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JOB: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's DEVELOP program summer internship
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's DEVELOP program is looking for several interns to assist with Earth Science research projects during Summer 2013 for a 10 week paid internship, working 30-35 hours a week. The summer 2013 term will start on Monday, June 3, 2013 and end on Friday, August 9, 2013. Students will work with…
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Apply now for IASP and SFS cybersecurity scholarships
Applications are now being accepted for the Information Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) and the Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS). US citizens capable of receiving security clearances are eligible. The deadline for both programs in February 8, 2013. These scholarships require the recipient to work for the government following graduation. The awards include full tuition, stipend…
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Ph.D. defense: Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer
10am 1/25: James MacGlashan will defend his Ph.D. dissertation, Multi-Source Option-Based Policy Transfer, at 10:00am on Friday, January 25.
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JOB: underwater sensor networks research in UMBC's ESNET Lab
Photo: ua-net.eu The ESNET Lab in UMBC's Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department is looking for qualified undergraduate or graduate students to join and work on an exciting underwater sensor networks project. For more information go to http://esnet.cs.umbc.edu/eduwan.html. The candidates applying should have experience in (or at least familiar with) some of the following areas:…
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Cindy Greenwood joins CWIT as Assistant Director, Cyber Scholars Program coordinator
The Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) welcomes Cindy Greenwood as their new Assistant Director. Ms. Greenwood will spearhead the new Cyber Scholars Program which kicks off this fall. Cindy Greenwood loved college so much that she never wanted to leave. So she didn’t. When an Advertising and Public Relations internship during her senior…
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Kirit Chatterjee (CE MS '12) helps build innovative temperature sensor for neonatal care
For his Master’s thesis, Computer Engineering student Kirit Chatterjee worked with scientists from UMBC’s Center for Advanced Sensor Technology (CAST) on an innovation temperature sensor for premature babies.
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Congratulations to our CSEE Ph.D. December graduates
Congratulations to our December Ph.D. graduates! Read on to hear about their Ph.D. dissertation research and their plans for the future. Dr. Karuna Joshi Computer Science Semantically Rich, Policy Based Framework to Automate Lifecycle of Cloud Based Services Mentors: Yelena Yesha and Tim Finin Thesis Topic: Dr. Joshi developed a new framework to automate…
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JOB: undergraduate internships at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, MD (20 minutes south of UMBC), offers a wide array of valuable, paid internships for Undergraduates in the summer. Please see the attached flyers. IMPORTANT NOTE: while the end date for applications is in March, Goddard is doing a FIRST CUT by Jan 30, so the good jobs…
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CSEE Alumni Donald Miner and Adam Shook publish book on MapReduce
UMBC Computer Science Alumni Donald Miner (BS ’06, PhD ’10) (left) and Adam Shook (BS ’09, MS expected ’13) (right) have written a book on the popular MapReduce paradigm that has revolutionized the way collections of computers are used to process large amounts of data in parallel. Their book, MapReduce Design Patterns Building Effective Algorithms…
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Teaching Innovation in UMBC's Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department
How UMBC’s Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department is using innovative teaching techniques to engage and inspire undergraduates. Gone are the days of stuffy lectures and drowsy students. In UMBC’s Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department, cutting-edge teaching methods, innovative classroom models, writing intensive courses, and special seminars to increase transfer student success are just…