UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski spoke with  Campus Technology about

the need for research universities to become more inclusive in terms of working

with agencies and other partners at multiple, different levels..

Click here to read “Partnerships and the Future of Research Universities in

America:  A Q&A with Freeman Hrabowski."

Fall 2015 - Education Department Intern (9274875)

Maryland Historical Society

Deadline: 07/31/2015

The Education Department at the Maryland Historical Society is offering a part-time internship position. This intern will be expected to deliver onsite interactive tours and workshops for both K-12 student and adult groups.

Summer 2015 - Program Assistant (9274619)

The Center for Leadership Innovation

Deadline: 06/05/2015

The Center for Leadership Innovation (TCLI) seeks 4-6 Program Assistants to assist in conducting Internet searches, data entry and other administrative tasks for a national awards competition.  The period of performance is up to eight weeks during the months of July and August 2015.  This is a paid internship; the range of the hourly rate is $9.00 - $10.00.

Legal Internship (9274592)

Murthy Law Firm

Deadline 07/31/2015

Immigration Law Firm in Owings Mills, MD seeks a detail-oriented, self-motivated individual for a salaried part-time legal intern position. The intern assists attorneys and paralegals in preparation and filing of immigration cases.

Program Intern (9274554)

American International Health Alliance

Deadline: 05/22/2015

The American International Health Alliance (AIHA) is a nonprofit organization working to advance global health by helping communities and nations with limited resources build sustainable institutional and human resource capacity.

Summer Research Intern (9274557)

Maryland Center on Economic Policy

Deadline: 06/19/2015

The Maryland Center on Economic Policy (MDCEP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that advances innovative policy ideas that foster broad prosperity. We believe that every Marylander should be able to achieve their full potential and more!

Fall 2015 - NASA Journalism and Multimedia Internship (9274500)

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Deadline: 06/01/2015

NASA invites students working towards degrees in journalism, communications, media relations, science writing, interactive journalism, or broadcast journalism, to participate in our science storytelling program - before you graduate. You'll gain on the job experience as you work with a leading team of writers and multimedia producers to create and share content from some of NASA's most exciting missions.

Human Resources Internship (9274730)

Aerotek

Deadline 05/30/2015

Aerotek currently has an internship opportunity within the Internal Recruiting / Human Resources Department. This would be a full-time, paid internship based at the corporate office in Hanover, MD.

Summer 2015 - Video Production Intern (9274677)

Merkle Inc.

Deadline: 05/22/2015

Merkle's People Department (or what you might call HR) is looking for a highly energized, enthusiastic, Baltimore student who is looking to put their videography skills to practice. The Video Production Intern will work closely with People Department leaders and executives to assist in the organization, development, and execution of Merkle’s People Department video projects.

Lead Instructor for Musical/Classical Theatre Summer Intensive (9274193, 9274192)

Spotlight Theatre

Deadline: 07/10/2015

Musical Theatre Lead Instructor will be responsible for teaching Voice/Vocal Technique & Methods and for Upper School Musical Theatre, students as well as directing performance piece (redacted Musical or showcase) for final performance. MT Lead will also teach music reading or other music related workshops. Will be responsible for coordinating with Teaching Artists (Combat, Movement, Dance, Make-up, etc.) on issues and needs of performance piece. Will be assisted by one Teaching Assistant (College intern).

Compensation will be discussed in Interview.

Classical Theatre Lead Instructor will be responsible for teaching Acting Methods and Theatre Styles/History (for Upper School Classical and Musical Theatre students) as well as directing performance piece (redacted Shakespeare) for final performance. Will be responsible for working on language and dialogue with students and coordinating with Teaching Artists (Combat, Movement, Make-up, etc.) on issues and needs of performance piece. Will be assisted by one Teaching Assistant (College intern).

Compensation will be discussed in Interview.

A team of professors and students across several disciplines have worked together to develop “Bandit,” a video game in which players control a fox that navigates the streets during Civil War-era Baltimore. The game is one of two developed this semester in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Professor Marc Olano’s game development class. The group collaborated with students in the history department and Anne Rubin, an associate professor of history, to develop viewpoints of diverse actors in the Pratt Street Riots.

The work was featured in a Daily Record article published on May 19: “The game-design students initially pitched several game ideas to the history class, and Rubin said she and her history students were fond of a proposed mystery-style game because they thought it would lend itself more readily to the teaching of history. But the animal-focused game was the most feasible to produce, so that became the choice. ‘We’re really happy with how this turned out,’ Rubin said.”

To read about the Bandit video game presentation at URCAD 2015, click here. To read the article “At UMBC, a taste of professional life for game designers” in the Daily Record, click here (subscription required). For additional coverage in Baltimore Tech, click here.

Black Masculinity in the 21st Century

Graduate Coordinator for Cultural Programs Office of Student Life

An article published in The Gerontologist by the Center for Aging Studies on stigma and distress with multilevel senior housing residents was recently featured in Reuters. The article, published by Erin Roth, Center for Aging Studies senior research analyst, Kevin Eckert, professor and chair of sociology and anthropology, and Leslie Morgan, professor of sociology and co-director of the UMBC/UMB Ph.D. program in gerontology, found that “residents and places reflecting the highest levels of care are stigmatized in a context where people are monitored for health changes and required to relocate. Consequently, residents self-isolate, develop a diminished sense of self, and hide health and cognitive conditions out of fear of relocation.,” according to the study’s abstract.

The researchers conducted 470 interviews with 367 residents, family, staff and administrators at seven facilities to better understand how stigma and distress are experienced in an environment where residents are grouped by levels of functioning.

“For senior housing developers, multilevel senior housing has proven to be profitable in many ways – it’s heavily marketed and has become the prevalent model for senior housing and care,” said Kevin Eckert in the Reuters article. “It is more cost-effective, profitable, and convenient to group people together by levels.”

“The social challenges that result are often recognized by staff and administrators but the difficulty for everyone is in imagining a true alternative, when the model so thoroughly dominates the senior housing landscape,” he added.

The researchers found that few residents in lower levels of care enjoy mingling with others in different levels of care: “Many people shopping for a senior housing setting are not wanting to face the possibility of these next moves – and so staff have said that some people will decline the part of the tour that includes the nursing care center,” Erin Roth said. “This points to a deeper sociocultural fear of death and decline that is so pervasive and is a contributing factor to the problems we layout in the article.”

To read the full article in Reuters, click here. To read the article “Stigma and Discontinuity in Multilevel Senior Housing’s Continuum of Care” in The Gerontologist, click here.