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News, Updates & Opportunities for ECON Undergraduates
Saturday, October 11, 2025
Exploring a Career in Finance
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Event: Exploring a Career in Finance
When: 5:30 PM, Thursday, October 16
Where: Tydings 0102
Speaker: Brady Bassford, Regional Director for Prudential Advisors
Overview: Explore how a career in finance involves navigating personal investment, insurance, taxes, charitable contributions, and much more.
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
BSOS DSAC Textbook Recycling Interest Form
The BSOS Dean's Student Advisory Council (DSAC) is seeking input from undergraduates regarding a college wide textbook recycling initiative. This program would help alleviate financial burden by allowing students to borrow textbooks that are required for their classes for free.
Please fill out this google form to help DSAC determine interest in such a program.
Monday, October 6, 2025
BSOS Ambassador Applications Open
Do you want to represent your school while gaining valuable leadership, public speaking, and teaching skills?
Apply to be a BSOS Ambassador!
The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences offers students an opportunity to become involved in our college while earning two elective credits. This experience will teach you skills that will ultimately make you more marketable to employers and graduate programs. Additionally, being a BSOS Ambassador provides excellent leadership, public speaking, and teaching experience, as well as networking opportunities with faculty, staff, alumni, university administrators, and prospective students.
The required seminar course meets once a week, in-person on Thursdays from 4:00-4:50 pm. Students are required to complete three service events (1.5-3 hours each) over the course of the semester.
Applications for spring 2026 are open now through October 31.
The College of Behavioral and Social Sciences offers students an opportunity to become involved in our college while earning two elective credits. This experience will teach you skills that will ultimately make you more marketable to employers and graduate programs. Additionally, being a BSOS Ambassador provides excellent leadership, public speaking, and teaching experience, as well as networking opportunities with faculty, staff, alumni, university administrators, and prospective students.
The required seminar course meets once a week, in-person on Thursdays from 4:00-4:50 pm. Students are required to complete three service events (1.5-3 hours each) over the course of the semester.
Applications for spring 2026 are open now through October 31.
Friday, October 3, 2025
U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of International Affairs Junior Fellowship
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of International Affairs (IA) seeks outstanding recent college graduates to help advance IA’s mission to support U.S. economic prosperity by strengthening the external environment for U.S. growth, preventing and mitigating global financial instability, and managing key global challenges.
About the Program:
The Junior Fellowship program is a highly selective, fixed two-year program for new college graduates to work shaping international economic policy for the United States in Treasury’s Office of International Affairs. Throughout the Fellowship, junior fellows perform a variety of tasks that include developing policy proposals and conducting research and analysis on pressing international economic and financial developments. Fellows also support bilateral and multilateral meetings for senior Treasury officials engaging counterparts at the IMF, World Bank, G7, and G20 – to name a few. Junior fellows often participate in such meetings and may have opportunities to travel abroad. The program exposes fellows to multiple policy issues and provides opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills including in writing, research, oral briefing, and economic policy and statecraft.
Junior fellows will be placed in either a regional or functional office. Regional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with counterpart finance ministries and treasuries across the world. Functional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with international financial institutions and structure broader Treasury policy on issues ranging from trade, to export credits, to foreign exchange.
Junior fellows are usually hired at the GS-9 level and receive standard Treasury benefits.
About the Program:
The Junior Fellowship program is a highly selective, fixed two-year program for new college graduates to work shaping international economic policy for the United States in Treasury’s Office of International Affairs. Throughout the Fellowship, junior fellows perform a variety of tasks that include developing policy proposals and conducting research and analysis on pressing international economic and financial developments. Fellows also support bilateral and multilateral meetings for senior Treasury officials engaging counterparts at the IMF, World Bank, G7, and G20 – to name a few. Junior fellows often participate in such meetings and may have opportunities to travel abroad. The program exposes fellows to multiple policy issues and provides opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skills including in writing, research, oral briefing, and economic policy and statecraft.
Junior fellows will be placed in either a regional or functional office. Regional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with counterpart finance ministries and treasuries across the world. Functional offices oversee Treasury’s engagement with international financial institutions and structure broader Treasury policy on issues ranging from trade, to export credits, to foreign exchange.
Junior fellows are usually hired at the GS-9 level and receive standard Treasury benefits.
Fall 2025 Sustainability Internship Scholarships
Application Opens: Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Application Closes: Friday, October 31, 2025
The Sustainability Internship Scholarship will help offset expenses associated with an unpaid internship. Scholarship awards ranging from $500-$1,500 are available to help offset expenses.
The internship must be related to sustainability or with an organization that aligns with the UN’s organization aligned with the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.
A secured unpaid internship with a nonprofit or government agency supervised by a professional in the field is required.
This scholarship is made possible through a partnership between UMD's Student Government Association, Office of Sustainability and University Career Center & The President’s Promise.
BSOS Majors: Need professional clothing for an upcoming fair, interview, internship, or networking event?
The BSOS Feller Center for Advising & Career Planning is sponsoring the Suit Yourself Professional Clothing Award, which supports BSOS undergraduate students who need financial assistance topurchase professional clothing for an upcoming interview, networking event, or professional conference. This is a one-time $200 award to current BSOS undergraduate students.
Complete the very short application before October 10, 2025 at 5 pm. Questions? Contact the Feller Center's Career Planning team via email, bsoscareers@umd.edu.
Read more and apply
Monday, September 29, 2025
UMD CCJS Graduate Programs Information Session
Students can learn about the MA and PhD programs in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (CCJS) at a special in-person event on campus.
