University Career Center @ BSOS Newsletter

Upcoming Workshops Networking (Online and Offline) Workshop Thursday, February 8 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor Come learn how to network effectively! We will go over networking online and offline via multiple different avenues, talk about the anxiety related to the networking, and what to say. For More Information & to RSVP How to Find an Internship Monday, February 12 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor Not sure where to start with your internship search? Or, do you feel like you are at a standstill and unsure about the next steps in your search? To help you with your internship search, we will discuss resources for searching, quick tips on making a positive first impression on resumes and during interviews, and strategies to connect with UMD alumni working within your intended career field. For More Information & to RSVP

Upcoming Information Sessions srcLogic Information Session Monday, February 5 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor Join us to explore the option of a consulting career. To help you decide if consulting is a good fit, you will hear from the Founder of srcLogic and several Technical Consultants. Pizza and refreshments will be provided. Do not miss out on this excellent networking and learning opportunity! For More Information & to RSVP Peace Corps Information Session Wednesday, February 7 | 4:00-5:30 p.m. | University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor Serving in the Peace Corps is a great way to immerse yourself in a new culture, learn a new language, and have the experience of a lifetime. Join us to learn about Volunteer experiences, have your questions answered, and gain tips to guide you through the application process. For More Information & to RSVP *RSVP Required Navigant Consulting Information Session Thursday, February 8 | 5:30-7:00 p.m. | University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor NAVIGANT (NYSE: NCI) is a specialized, global expert services firm dedicated to assisting clients in creating and protecting value in the face of critical business risks and opportunities. Our information session will allow you the chance to learn more about Navigant's service offerings, as well as interact with our practitioners to get a better sense of our work and how we do it. Learn about two open positions for juniors and seniors. For More Information & to RSVP

Upcoming Panels Careers in Conservation Thursday, February 8 | 5:00-6:30 p.m.| University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor This panel will provide career advice for students who are interested in pursuing careers in conservation. Students will learn about different career paths within conservation from professionals from different conservation perspectives (including but not limited to environmental, ecological, animal/wildlife, conservation policy, etc).  For More Information & to RSVP Careers in Social Justice and Advocacy  Monday, February 12 | 5:00-6:00 p.m.| University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor Want to make the world a better place? Interested in a career in social justice and/or advocacy? Join us for a special panel examining career paths and opportunities in these rewarding fields! For More Information & to RSVP

Upcoming Opportunities to Network & Meet Employers IBM Global Business Services Consulting + Career Fair Chat Monday, February 5 | 6:30-7:45 p.m.| 1505 Van Munching Hall Want to learn more about what BEEing a consultant is all about? Getting cold feet about the upcoming career fair? Don't you worry about a thing: IBM has got you covered! Join us for an interactive session to learn more about IBM Global Business Services Public Sector, the Consulting by Degrees program, summer internship opportunities, and how to kill the career fair!  For More Information & to RSVP *RSVP Required ideas42 Open House Tuesday, February 6 | 6:00-8:00 p.m. | Off Campus ideas42 grew out of research programs in psychology and economics at top academic institutions, and our work draws on decades of experimental scientific research. We use these insights to design scalable ways to improve programs, policies and products in the real world. This will be an opportunity to learn more about ideas42, meet some of our team members and get a tour of our brand new DC office! For More Information & to RSVP *RSVP Required Women's Foreign Policy Group Annual Mentoring Fair Wednesday, February 7 | 6:00-9:00 p.m. |   Off Campus The Women's Foreign Policy Group Annual Mentoring Fairs in Washington, DC  provide an opportunity for students and young professionals to meet with international affairs professionals and learn from their career experiences. Unlike a career fair, the focus is on entering and succeeding in your field, not just opportunities at your company For More Information & to RSVP *RSVP Required

