is a repost of an event organized by Off-Campus Student Services. 

Join OCSS and the Women's Center for Taxes & Tacos. There will be a rep from Financial Smarts to share about on-campus resources available to students and to answer any questions students may have.

Wednesday February 22nd, from 7:30pm-9:00pm at the Women's Center Lounge, located on the bottom floor of Commons, room 004, next to Dunkin Donuts and the Yum Shoppe

Tacos will be provided!

Please contact Megan Lamptey from OCSS  at meganl3 @ umbc.edu  with any questions, concerns or accessibility or accommodation requests.
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Dear POLI Students,

The Department of Political Science and the Alumni Committee is excited to announce the creation of a newly formed mentor/mentee program.  This program is aimed at pairing current political science majors with alumni of the program.  Our hope is that this program will lead to fruitful connections between you and alumni that are putting their knowledge and skills to work across sectors.  With more than 60 alumni from varied personal and professional backgrounds we invite you to apply to the mentor/mentee program. 

While there is no obligation to participate, but if you believe you might be interested in this program, please complete the following survey by March 1, 2023.  This survey is aimed at providing you with the best mentor based on your interests.

Survey Link

The pairing of mentor/mentee connections may take a few weeks, but if you have questions, feel free to reach out to Dr. Eric Stokan at estokan@umbc.edu.

Thank you for interest and engagement.

Sincerely,

 

Department of Political Science and Alumni Committee, UMBC


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The Office of Councilman Pat Young is looking for a part-time legislative intern to assist the office during the Spring 2023 semester. The purpose of the internship is to provide students with a real-world learning opportunity, which should
prepare them to be workforce ready upon graduation.  Additionally, students will receive the opportunity to develop experience in intergovernmental lobbying, advocacy, the State's legislative process, and professional correspondence on behalf of elected officials.


APPLICATIONS DUE BY MARCH 3rd 11:59pm 


Eligibility Requirements:
  •  Be actively attending an accredited college or university.
  •  Be either an undergraduate student in their junior or senior year, or a graduate student.
  •  Have at least a 2.8 cumulative grade point average (GPA) at the undergraduate level, or at least a 3.0 GPA at the graduate level. Note: A college transcript is required as evidence of GPA. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
  • The internship will be in person or can follow a hybrid model.
  •  Must be able to commit 10 hours per week to the internship.


Prospective interns can apply through Handshake or send a resume directly to council1@baltimorecountymd.gov.

 
See attached document for more info 

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Best Practices in Grant Writing for RSF


RSF staff will discuss the foundation's programs and the application process at a webinar on April 3, 2023, at 2PM ET. 

Register here.

Please visit our website to review our Tips for Grant Writing Success page and Examples of Successful Letters of Intent and Proposals. You can also view a 5-minute video on how to submit LOIs or other applications using our grants management system.

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Over the past week, UMBC faculty and students have given primetime TV news watchers in Baltimore a glimpse of the frontiers of artificial intelligence (AI) research. WJZ, Baltimore’s CBS News affiliate, aired the AI series in six segments, four of which featured UMBC researchers.

Harnessing data to predict sea level rise

The Wednesday evening spot featured Vandana Janeja, chair of information systems (IS). She described how she and other researchers aim to harness artificial intelligence and new data analysis techniques to better predict how climate-driven changes at Earth’s poles, such as melting glaciers, could impact the rest of the world. Janeja directs iHARP, an NSF-funded institute based at UMBC that brings together data scientists and polar experts from across academia, industry, and the government to tackle a defining challenge of our times.

Connecting robots and AI

The Thursday evening segment featured UMBC faculty and students showcasing their work connecting AI and robots for applications such as disaster response and battlefield readiness. IS professors Aryya Gangopadhyay and Nirmalya Roy and computer science and electrical engineering (CSEE) associate professor Tinoosh Mohsenin from the Center for Real-time Distributed Sensing and Autonomy joined computer science students Kevin Rippy ’24, Warren Funk ’24, Hong Nguyen ’25, and Ben Polyakov ’23, computer engineering Ph.D. students Arnab Mazumder and Mozhgan Navardi, and information systems Ph.D. students Indrajeet Ghosh and Neil Kpamegan to explain the technology. 

They demonstrated devices such as miniature drones and a robot that could be controlled from afar with hand motions. The researchers are working to develop the brains of such systems so that they can intelligently work with other robots and with human beings.

Explaining ChatGPT

On Friday, Anupam Joshi, professor of CSEE and director of the UMBC Center for Cybersecurity helped viewers grasp an AI invention now making headlines: ChatGPT. The sophisticated chatbot can write text ranging from computer code to essays on the American Revolution, but Joshi explained how it does make errors and should be used carefully.

Identifying harmful biases in AI

Finally, echoing the theme of responsible and cautious AI use, James Foulds, an assistant professor of IS, and Shaniah Reece, a senior majoring in IS, described to TV viewers how biases from the human world can find their way into AI systems, with harmful effects. They are working to identify such biases where they appear, improving the fairness of AI systems.

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***RESCHEDULED FOR May 23, 2023!
Join us for a virtual seminar by Dr. Christine Chiu, Professor of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. Her talk is titled "Clouds and aerosols laid bare-A 3D view from synergistic satellite observations for improved process-level understanding."

New Date: May 23, 2023

Abstract: 
Marine boundary layer clouds cover a substantial portion of the global oceans and play an important role in determining the Earth's radiation budget. Their morphology, controlled by various dynamical factors and modulated by aerosols, is complex. It can range from single-layer stratiform in the high latitudes, mixtures of stratiform and cumuliform in the mid-latitudes, and mainly cumuliform in the tropics. Despite the distinct three-dimensional (3D) and heterogeneous nature of clouds, their interactions with radiation are often simplified to one-dimensional (1D) not only in models at all scales but also in satellite remote sensing applications. While it is a concern that the 1D simplification unavoidably introduces errors in cloud retrievals, missing critical information on 3D cloud properties has more profound impacts because it prevents us from offering much stronger observational constraints for understanding cloud-aerosol processes and improving model physics.   

To address this issue, I will show recent advances in remote sensing of 3D clouds and near-cloud aerosols. Specifically, our new retrieval framework accounts for cloud heterogeneity, incorporates 3D radiative effects directly, and uses synergistic satellite observations. It also capitalizes on a particle flow filter approach for the first time, which solves the fully non-linear retrieval problem and provides realistic error estimates. Applications and implications of these retrievals for an improved understanding of clouds and aerosols also will be discussed.

Biography:
Dr. Christine Chiu is a Professor at the Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University. Prior to joining CSU, she was an Associate Professor at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, United Kingdom, a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an Associate Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
 
Dr. Chiu has extensive experience in remote sensing and radiative transfer. She has been working on retrievals for cloud, precipitation, and aerosols; aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions; and machine learning applications in cloud processes and radiative transfer. Dr. Chiu is currently serving as the Chair of the Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, and as a member of the International Radiation Commission and the Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment Program Committee. In the past, she has served as the Chair of the AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee.

For more information on the GESTAR II Seminar Series, click here.
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