The United States Secret Service, Baltimore Field Office is currently accepting applications for Fall 2013 Student Volunteer Service Program (Internship) through April 15, 2013.

Our Student Volunteer Service Program (Internship) offers many advantages, including career exploration early in a student’s academic studies, exposure to new and emerging occupations/technologies,  and offers academic credit for the work performed, as well as  work experience that may be considered relevant if the student later applies for permanent employment.  The program, however, is not intended to provide the intern with investigative or protective experience.

To be considered, a student must:

- Be a U.S. Citizen, Be at least 16 years of age at the time of appointment

- Be enrolled or accepted for enrollment during the upcoming semester or quarter as a diploma/certificate/degree seeking student in high school,  or in an educational institution not above the baccalaureate level that is accredited by a recognized body

- Not be a son or daughter of a current Secret Service employee

- Be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance

To apply, student should complete the PDF Forms consisting of:

1.            Student Volunteer Service Program Application.  This form is available at www.secretservice.gov  under Pathways Program (Student Program)

2.            OF 306 – Declaration for Federal Employment.  This form is available at www.opm.gov under Forms

In addition, students should submit  the following with the above Forms:

3.            Resume

4.            Unofficial transcript (official transcript required at time of interview)

Completed application may be submitted to: BAL.Recruitment@usss.dhs.gov with attachments  or  faxed to:  443-263-1100, ATTN:  RECRUITMENT no later than April 15, 2013.  No application will be accepted for Fall 2013 Program after close of business (cob) on April 15, 2013.         

Privacy and Security in Online Social Media (PSOSM)

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK")
Assistant Professor
Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India

10:30-12:00 Monday, March 11, 2013, ITE 325b, UMBC

With increase in usage of the Internet, there has been an exponential increase in the use of online social media on the Internet. Websites like Facebook, Google+, YouTube, Orkut, Twitter and Flickr have changed the way Internet is being used. There is a dire need to investigate, study and characterize privacy and security on online social media from various perspectives (computational, cultural, psychological). Real world scalable systems need to be built to detect and defend security and privacy issues on online social media. This talk will give you a preview of what we do at PreCog in the area of PSOSM. I will describe briefly some of the cool ongoing projects that we have: ChaMAILeon, PhishAri, Twit-Digest, U2P2, and OCEAN. Much of our research work is made available for public use through tools or online services. Our work derives techniques from Data Mining, Text Mining, Statistics, Network Science, Public Policy, Complex networks, Human Computer Interaction, and Psychology.

In this talk, I will focus on the following: (1) Twit-Digest is a tool to extract intelligence from Twitter which can be useful to security analysts. Pro-cursor to this work is published at PSOSM 2012, this work also obtained second best award at IBM ICARE 2012. (2) OCEAN: Open source Collation of eGovernment data and Networks. Here, we show how publicly available information on Government services can be used to profile citizens in India. This work obtained the Best Poster Award at Security and Privacy Symposium at IIT Kanpur, 2013. (3) Privacy in India: Attitudes and Awareness V 2.0 U2P2, this is one of the largest ever done privacy study in India. This has been in media recently; if you are interested search for #privacyindia12 on Twitter. This work obtained the third Best Poster Award at Security and Privacy Symposium at IIT Kanpur, 2013.

Ponnurangam Kumaraguru ("PK") Assistant Professor, is currently the Hemant Bharat Ram Faculty Research Fellow at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi, India. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). His research interests include developing technological and inter-disciplinary solutions to detect and prevent computer crime, in particular, these days be has been dabbling with complex networked systems (e.g. social web systems like Twitter, Facebook, and telephone logs). He is also very passionate about issues related to human computer interaction. As Principal Investigator, PK is currently managing research projects value of about 2 Crores INR. PK is a Co-Principal Investigator in a project that is approved at the Europe Union FP7 which is about 5.3 million Euros. PK has received research funds Government of India, National Science Foundation, industry bodies in India, and International Development Research Centre. He is serving as a PC member in WWW 2013, AsiaCCS 2013 and he is also serving as a reviewer for International Journal of Information Security and ACM's Transactions on Internet Technology. PK’s Ph.D. thesis work on anti-phishing research at Carnegie Mellon University has contributed in creating a successful start-up company, Wombat Security Technologies. PK founded and manages PreCog, a research group at IIIT-Delhi. PK can be reached at Sorry, you need javascript to view this email address.

The Center for Women in Technology (CWIT) celebrates scholarship, engagement, and leadership excellence in information technology and engineering students within the COEITat UMBC. Proposals are now being accepted for presentations from all students in the CWIT community and the college. Sessions will be completely student-run and presentations will be directed to a peer audience. Inspiration, innovation, and creativity in presentations are encouraged.  This event offers an experience similar to that of a professional conference and provides the chance to practice presentation skills in order to be prepared for future opportunities. 

Please find the call for proposals and application attached.  Applications are due by Monday, March 25, and those selected will be notified by Wednesday, March 27, in order to have time to prepare the presentations.  Direct questions and send completed proposals to Cindy Greenwood, Assistant Director - Cyber Scholars Program, at cindyg@umbc.edu or drop applications off to Cindy's office (ITE 449) or the CWIT office (ITE 452).   

 Thank you and we look forward to reading your proposals!

Intern with Parks & People Foundation and the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks this Summer!

Internships may be for credit or non-credit, paid or unpaid (180 hours)

For more information and application information, visit www.parksandpeople.org/about/employmentor email Dr. Edward Orser, URI Program Manager at info@parksandpeople.org.

To apply, submit a letter of interest, resume and contact information for a faculty mentor or advisor to jobs@parksandpeople.org.

URI is a partnership of the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks, the Parks & People Foundation, and Area Universities

Baxter’s U.S. Internship Program provides interns with 12 weeks of supervised and practical work experience that is directly related to their academic studies and career goals. The program averages more than 100 students each year in areas such as, finance/accounting, engineering, information technology, manufacturing, packaging, research and development, marketing and regulatory affairs. After completing the Internship Program, many interns are hired as full-time employees.

At Baxter, interns typically will:

·          Assume full responsibility and contribute in a professional capacity in their internship area;

·          Gain experience through Baxter’s businesses and functions;

·          Learn from, work with and network with Baxter professionals from a variety of areas across the organization;

·          Receive performance assessments and feedback at the end of their assignment. Assessments and feedback are based on core intern responsibilities and the Baxter Leadership Expectations.