Undergraduate Data Science Scholars – Call for Applications

Have you worked with social, behavioral, economic or geographic data?

Are you interested in how to extract useful knowledge from data?

The Center for Social Science Scholarship (CS3) is partnering with the UMBC Department of Information Systems to establish the UMBC Undergraduate Data Science Scholars Program (DSS) in Fall 2021. Students admitted to the program will work as teaching fellows and peer mentors. They will also network with UC Berkeley data science students, attend special events, and be mentored by faculty. The DSS program welcomes undergraduate scholars from multiple disciplines, including the social sciences, looking at all aspects of data and its impact on society.

Responsibilities: 

• Scholars will work as TFs and peer mentors for undergraduate students in IS296 Foundations of Data Science. The class meets Tu/Th 1:00-2:15pm. The cohort of DSS scholars will meet as a group with the IS296 instructor. Scholars will be paid $15/hour for specific TF tasks, for 5-10 hours per week in fall 2021.

• Social science DSS scholars will attend at least two CS3 events in fall 2021 and/or participate in CS3 research initiatives. The scholars will also be expected to attend one mentoring meeting with CS3 faculty.

Background and skills:

Applicants should have knowledge in at least one of the following:

• Analysis of social, behavioral, economic or geographic data

• Python or one of the data science tools and/or languages (such as Rapid Miner, Weka, Orange, Knime, ML on  cloud computing, python)

• Jupyter notebooks with python or taken IS 296 in a prior semester.

Interested students should send a resume and a brief one or two sentence statement of interest to socialscience@umbc.eduby 9/8/21. Please put “CS3 Data Science Scholars” in the subject line of the email. 

While CS3 will run the admission and mentoring of the social science cohort of DSS, the Department of Information Systems is also partnering with the Center for Women in Technology to run another cohort.

Applications are now open for teams of CAHSS faculty to apply to work with Hanover Research professionals!

CAHSS is continuing our partnership with Hanover Research, a grant development and research firm that helps faculty strengthen competitive external proposals to federal agencies and private and non-profit foundations. Teams of CAHSS faculty may apply for the opportunity to work directly with Hanover professionals. 

A second round of applications is now open for faculty who intend to submit an external proposal later in Fall 2021 or in spring/early summer 2022. 

Please findthe application form here, due Friday, September 24. Teams will be notified by early October. 

For more information about the process and the resources that Hanover provides, faculty are encouraged to view this webinar featuring CAHSS PIs who worked with Hanover this past year.  Please direct any questions to Christine Mallinson (mallinson@umbc.edu), Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship.  

Selection Criteria: 

• Preference will be given to teams that aim to submit larger, collaborative and/or interdisciplinary proposals to federal agencies (e.g., NSF, NIH) or to foundations. 

• Each team must have at least one CAHSS tenured/tenure track faculty member. 

• Faculty with prior collaborative grant experience who are looking to scale up their research are especially encouraged to apply.