It’s Official…
The U.S. Department of Education has published the official three-year institutional cohort default rates for the Federal Stafford Direct Student Loan Program for Fiscal Year 2015. While the national cohort default rateis 10.8 percent, UMBC's cohort default rate is 4.0.
A cohort default rate is the percentage of a school's federal student loan borrowers who enter repayment within the cohort fiscal year and default (nonpayment) within the three years after repayment begins (the cohort default period).
Why is this important? UMBC's consistently low default rate speaks, among many things to the employability of UMBC graduates. Most UMBC graduates are able to secure employment or enroll in graduate school after earning their bachelor's degrees.
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The Career Center invites students in the following majors to join us for a visit to T. Rowe Price's Innovation Lab: Graphic Design, Information Systems, Human-Centered Computing, Computer Science, and all related majors. RSVP to reserve your spot!
WHAT: "On the Road" to the T. Rowe Price Innovation Lab
WHERE: Linthicum Heights, MD
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 19, 9:30-12:30 (bus departs from UMBC at 9:30 a.m. sharp)
RSVP REQUIRED! Log in to UMBCworks, click Events > Information Sessions, and search for T. Rowe Price. Please note, space is limited.
You may know T. Rowe Price as a well-known financial investment firm. But their Innovation Lab (also know as the Client Experience & Delivery Transformation Lab) houses a team of designers, developers, and data scientists who focus specifically on the "client journeys," or digital experiences and interfaces.
We will get a tour of their modern, communal workspace, learn about internship/job opportunities across the whole organization, and hear from employees about their specific work in user experience.
Let me know if you have questions!
Kacie Lawrence
Associate Director of Internships & Employment
UMBC Career Center
He described one project he worked on where he designed simple devices that could show how many emails you received or how many times your Facebook page got likes, all in a sleek 60’s/70’s furniture design. With these pieces, Hoover drew upon his manufacturing background and handmade the wood sections, creating an artistic exhibit that is both of the past and the present, once again merging two unlikely concepts.
After a drink of water and changing his PowerPoint slide, Hoover then asks the audience a simple yet thought-provoking question: “How do you think would I program a tree?” The audience’s silence was a clear sign of uncertainty, so Hoover explained how there are natural and biological algorithms that are used in nature to “grow and design” living trees.
By combining the concepts of DNA (going from small to big) and manufacturing (big to small), he was able to create a program on a Rhino/Grasshopper CAD platform that would be able to connect to a 3D printer and print different types of trees.
As the audience marveled at the photos showed on the screen of Hoover’s 3D printed trees exhibit, he explained further how “the physical can be computational” and that “collaboration with non-humans is necessary” to propel into the future.
To further oyster restoration efforts in the Bay, Hoover and his team have paired up with scientists studying how oyster larvae require a sort of nursery environment that can only be provided by empty oyster shells in order to survive and thrive.
Hoover’s team had been experimenting with manufactured calcium carbonate, which is what oyster shells are made of, and by working with biologists, engineers and artists, they have been successful in 3D printing oyster shells that are good and realistic enough to please the larvae.
Learning about his projects and how art and science can exist hand in hand, it is clear that Hoover has taken the best of both worlds to create completely new concepts and ask questions no one has ever asked before. To him, art is crafting “cum vivo.” Crafting with life.
Precise Software Solutions is a fast-growing small business providing healthcare information technology services and resources to help the FDA improve their internal applications seeks experienced, motivated Cheminformatics Developer/ Technical SME with knowledge of toxicology and cheminformatics.
The successful candidate will be a strong analytical problem solver (client satisfaction focused) responsible for review and assessment of requirements, documentation and gaps against a product prior to its production release.
The successful candidate will have experience in cheminformatics and have the ability to performdata analysis, review and comparisons across several databases containing chemical data to provide recommendations on how best to merge the data/ data structures based on like chemical structures, chemical notation, compounds and nomenclature.
Duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: