Thinking Back and Moving Forward Tell me what YOU want to see next semester!

Aaaaaand that’s a wrap, folks!! The fall semester is closing up, and the bi-annual finals freakout is underway. We all have exams, papers, and presentations to worry about, but it’s still an important time to reflect on what you’ve accomplished, and start setting plans for next semester. As for myself, I need to start planning for my blog next semester, which is why I am asking YOU to tell me what you want to hear!! Tell me in the comments what Career Center related topics you want to see in my blog next semester.


Time for some reflection. If you are currently enrolled in an Intern Success Practicum, here’s a friendly reminder that your end-of-semester reflections are due THIS FRIDAY on December 8th. If you’re not enrolled (and I highly suggest enrolling next semester), it’s still beneficial to think about how you’ve developed personally, academically, and professionally.


  • What have you gained from your experiences, in and out of class?

  • What are some things you feel you excelled at, or really enjoyed?

  • On the other hand, where do you think you need to improve?


We can use this reflection to help us move forward and be more successful in the future. Speaking of future, let’s start setting some goals for the Spring semester. The desperate desire for a summer job/internship will only grow stronger as the spring rolls in, so locking down those positions early can alleviate a lot of unnecessary stress. PUT IT ON YOUR CALENDARS NOW: The Spring Career and Internship Fair will be on February 16th!! And don’t forget that all of April is “Career Month” with a plethora of workshops and networking events to help you succeed. Until then, set some goals so that you are totally prepared and confident. Here are some of my goals:


  • Update my resume to accurately reflect my most recent experiences.

  • Continue to scour the vast reaches of the internet for possible summer positions. This list of websites is a great place to start! And don’t forget we offer appointments specifically for job/internship searches.

  • Outside of the Career Center, the Shriver Center is a great place to connect with volunteer opportunities in the area. These experiences are equally helpful with professional development, as well as giving you a chance to give back to your community.

  • At the beginning of next semester, set up an appointment with a Career Specialist. This can be for spiffing up your professional documents, your job/internship search, or even possible graduate degree programs. It always helps to bounce ideas of off someone else, and getting professional advice certainly can’t hurt!


Thinking about all the stuff that needs to get done can be pretty overwhelming, but just remember all the offices and people on campus that have your back! We’re all in this together, and taking time to reflect and set goals for yourself is the best way to ensure your success.


P.S. Reminder to please comment below on what you want to see on this blog in the future!


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Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite all faculty and staff to attend the annual UMBC Holiday Open House, which will be held on Thursday, December 14, 3-5 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Light refreshments will be served.

This year's holiday party will support Retriever Essentials, a faculty, staff, and student partnership addressing food insecurity in our university community. A box for food donations will be available at the party. If you would like to contribute, you can view guidelines for donations here.

The Holiday Open House is a time for all of us to join together and celebrate the coming of the new year. We hope to see you there.

President Freeman Hrabowski and Provost Philip Rous
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If anyone who is Graduating on Dec 21st, 2017, I need some extra tickets. 
If you have any extra tickets could you please contact me through email. Thank you!

tiebak1@umbc.edu 
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If anyone who is Graduating on Dec 21st, 2017, I need some extra tickets. 
If you have any extra tickets could you please contact me through email. Thank you!

tiebak1@umbc.edu 
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“My best teaching memories involve students writing or visiting after graduation, to talk about life, how their learning stuck, or changed their thinking in salubrious ways.”

– Dr. Robert Anderson

I began teaching in 1975 and have been at UMBC since 1987. I would describe my teaching style as collaborative, focusing on personal understanding, critical thinking, and real life application.  I strive to create a classroom environment that is engaging, scholarly, and real, encouraging critical thinking about everything.

Winter Session 2018

 
At just four weeks, winter session is a challenging format for student and professor, but can also be very rewarding.  Students in my classes probably return for other classes as much as they do because, in addition to disabusing themselves of popular misconceptions, they tend to grow in dialectical thinking and personal values clarification, which is very rewarding for everyone.

