More information and the application can be found on the website. You may also be interested to hear directly from former interns, or see one of the field trips from last summer.

For more information, please contact:

jyork@udel.edu

302-831-7040

UMBC students planning to apply should also notify Janet McGlynn, mcglynn@umbc.edu .

Meet Flora,

She is an Ancient Studies major and an URA Scholar. She is also a Designer for UMBC’s Student Events Board, a student assistant at AOK’s Special Collections and is the secretary for the Ancient Studies Club. Her future goals will to become a museum curator, preferably specializing in an ancient roman field.

Flora's research will examine Roman coins from the second and third centuries CE and their use as a means of communication for Rome’s emperors. She will investigate how the physical characteristics of the coins – the amount of silver, the weight, the level of wear and use – all contribute to the emperors’ strategies of communication throughout the period. She will also examine the imagery of coins based on category (tradition, military problems, dynastic emphasis, personal preferences, disasters, and civic prosperity), one can begin to identify trends and their correspondence to contemporary events.

Read more about her research here…

• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post

Meet Maniraj,

He is an Interdisciplinary Studies major and an URA Scholar. He also received the La Noue Scholarship to attend the 2016 Association of Interdisciplinary Studies (AIS) conference in University of Ottawa, where he presented his interdisciplinary research; a board game that teaches cardiovascular health. His future interests includes medical anthropology and social entrepreneurship, his final goal is to become a physician.

Maniraj's research will explore the leading cause of death worldwide, cardiovascular disease. Understanding the sociocultural construction of this non-communicable disease would advance our knowledge of how to improve care to vulnerable populations. Focused on a specific district in India, the purpose this study is to identify cultural beliefs and attitudes towards cardiovascular health among adolescents. His project was an organic transformation of his extracurricular project in educational health games.

Read more about his research here…

Beginning in the Spring of 2017, Baltimore Independent Dance Artists (BIDA) will engage with four journalism students and emerging dance critics to be paired with four separate professional dance artists/companies for the duration of the spring 2017 BIDA Season (January-End of May 2017). The interns will engage with their respective artist partners through open rehearsals, performances, interviews and research.

This opportunity is open to Dance Majors/Minors, Journalism, English or Communication Majors and Minors

Dance Journalism Internship Objectives:

●       To engage writers and aspiring journalists with an interest in dance writing with professional dance artists/companies over time in order to enhance the journalistic skills of the writers, and the development of a dance artist or company.

●       To provide thoughtful and informed dance writing about professional Baltimore area dance artists and companies in order to strengthen the discourse about dance in our region.

Dance Journalism Internship Program Description:

Journalism interns will be required to produce the following written documents, which will be published through online channels including the BIDA website and blog. Each intern will be paired with an BIDA Season artist or company in order to develop the following:

●       500 word artist/company or BIDA overview

●       1,000 word overview of a current creative work that the artist partner is developing 

●       500 word Preview of a work to be presented by the artist partner during the season

●       500 word Review of a public performance presented of an artist (other than the partner artist) during the BIDA season Interns will receive a complimentary press ticket to the shows they are reviewing.

Dance Journalism Internship Program Impact:

This program directly addresses an identified need for the development of informed and articulate dance writers in the Baltimore area dance community.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology SURF – Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship program, which is held in Gaithersburg, MD and Boulder, CO will soon be releasing information for their Summer 2017 program. NIST-SURF is a great paid opportunity for students in physics, material science, chemistry, applied mathematics, computer science, or engineering. (There may be research opportunities for students with other majors.) 

If you would like to apply for the program, or have any questions, please contact Janet McGlynn, mcglynn@umbc.edu.

For an overview of the program and the application process visit our website's NIST-SURF page. Those students who are interested must apply through UMBC.

The deadline to turn in your application materials to the Office of Undergraduate Education is January 30, 2017 

*NOTE: We are still awaiting NIST-SURF program dates and deadline updates, as well as updated forms. Another message will be sent out when all of the information has been updated.