Meet Danielle,

She is an Emergency Health Services and Sociology major and McNair Scholar.

Danielle’s research focuses on the receptiveness of the adult diabetic population to community paramedicine or similar community-based healthcare services. Ultimately, she would like to work for an organization that involves itself with disaster relief and humanitarian efforts both domestically and internationally.

Dear UMBC Student,

I’m a doctoral candidate in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. My dissertation explores potential influences that faculty-mentored undergraduate research has on student engagement and student academic achievement.

I understand you may be a student who previously conducted research with a UMBC faculty-mentor. If so, I would like to have a conversation with you about your faculty-mentored research past experience as part of my dissertation study. The commitment involves a one (1) hour individual interview with me this fall.

If this sounds interesting to you, please let me know as soon as possible. I am glad to answer questions that you may have about the interview and my dissertation study. All replies will be confidential. I look forward to hearing from you and thanks for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Michael Nichols

michaelnichols1914@yahoo.com

(443) 685-3277

Meet Matthew,
He is a Mechanical Engineering major who worked in the Materials Measurements Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this past summer.

Matthew’s research investigates the ballistic performance of unbacked soft body armor. The bulk of his work involves ballistic experimentation on body armor samples and computational analysis.

Blue Waters seeks undergrads and mentors for internship program

This NSF-funded project is designed to help prepare the next generation of supercomputing researchers. The Blue Waters project offers paid internships to undergraduate students across the country. To be eligible, students must be enrolled as an undergraduate through spring 2017 at a U.S. accredited, degree-granting institution. To see available internship projects and to apply, visit shodor.org/petascale/participation/internships/. Applications must be submitted by Feb. 1, 2016, and notifications will be made by March 1, 2016.

Are you a faculty member who would like to mentor an undergraduate intern in a year-long project about the use of high-performance computing to address problems in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics? Follow the link above to post a description of the internship project you would like to supervise and by Feb. 15, 2016. You will be able to indicate whether the internship is intended for a particular student or is open to all applicants.

Meet Maggie,

She is an Environmental Science major currently working in the Molecular Characterization and Analysis Complex (MCAC) laboratory. She is also a current Undergraduate Research Award (URA) Scholar.

Maggie’s research passion is chromatography (a collective term referring to the laboratory techniques involving the separation of mixtures). She has utilized chromatography to analyze samples from the National Aquarium in Baltimore.

Meet Sean,
He is a Chemical Engineering major and corresponding secretary for Tau Beta Pi (TBP), the Engineering Honor Society. He is currently working on the synthesis and characterization of 3D graphene nanosheets to be used as support for electrocatalysts in a fuel cell.

Sean recently completed work at the University of New Mexico Nanoscience and Microsystems Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program.

He hopes to complete a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and become a professor at a research university in the future.

This GEM GRAD Lab is free, but please register ASAP! 

See the highlighted link above.