Meet our PROMISE members (postdocs, faculty and graduate students) and have some fun!

Friday, September 6, 2019

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Location: UMBC campus, Commons Building, Floor 2, Game Room

Parking: If you are not a UMBC member, please use the pay to park stations located around campus. For a parking map please click here.

PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP is dedicated to increasing the numbers and diversity of Ph.D.s in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math fields. PROMISE also provides a strong support system for underrepresented students of all fields, and for all graduate students. Come out for dinner and connections on Friday, September 6 in the Game Room, 2nd Floor of the Commons.

There is no need to register for this event, food will be provided.

UMBC students please visit: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/72787 to register for the event.

Contact PROMISE Coordinator Yarazeth Medina yarazeth@umbc.edu for additional information.

IMPORTANT UPDATE 5/6/16: DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS, THE COOKOUT WILL BE HELD TOMORROW, SATURDAY, MAY 7, AT THE UMBC CAMPUS, COMMONS BUILDING, 2ND FLOOR, GAME ROOM.

You are invited to come, bring your friends, family, and anyone who supports your journey through graduate school. This event is free. Graduate students from all schools within the University System of Maryland (USM) are invited!

Here is a list, if your school is listed, you are invited! http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/

Alumni, faculty, and staff are invited.

Friends and family members of students who have participated in PROMISE are invited. 

If you are from another school, e.g., Howard, Hopkins, GW, and have come to a PROMISE event in the past such as SSI, you are also invited to participate.

Please register below.

Register for the PROMISE Friends and Family Cookout and Celebration of Graduates:

If you are graduating from a USM institution with an M.S. or Ph.D., please send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com with your name, school, department, and degree, by 9 AM, Friday, April 29, 2016, so that we can recognize you at the event.

Date & Time: 

• Saturday, May 7, 2016
• 1:00 – 4:00 PM (Honoring Graduates at 3 PM)

Location UPDATE 5/6/16:

UMBC Campus

1000 Hilltop Circle

Baltimore, MD 21250

Commons Building, 2nd Floor

Game Room

Directions:

PDF | Google Maps

Parking:

Parking is free on weekends. The permits are not enforced. The nearest parking lot is the Commons Drive Garage. PDF | Google Maps

This event provides food, fun, connections, and networking. Come join the PROMISE Cookout!

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Are you looking for career path possibilities or searching for job opportunities?

On April 6, 2016, we will be hosting our annual “Career Paths for Graduate Students” seminar. Employers will cover all disciplines. Please RSVP to reserve your spot! Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about career possibilities and to network with employers of their interest.

DATE: Wednesday, April 6, 2016

TIME: 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

PROGRAM:

4:00—Employers arrive (gather plates of food, settle in at tables)

4:00 p.m.—Students arrive, register and start dinner

4:30-4:35-(General welcome by Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D., Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs )

• Renetta introduces Jill Barr

4:35: Special Remarks: K. Jill Barr, J.D., Sr. Assistant Dean, The Graduate School at UMBC

• Jill invites Christine to podium

4:45 –Special Remarks:  Christine Routzahn, Director, UMBC Career Center

• Christine invites Diane to podium

4:50—Facilitator: Diane Crump-Fogle, Associate Director, UMBC Career Center

• Brief overview of Graduate Student Resources
• Overview of program format (speed networking)
• Employer Introductions

5:00–Round Table rotations begin

5:15-Switch (Round 2)

5:30-Switch (Round 2)

5:45 p.m.—Q and A and Thanks to employers

5:45-6:00 p.m.—Informal networking

EVENT REGISTRATION

UMBC Attendees:

Please RSVP on the myUMBC page at: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/35772.

Attendees not affiliated with UMBC:

Please indicate your interest in the comments section below.

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CONFIRMED ORGANIZATIONS

• • 1. AP Ventures

  A P Ventures, LLC is a full service IT consulting company headquartered in Columbia, MD. We are one of the fastest growing IT company in the Washington DC, Metro area and are Prime vendors with various State, federal, and Local agencies.

   
  • 2. Atlas Home Group at Keller Williams Legacy 

  Recruiting majors: All Majors

  We are a hard working team with a STRONG desire to produce and provide SOLUTIONS for our clients. Ranked at the #1 team in the entire Keller Williams Maryland/DC region in 2014. We have a solid work ethic which includes showing up fully each day. We are extremely focused and driven and truly have a fun and energetic work environment. We are the superior real estate service provider for the Baltimore area!