Intern for a Day Intern for a Day Intern for a Day connects undergraduate students with alumni, parents, employers and community partners for one day internship/shadowing experiences.   In order to receive an application to participate in Intern for a Day, you must attend an informative, 30-minute orientation session that will cover the application process, how you will be matched with a host, best practices when shadowing your host on-site, and how to show appreciation to your host after your experience. Spring 2018's Mandatory Orientation Sessions (Choose 1)  Monday, February 5, 12-12:30pm Monday, February 5, 4-4:30pm Tuesday, February 6, 12-12:30pm Tuesday, February 6, 4-4:30pm Wednesday, February 7, 12-12:30pm Wednesday, February 7, 4-4:30pm Thursday, February 8, 12-12:30pm Thursday, February 8, 4-4:30pm All sessions will take place in the University Career Center, South Hornbake Library, 3rd floor.  *RSVP Required

Apply now to the Global Terrorism Minor and Singapore Summer Study Abroad Trip!

START is recruiting students to apply to our Global Terrorism Minor and Study Abroad program. 

Interested in applying to a minor that will give you real-world experience and a comprehensive understanding of terrorism globally and homeland security?

The Global Terrorism minor is designed to train the next generation of terrorism analysts.
All majors are welcome to apply!
Visit start.umd.edu for more information, and contact
education@start.umd.edu with any questions.

Applications for admission into the Spring 2018 cohort of the minor are now being accepted. The deadline for completed applications is Friday, February 23rd by 5 PM. We will be holding two information sessions at the beginning of the semester for students to come learn more about the logistics of the minor from our new Undergraduate coordinator, Liz Wasden.

Tuesday, January 30th at 5PM in TYD 2110

Wednesday, February 7th at 5PM in TYD 2110

Mark your calendars now to be sure to learn more about the program!

Click the following link to read through the information on our website or to start your application: http://start.umd.edu/education/global-terrorism-minor-program

We are also looking for students to join us on our Summer short term study abroad trip to Singapore!

UMD-Summer: Singapore: Religious Rehabilitation of Terrorists This program embeds a 10-day Singapore study tour in a 6 week-online course, allowing students to be exposed to the fundamental literature and complex theories of radicalization and deradicalization before landing in Singapore to hit the ground running when meeting with officials and researchers without sacrificing a full summer internship or job opportunity to study abroad.
While in Singapore, in coordination with Rohan Gunaratna’s International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University, students engaged with leading experts in these fields, as Singapore is a world leader in deradicalization programs. Lectures and field visits to Changi Prison, the Harmony Center, and other religious and community based deradicalization program centers allowed students to directly apply the theoretical understanding to real-world programs addressing critical challenges in the world.

• Program Cost: $4,675. 
• Dates: June 23rd-July 1st 2018 
• Apply on the study abroad website by March 1st!

Save the Date! Undergraduate Research Day April 25, 2018

Undergraduate Research Day

Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:00-4:00 p.m. - Grand Ballroom, Adele Stamp Student Union

Proposal submission deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018

This event is proudly sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Maryland Libraries. Undergraduate Research Day is held every April. Undergraduate Research Day 2017 was a great success.

With students involved in so many research opportunities, Undergraduate Research Day provides the perfect opportunity for them to share their work with the campus community. Held each April, Undergraduate Research Day showcases current research, scholarship, and artistic endeavors. Presentations, posters, and performances are open to the public and over 600 students participated in 2016, presenting 200 individual or team research projects. Any work conducted as a part of a campus course, internship, or program is eligible for presentation.

IMPORTANT: All posters should be designed for 36 x 48-inch dimensions, either portrait or landscape orientation. If your poster must be another size, please include the estimated size of your poster under Other Information when you submit your proposal or email this information to ugresearch@umd.edu.

If you would like advice on designing your research poster, take a look at our Research Poster web page.

Proposals are due on Monday, April 16, 2018.

INSTRUCTIONS: To submit a proposal for 2017 Undergraduate Research Day:
Download the 2018 Proposal Form.
Student presenters should complete part 1 of this form by hand.
Faculty sponsors should complete part 2.
Students should submit the completed proposal form preferably as a scanned email attachment to ugresearch@umd.edu. Alternatively, you can submit the proposal by hand to the National Scholarships Office at 2403 Marie Mount Hall. Submissions are due on Monday, April 16, 2018.

