Friday, October 18, 2013

Facebook, Email, and You: An Etiquette Primer

Time: Mon. October 21, 1:00-2:00 p.m. AND Tue., October 22, 1:00-2:00 p.m.
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall

Please join Megan in the office for a discussion on digital professionalism.

How Persistent is Civil War?

Time: Fri. October 25, 11:00am - 12:30pm
Location: McKeldin Library, Special Events Room 6137
Link: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/event/gvpt-distinguished-lecture-0

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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Justice and Health: How the Affordable Care Act is Fulfilling the Dream



Time: Tue., October 29, 4:30 pm
Location: Juan Ramon Jimenez Room, Adele H. Stamp Student Union 

In Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream” speech, he describes the journey of black people from slavery to the promise of freedom. He said black people were given a "blank check" and the marchers were in Washington to demand payment. He also said that the people would "….not be satisfied until justice rolled down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream…” This forum will focus on how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is indeed making good on a portion of that "blank check".

The forum will be led by Dr. Stephen B. Thomas, Founding Director of the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity and Professor in the Department of Health Services Administration at the School of Public Health. Over the past 20 years, his scholarship has focused on building trust between minorities and the academic research community. Working with Dr. Sandra Crouse Quinn, their work contributed to justification for the presidential apology to the survivors of the US Public Health Service Study at Tuskegee (more commonly known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study (1932-1972), the longest non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in the history of medicine and public health). On May 16, 1997, Dr. Thomas was invited to the White House to witness President Bill Clinton deliver the formal apology to the eight remaining survivors of the Tuskegee study. Dr. Thomas believes that the ACA shines light on the long shadow cast by the Tuskegee Study and creates the conditions for a new beginning that points in the direction of Dr. King's dream of health equity for all Americas.

This event is free, and light refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by the University of Maryland Center for Health Equity headquartered in the School of Public Health. For more information about the What Is Your Dream? programming series, click here.

Seismic Shifts in the Middle East

Time: Tue, October 22, 5:30pm – 7:00pm
Location: Gildenhorn Recital Hall, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
RSVP Required!

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Monday, October 14, 2013

"Girl Rising" Screening

Time: Thu, October 17, 6:30pm – 9:15pm
Location: Colony Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

A Smart Girls=Smart World Event.  

Interested in learning more about girls' education and getting involved?

The Individual Studies Program, the University Honors College, Intel, and JFem are co-sponsoring an official screening of "Girl Rising," a film about nine courageous girls from different parts of the world who, even in the of face of arranged marriages and child slavery, fought for their right to an education. The event is on October 17th from 6:30 to 9:15pm in the Colony Ballroom in the Stamp Student Union. No RSVP required!  There will be snacks and mingling before the movie and discussion afterwards!  Come when you can.  The movie showing begins at 7 p.m.

This event is organized by UMD student Rebecca Silverman,  a senior majoring in Global Women’s Health through  the Individual Studies Program and an Intel ambassador for change. The event grew out of Rebecca’s participation in Intel for Change Smart Girls = Smart world, dedicated to promoting access to education as a fundamental right for girls and women throughout the world. Rebecca traveled to Ecuador this summer and learned firsthand not only how having access to education empowers girls to achieve, but also how educated girls empower a community to achieve.  The event is also in honor of the U.N. International Day of the Girl Child (October 11).

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Federal and Global Semester Sponsored Events


Drop-By Breakfast
Time: Thursday, October 17, 9-11 a.m. 
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall. 

Bagels, coffee, muffins, colleagues…. Get to know your peers, and the office staff over some free food.

Security Clearance Workshop: 
Time: Thursday, October 17, 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. 
Location: 2401 Marie Mount Hall (drop by 2407 to grab a bagel and coffee on your way!).  

Presentation by Mr. Tom Mauriello, security clearance guru, with long, impressive career in government and as consultant on security matters.

