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If you're tired of sifting through sketchy jobs on Craigslist, why not try the TechCounil of Maryland (TCM)'s new job resource CORE (Career Opportunities REsources).   

CORE's database is full of jobs in the areas of biotechnology, information technology, and business. "CORE will help our region's companies attract and match talented individuals, students, recent graduates and professionals in search of their next challenge," says the website.

Based in Rockville, TCM is the areas largest technology trade association in Maryland. With over 500 members, TCM's mission is to promote the area's technology industry.

Photo courtesy www.techcouncilmd.com

If you're tired of sifting through sketchy jobs on Craigslist, why not try the TechCounil of Maryland (TCM)'s new job resource CORE (Career Opportunities REsources).   

CORE's database is full of jobs in the areas of biotechnology, information technology, and business. "CORE will help our region's companies attract and match talented individuals, students, recent graduates and professionals in search of their next challenge," says the website.

Based in Rockville, TCM is the areas largest technology trade association in Maryland. With over 500 members, TCM's mission is to promote the area's technology industry.

1 Peter 2:9-10 (NIV)

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

Reflection:

Because of the kindness, love and mercy that we have received in Christ, we have been given a new identity and new foundations to relate to others. Just as we have received God’s mercy, our hope is that those around us will experience the kindness and love of Christ and that we will reflect the Father’s heart to those who have not yet experienced it. As we live in our new identities in Christ, we are reminded to be His people revealing God’s love, mercy and kindness to others.

Response:

Let’s thank God that by His love and mercy, He has given us new identities. Let’s ask God to help us to relate to others in light of our new identity and as we do, let’s pray and hope that others will experience God’s love and mercy.

UMBC CSEE Professor Penny Rheingans received an NSF research award, Transforming the Freshman Experience of Computing Majors, to develop and evaluate an innovative first-year seminar for computing majors aimed at increasing retention, completion, and success among students, especially women and those from underrepresented groups. Dr. Rheingans will serve as the principal investigator for the three year, project that will also include Drs. Marie desJardins (CSEE), Carolyn Seaman (IS) and Susan Martin (CWIT).

The seminar will combine elements from successful first-year engineering courses, introductory computing courses, general first-year seminars and the new AP CS Principles course to give new computing majors an overview of the discipline, foundational technical skills, a group design experience and relevant professional development. The highly interactive and learner-centered course will be delivered by a team of computing professors, staff with student affairs experience, and undergraduate peer mentors and teachers. The project will also include regional workshops to share course materials and insights with computing faculty from local two and four-year institutions.

Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale and Dr. Renetta G. Tull of the PROMISE Dissertation House have been invited by the Empowering Leadership Alliance (ELA) Mentoring Program of Rice University to lead two webinars next week on preparing the proposal and the final defense.

*Proposal Writing: Monday, July 16, 10AM Pacific, 12PM Central, 1PM Eastern. Sign up for this session here by Sunday, July 15.

*The Final Defense: Tuesday, July 17, 10AM Pacific, 12PM Central, 1PM Eastern.  Sign up for this session here by Sunday, July 15.

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There will be a 5 minute overview of the topic at hand, and then the rest of the time will be devoted to responding to students’ questions.  Don’t miss out on this opportunity!  Graduate students from all schools are invited.

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Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale and Dr. Renetta G. Tull of the PROMISE Dissertation House have been invited by the Empowering Leadership Alliance (ELA) Mentoring Program of Rice University to lead two webinars next week on preparing the proposal and the final defense.

*Proposal Writing: Monday, July 16, 10AM Pacific, 12PM Central, 1PM Eastern. Sign up for this session here by Sunday, July 15.

*The Final Defense: Tuesday, July 17, 10AM Pacific, 12PM Central, 1PM Eastern.  Sign up for this session here by Sunday, July 15.

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There will be a 5 minute overview of the topic at hand, and then the rest of the time will be devoted to responding to students’ questions.  Don’t miss out on this opportunity!  Graduate students from all schools are invited.

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Donald Norris, professor and chair of public policy, recently spoke with The Gazette for on efforts to create a Maryland House of Delegates single-member subdistrict in Montgomery County, which would ostensibly aid in the election of a Latino lawmaker to represent a largely-Latino area.

Those in favor feel that such a subdistrict would be beneficial in strengthening populations with common backgrounds and interests, while skeptics argue that these efforts could do long-term harm by creating uncompetitive seats and limiting chances to unseat incumbents. Norris listed a number of complexities to the single-member issue, speaking of issues involving parochialism, partisanship, the benefits and drawback of at-large districts and the history of redistricting, among others.

The story, “Single-member districts offer mixed-bag for minorities,” ran on July 13.

In a July 12 piece for Salon entitled “Will Obama’s Bain blows land?” Tom Schaller, professor of political science, analyzed the president’s emerging strategy of focusing on Mitt Romney’s history with the investment firm Bain Capital. Schaller expressed doubts that these critiques will work. ” After all, Obama’s populist record is mixed: undeniably strong on some issues (expanded healthcare coverage, student loans and payroll taxes), and spotty if not weak on others (Wall Street prosecutions and reform, extension of Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and job outsourcing),” he wrote.

Schaller concludes the piece by writing that “even if the president, given his own economic record over the past three-plus years, struggles to advance economic populist critiques along policy lines, the Obama campaign will mount a powerful populist critique of Romney as a businessman and politician who literally embodies all that’s wrong economically with America right now.”