For more information on poster design, please visit the Creating a Research Poster page. Many students use the Engineering Copy Center here on campus to print their posters. Check them out here.

2018 BSOS Summer Scholars

We are pleased to announce that we are accepting applications for 2018 BSOS Summer Scholars. These are awards of $3000 to undergraduate students to support independent research projects with faculty in the summer. This program is modeled after, but separate from, the Maryland Center for Undergraduate Research's (MCUR) Maryland Summer Scholars Program. Recipients will gain a competitive edge when applying for graduate study, national scholarships, and other awards. Students may expand their research into an independent study or Honors thesis during the following fall semester.

We will give a maximum of four awards. Freshman, sophomores, and juniors with at least a 3.4 GPA may apply. Applications should include:

• an unofficial copy of the student's transcript and any other evidence of the student's scholarly accomplishments;
• a letter of recommendation from a BSOS faculty member addressing the merit of the proposed summer research, the student's qualifications to undertake that project, a mentoring plan; and
• a one-page personal statement from the student about their long-term professional/intellectual goals, and how this fellowship and research project would advance those goals.

BSOS Summer Scholar proposals are jointly submitted by the undergraduate student and the Faculty mentor who provides a support letter. The Faculty member must have an appointment in a BSOS Department or Center and the student must be a BSOS major.

Applications are due by March 1st to Rebecca Hunsaker at bsosresearch@umd.edu. If you have questions, please contact Rebecca or Jeff Lucas (jlucas2@umd.edu).

Tropical Forest Ecology Internships in Panama

The Muller-Landau lab at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) seeks 3 interns to participate in research on tropical forest ecology in Panama for 9-12 months each.  One internship will focus on tropical forest carbon budgets, another on landscape-level variation in forest structure and dynamics, and a third on the role of lianas (woody vines).  The carbon intern will focus on synthesizing field data collected at multiple sites in Panama and across the ForestGEO / CTFS network of large-scale, long-term forest dynamics plots, and will participate in local field data collection.  The landscape intern will focus on collecting and analyzing geospatial data on forest structure and dynamics collected using drones to quantify variation in relation to topography, soils and climate, building on 3 years of data collection.  The liana intern will collect field data, analyze pre-existing datasets, and/or conduct modeling to investigate the determinants of liana abundance and the importance of liana strategy diversity.  Additional information on these opportunities can be found at http://www.forestgeo.si.edu/article/262/ 

All interns will have the opportunity to gain experience in tropical forest field work, quality assurance/quality control of the relevant datasets, programming and running analyses in R (and/or ArcGIS), and writing up results for scholarly publication.  The successful candidates will work closely with staff scientist Dr. Helene Muller-Landau and collaborators.  The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is located in Panama, and is home to a vibrant scientific community of 30 staff scientists, over 100 graduate and postdoctoral fellows, and 1500 scientific visitors per year.  

The ideal candidates have a bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, strong quantitative skills including programming experience, and strong English and/or Spanish oral and written communication skills.  The positions are particularly well suited for candidates seeking more research experience prior to graduate school.  Each internship will be compensated with a modest stipend sufficient to cover living expenses in Panama ($1000/month), as well as roundtrip travel to Panama if relevant. The start dates are flexible and can be as early as March or as late as September 2018. 

To apply, please email a CV, a cover letter describing your qualifications and interest in one or more of the positions, and contact information for 3 references to Helene Muller-Landau at mullerh@si.edu.  Review of applications will commence on February 15, 2018, and continue until the positions are filled.

International Development and Conflict Management

Apply now to the Minor in International Development and Conflict Management!

The Minor in International Development and Conflict Management (MIDCM) is currently accepting applications. MIDCM is a 16-credit undergraduate program open to students of all majors who are interested in the theory, practice and professions related to development and conflict – and their intersections – around the world. Apply now to begin the program in fall 2018!

