Wednesday, October 24, 2018, 2-3PM

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In this email you will find UMBCworks postings for jobs and internships as well as other events hosted by UMBC Career Center. These positions, events and workshops are tailored just for you!

Please note you MUST have your resume approved by a Career Center staff member to apply to postions posted in UMBCworks. To schedule an appointment, click on "Schedule Appointment" from the UMBCworks homepage or call 410-455-2216. 

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Jobs New Internships and Jobs in Science!: MileMarker Intern (9302168) Mile Marker - Baltimore, Maryland United States POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities POSTING DATE: Oct 02, 2018 END DATE: Jan 29, 2019 Multiple Openings (10/01/18) (9302125) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - Nationwide United States POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level, Full-Time - Experienced, Part-Time POSTING DATE: Oct 01, 2018 END DATE: Dec 01, 2018 REU in Nanotechnology for Biology and Engineering (9302094) Johns Hopkins University- Institute for Nanobiotechnology - Baltimore, Maryland United States POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities POSTING DATE: Sep 28, 2018 END DATE: Jan 25, 2019 REU: Computational Biomolecular Structure & Design (9302095) Johns Hopkins University- Institute for Nanobiotechnology - Nationwide United States POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities POSTING DATE: Sep 28, 2018 END DATE: Jan 25, 2019 Teach English in Japan (9302115) AEON CORPORATION - Multiple Locations POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level, Full-Time - Experienced POSTING DATE: Sep 28, 2018 END DATE: Oct 30, 2018 Multiple Openings (09/24/18) (9302067) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - Nationwide United States POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level, Full-Time - Experienced, Part-Time POSTING DATE: Sep 27, 2018 END DATE: Oct 24, 2018 Client Experience Associate (Software Products) (9302015) IMS, Inc. - Beltsville, Maryland United States POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level POSTING DATE: Sep 26, 2018 END DATE: Oct 26, 2018 Heavy Seas Beer QA/QC Lab Intern (9301950) Clipper City Brewing Company, L.P. - Halethorpe, Maryland United States POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities POSTING DATE: Sep 24, 2018 END DATE: Oct 31, 2018 2019 Product Stewardship and Regulatory Co-op (9301811) DuPont - Wilmington, Delaware United States POSITION TYPE: Cooperative Education (Co-op) POSTING DATE: Sep 21, 2018 END DATE: Nov 02, 2018 Production Scientist Intern (9301831) InstantLabs - Baltimore, Maryland United States POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities, Cooperative Education (Co-op) POSTING DATE: Sep 21, 2018 END DATE: Jan 18, 2019 Multiple Openings (09/17/18) (9301720) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - Nationwide United States POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level, Full-Time - Experienced, Part-Time POSTING DATE: Sep 18, 2018 END DATE: Oct 17, 2018 Teachers for Middle and High School - Certification Not Required (9301700) Teach Kentucky - Louisville, Kentucky United States POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level POSTING DATE: Sep 17, 2018 END DATE: Nov 17, 2018 Medical Assistant/Clinical Support (9301657) Pain and Spine Specialists - Multiple Locations POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level, Part-Time POSTING DATE: Sep 13, 2018 END DATE: Jan 10, 2019 Internship Opportunities for Social Work and Psychology Students (9301619) GoEco - Multiple Locations POSITION TYPE: Internship Opportunities POSTING DATE: Sep 12, 2018 END DATE: Nov 12, 2018 Multiple Openings (09/10/18) (9301582) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - Nationwide United States POSITION TYPE: Full-Time - Entry-Level, Full-Time - Experienced, Part-Time POSTING DATE: Sep 11, 2018 END DATE: Oct 11, 2018

Workshops Upcoming Events: BIG Interview - Focus on Ability Program SESSION START: Oct 03, 2018, 12:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 03, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Math/Psych 210 How to Conduct a Literature Review SESSION START: Oct 03, 2018, 4:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 03, 2018, 5:00 PM Northeast Graduate School Virtual Fair SESSION START: Oct 04, 2018, 10:00 AM SESSION END: Oct 04, 2018, 3:00 PM LOCATION: Online Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Open House SESSION START: Oct 08, 2018, 1:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 08, 2018, 4:30 PM LOCATION: Off-Campus General Motors (Chats with General Motors Representatives) SESSION START: Oct 09, 2018, 9:30 AM SESSION END: Oct 09, 2018, 12:00 PM LOCATION: Math/Psych 201 Commercializing Your Research: Intellectual Property and Patents SESSION START: Oct 10, 2018, 12:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 10, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: SOND 101 Woman of Color STEM Conference, Detroit MI SESSION START: Oct 11, 2018, 5:30 PM SESSION END: Oct 13, 2018, 7:00 PM I.E.P.Aide/School Aide Recruitment SESSION START: Oct 12, 2018, 9:45 AM SESSION END: Oct 12, 2018, 3:00 PM 3rd Annual Student Forum and Career Fair SESSION START: Oct 12, 2018, 11:00 AM SESSION END: Oct 12, 2018, 4:00 PM LOCATION: Off-Campus Inside Scoop - Careers in Biotechnology SESSION START: Oct 15, 2018, 12:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 15, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: University Center 310 Veteran's Virtual Career Fair SESSION START: Oct 18, 2018, 10:00 AM SESSION END: Oct 18, 2018, 3:00 PM Grad School 101 SESSION START: Oct 18, 2018, 4:30 PM SESSION END: Oct 18, 2018, 8:00 PM LOCATION: Skylight Room, The Commons Keys to Success: Resume/Cover Letters SESSION START: Oct 22, 2018, 12:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 22, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Commons 331 Diversity Recruitment Event SESSION START: Oct 25, 2018, 5:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 25, 2018, 8:00 PM LOCATION: University Center Ballroom Mid-Semester PRAC Workshop SESSION START: Oct 25, 2018, 6:00 PM SESSION END: Oct 25, 2018, 7:00 PM LOCATION: Commons 329

