ALL PROMISE AGEP Community invited to attend! Postdocs from the USM System are welcome to join!

Friday, September 15, 2017 · Noon – 2 PM

UMBC Campus – The Commons: 329

This seminar is part of the PROF-it (Professors-in-Training) series. Participants will learn how to develop a syllabus, manage time in the classroom, and plan content for the semester. Guest Facilitator: Dr. Linda Hodges, Director, UMBC Faculty Development Center.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 · Noon – 1:30 PM

UMBC Campus – Engineering 102

Create writing assignments to deepen understanding

The Faculty Development Center at UMBC extends an invitation to all UMBC AGEP and PROF-it students to participate.

Join FDC and Writing Center staff to learn how to create writing assignments that scaffold students’ writing skills, deepen their understanding and connection to the subject at hand, and prepare them to adapt these skills to other situations. We’ll explore ways to help students focus on the writing process with special attention to guiding students towards effective use of the Writing Center.  Lunch is provided.

* Part of Provost’s New Faculty Lunch series – all faculty are welcome to attend
√ Counts toward ALIT Certificate
§ Counts towards INNOVATE Certificate
Ͼ CIRTL graduate students are invited to attend

Whether new or seasoned, faculty often struggle to manage grading. How can you speed up your grading, make feedback more useful, and gain insights about how to improve student learning? Join your colleagues to discuss best practices for making grading more efficient for you and more useful for students. We’ll discuss the advantages of aligning questions on tests, quizzes, and assignments to your learning goals and of using rubrics to grade student assignments. We’ll also show how using rubrics in Blackboard can integrate grading and assessment of student learning outcomes. Lunch will be provided.

* Part of Provost’s New Faculty Lunch series – all faculty are welcome to attend
√ Counts toward ALIT Certificate
§ Counts towards INNOVATE Certificate
Ͼ CIRTL graduate students are invited to attend

This event forms part of the Prof-it: Professors in Traning Seminars @ UMBC

Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017 

9 a.m. – 10 a.m. 

685 W. Baltimore Street, Medical School Teaching Facility (MSTF) Building, Room 316

The Graduate School, The Office of Postdoctoral Scholars (OPS), The Office of Research Career Development and the PROMISE Program at University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) Campus extend an invitation to all the Postdoctoral Fellows and Associates to attend this event.

Postdoctoral Morning Coffee with Dr. Chariz Peñalber-Johnstone

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

10 AM – 12 Noon @ UMBC Campus

Commons Building, Room 329

ALL University System of Maryland Postdocs are invited to attend. Please comment on the comments section with your name, campus affiliation and department to RSVP.

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs is extending an invitation to attend our Postdoctoral Morning Coffee breakfast session on Wednesday, September 13, 2017, from 10 AM to noon. Please take the opportunity to assist, come and meet the extended community of scholars working at USM campuses. 

Dr. Chariz Peñalber-Johnstone will be the speaker of the session; she will be speaking about her postdoctoral work at the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology at UMBC, her participation in discipline-specific conferences, and her continued engagement in the field. She will mainly share information on applying for travel funding to disseminate research. 

Dr. Chariz Peñalber-Johnstone received a B.S. degree in Chemistry (Cum Laude) from The University of San Carlos in Cebu, Philippines in 2006, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA in 2012. Her graduate work was in the area of physical chemistry with a specific focus on the use of nonlinear optical spectroscopy for molecular-level structural analysis of ionic liquid surfaces. She has conducted studies at various interfaces to explain the physico-chemical properties of imidazolium and phosphonium-based ionic liquids relevant to their applications in catalysis.

With her current appointment as a post-doctoral research associate at the Center for Advanced Sensor Technology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, she contributes to both system design and protein expression sub-teams. She works cross-functionally in the development of a device that will produce, purify, and quantitatively determine a ready-for-delivery therapeutic protein in a few hours. The project includes the design of innovative mammalian in vitro protein expression and purification technologies combined with advances in microfluidics and microelectronics to produce biologics on-site. 

