Mike Mowery on Artist Management, October 3, 12-1

Mike Mowery on Artist Management, October 3, 12-1 Alex. Brown Center for Entreneurship Haysbert Lecture Series On October 3, 2012 from 12-1 in Commons 331, Mike Mowery will speak about the unintended path that led him to managing artists and growing his company, Outerloop Management, into one of the premiere artist management agencies in music. He will also speak about his entrepreneurial endeavors as an artist manager, tour producer, venue owner and marketing company founder.

For more information, please contact Vivian Armor at armor@umbc.edu

Co-sponsored by The College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
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On October 3, 2012 from 12-1 in Commons 331, Mike Mowery will speak about the unintended path that led him to managing artists and growing his company, Outerloop Management, into one of the...

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The Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota is sponsoring the Fifth Annual Diversity Days event for prospective graduate students, November 1st and 2nd, 2012. Diversity Days is a two day program coordinated to expose students who are historically underrepresented in higher education to master’s programs at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Selected participants will have the opportunity to meet with faculty, current students, and alumni, as well as experience the life of the Humphrey School and the Twin Cities Metro. Selected participants who live over 200 miles away from the Twin Cities Metro will be eligible for a transportation grant up to $400 to cover the cost of airfare and/or car mileage. Diversity Days participants will also have application fees to the Humphrey School waived.

Prospective students will have the opportunity to meet faculty, staff, current students, and alumni, as well as learn more about our nationally ranked graduate programs in Public Policy; Urban and Regional Planning; Development Practice in international development; and Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy. We offer self-designed concentrations in a wide range of domestic and international areas, and we also offer dual degrees with the schools/departments of Law, Business, Public Health, Social Work, and Civil Engineering.

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I was accepted as a McNair Scholar for the 2011-2012 academic year (REM 20).

How did you find out about McNair?
I found out through a friend who was applying.

What have you gained from being a McNair scholar?
I gained many valuable skill sets including: independent study skills, the ability to critique research, interpersonal skills, and the importance of fostering the mentor relationship.

What is your most recent independent research project?
I am working on creating a device that assists the visually impaired in reading Braille.

How did you find your mentor for this project?
I searched the Department of Information Systems for a professor doing research in the area of assistive technologies and Human Centered Computing. I came across Dr. Shaun Kane, who has done much work in these areas.

How did you know this was the project you wanted to do?
I didn’t, Dr. Shaun Kane gave me a list of projects in his lab to pick from. I wasn’t able to decide at first, but the opportunity to create a novel device really excited me.

How much time did you put into it?
I spent two hours every Friday during the spring 2012 semester working on the proposal and literature review. I worked about five to eight hours a day Monday through Friday for my summer Research Fellowship.

What academic background did you have before you started?
I was a Mechanical Engineering major for a semester, then I switched to Information Systems for its interdisciplinary nature.

How much did your mentor help you with your research?
My mentor introduced me to the topic and potential directions for the research. I am doing all of the research as an independent study under his guidance.

What has been the hardest part about your research?
The most difficult part of my research is iterative prototyping. This is a cyclic process of designing, testing, analyzing, and refining a product or process.

What was the most unexpected thing?
There is no one unexpected thing. The process of design is always unexpected because design, like fashion, changes very rapidly and constantly. Design is always improving.

How does your research relate to your work in other classes?
As an Information Systems major, I learn to work with computer hardware, software people, and the design process. I get to take what I learned in class and apply it directly to a real world problem.

What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research?
Research is a challenging yet rewarding way of exploring your interests. It is not for everyone. However, this should not dissuade you from attempting it, you might discover that you enjoy it and realize a passion of yours.

What are your career goals?

I aspire to go to graduate school and then work in the government in Network Security Administration.

Read more about Manpreet's research by visiting the link below...

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The following research positions have been posted recently to UMBCworks. Login to your account (via the link in the Jobs & Internships topic in myUMBC) and find details and application instructions as well as hundreds of other job postings! You can also find out more by downloading the attachment.