  • 3. basys

  Recruiting majors: All Engineering Majors; All IT/Computer Majors; CMPE; CMSC; IS

  Established in 1977, basys is the internationally recognized leader in developing, deploying and supporting software solutions in the Taft-Hartley industry. We develop, deploy and support an integrated solution suite to make benefit plan administrators work more efficiently. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and with employees working across the United States, our highly-skilled technologists and business analysts work together to solve complex business problems and deliver tailored software applications to our customers.

  • 4. Connections Therapy Center

  Recruiting majors: ADP; H/S PSYC; NACS; SOWK; I/O PSYC; TEACH; TESOL

  The Connections Therapy Center is the leading therapy practice in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area focused entirely on children and adolescents with special needs. We help our clients and their families with a full scope of therapy services, including behavior services, occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, autism services and unique programs.

  • 5. Johns Hopkins Health System

  Recruiting majors: All Majors

  Our patients come from all over the country. And so do our staff. They come to be part of the most professional, diverse and reputable health care teams. They come to work beside the unequaled talent of Johns Hopkins physicians, nurses and staff. And they come for the benefits and unlimited opportunities for personal and professional growth. From community settings to an academic medical center, and from the city to the suburbs, Johns Hopkins Medicine is defined by our family of diverse work environments.

  Faculty and staff work together to provide the best care possible to patients, train tomorrow’s physicians and nurses, and challenge the frontiers of biomedical science through research. Career opportunities include:

  •Administrative

  •Allied Health

  •Finance

  •General Services

  •Information Systems

  •Management and Professional

  •Nursing and Nursing Support

  •Technicians

  • 6. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab

  Recruiting majors: All Engineering Majors; ENCH; CMPE; CMSC; ENEE; ENGM; HCC; IS; ENME; MATH; CHEM; PHYS; STAT; CYBR; MSSE

  The Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is a not-for-profit center for engineering, research, and development. Located north of Washington, DC; APL is a division of The Johns Hopkins University (JHU). We recruit and hire the best and the brightest from top colleges, and 68% of our recruits are engineers and scientists. We work on more than 600 programs that protect our homeland and advance the nation’s vision in research and space science.

  • 7. National Security Agency

  Recruiting majors: CMPE; CMSC; ENEE; IS; CYBR

  The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) leads the U.S. Government in cryptology that encompasses both Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and enables Computer Network Operations (CNO) in order to gain a decision advantage for the Nation and our allies under all circumstances.

  • 8. NFG Marketing

  Recruiting majors: All Majors

  Since 2011, NFG Marketing has offered consulting services to Energy & Telecom clients nationwide. We have helped over 15 clients increase their visibility and market share. We believe in building long term relationships with a strategic growth focused our clients individual needs. Our leadership team has over 30 years of direct sales experience ranging from energy, demand response, and telecom to residential accounts as well as business owners.

   
  • 9. ParaTools, Inc. 

  Recruiting majors: CMPE; CMSC; MATH; ATPH; PHYS; CYBR

  Help develop the next generation of software performance engineering tools and high performance computing applications! ParaTools is a small company of high performance computing experts tackling the hardest HPC problems at all scales. We provide software performance engineering services, tools, and expertise to national laboratories, government agencies, and industry giants like Intel, NVIDIA, and Microsoft. Our tools are available on the majority of the Top500 supercomputers and we work daily with domain experts to maximize the performance of the most advanced multi-physics software models ever developed.

  • 10. PenFed Credit Union

  Recruiting majors: All Majors; All IT/Computer Majors; CMPE; CMSC; IS; CYBR; ENGM; ISD; MSSE

  Our members are the people who proudly and quietly take the field every day to serve their country and community. Many are actively employed by the military, state and local governments, government contractors and our nation’s school systems. Many others are simply hard working Americans, playing by the rules, working day and night to build a better life for their families.

  But whatever they do, and wherever they live, PenFed members share two things: A belief in the American way of life and a belief in themselves.

  So our mission isn’t simply to help our members get by. We exist to help them realize every ounce of their potential. We exist to educate, but to also encourage. We exist to usher their dreams into the land of reality.

  That’s why we consistently strive to provide best-in-class rates on car loans and home mortgages. That’s why our portfolio of award-winning credit cards offers incentives and innovative features that our competitors find hard to match.