How to Succeed at Internships and First Jobs: 
Time: Monday, October 21, 6:10 to 7:10 p.m.
Location: 0108 Marie Mount Hall. 

Presentation and conversation with representatives from Department of Energy and Department of Health and Human Services--both of them passionate and experienced in empowering students!


Policy Forum: Should We Care about Inequality?

Time: Tue, October 15, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall

Presented by Scott Winship, Brookings Institution Fellow. 

Scott Winship is the Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution, his areas of expertise include living standards and economic mobility, inequality, and insecurity. Earlier in his career, Winship was research manager of the Economic Mobility Project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and a senior policy advisor at Third Way. His research has been published in National Affairs, National Review, The Wilson Quarterly, Breakthrough Journal, and Real Clear Markets, among other outlets. Winship received a B.A. in sociology and urban studies from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in social policy from Harvard University. 

Development Circle: Why Peru Does Not Graduate: The Elusive Path from Growth to Development

Time: Wed, October 16, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/development-circle-2

Presented by Julio Guzman, Partner at Deloitte and Leader of Public Sector Practice in Peru

Responding to Nuclear Disasters: In Pursuit of High Flexibility Organizations

Time: Thu, October 17, 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: https://publicpolicy.umd.edu/events/cissm-forum-responding-nuclear-disasters-pursuit-high-flexibility-organizations

The nuclear disaster at Fukushima has led to calls for better emergency preparedness in the commercial nuclear sector. Based on organizational theories of disaster, this talk explores possibilities and challenges for a more effective nuclear emergency response, both on the national and the international level.  By comparing and contrasting organizational responses to Fukushima in the United States and the European Union nuclear industries, an increasing tension becomes apparent between approaches that emphasize standardization, regulation, and routine on the one hand, and transparency, reflexivity, and improvisation  on the other.

About the speaker



Sonja D. Schmid is an assistant professor in the Department of Science and Technology in Society (STS) at Virginia Tech’s satellite campus in Falls Church. Her expertise is in the social history of technology, science and technology policy, and qualitative studies of risk. Her research examines the ways national energy policies, technological choices, and security concerns shape each other. Her work has focused on the history and organization of nuclear industries in the Former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, nuclear technology transfer and the technical and regulatory “fixes” that have been proposed to address proliferation concerns, as well as the history and prospects of small power reactor designs.

Careers in Public Service: From UMD to the White House and Back

Time: Wed, October 16, 4:30pm – 6:00pm
Location: Multipurpose Room, La Plata Hall
Link: http://honcol.blogspot.com/2013/10/careers-in-public-service-from-umd-to.html


Join us for a special event featuring University of Maryland alum and Public Engagement Advisor in the White House Office of Public Engagement, Paul Monteiro.



Paul Monteiro was born in Columbia, Maryland and attended local private and public schools graduating from High Point High School in 1998. He attended the University of Maryland (B.A. History, 2002) where he was an active member of Alpha Nu Omega, Inc. the Student Government Association, the Student Legal Aid Office, Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity, and the Maryland Academic Quiz Team. In 1999, he served as an aide to the Marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States. Following graduation Paul worked as a paralegal at a DC law firm before enrolling at the Howard University School of Law (J.D. 2007). While in law school, he served as chapter president of the Christian Legal Society, captain of the Charles Houston Moot Court team, and as a Marshall-Brennan Fellow teaching constitutional law to middle school students. He accepted a position with O’Melveny & Myers, a Los Angeles based law firm. Paul later began working for Senator Obama on Capitol Hill before transitioning to his role as deputy director of religious affairs for the Obama for America campaign in 2007. Following the campaign, he worked on the Presidential Inauguration Committee before assuming his current post at the White House in February 2009. The White House Office of Public Engagement is the embodiment of the President’s goal of making government inclusive, transparent, accountable and responsible, as it creates and coordinates opportunities for direct dialogue between the Obama administration and the American public.

