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]]>Scholar Post-doc program is an option for final year doctoral students for a 1-3 year opportunity overseas, so it can be for recent alumni, but mainly for students in their last year of their doctoral programs.
About Fulbright:The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to build lasting connections between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The Fulbright Program is funded through an annual appropriation made by the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Participating governments and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
If you are a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who is earning a Master's degree or Ph.D. degree, you could be one of more than 2,200 students who receive a Fulbright grant each year to go to one of more than 160 countries worldwide. It awards grants in nearly all fields and disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) fields, and creative and performing arts.
Exhausted from the workload of this semester, ready for a fun evening to relax, rewind, and win!
The GEARS is coming up with Trivia Night on the 16th of November, 5:30 pm to 8 pm, Lecture Hall 1!
Do you have an innate inclination towards minute details? Always ready to impress your friends with random facts?
Then, our "Trivia Night" is totally for you!
Please, get your team registered by filling the Google form below.
P.S. People who don't have teams go ahead and register and we will find a team for you!
Hurry and register your teams, as we have limited capacity. Thank you!
(Food included)
]]>Featuring Tanguy Ringoir
Thursday, November 2, 2023
5:30 pm EST
University Center, Room 312
UMBC
"The Growing Influence of Hospital Market Concentration: Impacts on Quality, Profitability, and Medicaid Expansion"
Tanguy Ringoir is a Public Policy Ph.D. student from Belgium. He obtained both his BS in Financial Economics and his MA in Economic Policy Analysis from UMBC. His areas of interest include health economics and antitrust policy, and he is currently working with Public Policys Dr. Mir Usman Ali as a graduate assistant. He is the coach of the UMBC Chess Team and his doctoral research investigates the impacts of hospital market concentration.
Dr. Judith Ann "Judy" Shinogle was a former Senior Research Scientist with the Maryland Institute for Policy Analysis and Research and Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Policy, who passed away in May 2012. Judy's work for MIPAR included studies on gambling, childhood obesity, and wellness initiatives. Her published work includes articles on the effects of mental health insurance coverage on employees disabilities, mental health parity in insurance, economic costs of obesity, and pharmaceutical use among persons with disabilities.
The Judith A. Shinogle Memorial Fellowship is chosen by a faculty panel and awarded each year to a Health Policy doctoral student for their notable contribution to research in Health Policy. Each year in November, the student recipient presents their work at the Judith A. Shinogle Memorial Award Lecture.
Reception immediately following the lecture.