To apply, go to our page and complete the online form.

Applications are due by 11:59 pm Monday, February 19, 2018.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at MIDCMinfo@umd.edu

Esri Technical Workshops

We will be hosting Esri representatives to provide some technical workshops to our GIS community at UMD on February 8, 2018. 

They will discuss or explore through hands-on demos regarding the ArcGIS platform, especially the deployment of Web GIS and Mobile GIS; Insights for ArcGIS; Esri Field Apps such as Collector for ArcGIS and Survey123, as well as ArcGIS API for Python. These workshops are free and open to the public. 

The space is limited (<=35) and will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Please RSVP by filling out the online registration form by February 2, 2018. The Esri representatives will also be available on February 9 to host informal discussions addressing any needs or concerns from the GIS users on campus in terms of software, technical support, data and services.

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Internship Program

The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) Internship Program offers undergraduate and beginning graduate students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the fields of environmental research and public engagement. This program enables students to work on independent research projects under the direction of a SERC mentor.

Since 2001 the SERC internship program has been a National Science Foundation REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) site. With this funding, along with generous donations from the Smithsonian Women's Committee and university partnerships, we are able to provide internship opportunities to qualified students looking to further their knowledge in the natural sciences.

Interns projects span the range of research conducted at SERC, including environmental chemistry, marine and estuarine ecology, molecular ecology, and terrestrial ecology. Projects are also offered in public engagement, with opportunities in environmental education, citizen science, and science writing. Although students will become familiar with much of the research of SERC in general, individuals will devote most of their time to an independent research project. Students will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge in a selected field of study and to learn a variety of research techniques through firsthand experience. At the conclusion of the internship, student participants will be expected to present the findings of their independent projects in a formal seminar to the SERC community.

As an additional educational benefit, SERC maintains an ongoing seminar program that is designed to bring in noted outside speakers on a variety of topics in the environmental sciences. We also offer experiential field trips to the Smithsonian museums and galleries on the National Mall.

For more information, click here

To apply, click here

Applications for Summer 2018 are due February 15, 2018

Paid Undergraduate Summer Research Internship

Are you interested in hands-on Hyperspectral Imaging experience and learning how to work with interdisciplinary teams? Here is an opportunity.

The Geography Department (www.uni.edu/csbs/geography) at the University of Northern Iowa once again host a NSF-funded REU program to introduce young scientists to a highly interdisciplinary research environment with fundamental and applied research in hyperspectral imaging. Hyperspectral imagine is widely used in various disciplines such as Earth Science, Environmental Science, Biology, Forestry, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Geographic Information Science (GISc), and more. If you are interested, application and more information is available online at www.geotree.uni.edu/en/reu/home. Students don't need to be a geography major or have remote sensing background to be qualified. A successful candidate should have U.S.-citizen or permanent-resident status and have at least one semester of undergraduate studies remaining after the initial summer program (graduating seniors in May 2018 and graduate students are not eligible to apply). The application deadline is March 22, 2018.

Summer Stipend: $4,000 for eight weeks (May 21-July 13, 2018). In addition, the program will cover the cost of transportation to and from the REU site, housing, a meal plan, lab supplies, and up to $750 for follow up activities.

Contact: Dr. Bingqing Liang (bingqing.liang@uni.edu), or Dr. Andrey Petrov (andrey.petrov@uni.edu).

Events from the College of Education

Major Exploration WorkshopsThe College of Education has a number of Major Exploration Workshops this semester. For any current student interested in checking out our programs please guide them to the following website for more information and to RSVP.

If the students have questions, please have them connect with us via ed-advising@umd.edu.

MCERT Information Sessions

The College of Education is holding MCERT Information Sessions this Spring! Any one interested in pursuing their Masters Degree in Education to earn recommendation for Teacher Certification is welcome to attend. Folks are able to register for one of our events via the following link.

Terrapin Teachers

On Thursday, February 8 at 5:45 p.m. in Benjamin 0220, Terrapin Teacher students, Ian Goralczyk and Rachel Kim, will be presenting about what the Terrapin Teacher program has to offer to interested students.