Paul Monteiro will discuss the important role that internships, mentoring and networking have played in his career path to date, as well as share information about his current work and vignettes that illustrate some of the good, bad and ugly of working in national politics. There will be a Q&A session as well. This event is free and part of the University Honors Program’s What Is Your Dream? programming series.

FREE PIZZA will be served! Don’t miss this event!

Monday, October 7, 2013

Workshop: Pursuing Opportunities at Non-Profits and International Sites

Time: Wed, October 9, 11am – 12pm AND Thu, October 10, 1pm – 2pm
Location: 2407 Marie Mount Hall, Federal Semester Office 

Not all service and policy-oriented internships come from government entities! Help sure your shutdown blues as our own Starsky Cheng will lean on his personal experience working in the non-profit sector to discuss tips, questions, and methods for facilitating your internship search for nonprofit and international organizations.

Development Circle: Commitments to Save

Time: Wed, October 9, 12:15pm – 1:20pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
RSVP

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Emerging Markets, The Pacific Alliance and Chile

Time: Thu, October 10, 12:15pm – 1:45pm
Location: 1203 Van Munching Hall
Link: http://cissm.umd.edu/forum/display.php?id=613

This Forum is part of the Maryland Global Leaders program, which is cosponsored by the School of Public Policy and the Office of International Affairs.

Since March 2010, Felipe Larraín Bascuñán is the Minister of Finance of the Government of President Sebastián Piñera. PhD (1985) and Master of Arts (1983) in Economics from Harvard University, and  Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Universidad Católica de Chile (1981), he has a vast experience as an international consultant, academician, editor and author of more than 10 books and 120 professional articles, both published in Latin America, U.S.A., Europe and Asia. Since 1996, he has been a Professor of Economics at Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago, where he previously served as Associate and Assistant Professor. From 1997 to 2002 he was affiliated to Harvard University, first as the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies (1997-99), then as Faculty Fellow (1999-2002). Since 1985, he has served as economic advisor to several American governments, including Bolivia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.

Felipe Larraín has been a consultant on macroeconomic issues to the United Nations, the World Bank, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He has also been a consultant to a number of Latin American and U.S. companies, and a board member of several companies and institutions in Chile, Latin America, the U.S. and Europe.

He is the editor and author of ten books, including: Desarrollo Económico en Democracia: Proposiciones para una Sociedad Libre y Solidaria (Ediciones Universidad Católica de Chile: Santiago, 1987); Debt, Adjustment and Recovery: Latin America’s Prospects for Growth and Development (Basil Blackwell: Oxford and New York, 1989); The Public Sector and the Latin American Crisis (ICS Press: San Francisco, 1991); Chile Hacia el 2000 (CEP: Santiago, Chile, 1994); La Transformación Económica de Chile (CEP: Santiago, Chile, 2000); Capital Flows, Capital Controls and Currency Crises: Latin America in the 1990s (University of Michigan Press,  2000); Economic Development in Central America, Vols I and II (Harvard University Press, 2001); and Macroeconomics at Practice (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004).

His book Macroeconomics in the Global Economy, co-authored with Professor Jeffrey Sachs, (Prentice Hall:New Jersey; Harvester Wheatsheaf:  London, 1993), has been translated into Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish, and is currently in its second edition.

Minister Larraín has received several awards and honors, including: Finance Minister of the Year 2010, Region of the Americas, awarded by The Banker Magazine (of Finantial Times; London, 2011); Best Minister of Finance 2010 from Latin America, awarded by América Económica Magazine; Economist of the Year, chosen by his peers thru a survey made by Chilean Newspaper El Mercurio (Santiago, 2010); Minister of Finance 2010 for Latin America, awarded by Emerging Markets Magazine (Washington, D.C.); Bicentennial Economist, presented by the Young Leaders Association (Santiago, 2010); Doctor Honoris Causa (2009) of the American College of Paraguay; the 2002 Alumnae of the Year at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Universidad Católica; the Daniel Cosio Villegas award (1991), to one of the best three articles published in El Trimestre Económico during 1989-1990; an award from Magisterio Nacional Boliviano (1986) for a distinguished service as Economic Advisor to the President of Bolivia; the Raúl Yver Oxley award (1980) to the best student in his class at Universidad Católica; and the Luis Cruz Martínez award (1976) to the student with the highest score of the Chilean universities admissions exam and the best high school transcript of Chile.

 Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1958, he is married and the father of five children.

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Geographical Sciences Career & Internship Fair 2013

Time: Fri. November 01, 2013, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: LeFrak Hall, Room 1124
Link: http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_description.cfm?event_id=3915

Event Details:

The Geographical Sciences Advising Office, in cooperation with the University Career Center & The President’s Promise, sponsors a semi-annual career and internship fair specific to Geography, Geographic Information Systems and Environmental Science and Policy students every semester. Public, private and non-profit employers attend to seek out potential interns and employees.

STUDENTS:
PREPARING FOR THE FAIR:

  • Learn how to put your best foot forward and review the list of employers attending.
EMPLOYERS ATTENDING THE FAIR

WHO CAN ATTEND: 
University of Maryland, College Park:

  • Current students and spouses
  • Alumni and spouses
  • Faculty/staff and spouses
  • Shady Grove campus students (from UMCP)

For additional information about this event:
contact Kristen Bergery at geog-advise@umd.edu

Industry Networking Series: Careers & Internships in Government Sector

Time: Wed. October 23, 2013, 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Location: 3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing
Link: http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_description.cfm?event_id=4140

Event Details:

Interested in a career in the Government Sector? Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from and network directly with professionals in the field. The first hour is a panel discussion followed by an hour of informal socializing and networking.

Panelists to be named closer to event date.

Please RSVP to this event. Professional dress is suggested (strongly) and you may bring several copies of your resume.
 



Language Career & Internship Fair 2013

Time: Wed. October 23, 2013, 11:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Location: Colony Ballroom - Stamp Student Union
Linkhttp://www.careers.umd.edu/events_description.cfm?event_id=4095

Event Details:

Don't miss the 5th Annual Language Career & Internship Fair! The University Career Center & The President's Promise partners with the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (www.languages.umd.edu) and the brand new Graduate Studies in Interpreting and Translation (www.gsit.umd.edu) program to produce this annual event, which connects students and alumni with 35+ employers interested in candidates with language skills and/or cross-cultural career interests.

List of Employers Attending the Fair (keep checking back, as new employers are registering every day): Click here

Students: Mark your calendars to attend a prep workshop on October 22 from 4-5 pm in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Language House (St. Mary's Hall) to learn how to best navigate the fair, find employers of interest and effectively market your unique skills.


For additional information about this event:
contact Kate Juhl at kjuhl@umd.edu

Industry Networking Series: Careers & Internships in Intelligence

Time: Wed, October 16, 4:30pm – 6:30pm
Location: 3100 Hornbake Library, South Wing
Link: http://www.careers.umd.edu/events_description.cfm?event_id=4139

Event Details:

Interested in a career in intelligence? Take advantage of this opportunity to learn from and network directly with professionals in the field. The first hour is a panel discussion followed by an hour of informal socializing and networking.
Please RSVP to this event. Professional dress is suggested and you may bring several copies of your resume.
 

Participating Organizations Include:
  • Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  • National Security Agency (NSA)
  • Dependable Global Solutions & a former USAF
  • And more

School of Public Health Internship & Career Expo 2013

Time: Wed, October 16, 2pm – 5pm
Location: School of Public Health Building, Ground Floor
Link: http://www.careers.umd.edu/PublicHealthExpo

Internship and career opportunities in the fields of Public Health, Family Science, and Kinesiology!

The event says, "Professional attire encouraged."  Federal and Global Semester programs say professional attire is obviously a must.

RSVP

Targeted Killing and Drone Warfare




Time: Tue, October 8, 4:00pm – 5:30pm
Where
McKeldin Special Events Room 6137


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