Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday bctober 5 2003 — A15 ' i EinnipDiDy mnemi By The Associated Press The current tough employment picture may narrow die focus on future careers but employers in many fields still are looking for people willing and able to qualify: Cyber Security With all the news about computer worms and viruses hackers stealing identities and money and it’s no surprise that both gov- - ' £ eminent and private sectors need more specialists in information-cybe- r security This field involves a variety of disciplines including technology and law says Sam McQuade assistant professor of criminal justice at Rochester Institute of Technology’s College of Liberal Arts in Rochester m cyber-terroris- NY - “The federal government is intensely interested in fostering higher education for the next generation of information security specialists and public policy makers as well as intelligence analysts and operative technicians with technology train- ing” he said McQuade says that security problems demand a variety of perspectives for their solutions “For example physical security is just as important as cyber security for individuals companies and even -- nations” Students at RIT already have formed the Security Practices and Research Student Association (http:wwwsparsaorg) reflecting growing interest in security studies Animation - Animation isn’t necessarily a Mickey Mouse career There are animation challenges in accident reconstruction architectural design health aerospace and con- struction said Michael Edmonds education manger for Discreet a division of Autodesk “Animation is very much an art and yet work in animation careers ' involves such important professional skills as critical thinking and research abilities” he said A part of animation is 3D model- - pScttooce iroott tioftaDOy toDeaCi especially due to the efforts of p ing or multidimensional creation of women’s colleges “Women’s colV" into their find will way shapes thqt simulations games commercials or leges are breaking down the barriers that have kept women underrepre v film “3D objects must be designed rented among working science pro-with animation in mind and in confessionals” she said “With all the sideration of the final output for- ' : : v'ut i 1 t' : country's population is aging They can expect to be involved not only in caregiving and health but in recre- ational programming employment training and counseling volunteer programs and adult and lifelong learning projects career opportunities for women mat” explained Scott Martin Other areas offering opportunities academic director of the Art Institute today in science fields there has for social workers include adminisof Seattle’s animation art and design never been a better time to study tration and management alcohol these subjects” department The modeler bases creations on a storyboard using basics v V She cites studies showing that drug and tobacco counseling family and child welfare mental health and women in single-se-x virtual forms such as cubes cylincolleges like clinical social work occupational hers have a higher percentage of ders or spheres which then go to an and early age pensioner social work animator for realization majors in economics math and life sciences than men at coeducational “3D modeling skills allow our policy and planning politics public welfare research and school social modelers to think creatively when campuses These women are also work modeling our virtual structures” said more likely to earn bachelor’s " Professionals in this field typically math science their m than or Davis Schwartz founder of Ballena degrees are licensed in the states in which sisters at coed schools Technologies a Seattle firm that virtual sports venues employing they work backed by bachelor and master’s degrees in social work Art Institute graduates ' Audiology Animation techniques are used in a Hearing problems are increasing variety of ways according to the Art Law people in all age groups and among Institutes system a consortium of 28 and law the audiologist usually will be the Study you can become a educational insitutions around the But you also have a wider lawyer professional a hard of hearing person country teaching design media arts choice than that will turn to for practical help fashion and culinary arts “Law school classically is a Often working in tandem with an (http:wwwartinstitutesedunr) anathe door You come in and you revolving otolaryngologist audiologist They may involve virtual gaming out prepared for five or six differthe extent and type of hearing go lyzes interior design architecture com- ent careers” said Lisa Kloppenbcrg loss and guides the selection of hearmercial spaces roads and communiassistive devices dean of the law school at the Univeraids other and ing ties also work with patients who sity of Dayton They Ty Michelfelder an Art Institute of undergo cochlear implants “Our students go into law busiAtlanta graduate helps create short Purdue ness a of Through joint project writing Nationwide 20 percent animations for the Matrix Board at of all law graduates go into University in West Lafayette Ind Turner Field for Atlanta Braves fields Law school is a great and Indiana University at Indianapogames ranging from commercials to lis students can achieve a doctorate for someone undecided about option “let’s get the crowd going" mesa career” in audiology through a program that sages Michelfelder says she never d The lets them work with engineering stuuniversity says thought she’d be working for a major dents to develop products for the for its School of Law applications league baseball team but enjoys the have jumped 24 percent in line with hearing health industry flexibility and assignments “Creat- rises in law school applications “These students also will be the ing animations that I am able to nationally Interest is strong for the audiology graduates in the only watch people respond to is very gratacadeschool’s program in law and technolwho consistent a have country ifying work” mic experience working with engiogy which prepares lawyers for work in intellectual property patent neers to develop new assistive techhelath and and cyberspace law devices care Women hearing Engineering Women have long been in engi- nology” said Robert Novak professor in the audiology and speech neering and science fields but Telecommunications sciences department at Purdue always in low numbers s J : s :V V'tV" i " : ‘ ere-at- iV-- wm es I - J j 7 tJ 1 ' VI AeARNV BIG (J W!ONEY home at r in your TIME i i MrvV I'- V v ' t : Ohio-base- Yet engineering and science represent one of the sure growth areas among professions with federal projections of a 27 percent increase in the decade ending in 2008 Mary Brown Bullock president of Agnes Scott College in Atlanta thinks that the attraction of these fields to women is likely to rise Engineering Social Work Another field that’s growing is social work with a 30 percent increase 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