The employees are hard at work in Dissertation House @ UMBC on September 23-24, 2011.

Employee DH

Employees at work in the DH

Yvette Mozie-Ross, Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management, shares her experiences with employees

The employees are hard at work in Dissertation House @ UMBC on September 23-24, 2011.

Employee DH

Employees at work in the DH

Yvette Mozie-Ross, Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management, shares her experiences with employees

Undergraduate and graduate students who participate in the following NSF programs are invited to submit abstracts for the 2012 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM:

Key dates related to abstract submission and travel
*** The deadline for poster and oral abstract submissions is October 21, 2011.
*** Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent by December 2, 2011.
*** The deadline to submit travel award applications is October 21, 2011.
*** Travel awards will be announced on or before December 2, 2011.

For questions regarding the online abstract submission process, please contact Donna Behar at dbehar@aaas.org.

Sincerely,
Yolanda S. George, Deputy Director
AAAS Directorate for Education &
Human Resources Programs

The PROMISE Success Seminars and Workshops website contains full lists of workshops for:

• Graduate Students
• Postdoctoral Fellows
• Interest in teaching and the professoriate (PROF-it)

Archived posts by title on the PROMISE Success Seminars site include the following:

• September 2011 Seminars for Graduate Students at UMBC
• Summer Success Institute Registration is open! (August 19-20, 2011)
• Summer Horizons Graduate School Preparation Program: July 20
• UMBC Provost Elliot Hirshman (PROMISE PI) will be the new president at San Diego State University
• Apply for UMBC-CCBC Teaching Fellows program FALL 2011
• PROMISE Cookout – Saturday May 7
• UMBC Will Participate in a Pilot for the Council of Graduate Schools
• Events for March 2011: Dissertation House, Proposals, Teaching Portfolios, Lift Up (Haiti) Movie, Career Roundtables
• PROMISE Spring Opening Dinner Meeting: “Getting to Level 10″ — Friday, 2/18/11
• Preparing for Global Leadership: Cultural Competence and Connections with and for International Students and Colleagues
• Advice for Preparing and Delivering Graduate Level Presentations by Barrett Whitener @PROMISE Symposium, Jan. 21, 2011
• “Reflections” @UMB: Complementary/Alternative Medicine (Tai Chi, Acupressure, and more!)
• PROMISE Research Symposium, Coming January 21, 2011
• PROF-it Professors-in-Training 12/3, January 2011 $$ opportunities for Grad Students, & 2011 Dissertation House. Plus, SREB’s Dr. Bob Belle comes to UM College Park to discuss interviewing Dec. 3!
• PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner Welcomes Dr. Erica Corral, winner of Hispanic award for STEM, Nov. 19
• Grad Student Workshops on Writing. Nov. 17 & Nov. 19
• Practical Steps for Completing Your Thesis or Dissertation. Saturday, Nov. 13
• “Preparing for the Professoriate” Workshops on Fri. Nov. 5
• Faculty Forum with Grad Students! Fri. 10/22 (Free Dinner!)
• Date changes for October! 10/8 seminar [Fac(x,y)] moved to 10/22, 10/20 seminar [IRB, RCR] moved to 10/26
• PROF-it “Professors-in-Training” Seminars, Fall 2010
• Grad Student Success Seminars and Meetings, September 2010
• Secrets of the Faculty Interview. Coming Aug. 20. 10:30 AM
• Mini “Graduate Horizons” Session at UMBC: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• Reminders of SSI 2007 & 2008
• Summer Success Institute (SSI) 2010, Coming August 21
• New home for PROMISE Success Seminars

Since this week marks another set of orientation activities, we want to make sure that everyone has information regarding understanding plagiarism and citing properly.  UMBC’s site for citations and references is here:

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/research/cite.php

This site also contains links for the major style guides: APA, MLA, IEEE, etc.

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/research/style.php

Since this week marks another set of orientation activities, we want to make sure that everyone has information regarding understanding plagiarism and citing properly.  UMBC’s site for citations and references is here:

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/research/cite.php

This site also contains links for the major style guides: APA, MLA, IEEE, etc.

http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/research/style.php

The Graduate Schools at UMBC and College Park will hold orientations this week, and UMBC will hold its first graduate student seminar on Friday, August 26. UMBC’s Evening Graduate School Orientation will be held on Wednesday, August 24 at 4:30 PM.

UM College Park invites all new and continuing graduate students of color and all other interested students to attend the Annual Networking Reception at the Nyumburu Cultural Center in the Multi-Purpose room. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM on Thursday, August 25. This reception offers students and an opportunity to meet and greet graduate student groups and offices that support students of color at College Park; network with faculty, staff, and group leaders on campus; and learn about various student groups. Refreshments will be served.

At the end of the week, UMBC will host a Teaching and Learning Workshop for all new TAs on campus and all students interested in teaching. The workshop will also feature an “Success Seminar” free 1 hour luncheon workshop on Life/Work Balance  for all graduate students with Psychologist Dr. Robert Deluty.

• All UMBC Graduate Student Success Seminars for 2011 – 2012 are listed here:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/umbc-grad-student-success-seminars/

• Postdoctoral seminars are listed here:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/postdocs/

• PROF-it (Professors-in-Training) and Professors Beyond Borders (PBB) seminars are listed here:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/professors-in-training-prof-it/