TSN Leader Duties

·       Serve as a role model to off-campus and on-campus transfer students.

·       Develop peer-mentoring relationships with assigned students before, during, and after their transition.

·       Organize programming and services as part of your team and collateral project.

·       Assist in development of a sense of community among transfer students.

·       Plan and implement the Transfer Student Network Workshop Series every semester.

·       Assist with Office of Off-Campus Student Services events as needed, including, but not limited to Commuter Week and Welcome Week.

·       Attend two Transfer Day Fairs at partnering community colleges throughout the semester.

Please join Albin O. Kuhn Library  Gallery this week in celebrating National Library Week. This year’s theme is Libraries Transform and the UMBC community and Library staff are asking “What does transformation look like at our library?” In light of the ongoing international refugee crises as well as the larger immigration conversation here in the U.S., the Library has chosen to showcase authors and other creators in our collections from some of the countries impacted by the 2017 travel ban. Be sure to stop by the new display in the Reference area of the first floor.

The capstone event of UMBC’s participation in National Library Week is a Humanities Forum lecture given by Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress. Thursday evening’s event, titled “A Conversation About Digital Access,” will begin at 5:30 pm in the Linehan Concert Hall in the Performing Arts & Humanities Building. This event is free and open to the public.

As scholars within the University System of Maryland, and part of the community served by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP, you have been immersed in environments that carry a vision for social responsibility. Have you thought about how to engage globally? Let’s consider ways that you can share your research internationally, and how to address global challenges.

Dr. Darryl Williams. Photo Credit: 08/07/2014 – Medford/Somerville, Mass. – The BLAST and BEST banquet on August 7, 2014. (Alonso Nichols/Tufts University)

On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Dr. Darryl Williams, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Tufts School of Engineering will come to UMBC to have a conversation with undergraduate and graduate students about sharing research on a global level. His discussion, “Giving your research a global platform” will include conversations about his experiences with sharing research in Panama, the United Arab Emirates, Italy, and other countries. Dr. Williams is Research Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University, and he explores the effects of nanostructured materials on biological systems. Dr. Williams also serves as the Director for Tufts’ Center for STEM Diversity, and the current President of the national Minorities in Engineering Division (MIND) for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). Prior to coming to Tufts, Dr. Williams was a program officer at the National Science Foundation.

Dr. Williams received the Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland College Park, and the B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Hampton University.

Dr. Williams’ page at Tufts: https://engineering.tufts.edu/people/faculty/darryl-williams
Tufts Center for STEM Diversity: http://stemdiversity.tufts.edu/

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

2:00 – 3:00 PM

The Fireside Lounge (next to the Skylight Room), 3rd Floor, The Commons, UMBC

Registration is free. Please RSVP:

If you are a student at UMBC, please RSVP here, on MyUMBC: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/49455

If you will be visiting from an institution of organization other than UMBC, please post your RSVP in the comments, by including your name, and school/organization.

Light refreshments will be served.

This conversation is co-sponsored by:

PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP

The Meyerhoff Scholars Program (Meyerhoff is part of the NSF LSAMP program for the USM)

The Grand Challenges Scholars Program at UMBC