Category: Career opportunities

Institute of Aviation Open House

The Institute of Aviation will be hosting an Open House on Thursday, July 10, 2014 from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at Willard Airport.

 

Fun flights and tours will be available, along with information on how to obtain one of several pilot certifications through the Institute of Aviation.

 

Parkland will assume operations and flight instruction from the University of Illinois Institute of Aviation in August based on a three-year agreement with the University.  
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Pre-health events and opportunities

Please share the upcoming events and opportunities with your pre-health students in upcoming announcements and newsletters.
 
Inside the Medical School Application
Did you know that 76% of the Illinois students accepted to medical school last year used health professions advising services at The Career Center? If you’re planning to apply to medical school this summer, you should check out this workshop for important tips, deadline information, and resources.
When: Wednesday, April 30th 6:00pm
Where: The Career Center’s Interview Suite located at 616 E Green Street (Look for Kaplan sign) 2nd floor
Pre-Pharmacy Club Pharmacy Deans Night
The Pre-Pharmacy Club invites students to participate in Pharmacy Deans Night.  It will be held on Wednesday, April 30th 7pm at 223 Gregory Hall. Admissions representatives from several programs in Illinois will be available to provide an overview of pharmacy, discuss the application process, and answer questions from students.
The Career Center Health Professions Internship
The Career Center (TCC) is seeking an energetic Health Professions Intern for the fall semester. TCC is the primary point of contact for all students regarding career development. The internship focuses on assisting the Health Professions Advising team with projects related to student preparation and application to health professional school programs (medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, etc.) The intern will have the ability to work on both small and large projects as well as receive ongoing personalized, professional development from the TCC staff. Shifts are flexible, but interns will be expected to work 10 hours a week.
Duties:
  • Serve as coordinator and student liaison of the Health Professions Council
  • Recruit registered student organizations to participate with the Health Professions Council
  • Assist with the Graduate and Professional School Fair
  • Film and edit videos for the TCC website
  • Present to students about health professions advising services at TCC
  • Submit weekly items for the Health Careers Chronicle
  • Update and maintain electronic resources such as the Summer Enrichment Opportunities, Health Professions RSO, and  Rural Medicine databases
  • Meet regularly with supervising Assistant Director
  • Perform other duties as assigned by the Health Professions Advising team
Qualifications:          
·         Junior or senior health professions student
·         Outstanding customer service skills
·         Strong written and verbal communication skills
·         Capability to work independently and with a team
·         Ability to work with individuals from diverse backgrounds
·         Aptitude for using technology effectively
·         Experience presenting workshops is preferred
Application Procedure:
Evaluation of applications will begin immediately. Interested candidates should submit a letter of interest, resume, and 2-3 references. For full consideration, materials should be received by 5:00pm on Friday, May 1, 2014. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit their application materials by email as pdf or Word attachments to agramont@illinois.edu.
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ECE Explorations Seminar

DATA SCIENCE MEETS AGRICULTURE
Brian Zimmer-VP of Engineering & Erik Andrejko-Senior Lead, Science
The Climate Corporation
Wednesday, March 19 | 5:00pm | 151 Everitt Lab
 
The demand for agricultural outputs is growing. To meet this demand,increasingly mechanized precision agriculture must be combined with enormous amounts of collected data to intelligently optimize agriculture outputs. We will consider the challenges and possible approaches inherent to tackling this problem: optimizing global food production.
 
Zimmer leads the The Climate Corporation’s science and engineering teams. He has more than 15 years of experience leading the development of large-scale systems in a variety of industries. He earned a BS in finance from Illinois.
 
Andrejko leads The Climate Corporation Science and Research Organization, spanning research across teams including climatology, producing hyper-local weather forecasts; and agronomic models,  connecting hyper-local weather measurements to agronomic outcomes.
 
Open to all | Pizza will be provided after the talk!
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SAS Day registration is open

University of Illinios WebStore, SAS, and State Farm invite you to SAS Day to explore SAS technologies and real world applications on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 in the Illini Union General Lounge (2nd floor).