Fall Intern - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
On-Campus RC Helicopter pilot- UMBC Geography & Environmental Systems
Research Assistant / United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS)
Protocol Development Intern- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Student Mental Health Research Assistant - Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
Volunteer Opportunities in Mental Health- Sheppard Pratt Health System
Research Assistant / ExecuQuest Corp.
Research Assistant- Sage Policy Group
Research Clinical Extern- UMB School of Medicine
Disaster Caseworker-American Red Cross
Paid Research & Marketing Interns- BioMarker Strategies
Paid Parent-Child Interaction Video Coder-University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
R&D Intern- Quantum Medical Metrics, LLC
Research and Policy Assistant- United States Department of Education
Research Development Intern- iHire, LLC
Research Intern- The Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit
Nutrition Intern- University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)
Paid Research Technician Intern- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Volunteer Policy/Research Intern- Minority Business Roundtable
Research Assistantship- Better Business Bureau of Greater Maryland
Advancement Department Intern- American Red Cross
Assistant Proposal Coordinator- Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX)
Big Data & Cloud Software and Research- Ross Technologies, Inc. (RTGX)
Paid Research Assistant- UMBC Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education(CUERE)

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You may want to check out The Office of Undergraduate Education's "My Majors" page which will keep you up-to-date on new opportunities and give you a glimpse at interesting research your fellow majors are doing!
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Are you a Geography/Environmental Science major interested in doing research? You may want to check out The Office of Undergraduate Education's "My Majors" page which will keep you up-to-date on...

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The Meyerhoff program introduced me to the idea of research internships during undergraduate summers. Since freshman year they have encouraged many applications to many places, including the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST.) Before I came to college I had never noticed research opportunities or even heard of them or thought about them. As a Physics/Mathematics major, I had kind of thought all the internships available were more for the life sciences as those were the only ones I had ever heard about.

How did you know that research at NIST was what you wanted to do?
My father has worked at NIST for quite a while and on the few occasions I visited the campus I always loved it. Physics has a huge presence at NIST, which is a delightful change of pace from what I usually see. I liked the idea of starting my first research experience at somewhere close and comfortable that I also knew for sure would be a great place. I'll be back next year if I am fortunate enough to be accepted again.

Did you apply to other places?
I applied to several other places such as NASA, APL, and a few REUs at various universities across the country. I was rejected or did not hear back from all of them.

Was the application difficult to do? Did you have help with this?
The SURF program application is very straightforward, in my opinion. There are some finer details to work out with the college, but for UMBC at least, Ms. McGlynn makes everything you need to do extremely clear and is quite helpful throughout the entire process even going as far to review your personal statement and resume. By the time your application is sent off there is essentially zero chance that anything is incorrect.

What was your summer research project?
My project dealt with the modeling and optimization of metal-oxide-semiconductor electrochemical solar cells. The purpose of the photoelectrochemical cells is to take light and convert it into electricity and use that electricity to break water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas, thus providing hydrogen gas for fuel cells. The project deals heavily in renewable energy and aims to make silicon-based solar technologies more viable. I was altering solar cell geometries and composition to attempt to improve the efficiency and ensure that the voltage generated is enough to split water.

Who was your mentor for this project?
My mentor is a post-doctorate student named Daniel Esposito. I could not have asked for a better mentor. I also worked with Dr. Jon Guyer (who was invaluable as well) when it came to the more complicated FiPy partial differential equation solver.

How much time do you put into this work?
I worked five days a week from around 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for 11 weeks over the summer, so quite a bit of time. The project was large and interesting; I could have used more time!

Were you paid? Where did you live?
SURF students are paid $5,500 for the 11 weeks of work, which is a very good deal. I commuted from home, but I know that NIST will house most of the SURF students at Hyatt House (a nearby hotel) in very accommodating conditions, so that is certainly an option.

What academic background did you have before you started?
I had no previous research experience, but am a rising junior Physics/Mathematics major with ~115 credits under my belt. I have a job setting up labs at the UMBC Physics Department and am fluent in Python as well as MATLAB and Mathematica. Academically I was rather strong, but in terms of research I was completely new to it.