Hot breakfast will be provided. Please RSVP to attend the session in the comment section below. 

SACNAS now has travel grants available for engineers interested in pursuing faculty positions to join us at 2017 SACNAS the SACNAS Engineering Faculty Career Workshop (October 18-21) in Salt Lake City, UT.

More information can be found by clicking on the following link:

http://www.2017sacnas.org/events/2017-sacnas-the-national-diversity-in-stem-conference/custom-122-344a437cdada442d9179834c162b0a21.aspx

Apply by August 14.

Click on the following link to see the official information flyer: NASA Postdoctoral Program Flyer

NCI’s Cancer Prevention Fellowship Program (CPFP), a postdoctoral research and leadership training program, is accepting applications. The program is open to researchers, scientists, and clinicians with a demonstrated interest in cancer prevention and control.

Highlights of this multidisciplinary program include:
*The CPFP provides up to 4 years of support *The opportunity to obtain an MPH degree sponsored by NCI (if necessary based on prior training) *Dedicated training to build scientific and leadership skills *A cohort of fellows that spans across STEM and other fields *Competitive stipends, relocation expenses, travel allowances, and more.

To learn more about the fellowship, including eligibility requirements and application details, please visit https://cpfp.cancer.gov/, or contact us at cpfpcoordinator@mail.nih.gov. To hear more about this opportunity from current fellows and alumni, watch our video (https://cpfp.cancer.gov/).

The application deadline is August 25, 2017.

Friday, August 18: 11:30 AM – 4 PM

Our speakers were winners of the NSF GRFP Fellowship (as graduate students), and now as educators, they have taken their winning method on the road. They have given workshops at Harvard, MIT, UMBC, Howard, the University of Puerto Rico, and other schools, and have collectively assisted students with earning millions of dollars in fellowship award money. Each NSF GRFP Fellowship is worth more than $100,000. Our speakers have helped to produce several winners. You can be one of them!

• This is a special session, concurrent with the NSF LSAMP’s Math Institute. This session is open to all undergraduate students, and first and second-year graduate students.
• Session time: Part I: 11:30 – 1 PM – Applying for the Fellowship.
• Session time: Part II: 2:30 – 3:30 PM – Starting Your Application on Fastlane.
• Lunch with participants from the LSAMP Math Institute will be available to all who choose to stay for Part II.
  • Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson, Data Scientist, National Science Foundation
  • Dr. Patti Ordóñez, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras (also, Researcher at FACEBOOK, and The MIT Center for Brains, Minds, + Machines)
  • Dr. Lola Brown, Assistant Dean of Engineering, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, City College of New York (CCNY)

9:00 – 9:20 a.m

• Registration

9:20 a.m.

• Welcome
  • Yarazeth Medina, Coordinator for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs, The Graduate School
  • Justine Johnson, Associate Director, Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program
  • Sundiata Jangha, Director of Upward Bound Mathematics and Science Center 

9:40 a.m.

• Preparing for Graduate Study: Timelines and Choices
  • K. Jill Barr, J.D. ,  Sr. Assistant Dean of Graduate Enrollment, The Graduate School
  • Gay Warshaw,  Manager, Recruitment and Admissions, The Graduate School

10:00 a.m.

• Elements of the Graduate School Application: GRE, Transcripts, Letters of Recommendation, Statement of Purpose
  • Dr. Renetta Tull, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs, Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP

10:30 a.m.

• Understanding Graduate School – Panel of Graduate Students
  • Timothy Munuhe, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Denise Williams, PhD student, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
  • Nopondo Ndoh Esemoto, PhD student, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
  • Ana Maldonado, PhD student, Psychology Department

11:00 a.m.

• Introduction: Dr. Renetta Tull, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs, Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP
• Motivational Talk by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President, UMBC

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