  Established in 1935, PenFed today is one of the country’s strongest and most stable financial institutions with over 1.3 million members and over $19 billion in assets. We serve members in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as on military bases in Guam, Puerto Rico, and Okinawa. We are federally insured by the NCUA and we are an equal housing lender. We are available to members worldwide via the web—seven days a week, 24 hours a day.

  In simple terms, we see every day as an opportunity to help our members “Do Better.” We invite you to learn how PenFed can help you realize your financial goals.

  • 11. Pole to Win International 

  Recruiting majors: All Majors

  Pole To Win’s mission is to build strong bridges between our clients and their customers. Since 1994, Pole To Win has modernized the ever-changing technology market. Global leaders in product lifecycle support, we constantly adapt and progress supported by a talented workforce of over 4,000 innovators. We support all PC hardware platforms and all forms of mobile devices and gaming consoles. We are an authorized license vendor and nurture our client relationships through transparent access to development and support teams. This experience together with technology, security and confidentiality propels our clients to a sustainable pole positon of success.

  Our inclusive approach to support revolves around Quality. 

  Quality Assurance | Quality Engineering | Customer Experience | Localization | Talent Acquisition

  • 12. Social Security Administration 

  Social Security is one of the largest independent agencies in government with over 60,000 employees. We work at more than 1,400 field offices and service centers throughout the country, as well as regional and headquarters locations.

  • 13. Syncopated Engineering Inc. 

  Recruiting majors: CMPE; CMSC; ENEE; HCC; CYBR; GIS; MSSE

  Syncopated Engineering is a creative solution provider of software applications and embedded systems for wireless communications, signal processing, and data analytics.

  • 14. UPS Information Services

  Recruiting majors: CMPE; CMSC; IS

  UPS is a global leader in logistics, offering a broad range of solutions including transporting packages and freight; facilitating international trade, and deploying advanced technology to more efficiently manage the world of business. Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more

  than 220 countries and territories worldwide.

  At UPS, we pride ourselves on developing the most-advanced and industry-leading technological advancements in the world. We leverage technology to empower customers with personalized solutions that simplify global trade and optimize supply chains. No matter what a customer is shipping or where, UPS helps its customers grow, manage costs and improve their customer service.

  • 15. Urban Teachers 

  Recruiting majors: All Majors

  Urban Teachers is a Residency and Masters program located in Baltimore, MD, Washington, DC and Dallas, TX. At Urban Teachers, we are revolutionizing the way people are prepared for a career in teaching. Our program begins with a full residency year, in which participants learn at the side of successful host teachers. Simultaneously, participants enroll in an innovative, clinically based master’s degree program designed exclusively for Urban Teachers. Throughout the program, participants receive over 100 hours of coaching to ensure improvement in their teaching practice.

  Our teaching programs include Elementary Education, Secondary Literacy, and Secondary Mathematics. In addition to a full-time teaching position at an urban school and teaching certification in general education and special education, all participants receive:

  1 – Year Co-teaching Residency

  2 – Year Master’s Degree

  3 – Years of One-on-One Coaching

  4 – Years Working in Urban Schools

  • 15. USDA-AMS

  The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) administers programs that create domestic and international marketing opportunities for U.S. producers of food, fiber, and specialty crops. AMS also provides the agriculture industry with valuable services to ensure the quality and availability of wholesome food for consumers across the country.

  AMS has almost 4,000 employees across the country helping create opportunities for American farmers and businesses. With opportunities that range from student internships to full-time Federal positions to seasonal field employees, AMS offers a wide variety of opportunities and career paths.

  Our employees are our most valuable asset in accomplishing our goals and supporting the mission of the agency, and we hope you will consider joining the AMS team.

  • 16. Videology

  Recruiting majors: CMSC; HCC; IS; MATH; STAT; EDUC; ENGM; ISD; MSSE; TEACH

  Videology (videologygroup.com) is a leading software provider for converged TV and video advertising. By simplifying big data, we empower marketers and media companies to make smarter advertising decisions to fully harness the value of their audience across screens. Our math and science-based technology enables our customers to manage, measure and optimize digital video and TV advertising to achieve the best results in the converging media landscape.

Today marks a milestone in PROMISE. All of the participants who were featured in the production of the “What is PROMISE” video from the 2007 Summer Success Institute (SSI) have successfully defended their doctoral dissertations! Robert Holder, UMBC PROMISE Peer Mentor, Computer Science, has been working full-time while pursuing his PhD, and today, he defended, rounding out our group of featured students.