Come out to learn more about the different teaching certification pathways, fieldwork tips, and more!

A Q&A session will be held at the end!

For more information, please contact igoralcz@umd.edu or rachk22@terpmail.umd.edu or visit the following link.

2018 Spring Award Nominations

Call for 2018 Spring Award Nominations

In the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

BSOS faculty, students and staff are encouraged to nominate individuals for the following awards:

Outstanding Advising and Administration Awards

Excellence in Teaching Award

Excellence in Research Award

Excellence in Service Award

Excellence in Diversity Award

Outstanding Staff Award

Excellence in Mentorship Award

George M. Phillips Award for Graduate Student Research in the Public Interest

Eligibility and Nomination CriteriaEligibility and nomination criteria for the above awards are available at: http://go.umd.edu/fsawardnoms

Selection Process
The College will convene a review committee consisting of previous winners (if applicable), staff, faculty, and students to review the nominees and recommend recipients to the Dean.

Nomination Deadline
The deadline for all nominations is Friday, March 9, 2018. Nomination packets should be submitted electronically onwww.bsosawards.umd.edu .

Save the Date
The Faculty Staff Recognition Reception will be held on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union’s Charles Carroll Room

If you would like to RSVP in advance, please visit https://go.umd.edu/bsosfsrr18.

Questions may be directed to Michelle Slone, Assistant Director of Special Events, at bsosdeanevents@umd.edu

Live Entrepreneurship with the Hinman CEOs Program

As the nation’s first living-learning entrepreneurship experience, the Hinman CEOs Program selects entrepreneurially-minded students from all academic disciplines to join a unique community to explore and practice innovation. Students live together, learn about entrepreneurship, and can launch new ventures. The mission of the Hinman CEOs Program is to foster an entrepreneurial spirit, create a sense of community and cooperation, and develop ethical leaders.

Applications are open until February 4th, 2018 for freshmen and sophomore students of all majors to join the Fall 2018 cohort via https://hinmanconnect.umd.edu/prospective.aspx 

To learn more, visit hinmanceos.umd.edu

Internship with Learning Life

 SPRING 2018 INTERNSHIP: 

HELP CONNECT LOWER-INCOME DC FAMILIES WITH THE WORLD

ABOUT LEARNING LIFE & OUR CITIZEN DIPLOMACY INITIATIVE
Learning Life is an educational nonprofit in Washington D.C. that spreads learning in everyday life beyond school walls. Learning Life’s flagship program, the Citizen Diplomacy Initiative (CDI), engages lower-income American families, starting in Washington D.C.’s Ward 8, in live internet dialogues and project collaborations with lower-income families in other nations, including El Salvador, Senegal and Jordan. CDI aims to democratize diplomacy, and nurture more caring, capable global citizens.

ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Learning Life is now accepting resumes from interested metro D.C. graduate and undergraduate students interested in interning with our Citizen Diplomacy Initiative in Washington D.C. Depending on each student’s interests and skills plus our organizational needs, interns assist with a variety of tasks including outreach to find families, volunteers and partners locally and abroad, implementation of live international dialogues and local learning activities on health, community and world affairs; research and writing; photo and video; fundraising; document translation, and/or live language interpreting.

Interns must be able to commit 8-10 hours per week, consisting of a 3-4 hour event on Saturday or Sunday in DC with our participating children and families (e.g., family learning meetings, international dialogues, potlucks, field trips, learning games) and a 4-5 hour work meeting in DC with fellow interns and Learning Life’s Director, Paul Lachelier.

This opportunity is unpaid, but offers substantive, resume-building experience on an innovative international initiative, and a formal reference and/or recommendation letter upon request given satisfactory performance.

THE INTERNS WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Applicants should be interested in international affairs, languages, education, children, health and nutrition, and/or social justice. Applicants should also be outgoing, organized, detail-oriented, motivated and punctual. Native or fluent speakers of Arabic, Spanish or French are strongly encouraged to apply. Having a car is a strong plus, but not required.