How did you learn what you needed to know for this project?
My mentor gave me a few papers to read and there is a wonderful website called PVCDROM that provides a wealth of information on how solar cells function and the semiconductor physics behind them. Google also played a large role in my learning.

What was the hardest part about your research?
The hardest part would have to be learning to research. When I had problems in classes, I can check my answers and ask questions. Here, I can still ask questions, but what makes this research is that NIST doesn't know the answers; that's why the SURF students are working on these problems, to find answers. It is a bit unnerving at first when you come up with a result and you can't know whether or not it's correct because it's brand new.

How does this research relate to your course work at UMBC?
My research had multiple tie-ins to my Modern Physics course and I was glad to have had it before hand as I was better equipped to understanding the physics behind semiconductors. The classes on/using MATLAB, Mathematica, and Python were invaluable. Having programming knowledge beforehand was very useful and it seems that most of the friends I made here use programming in their research as well.

What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research?
Try it. I find it extremely rewarding and fun, but not everyone will. Best you don't go through undergrad never taking these opportunities and then get into a research position because it's what you THINK you want and find out instead that you hate it. Find out now. Also, don't get discouraged if you're not accepted the first time, try again. I applied to 17 places my freshman year and got into none of them.

What are your career goals?
I want to get my Ph.D. in physics and go into research at a fine establishment such as NIST. After a nice long time as a researcher I hope to return to academia as a physics professor at a research university. Read more about Nathan's research by visiting the link below... ]]>

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12-1 on Monday, September 10, 2012 in Administration 101.
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Interested in learning about research but unsure how to get started? Come to the Office of Undergraduate Education's Research Workshop during free hour: 12-1 on Monday, September 10, 2012 in...

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I’m a rising senor computer science major/mathematics minor and I learned of the opportunity from being on a mailing list from the Shriver Center.

How did you know that research at NIST was what you wanted to do?
I have always wanted to study something that had not been studied yet, and I knew that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was a prestigious institute, and that research and NIST would shine outstanding on my resume for grad schools or workplace.

Did you apply to other places?
Yes. I applied to about five different places for a summer internship and got acceptances from two.

Was the application difficult to do? Did you have help with this?
The application was not difficult to do, but it did take some amount of time. After I was done writing my personal statement and other essay-type questions I got my friends to proofread them for errors.

What was your summer research project?
I am working on a software that can enhance a working video filter to identify and track human facial movement in a video. Because of the complexity of the process, a human face cannot feasibly be identified every frame, so this summer I am working on a mathematical tool that can track what the person could be doing in the “in between” frames.

Who was your mentor for this project?
Dr. Jonathan Fiscus in the Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at NIST.

How much time do you put into this work?
I worked seven to nine hours a day, five days a week for 11 weeks over the summer.

What academic background did you have before you started?
I was one course shy of completing a minor in mathematics, and a small handful away from completing my bachelor of science in Computer Science.

How did you learn what you needed to know for this project?
Different programming textbooks around the office were invaluable to my work, I commonly referenced the internet, and did readings assigned by my advisor to help.

What was the hardest part about your research?
Sometimes the computer has memory problems because of imperfect usage of dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language. These errors often do not show right away, but instead cause inconsistent program usage over time, so today’s errors may have been caused by last week’s mistakes.

What was the most unexpected thing?
How well I have adapted to using a Mac OSX system (I am a power Linux user, and thought I disliked Mac products.)

How does this research relate to your course work at UMBC?
Dynamic memory allocation is one of the cruxes of this project, and the computer organization practiced here at NIST is crucial to many core classes of the UMBC computer science program.

What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research?
Do it, and have an open mind if you don’t think you like the project at first. I thought I didn’t like mine at first glance.

What are your career goals?
I wish to be a computer forensics worker for the United States government.

Are you a transfer student or did you start at UMBC as a freshman?
I transferred to UMBC my sophomore year from James Madison University in Virginia.

Do you now live on campus or commute to UMBC?
I have lived in Walker Avenue apartments on campus for the past two years, going on my third year. Read more about Jeffery's research by visiting the link below... ]]>

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