SAS Day, April 8, 2014 — Illini Union General Lounge (2nd floor) — Link

SAS Certification Exams, April 9, 2014 — Registration Link

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SAS Day Schedule

9:00 am:  Perform interactive data exploration with SAS Visual Analytics

(Presenter: André de Waal, Analytical Consultant, SAS)

Visualizations help business people to see things that were not obvious to them before. SAS Visual Analytics is a Web-based application that enables you to perform interactive data exploration and the creation of reports. It is targeted to helping businesses gain insight into their big data problems via a highly intuitive, visually appealing user interface backed by a high-performance, in-memory server that can execute analytics on large data sets in real time. This presentation focusses on SAS Visual Analytics Explorer and SAS Visual Analytics Designer and demonstrates how to interact with the environment, how to explore data and how to create reports.

10:00 am:  State Farm Research & Development Center: Driving Environment Clustering

(Presenters: Meghan Goldfarb, Bill Messner, Jason Cleary and Kelsey Osterloo – State Farm Insurance)

The State Farm Research & Development Center employs approximately 90 interns in its facility on the U of I campus. Meghan and Bill’s presentation will give an overview of two of the functions; the actuarial research function and the MAGNet function. Then Kelsey and Jason will present preliminary results of an ongoing project, which is a collaboration between actuarial and MAGNet.

Telematics devices play an integral role in State Farm’s Drive Safe & Save program.  Information from these devices is used to assign the driver a Drive Safe & Save Index (DSSI) used in pricing auto premiums. We tend to think of the DSSI as only a reflection of the individual driver’s habits, but they are also influenced by the environment the driver is in.  This portion of the presentation will focus on the process utilized to determine driving environment clusters to better understand how driving behavior and driving environment are related to loss experience.

11:00 am:  Explaining the Past and Modeling the Future: New Econometrics and Forecasting Tools in SAS

(Presenter: Kenneth Sanford, SAS, Senior Research Statistician

The importance of Econometrics and Forecasting in the Analytics toolkit is increasing every day. Econometric modeling helps to uncover structural relationships from observational data. Forecasting exploits those relationships to make predictions. This presentation highlights the many recent changes to the SAS/ETS and Forecasting portfolios which give users more power to explain the past and predict the future. We will show and provide examples of how Bayesian regression tools can be used for price elasticity modeling, how state-space models can be used to gain insight from inconsistent time series, how panel data methods help control for unobserved confounding effects and much more. The presentation will also provide an overview and demonstration of the SAS portfolio of forecasting tools.

Lunch Break

1:00 pm:  Statistical & Pricing Research Opportunities at State Farm

(Presenters: Scott Farris, Alan Kessler & Angela Wu, State Farm Insurance)

State Farm is the largest insurer of automobiles and homes in the United States. We will present information about State Farm and the unique culture that makes State Farm a truly remarkable company. We will provide information on State Farm statistical opportunities, particularly as they relate to State Farm’s core business of insuring autos and homes.

2:00 pm:  The Value of SAS Human Capital– Reproducing analytical results in the emerging era of ‘Big Data’

(Kenneth Sanford, Senior Research Statistician, SAS)

SAS is the world’s largest software company entirely devoted to Analytics.  This talk will lay the foundation for the SAS System as a unified framework for reproducible analytical results in the emerging era of “big data”.  We will discuss the origins of the company and the architecture of the software at a high level.  The talk will also highlight the value of SAS skills for students and those early in their career.

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Illinois in Washington

ILLINOIS-IN-WASHINGTON, EXTENDED DEADLINE.

The Illinois in Washington Program has extended its deadline for FALL, 2014 applications to  Tuesday, April 1.