HOW TO APPLY
Email Paul Lachelier directly at paul@learninglife.info with your resume and times you are available in the next seven days for a phone interview.

Learn more about Learning Life here!

Summer 2018 Internships at AAG

Internships at the American Association of Geographers
The AAG seeks interns on a year-round basis for the spring, summer, and fall semesters.

Interns participate in most AAG programs and projects such as education, outreach, research, website, publications, or the Annual Meeting. The AAG also arranges for interns to accompany different AAG staff on visits to related organizations or events of interest during the course of their internship. A monthly stipend of $500 is provided and interns are expected to make their own housing and related logistical arrangements. Enrollment in a Geography or closely related program is preferred but not a prerequisite for these opportunities.

Applications
Applicants should forward a resume, brief writing sample, and three references to Candida Mannozzi, cmannozzi@aag.org 

More information on internships at the AAG is also available on the Jobs & Careers section of the AAG website

Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society

Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society applications are now available. Eligible junior and senior students should visit www.odk.umd.edu to begin the application process. Applications must be received electronically no later than 11:59 p.m., Friday, February 9​, 201​8​.

Attached you will find more information about ODK and the application process.
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​If students are selected to join ODK, we try to “tap” them for membership at the beginning of one of their classes during the week of February 26​-March 2​, 2018​. We hope you can help us encourage your faculty to allow this brief two minute interruption. If any faculty members have specific questions, please suggest they contact me directly.

Geospatial Analysis Internship

China Fertility Decline Symposium

Scholarship Opportunity from RGI

For more information, click here!

GEOG498I/788I

Are you still looking for a class to take? Did you drop a class because you were looking for something a little more interesting? Have you already taken every other GIS course that GEOG offers? Look no further than this great course offered on Tuesday from 12:30pm–1:45pm.

GEOG498I/788I: Topical Investigations: Data Structures for Geospatial Computing

The aim of the course is to familiarize the student with the fundamentals of geospatial representations, such as spatial indexes and network data structures, and with techniques for manipulating geospatial information for geographic information systems, for spatially-based decision systems and location-based services. The main topics will be vector-based map representation and querying techniques, manipulation and analysis of terrain models, network representations for applications to road networks and social networks, scalable representations for big geospatial data. Students with some programming background will highly benefit from this course.

Find the syllabus here!

Graduate Students Opportunities at Texas A&M

The Urban and Sustainability Research Group at Texas A&M University's Department of Geography is looking for MS and PhD students interested in studying urban sustainability. Particularly, graduate students who are interested in human-environment interactions in urban contexts. Ongoing research themes include: Urban land-change analysis and modeling Environmental impacts of urbanization across scales Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus issues in urban and peri-urban areas Exposure and vulnerability of urban areas to natural hazards  In addition to the above research interests, students should have, or be interested in developing: Experience in engaging with social science data and methods  Experience in complex systems analysis (e.g., using system dynamics, agent-based, or spatial statistical modeling) Experience in GIS, remote sensing, and spatial analysis Ability to work both independently and in interdisciplinary teams in a variety of contexts Strong skills in oral and written communication Funding is available for up to four years (through graduate teaching and research assistantships and fellowships) with the potential for additional support thereafter. Interested candidates may contact Burak Güneralp (bguneralp@tamu.edu; Profile on ResearchGate; Profile on Google Scholar) for further inquiries. The application deadline to be given priority in funding for Fall 2018 enrollment is January 31, 2018. To apply to the Texas A&M graduate school directly, go to: admissions.tamu.edu/graduate/apply The admitted students will be affiliated with the Human-Environment Interactions and/or Geographical Information Sciences and Technology (GIST) clusters within the Department. They will also be affiliated with and take advantage of opportunities afforded by the Center for Geospatial Sciences, Applications, and Technology (GEOSAT) (https://geosat.tamu.edu/) at Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer and the University especially encourages applications from women and minorities