The Maryland State Archives is currently accepting applications to its 2019 summer internship program. The deadline for student application is Friday, March 29th. Please share the opportunities with interested students!
Name:Savio Kay
Internship, Co-op or Research Site: Maryland Auto
Position Title: I.T. Analyst
Major(s)/Minor(s): Information Systems (Master's)
Work Term:Summer 2018 - Spring 2019
Tell us about your internship, co-op, or research opportunity, including your day-to-day responsibilities.
The Maryland Automobile Insurance Fund (Maryland Auto) was created by the legislature of the State of Maryland. At Maryland Auto, I am currently in the Cloud Service & Business Intelligence department. My day to day responsibilities involved in creating, managing, and maintaining various Business Intelligence projects as well as participate in a project involving the development of a natural language processing unit led by AWS to help create a chatting application for the insurance company. This application is meant to facilitate in helping to address various queries from the customers about their policy and insurance. We believe that post development and testing phase, the final version would be proposed to use in the Maryland Auto’s live website for regular use in the near future.
In addition, I was able to use various project management tools and techniques to create and manage project schedules, identify milestones and involve in strategic project planning. Moreover, I was involved in preparing business analytical models & identifying key customers issues and create better business project strategies.
Describe the process of obtaining your position. When did you hear of the position and submit your application?
Maryland Auto is a prominent partner of the Career Center and has recruited many interns throughout several years. The Company has made many strides in the financial sector. Being new to the discipline, I was eager to join the company to acquire more knowledge about the business furthermore corporate environment.
I spoke to a couple of seniors who previously were residents at the company, visited the career center for advice and to get my resume approved, contacted Maryland Auto and had a phone interview with their management. Along with a technical meeting, there were a phone and an on-site interview. After a thorough review of my options with my advisor, I was on my way to Maryland Auto for my internship.
What have you enjoyed the most about your position or organization?
I enjoyed practicing what I studied from my Graduate courses to my work, almost directly. This gave me a further real-time outlook of the practical implications of theoretical concepts acquired in class. I also had multiple occasion to communicate and coordinate with cross-functional team members in a dynamic corporate environment.
How do you believe you have made an impact through your work?
I believe that my work in the Natural Language Processing & Cloud Services department will assist with servicing customer policy requests for residents at the company far more efficient. The project deployment is in the upcoming updates of the company systems. It enables the company to entertain more customer request while maintaining proper customer service. While sustaining an efficient workflow, it also utilizes individuals to their maximum potential.
What advice would you give to another student who is seeking an internship or similar experience?
I believe there is a lot to learn from any internship experience. Other than your own personal learning goals towards the internship/co-op, you get to learn more with various activities on and off projects and also with and without team members. I would really advice being open to learning new things from the internship as the environment is vastly different from the school experience. The last thing I would want to say is Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
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]]>The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) will host the Health Disparities Research Institute (HDRI) from August 12-16, 2019, in Bethesda, MD. The HDRI aims to support the research career development of promising minority health/health disparities research scientists early in their careers and stimulate research in the disciplines supported by health disparities science.
The program will feature:
Institute participants will also have the opportunity to meet with NIH scientific staff engaged in related health disparities research across the various NIH Institutes and Centers.
TARGET AUDIENCE AND ELIGIBILITY
This program is intended for early-stage research investigators. Applicants must have a Ph.D., M.D./D.O., Sc.D., Dr.P.H., Pharm.D., Psy.D., or equivalent doctoral degree from an accredited domestic or foreign institution. Applications will only be accepted from post-doctoral fellows, assistant professors, or early-stage investigators in comparable research positions who are actively engaged in minority health and health disparities research and who plan to submit a K or R grant to NIH within the next 12 months. Individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Previous participants of the HDRI or the Translational Health Disparities Course are not eligible to apply.
Please note that NIH and HHS staff, including persons doing fellowships/training at NIH or an HHS agency, are not eligible to apply.
HOW TO APPLY
The online application is now open and must be submitted by March 22, 2019, 5:00 p.m. EST.
For questions or more information, email: NIMHDHealthDC@mail.nih.gov.
Learn more by watching this video about the Health Disparities Research Institute.
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