The original video from 2007 is here, Robert is #8:

The participants, in order are:

1. Patti Ordóñez
2. Alexis Williams
3. Sylvester Mosley
4. Adrienne Starks
5. Angela McRae
6. Janet Awokoya
7. Tommie Piggee
8. Robert Holder
9. Trudy Smith
10. Frances Carter-Johnson

Where are they now?

Dr. Patti Ordóñez (UMBC, Computer Science) is now a professor and computer scientist at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. She now has her own students, grants, and research program. Dr. Alexis Y. Williams (UMCP, Human Development) teaches in the Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a postdoctoral researcher in College Park’s Teaching and Learning Transformation Center (her TLTC profile page can be found here: http://www.tltc.umd.edu/staff/alexis-y-williams.) Dr. Sylvester Mosley (UMBC, Chemistry and Biochemistry) is a Consumer Safety Officer at the FDA. After Dr. Adrienne Starks (UMBC, Biological Sciences) finished a postdoc at the NIH, she continued working with a non-Profit, Equity Matters, which focuses on promoting health equity in policies. Dr. Angela McRae (UMCP, Educational Psychology) is now a professor at Catholic University of America where she is the STEM Education Coordinator. Dr. Janet Awokoya (UMCP, Curriculum and Instruction) went for the dream and moved to Ghana to be a technical consultant for a non-profit after being a Sr. Researcher at the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute at the United Negro College Fund. Her work has been published by the Harvard Educational Review; read about the research here. Following a postdoc at Quillen College of Medicine, Geriatrics and Gerontology Center, East Tennessee State University, Dr. Tommie Piggee (UMBC, Gerontology) is now a gerontologist and health & wellness consultant in Little Rock.

Credit: Robert Holder’s LinkedIn page.

Robert Holder (UMBC, Computer Science), who hails from the same department as Patti (above) worked at Johns Hopkins Physics Lab for many years before working at ClearEdge IT Solutions. Dr. Trudy (Smith) Amin (UMB, Pharmaceutical Sciences) is a chemist employed by the Drug Enforcement Administration. Frances Carter-Johnson finished a postdoc at MIT and became an American Association for the Advancement of Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the NIH. Her AAAS blog post can be found here. Frances and Patti also return to UMBC annually to give seminars on the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. To date their mentees have won more than $10 Million in fellowship money.

PROMISE has students within and outside of STEM fields who are making contributions to STEM (see the ASEE published paper here.) Many of the people who were on the conceptual design team for this initial video, while students back in 2007, have since finished their PhDs as well. Dr. Jocelyn Reader (UMB, Human Genetics) is now a Research Associate at the University of Maryland Baltimore in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. Dr. Calvin Williams (UMB, MD/PhD Immunology) finished a residency with the Jefferson Medical College/Christiana Care Medical System and is a fellow in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Dr. Charles Glover (UMCP, Math) is Associate Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Dr. Shanna Smith (UMCP, English) is a Frederick Douglass Teaching Scholar at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Victor Ayala finished a postdoc at the National Cancer Institute and is now a scientist at Advanced BioScience Laboratories. Dr. Tina Ligon (UMCP, History) is an Archivist at the National Archives and teaches at Howard Community College. Dr. Stacey Williams finished a postdoc with the FDA and is now a professor at Notre Dame University of Maryland. Some of the people here, and others in the first video are also featured in the “PROMISE in One Word” video below, also filmed during the 2007 SSI at the Sheraton Hotel in Columbia, MD.

Congratulations to all of our PROMISE students and alumni. We look forward to continuing to celebrate with you. Save the date for SSI 2016, August 20, 2016 at the Hotel at Arundel Preserve! Congratulations also to all of the faculty, family members, and kudos to the PROMISE Dissertation House Coach, Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, who worked with nearly everyone listed in this post.

So pleased to be at the successful PhD dissertation defense of Robert Holder @UMBC CompSci #ThinkBigDiversity pic.twitter.com/ovblMKWhUI

— Renetta G. Tull (@Renetta_Tull) December 9, 2015

The 2015 PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner for graduate students and postdocs at schools within the University System of Maryland will be held Friday, November 20, 2015, at  5:00 PM.

