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<Title>Accepting applications for Winter 2011 Dissertation...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: Accepting applications for Winter 2011 Dissertation House at UMBC<p><a href="http://dissertationhouse.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/umbclogo_vert.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img src="http://dissertationhouse.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/umbclogo_vert.jpg?w=300&amp;h=264" alt="" width="300" height="264" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a>If you are a Graduate Student at UMBC, and if you are working on your  graduate school courses, proposal, or dissertation, then this event is for you!</p>
    <p>The on-campus setting provides Dissertation House participants with productive and rewarding scholastic engagement. Students who participate in this program will spend each day thinking, writing, and sharing ideas about their doctoral dissertations. Students will learn effective time-management skills; learn how to set small manageable goals, and will meet with a dissertation coach in one-on-one consultations to discuss and address obstacles that might prevent them completing their degrees.</p>
    <p>This is a weekday (9 a.m. – 5 p.m., non-residential) commitment set for the week of Tuesday, January 18 – Friday, January 21, 2011.</p>
    <p>Applications Due:  Friday, December 10, 2010</p>
    <p>RSVP on MyUMBC and follow directions for the application: <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/5126" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/5126</a></p>
    <br>Filed under: <a href="http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/category/dissertation-house/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dissertation House</a>         </div>
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<Summary>Full Title: Accepting applications for Winter 2011 Dissertation House at UMBC If you are a Graduate Student at UMBC, and if you are working on your  graduate school courses, proposal, or...</Summary>
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<Title>PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner Welcomes Dr. Erica...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner Welcomes Dr. Erica Corral, winner of Hispanic award for STEM, Nov. 19Join us for the annual PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner! This is our “Thanksgiving Dinner” for graduate students! Friday, November 19, 2010 6:30 PM Adele’s Restaurant Stamp Student Union, UM College Park’s Campus You must RSVP via the official registration page: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3a2atye">http://tinyurl.com/3a2atye</a>.  (This RSVP serves as your “free” ticket.) Dr. Erica Corral will be our special [...]</div>
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<Summary>Full Title: PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner Welcomes Dr. Erica Corral, winner of Hispanic award for STEM, Nov. 19Join us for the annual PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner! This is our “Thanksgiving Dinner”...</Summary>
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<Title>Grad Student Workshops on Writing. Nov. 17 &amp; Nov. 19</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">UMBC and the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP)  will hold Writing Seminars in November as past of their respective Graduate Student Success Seminar and Ph.D. Completion Project Workshop offerings. UMBC  Success Seminar Protean Prose: Identifying and Overcoming the Challenges of Academic Writing (A Graduate Level Writing Seminar) Wednesday, 11/17/10 4:30 – 6:00 PM University [...]</div>
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<Summary>UMBC and the University of Maryland College Park (UMCP)  will hold Writing Seminars in November as past of their respective Graduate Student Success Seminar and Ph.D. Completion Project Workshop...</Summary>
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<Title>Practical Steps for Completing Your Thesis or...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: Practical Steps for Completing Your Thesis or Dissertation. Saturday, Nov. 13Dr. Wendy Carter, Dissertation Coach for UMBC and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP will present: Practical Steps for Completing Your Thesis or Dissertation Saturday, November 13, 2011, 10AM – 2:00 PM, Commons, Room 329, UMBC’s Campus, Breakfast will be served. Dr. Carter is the coach for The Dissertation House (<a href="http://www.thedissertationhouse.com">http://www.thedissertationhouse.com</a>) and is the founder of TADA, Thesis [...]</div>
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<Summary>Full Title: Practical Steps for Completing Your Thesis or Dissertation. Saturday, Nov. 13Dr. Wendy Carter, Dissertation Coach for UMBC and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP will present: Practical Steps...</Summary>
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<Title>&#8220;Preparing for the Professoriate&#8221; Workshops on Fri. Nov. 5</Title>
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<Summary>On Friday November 5, two of our campuses will focus on teaching!  Our PROMISE program is an AGEP initiative (National Science Foundation’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate)...</Summary>
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<Title>Faculty Forum with Grad Students! Fri. 10/22 (Free Dinner!)</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The annual When Faculty Say ‘x’, They Really Mean ‘y’ faculty forum/grad student seminar will be held this Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:30 – 6:00 PM, on UMBC’s campus, ACIV, LH4. Details online from the UMBC Graduate School Digest. Post an anonymous question … any grad student, from any school may post a question: <a href="http://promisecommunitybuilding.blogspot.com/">http://promisecommunitybuilding.blogspot.com/</a> [...]</div>
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<Summary>The annual When Faculty Say ‘x’, They Really Mean ‘y’ faculty forum/grad student seminar will be held this Friday, October 22, 2010, 4:30 – 6:00 PM, on UMBC’s campus, ACIV, LH4. Details online...</Summary>
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<Title>Date changes for October! 10/8 seminar [Fac(x,y)]...</Title>
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<Summary>Full Title: Date changes for October! 10/8 seminar [Fac(x,y)] moved to 10/22, 10/20 seminar [IRB, RCR] moved to 10/26We’ve had a change in schedule for our October seminars. OLD DATE: Oct. 8. NEW...</Summary>
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<Title>Dissertation House Includes Leaders and Students from...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: Dissertation House Includes Leaders and Students from Three Campuses<p><a href="http://dissertationhouse.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/sept2010_yvette1.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img src="http://dissertationhouse.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/sept2010_yvette1.jpg?w=300&amp;h=200" alt="" width="300" height="200" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a>Today marks the second session of the “Dissertation House for Employees” at UMBC.  We had some extra slots on our roster this year, so graduate students from the three campuses who’d requested a spot in any available DH were invited to join the group.  Some of our employees at UMBC are in doctoral programs at College Park, so it helped to have some of the College Park DH students present to provide connections.  At present, the room is quiet, and students in doctoral programs at UMB, UMBC, and UM College Park are working on their dissertations.  Here are some photos from last week, including books on statistics and the new APA Style Manual which are available in the UMBC Bookstore in the Commons.  Comments from participants continue in this thread:<a href="http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/todays-september-24th-dissertation-house/#comments" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/todays-september-24th-dissertation-house/#comments</a>.</p>
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<Title>Today&#8217;s September 24th Dissertation House</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>Today, we dedicate a Dissertation House session to employees.  So many people are leaders in their respective careers, but they haven’t been able to take the time to finish the dissertation. This session is for them. Among them, we will have a couple of graduate students from our tri-campus who received special permission from Dr. Carter to join today’s group. These “experienced” grad students and alums from the other PROMISE Dissertation Houses at UMBC, UMB, UMCP, and Rocky Gap who are finishing their degrees within the next year will be able to provide our employees with motivation and encouragement. We believe that there is strength in numbers, so we are happy to have a full room today.  Today’s participants can enter their blog posts as comments to this message.</p>
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<Title>PROF-it &#8220;Professors-in-Training&#8221; Seminars, Fall 2010</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The Following Seminars will be held from 12 noon – 2:00 PM in Room 329, Commons, UMBC Campus PROF-it Preparation for the Professoriate Seminar October 1, 2010 – Developing a Syllabus 12 – 2PM, Commons 329, UMBC <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/4365">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/4365</a> PROF-it Preparation for the Professoriate Seminar October 22, 2010 – Consider Teaching at a Community College 12 [...]</div>
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<Summary>The Following Seminars will be held from 12 noon – 2:00 PM in Room 329, Commons, UMBC Campus PROF-it Preparation for the Professoriate Seminar October 1, 2010 – Developing a Syllabus 12 – 2PM,...</Summary>
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