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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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    <div class="html-content"><p>All graduate students attending institutions within the University System of Maryland are invited to attend a Special Saturday Success Breakfast Seminar on Public Speaking:</p>
    <p><strong>Saturday, January 31, 2015</strong></p>
    <p><em>Keys to Public Speaking: Prepare for Your Upcoming Presentation. </em></p>
    <p>UMBC COMMONS, Room 331</p>
    <p>10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.</p>
    <p>Speaker: Scott Morgan</p>
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    <p>Scott Morgan 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 (<a href="http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan</a>). Scott graduated with honors from the University of California, Davis and authored the book Speaking about Science published by Cambridge University Press.</p>
    <p>The Morgan Group has been training graduate students and postdocs in Maryland for more than 10 years.</p>
    <p>Please come in preparation for your presentations at upcoming local meetings such as the various graduate research conferences, and the PROMISE Research Symposium.</p>
    <p>Breakfast refreshments will be served. Please RSVP on MyUMBC: <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/28691" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/28691</a> (UMBC graduate students, staff, postdocs, faculty). Participants from other universities may register as a comment to this post with your name and institution.</p>
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