Location:

University of Maryland College Park

Stamp Student Union

2203 Stamp – Colony Ballroom

This dinner will allow you to connect with graduate students and postdocs who are in your field, allowing you to build collaborative relationships, connections, and expand your network. You may bring a guest to this event. PROMISE wants you to include your support network in events. 

This event is free.

REGISTER:

Stay tuned to this page for any additional information.

PROMISE at UMB invites all to a special Fall Kick-off & Social Hour.

Friday, September 4, 2015, 3 pm

University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB)

Bressler Building, Hostick Lecture Hall

Featuring Dr. Nirmal Joshi, MC Chief Medical Officer for Pinnacle Health System

Transportation

Driving:

Google Directions

(Additional information will be placed in the comment section of this post.)

By bus:

A shuttle leaves at 1:30 PM and 2:30 PM from UMBC  and arriving at UMB 1:50 PM and 2:50 PM

More about PROMISE at UMB:

http://www.graduate.umaryland.edu/Current-Students/PROMISE-Program/

https://umbconnect.umaryland.edu/organization/promise

• Understanding Graduate School – Panel of Graduate Students
  • Nopondo Esemoto (Chemistry)
  • Joshua Brown (Biochemistry – MD/PhD)
  • DeLauren McCauley (Chemistry)
  • Antione Taylor (Psychology)
  • Janae Baptiste (Chemistry)
  • Alex Vega (Chemistry, incoming 1^st Year)

11:30 a.m.

• Introduction: Dr. Janet C. Rutledge, Vice Provost of Graduate Education & Dean of the Graduate School
• Motivational Talk by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President, UMBC

Related articles

• President Obama Appoints UMBC President as Chair of National Education Commission (baltimore.cbslocal.com)

UPDATE: 4/30/15: This event will still take place on Saturday, 5/2. Please feel free to come out and take a brief break from your activities and join us from 1-4. We will celebrate graduates at 3. Given the current state of unrest, we also know that people are interested in knowing about opportunities to help in Baltimore. Informal sharing of information will be welcomed.

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Saturday, May 2, 2015: PROMISE AGEP Family and Friends Celebration of Graduates Cookout

You are invited to come, bring your friends, family, and anyone who supports your journey through graduate school. This event is free. Graduate students from all schools within the University System of Maryland (USM) are invited!

Here is a list, if your school is listed, you are invited! http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/

Alumni, faculty, and staff are invited.

Friends and family members of students who have participated in PROMISE are invited. 

If you are from another school, e.g., Howard, Hopkins, GW, and have come to a PROMISE event in the past such as SSI, you are also invited to participate.

Please register below.

Register for the PROMISE Friends and Family Cookout and Celebration of Graduates:

If you are graduating from a USM institution with an M.S. or Ph.D., please send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com with your name, school, department, and degree, by 9AM, Wednesday, April 29, 2015, so that we can recognize you at the event.

Location:
High Ridge Park Pavilion
10100 Superior Avenue
Laurel, MD 20723

Directions:
PDF | Google Maps

Park Phone:

410-313-4700

This event provides food, fun, connections, and networking. Please plan to attend.

–
Piyush Waradpande
Graduate Assistant

Yarazeth Medina
Program Assistant

Warmer weather is arriving and we’d like for you to mark your calendars now for two PROMISE AGEP events that are open to graduate students and postdocs within the University System of Maryland, and our friends and colleagues from other universities. We build community as part of our professional development efforts, so we’ll look forward to having you join us on those dates.

Stay tuned to this website for more information. Both events will utilize the Eventbrite registration system. Here are some details that you can add to your plans.

1. The Cookout and Celebration of Graduates will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2015, 1:00 – 4:00 PM. This event acknowledges all master’s and doctoral graduates from any school within the University System of Maryland. This year, we will also acknowledge postdocs who are moving on to other positions. Please send us your good news so that we can acknowledge you: promisestaff@gmail.com, with the subject: “May 2 Cookout Celebration.” This event will be held at the High Ridge Park Pavilion in Laurel, MD.

2. The PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) will be held on Saturday, August 15, 2015, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM. This conference (business attire) provides professional development for new/incoming graduate students, continuing graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, early-career professors, and professionals in the region. This is an annual event that has been in existence since 2003. All PROMISE alumni are welcome to return! Professionals in the area are welcome to attend to be part of this networking, professional development, and community building event. The 2015 SSI will be held at The Hotel at Arundel Preserve, in Hanover, MD.