In IIW, students live in Washington, DC for a semester, intern 4 days a week, and take U of I classes.  Students intern in a wide variety of places from Capitol Hill to nonprofits to advocacy organizations.  Below are some of the places where students have interned:

Congress: Senators Durbin, Franken, Kirk, Reid; Representatives Davis, Roskam, Schock, Shimkus, Kinzinger;

Political parties, political organizations and lobbying firms: Democratic National Committee, Republican National Committee, DC Legislative and Regulatory Services, The Keelen Group, The Monument Policy Group

Think Tanks: Brookings Institution, Center for American Progress, Middle East Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Not-for-Profits: Free the Slaves, Truman National Security Project, Center for International Policy, Global Solutions, Alliance for Aging Research, National Parks Foundation, America Votes, Rock the Vote, Environmental Law Institute, Arms Control Association, Search for Common Ground

U.S. Government Agencies: State Department, Department of Labor, FCC, Legal Services Corporation, Office of the US Trade Representative

Applications and information are available at www.washington.illinois.edu.  Illinois in Washington is an academic internship program for all U of I undergraduates.  Questions?  Contact Susan Halebsky Dimock, PhD Interim Director, Illinois in Washington sdimock@illinois.edu  www.washington.illinois.edu 

www.facebook.com/IllinoisinWashington

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Upcoming Peace Corps Events at UIUC

Good Afternoon,
 
Please remind interested students that Peace Corpsis hosting an Information Session tomorrow:
 
Tuesday March 11th 6-7pmPeace Corps– Living and Working Abroad @ The Career Center Conference Rm. 715 S. Wright St.
 
Additional Information Sessions:
Thursday April 3rd  6-7pmLiving and Working Abroad – Peace Corps Info. Session @ The Career Center Conference Rm. 715 S. Wright St.
Thursday April 10th 6-7pmPeace CorpsApplication Workshop@ The Career Center Conference Rm. 715 S. Wright St.
 
 
The UIUC Peace Corps Campus Recruiter is located in The Career Center at 715 S. Wright St. and available by appointment to assist students with the Peace Corps application process and answer inquiries. Additional drop-in hours are Mondays 3-5pm and Thursdays 11am-1pm.
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Teaching Fellowship: App Deadline Approaching

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You may have students or colleagues who are perfect for the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship.
Our final application deadline is Friday, March 14!
Please help us promote the program by sharing this exciting opportunity with students, recent grads,
career changers, and others you consider qualified.
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“I teach science because I want my students not only to gaze at the stars, but to reach for them.” ~Kate Schlarman, WWTF ’12
“I teach math because it is a beautiful story written in a strange language.” ~Theodore (Tio) Savich, WWTF ’10
 
Put your math, science or technology knowledge to work for the kids who need you most.
Become a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow.
Now more than ever, high-need urban and rural secondary schools need dedicated and powerful teachers
in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship
recruits high achieving candidates who have the drive to become teachers—including graduating college seniors,
recent graduates, armed forces veterans, and mid-career and second-career professionals.  Fellows begin with an
intensive master’s degree program interwoven with a full year in the classroom, then commit to teaching for
at least three years in a high-need urban or rural school district.
 
Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows Receive
Admission to a master’s degree program at a participating college/university in
*Indiana    *Michigan    *New Jersey    *Ohio
Preparation for teaching certification
Support and mentoring throughout the four-year program
$30,000 stipend in the first year; salary during the three-year teaching commitment
Lifelong membership in a national network of intellectual leaders as a Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellow 
 
Applications are being accepted until March 14, 2014. To learn more, visitWoodrow.org/teach

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Summer Internship Course

Please share with interested students. This course is open to ALL MAJORS!
 
Do you want to earn credit for your internship?
ENG 451 is an online 8-week course for undergraduate students in any college with internships during Summer 2014 and is worth two hours of credit.  The course covers business concepts and helps you to further develop and/or enhance your interpersonal skills.  Register through regular course registration in April.  Visit http://go.illinois.edu/eng_451 for more information or contact Sarah Zehr at szehr@illinois.edu. 
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