Info Sessions Upcoming Information Sessions: Google START DATE/TIME: Oct 04, 2018, 11:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 04, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Commons: Main Street Verbal Beginnings START DATE/TIME: Oct 18, 2018, 10:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 18, 2018, 2:00 PM LOCATION: Commons: Main Street Way Station, Inc. START DATE/TIME: Oct 15, 2018, 11:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 15, 2018, 2:00 PM LOCATION: Commons: Main Street ROTC at College Park (Airforce) START DATE/TIME: Oct 09, 2018, 12:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 09, 2018, 2:00 AM LOCATION: Commons: Main Street General Motors START DATE/TIME: Oct 08, 2018, 12:00 PM END DATE/TIME: Oct 08, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Commons 331 T. Rowe Price START DATE/TIME: Oct 22, 2018, 12:00 PM END DATE/TIME: Oct 22, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: University Center 310 Cisco Meraki START DATE/TIME: Oct 23, 2018, 6:00 PM END DATE/TIME: Oct 23, 2018, 7:30 PM LOCATION: Commons 331 Johns Hopkins University Graduate Schools Consortium START DATE/TIME: Oct 22, 2018, 12:00 PM END DATE/TIME: Oct 22, 2018, 1:30 PM LOCATION: University Center 312 National Institutes of Health (NIH) START DATE/TIME: Oct 24, 2018, 2:00 PM END DATE/TIME: Oct 24, 2018, 3:00 PM LOCATION: Commons 329 McCormick & Company, Inc START DATE/TIME: Oct 05, 2018, 7:45 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 05, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Off-Campus T. Rowe Price START DATE/TIME: Oct 19, 2018, 8:30 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 19, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Off-Campus Asymmetrik START DATE/TIME: Oct 26, 2018, 9:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 26, 2018, 1:00 PM LOCATION: Off-Campus National Security Agency START DATE/TIME: Oct 03, 2018, 11:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 03, 2018, 2:00 PM LOCATION: University Center 312 T. Rowe Price START DATE/TIME: Oct 10, 2018, 11:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 10, 2018, 2:00 PM LOCATION: University Center 312 Lockheed Martin START DATE/TIME: Oct 17, 2018, 11:00 AM END DATE/TIME: Oct 17, 2018, 2:00 PM LOCATION: University Center 312

Neither Rick Wade ‘85, nor his daughter Meagan Wade ‘13, considered a career in teaching until they each found themselves in elementary school classrooms by happenstance.

Rick had intended to major in political science at UMBC, but began to reevaluate when he did poorly on an exam in a government class. He transferred into one of the few classes still open – an education class.  Through the required weekly practicum at Arbutus Elementary School, he discovered he really liked working with kids, and ended up majoring in education and history.

Although Meagan grew up with a teacher for a father (in fact, Rick was Meagan’s 4th grade math teacher at Hampton Elementary, the same school where he still teaches today), she had never envisioned following in her father’s footsteps.

“I saw how much work was involved, and I was like, I don’t want to have to do that,” she explains.  

Not to mention the fact that it’s not always easy being the daughter of the teacher. On having her father for 4th grade math, she says playfully, “It’s kind of like a running joke – he was the only teacher that year that gave me a B and everyone else gave me an A. I still hold it against him.”

After graduating from UMBC with a psychology major, Meagan began looking for a job in social work, but her dad suggested she apply for an opening at his school as an Additional Adult Assistant, supporting students with special learning needs. She got the job, and before long, Meagan fell in love with the classroom, much to her own and her father’s surprise.

“Then I saw the other side of it, and then I understood. I had never seen that side of teaching before. It was really nice to see the classroom side of it and how rewarding it could be,” says Meagan, who earned her master’s in teaching in 2016.  

Rick believes his influence may have been indirect. “I didn’t overtly encourage her,” he says. “What I did, I guess, was just enjoy what I was doing.”

After two years as a 4th grade teacher in Harford County, Meagan has now joined her father in Baltimore County Public Schools, where he has been teaching for more than 25 years. She is  teaching 1st grade at Norwood Elementary. Theirs is a unique father-daughter bond, enhanced by their professional relationship.  