Details for the 2015 SSI on August 15th will be posted here: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi-august-15-2015/

• See more about our SSI History: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/promise/the-promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/

Please save the dates!

These events are sponsored by the National Science Foundation, 
    PROMISE AGEP: Maryland Transformation (AGEP-T) project. 

The new Career-Life Balance Initiative at UMBC is sponsoring a February 2015 workshop on preparing career paths that will include a healthy integration of work and those things that are important to life, e.g., health and wellness, family. This workshop is sponsored by UMBC’s initiative new project, “On Ramps” to Full Professor: Institutional Support for Post-Family Leave Faculty Research Reintegration, National Science Foundation Grant #1446406.” The series of workshops and seminars will be open to the campus community at UMBC, and guests from the University System of Maryland. The sessions will cover topics that support development of a better integration of career and activities that shape everyday life.

The precursor event will be a Career-Life Balance “Writing Corner” breakfast session for graduate students on Monday, Feb. 23. During this session, graduate students will be able to have some dedicated time to work on grant submissions, CV updates, dissertations, applications, etc. The Career-Life Balance “Writing Corner” is a new initiative that is taking the best practices from the PROMISE Dissertation House, PROMISE Writing for Publication, and PROMISE Postdoctoral Writing Suite activities, and combining them with needs that graduate students expressed in a CLB poll launched at UMBC during the Fall semester 2014. The “Writing Corner” concept was developed by the CLB GA, Amanda Lo, who worked with graduate students to gauge interest. Amanda describes the space as follows: “This room will serve to help others achieve career-life balance by providing a comfortable environment where graduate students, post-doctorate fellows, faculty, and staff can allocate time to work at ease on their writing. All participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops and any materials that they might need to assist them with their writing.” Students may RSVP for the Monday, February 23rd “CLB Writing Corner” here: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/careerlifebalance/events/30310.

The key CLB event for the month will be a Wednesday, February 25, 2015 workshop on planning your career portfolio. This workshop will be led by Dr. Laura Koppes Bryan, Dean of the Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Baltimore (UB). Dean Bryan is an advocate for effective strategies on managing both work and life responsibilities. She worked as an independent consultant for LK Associates, where she consulted with organizations on various areas, including work-life effectiveness. She also served as Director of Work-Life at the University of Kentucky where she analyzed data surveying the work-life culture for both faculty and staff members. She developed and implemented the UK Work-Life vision and strategy; through her advocacy and presentation to the University Board of Trustees, she was approved of a budget of 11 million dollars for the work-life initiatives. Dr. Bryan is a member of the PROMISE AGEP STEM Deans Council, and is partnering with The Career-Life Balance Initiative at UMBC, The PROMISE AGEP for the University System of Maryland, UMBC’s Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, and The Graduate School at UMBC, to provide this seminar for all graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, in all disciplines. All members of the campus community are invited to attend.

• Event: Developing A Career Portfolio
• Date: Wednesday, February 25, 2015
• Speaker: Dr.LauraKoppes Bryan,
  • Dean Laura Bryan from UB will discuss developing a career portfolio with a focus on managing both career and life responsibilities. At this event, attendees will be able to walk away with ideas or an outline for developing their career portfolio.  All attendees will receive a complimentary copy of Dean Bryan’s latest book, Shaping Work-Life Culture in Higher Education: A Guide for Academic Leaders.
  • About Dr. Bryan: http://www.ubalt.edu/cas/faculty/alphabetical-directory/laura-k-bryan.cfm
• Location: UMBC, The Commons, Room 329 (Directions to events co-sponsored by the PROMISE AGEP.)
• Time: 1:00 – 2:15 PM
• Lunch will be served
• This event is free, and is sponsored by NSF #1446406.
  • REGISTRATION: The event is open to all graduate students, postdocs, faculty, staff, and alumni. The event will be applicable to all academic disciplines. Visitors from other USM institutions are invited, as part of our PROMISE AGEP alliance.
  • Members of the UMBC community can register here: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/29579
  • Visitors from other campuses can reply in the comment section of this email so that we will know that you are coming.

The Career-Life Balance project at UMBC is part of a special initiative that is being sponsored by the National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/career-life-balance/, in concert with objectives on the topic that are being put forth by the White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/02/15/career-life-balance-fair-continues-promote-flexible-workplaces-america-s-scientists-. Read more from the press release by the White House here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/26/white-house-and-national-science-foundation-announce-new-workplace-flexi