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The latest news and announcements from the CS GSA are displayed below. Previous news and announcements can be accessed from the monthly archive on the right.
The CS GSA have planned a get-together for all students in our department (CS & ECE) who are taking their Doctoral Qualifiers this October. The purpose of the meeting is to get to know each other and to help each other out with the preparation (by sharing DQE materials, solving problems in groups, etc).
Please bring any DQE materials that you may have to share with others.
The meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Aug 29, at 2PM in the 850D classroom inside the Engineering Library. The meeting could also be very short depending on how many people show up. So, please be there on time. Let us know in case of a time-conflict or if you have any questions.
The next Climate Commitment 101 Lecture Series event will be Wednesday, August 27 12:00-1:30pm on the DAAP 5000 Level Stair The event will be a Summer Exhibition of student design work related to sustainability.
A reception will follow, featuring locally-produced gelato from Madisono's at Findlay Market.
Dear GSA members,
GSGA is looking to hire a webmaster for the following qualifications. The position will pay $400 per quarter (requiring only 2-4 hours per week) starting with the Fall Quarter. Please send your CV to our office-683 Steger by August 30th.
The ideal ASP.NET Web Developer should have extensive experience in the design, architecture, and implementation of large scale C#/.NET web development projects. The ASP.NET Web Developer should have exceptional development practices, strong database development skills and a thorough understanding of object oriented design utilizing n-tier architecture. Thorough understanding of service oriented architecture is a plus.
1+ year recent experience developing web sites with C# / ASP.NET, connecting to SQL databases. Back-end SQL development experience and ECommerce site design experience a plus. Candidates must be able to provide url samples to demonstrate their prior development experience.
Candidate should have following primary skills in addition:
========================== Information Security Alert ===========================
The spear-phishing email campaign against UC originally reported in January and again in April is back with renewed force.
Spear-Phishing is a phishing campaign tailored to a specific target group, using language or information to pacify suspicions of the target group. This phishing attempt requests the user to send their password in a reply email. Please alert your organizations to this threat and remind them that UC will never ask for a password to be sent by email!
The Phishing message looks like this:
-----Original Message-----
From: UC IT Support [mailto:noreply@uc.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 4:59 PM
To: Undisclosed recipients
Subject: Please kindly verify your UC email accountDear UC email account owner,
This message is from uc.edu email administration center to all email account owners. We are currently upgrading the email securities of our database and email account center. We are also conducting a routine check by deleting all unused accounts to create more space for new accounts
To prevent your email account from being closed, you will have to update it below by providing us with the below mentioned so that we can ascertain that your account is prensently in use. CONFIRM YOUR EMAIL IDENTITY BELOW
Email Username:....................
Email Password:....................
Date of Birth:.....................
Country or Territory:..............Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently.
Regards,
IT Support Team
www.uc.edu
========================= End Information Security Alert ========================
Regards,
Quinn R. Shamblin
Information Security Officer
GCFA, CISSP, PMP
University of Cincinnati
(513) 556-0803
quinn.shamblin@uc.edu
Announcing the 3rd Annual Ohio Bioscience Career Fair
September 30 at the Holiday Inn Columbus/Worthington | 1pm - 6pm
Career and job fairs are a great way to meet a wide variety of potential employers in a friendly setting where both parties can gauge whether or not they want to go to the next step. BioOhio hosts an annual state-wide Bioscience Career Fair, bringing together job seekers and Ohio's bioscience companies. At the 2007 fair, held last November, we had 20 participating companies, attracting 250 job seekers.
Focused on the biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and contract research industries, the career fair includes opportunities in the following fields:
To register as an attendee , email your name and college affiliation (if applicable) to Jen Goldsberry . If you would like your resume included in the booklet provided to exhibiting employers, provide Word or PDF document (2 page max) as an attachment to your email (deadline Sept. 20).
2007 exhibiting employers included:
Aerotek Scientific; Alkermes; Amylin; Battelle; Ben Venue Laboratories; CAS; Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation; Clinical Research Management; Columbus State Comm. College; Diagnostic Hybrids; Eurand; Kforce Scientific Staffing; M3 Clinical Research; NAMSA; PharmaForce; Prologue Research International; The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's; The Rogosin Institute; UniClean; WIL Research Laboratories.
Website: http://www.bioohio.com/working-learning/Career-Events.aspx
You are cordially invited to
2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Show & Ceremony Watching Party
Time: Aug 8 evening, ET 7:30 pm ~ midnight
Venue: Catskeller (specially used for this party) – http://www.uc.edu/mainstreet/Catskeller.html
Olympic game is not only a sports event but also a big international party!
Not in Beijing? No problem! Come to our party at Catskeller (the main street bar) on west campus.Watch the Olympic Game Opening Show & Ceremony! Have fun with more and international friends! Several big HDTVs, drink and snack, poker or other desktop games PLUS full bar, arcade games, pool tables. Lots of chances to win Olympic souvenirs though organized group games.
Sponsor: UC Chinese Students and Scholars Association and ISSO
Dear Students,
If you could answer the mini-survey below on UC graduate student living expenses, you will help us greatly establish the required minimum monthly allowance for UC graduate students to live on. Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=qDs6o5tqjJWGyUI3PMIYSA_3d_3d
Prizes (6 prize winners to be selected randomly):
1 GB Ipod Nano
5 Starbucks $ 10 Gift Cards.
Thank you for your time,
--GSGA
Dear GSA Representatives,
We have a very important By-Laws & Constitution Committee that overlooks the GSGA Constitution & By-Laws. We need three volunteers which will meet with the committee twice until the school year starts. Most of the work will be done via e-mail. Please respond, we need your active participation in the student government. Thank you for your time.
--GSGA
The DQE is scheduled for October 3, 2008, 9:00 a.m. (location to be announced later).
All PhD students that started their program in Fall 2007 must register for this DQE. Please stop by the front desk in 701 ERC to sign up for the exam. Sign up will end August 8, 2008. If you have any questions please contact me or Dieter Schmidt for Computer Science questions or Wen-Ben Jone for ECE questions.