“Students should understand that Winter Session is one-third the time of a regular semester, yet we cover the same material – so demands are intense, requiring substantial diligence and commitment to attending every class.”

 
This winter I am teaching PSY 285 – Abnormal Psychology, which offers a unique collaborative learning experience with lots of personal and clinical examples, and clinical and real-world applications.  PSYC 285 fulfills the Social Sciences GEP.

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You are invited to participate in the 12th Winter Student Leadership Retreat.  The retreat is sponsored by the Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering at UMCP.
The purpose of the retreat is to provide an opportunity for underrepresented minority students majoring in engineering and other STEM majors to build their career, professional, and leadership skills; as well as to network with corporations and student leaders from 4-year colleges/universities and 2-year community colleges in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area.  Students who attend the following colleges and universities are eligible to apply to participate in this years’ retreat:
  • George Washington University
  • Howard University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Montgomery College
  • Morgan State University
  • Prince George’s Community College
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County, and
  • University of Maryland College Park.

There is no cost to students who are selected to participate.  Representatives from the retreat sponsors listed below will facilitate workshops during the retreat. Two tracks of workshops will be provided, one for 1st-time attendees and another for returning attendees.  Workshops to be presented include resume writing, interview tips, mock interviews, graduate school, and a corporate information fair.

We will accept 5-6 students from UMBC and we will provide transportation from Morgan to the retreat and back. Here is the link to registration:  http://www.cmse.umd.edu/current/retreat

Registration has opened and students can register until December 18, 2017. Persons who are selected to participate will be notified no later than December 23, 2017.

The retreat sponsors this year are:

  • Lockheed Martin
  • Northrop Grumman
  • W. L. Gore
  • Accenture
  • Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) 

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  December 18, 2017

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We are pleased to announce that the application for the 2018 Environmental Fellows Program is now open! The Environmental Fellows Program is a summer fellowship program for masters and doctoral students that seeks to place students traditionally underrepresented in the environmental field and those committed to the principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion in summer fellowships with environmental foundations and their grantees.
 

Application OPEN. Deadline to apply is February 7, 2018

The Environmental Fellows Program involves:
  • A 13-week fellowship at either an environmental grantmaking foundation, or at one of their grantees. Past placement sites include: Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment; Earthjustice; Toxics Action Center, New England Grassroots Environment Fund, and many more!
  • Fellows will receive a stipend of $10,000 plus a travel allowance.
  • Last year’s cohort worked on a wide variety of issues: environmental health, clean energy, marine conservation, transit solutions, energy justice, to name just a few!
  • Fellowship placement sites are available in a range of places included but not limited to New York City, Boston/New England region, San Francisco, and Ann Arbor, MI
  • Fellows receive training in diversity, equity, and inclusion; institutional culture; and professional development.

 

Consider applying if you have an interest in exploring the world of environmental grantmaking/philanthropy and/or are passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the environmental field.

For more information and to apply please visit http://efp-umich.squarespace.com/application-information/

If you have questions about the Environmental Fellows Program please feel free to contact Molly Lutton at seas-efpoffice@umich.edu or 734-936-0900.

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M. A. Wolfe, F. A. Calderon-Vargas, and J. P. Kestner

Phys. Rev. B 96, 201307(R)

URL: https://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.201307

Abstract: Singlet-triplet qubits in lateral quantum dots in semiconductor heterostructures exhibit high-fidelity single-qubit gates via exchange interactions and magnetic field gradients. High-fidelity two-qubit entangling gates are challenging to generate since weak interqubit interactions result in slow gates that accumulate error in the presence of noise. However, the interqubit electrostatic interaction also produces a shift in the local double well detunings, effectively changing the dependence of exchange on the gate voltages. We consider an operating point where the effective exchange is first-order insensitive to charge fluctuations while maintaining nonzero interactions. This “sweet spot” exists only in the presence of interactions. We show that working at the interacting sweet spot can directly produce maximally entangling gates, and we simulate the gate evolution under realistic 1/f noise. We report theoretical two-qubit gate fidelities above 99% in GaAs and Si systems.

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