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<Title>3-Minute-Thesis (3MT) for the Graduate Research Symposium</Title>
<Tagline>An Information and Public Speaking Training Session: Dec. 6</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><div><br></div><div>The Graduate Research Symposium will be having the 3-Minute-Thesis rounds this year where graduate students can provide an elevator speech of their research within three minutes. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h4><strong>Learn about the 3MT:</strong></h4><div><br></div><div>GSA will be having an information<em><strong> and initial public speaking training session</strong></em> to inform graduate students about the 3MT.</div><div><br></div><blockquote><div>Speaker: Scott Morgan, The Morgan Group</div><div><img src="http://morgangp.com/http___MorganGp.com/Public_Speaking_files/557845_10150917077928289_806478288_12966212_440071121_n.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></div><div>Date: Dec. 6, 2016</div><div><br></div><div>Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM</div><div><br></div><div>Location: Commons 318</div><div><br></div><div>Register at: <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa/events/45290" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/gsa/events/45290</a>. </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span>Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington, DC, provides media training and public speaking tips to a variety of organizations, and universities. Morgan is a Senior Associate of the </span><span>Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy, at the</span><span> Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC.</span><br><br><span>Scott</span><span>  </span><span>Morgan</span><span>  has been teaching communication skills for 20 years. His clients include the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Merck, NASA, EPA, City of Hope Cancer Center, and several universities: Harvard Medical School, UNC Chapel Hill, Cornell, Maryland, Ohio State, Minnesota, Duke, Nebraska and NC State University, and Texas A&amp;M. He has 25 years of broadcast experience and teaches media and communication strategy to many think tanks in the Washington DC area. Specifically,  as a Senior Associate with the Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies</span><a href="http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">(</a><a href="http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan</a><a href="http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">). </a><span>Scott graduated with honors from the University of California, Davis and authored the book Speaking about Science published by Cambridge University Press.<br></span><br><div>For more about Scott Morgan, <a href="http://morgangp.com/http___MorganGp.com/Welcome.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">click here</a>. <br><br></div><div>For more about Morgan's sessions and clients, <a href="http://morgangp.com/http___MorganGp.com/Public_Speaking.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">click here</a>. <br></div></div><div><br></div></div>
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<Summary>The Graduate Research Symposium will be having the 3-Minute-Thesis rounds this year where graduate students can provide an elevator speech of their research within three minutes.         Learn...</Summary>
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