“I definitely ask him for advice a lot – like how I can get  a student to focus more, or I may run a lesson by him,” Meagan explains, but adds that it goes both ways.  

“He’s come and helped me set up and break down my classroom the last two years, so some of the things he’s seen me do, he says, ‘that’s a good idea,’ like using fabric instead of paper on bulletin boards, things he’s done a certain way for years and has never thought of doing (differently),” she says.

Rick concurs and recalls how he consulted Meagan when Baltimore County began using a technology-based program for recording students’ reading abilities that she had been using in Harford County for two years.  He says she also offered suggestions about how to handle classroom management while administering the test to students individually.

They recollect fondly how they collaborated on a class writing project while they were both teaching 4th grade. In a previous year, Rick’s class had written to penpals in Wales, so he proposed a penpal project to his daughter as a fun vehicle for teaching writing skills.  

“Her class and my class were pen pals together,” Rick says.  “We had the kids write by hand so they could work on handwriting and practice paragraph writing skills and going through the  writing process.”

Meagan adds with a chuckle, “We talk about work a little bit too much. I know it annoys my mom when we’re at dinner.”  

— Cait James ‘01

Photos by Marlayna Demond ’11 for UMBC Magazine

Black and gold streamers are flying across campus and pathways are covered in paw prints. That can only mean one thing: Homecoming 2018 is here. Running October 4 through 14, Homecoming is a great opportunity to reconnect with friends and the Retriever community while enjoying dozens of events from long-standing favorites to new traditions.

The festivities kick off on Thursday, Oct. 4, with the 30th Annual Alumni Awards Ceremony, honoring outstanding alumni and faculty members for their contributions to the university. This year, UMBC will recognize alumni Kimberly Ellison Taylor ’93, information systems; Saira Khan ’09, English; Mark Doms ’86, mathematics and economics; Wanda Keyes Heard ’79, political science; Mina Cheon, MFA ’02, imaging and digital arts; and Mimi (Haw) Dietrich ’70, American studies. The UMBC Alumni Association will present this year’s outstanding faculty award to Mariajosé Castellanos, senior lecturer and undergraduate program director, chemical, biochemical, and environmental learning.

The awards ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall, with a reception immediately following. More information on this year’s honorees is available here. Registration for this event has sold out, however you can watch the event via Facebook Live.

As the sun sets Friday, Oct. 5, Retrievers will gather on Erickson Field to light the annual Homecoming Bonfire—a beloved student tradition the entire campus community can enjoy. This year’s celebration features free food, Homecoming giveaways, and a chance to show your black and gold spirit with UMBC Athletics. Stick around after for an outdoor screening of “The Lion King” (weather permitting).

That weekend will feature the first of our UMBC Homecoming athletic matches—fun for all of #RetrieverNation, as well as the broader UMBC, Catonsville, and Arbutus communities. On Saturday, Oct. 6, men’s soccer will take on UMASS Lowell, and volleyball will also compete against UMASS Lowell Sunday, Oct. 7. UMBC Athletics will host a special Coaches Q&A Session at the Alumni Family & Friends tent from 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.

Another major highlight during that energy-filled day will be the Homecoming Comedy Show. This year, Ali Wong will perform in the Event Center (doors open at 8 p.m., the show starts at 9 p.m.). Tickets are $30 for students, alumni, faculty, staff, and $35 for the general public.

Saturday, Oct. 13, will be particularly action-packed for athletics alumni, with the women’s and men’s lacrosse alumni games, men’s basketball annual Black & Gold Scrimmage, Women’s Basketball Scrimmage, and Men’s Rugby Alumni vs. Severn River. At 7 p.m. that evening, after a pregame Athletics Alumni Social, men’s soccer will compete against Hartford at the Retriever Soccer Park.

Also on Saturday, UMBC will once again host Grit-X, a showcase of some of the university’s most intriguing alumni and faculty minds exploring math, cinema, and more. The event will take place Saturday, Oct. 13, from 10 a.m. – noon in the Dance Cube at UMBC’s Performing Arts and Humanities Building.

Among the speakers this year are Richard Chisolm ’82, interdisciplinary studies, documentary filmmaker and cinematographer; Deborah Thompson Eisenberg ’91, political science, Maryland Carey Law, UMB; Eric Dyer ’95, visual arts, professor, visual arts, and Kavita Krishnaswamy ’07, computer science and mathematics, Ph.D ’19, computer science. This event is free and open to the public (advance registration preferred).

In addition to hosting Grit-X and athletics events, on Saturday, Oct. 13, UMBC will also welcome Retrievers from near and far to the Homecoming Carnival, with food trucks, rides, and games from noon – 8 p.m. on Erickson Field. Admission is free and open to the public, and visitors can purchase a $5 wristband on the day of the event for unlimited carnival rides.

During the carnival, Retriever alumni will have a chance to reconnect with each other at the Alumni Family & Friends Tent and other locations on campus through Homecoming Reunions for the Honors College, Residential Life, UMBC at USG (Shady Grove), The Choice Program/AmeriCorps, and more.

For more details on these and other Homecoming events, head to the UMBC Homecoming website.