- Date: October 16th
- Time: 5pm
- Location: Samuel J Lefrak Hall, Room 2205
**A virtual session is available October 17th at 3pm.
Find more information about this event, including the link to RSVP here: https://ccjs.umd.edu/event/ccjs-graduate-programs-person-and-virtual-information-sessions.
Friday, September 26, 2025
Internship Opportunity at the Bureau of Economics
Deadline: October 15, 2025
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now soliciting interest for unpaid, part-time Interns in the Bureau of Economics starting in January 2026. This is a great opportunity for juniors and seniors with coursework in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
Duties
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is now soliciting interest for unpaid, part-time Interns in the Bureau of Economics starting in January 2026. This is a great opportunity for juniors and seniors with coursework in Economics, Statistics, Data Science, or Computer Science.
Duties
In this role, you will gain real-world experience by working alongside PhD economists to protect consumers and promote competition in the US economy. Interns work with economists to support FTC matters, including:
- providing economic and statistical analysis in support of antitrust investigations, consumer protection cases, and rulemaking;
- conducting academic research and developing reports on the functioning of markets in the economy.
The ideal candidate for this position has
- providing economic and statistical analysis in support of antitrust investigations, consumer protection cases, and rulemaking;
- conducting academic research and developing reports on the functioning of markets in the economy.
The ideal candidate for this position has
- A strong interest in and intuition for applied microeconomics;
- Proficiency in programming languages widely used in economics, statistics, and/or data science such as Stata, R, or Python;
- Excitement about conducting data analysis on a wide range of datasets in support of consumer protection and competition missions of the FTC;
- Interest and aptitude in working with PhD economists on economics research projects that serve the mission of the FTC; and
- A desire to grow and build on skills in data analysis and microeconomics.
Position details
- Proficiency in programming languages widely used in economics, statistics, and/or data science such as Stata, R, or Python;
- Excitement about conducting data analysis on a wide range of datasets in support of consumer protection and competition missions of the FTC;
- Interest and aptitude in working with PhD economists on economics research projects that serve the mission of the FTC; and
- A desire to grow and build on skills in data analysis and microeconomics.
Position details
All recruitment is for positions starting January 2026 for a position overlapping with the academic term, through to the beginning of Summer 2026.
The job location will be on site at the FTC Headquarters Building in Washington DC.
Candidates should plan to be on-site part-time at the FTC during the duration of the internship. The specific schedule can be arranged upon hiring.
How to apply
The job location will be on site at the FTC Headquarters Building in Washington DC.
Candidates should plan to be on-site part-time at the FTC during the duration of the internship. The specific schedule can be arranged upon hiring.
How to apply
Send a resume, cover letter, and unofficial transcript to econ_interns@ftc.gov
The deadline for applications is 10/15/2025.
In the event of a government shutdown we will review applications as soon as we can upon return to office.
Tips for the application
The deadline for applications is 10/15/2025.
In the event of a government shutdown we will review applications as soon as we can upon return to office.
Tips for the application
Cover letter: A strong cover letter will include the following:
- A discussion of your interest in economics and the FTC.
- Details on your experience with statistics, econometrics, and programming, including through coursework, class projects, employment, or any other experience.
- Details about your interest and experience with economic research, including any noteworthy projects, employment, or oral presentations.
- Details about your interest and experience in public policy, including in any topics related to antitrust or consumer protection, though these are not required.
- Any other relevant experience or interest.
- Details on your experience with statistics, econometrics, and programming, including through coursework, class projects, employment, or any other experience.
- Details about your interest and experience with economic research, including any noteworthy projects, employment, or oral presentations.
- Details about your interest and experience in public policy, including in any topics related to antitrust or consumer protection, though these are not required.
- Any other relevant experience or interest.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Richmond Fed RA and Summer Intern Positions Open
The Richmond Fed has just opened applications for research assistants (RAs) and summer interns in the Richmond Fed research department:
RAs:We have several openings in Richmond, VA, for candidates graduating by the start date of June 2026, and one for candidates graduating by the start date of January 2026 or earlier if available. Apply here: Richmond Fed RA – Richmond based
We have one opening in Washington, DC, working with Census data, for candidates graduating by the start date of June 2026. Apply here: Richmond Fed RA – DC based
Interested candidates should apply by October 31st to be considered for the first round of interviews. This is a full-time, two-year position to work alongside our economists supporting both policy and academic work. We have placed recent RAs in top Econ PhD programs.
Summer interns: Apply here: Summer 2026 Academic Research Internship Interested candidates should apply by early October to be considered for the first round of interviews. This is a 10 week, full-time, paid internship for undergrads going into their junior or senior year. Interns will be doing research alongside RAs and economists. This is a great way to get early exposure to academics, and successful interns may be offered RA positions once they graduate.
RAs:We have several openings in Richmond, VA, for candidates graduating by the start date of June 2026, and one for candidates graduating by the start date of January 2026 or earlier if available. Apply here: Richmond Fed RA – Richmond based
We have one opening in Washington, DC, working with Census data, for candidates graduating by the start date of June 2026. Apply here: Richmond Fed RA – DC based
Interested candidates should apply by October 31st to be considered for the first round of interviews. This is a full-time, two-year position to work alongside our economists supporting both policy and academic work. We have placed recent RAs in top Econ PhD programs.
Summer interns: Apply here: Summer 2026 Academic Research Internship Interested candidates should apply by early October to be considered for the first round of interviews. This is a 10 week, full-time, paid internship for undergrads going into their junior or senior year. Interns will be doing research alongside RAs and economists. This is a great way to get early exposure to academics, and successful interns may be offered RA positions once they graduate.
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