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<Title>The @GEMFellowship GEM GRAD Lab is coming to @UMBC Sept. 19, 2015 #ThinkBigDiversity #GEMGRADLab</Title>
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    </a>The National GEM Consortium’s GRAD Lab is coming to UMBC on Saturday, September 19, 2015. This page will serve as the host website for the event. Please stay tuned and visit regularly for updates, as the program content develops.</p>
    <h3><strong>FREE WORKSHOP FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL PREPARATION</strong></h3>
    <p>The <a href="http://www.gemfellowship.org/about-gem/gem-events-and-conferences/grad-lab/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">GEM Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees (GRAD) Lab</a> is a program for people who are considering graduate study in STEM fields. While most of the participants in the national GEM GRAD Lab programs are undergraduates in their junior and senior years who are seeking graduate admission at either the M.S. or doctoral level, UMBC also invites freshmen and sophomores who want a head start, M.S. students who are seeking tips for Ph.D. admission, and career professionals who are considering a return to school to earn any graduate STEM degree. Special invitations are further extended to undergraduate students who attend institutions within the <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University System of Maryland</a>, and students who participate in programs such as NSF’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), the National Society of Black Engineers  (NSBE), the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), the American Indian Science and Engineering Society  (AISES), the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists (SACNAS), and McNair scholars.</p>
    <p>The 2015 GEM GRAD Lab at UMBC will be principally sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), which is funded by the National Science Foundation. The GEM GRAD Lab at UMBC follows the<a href="https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi-august-15-2015/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> 2015 PROMISE AGEP Summer Success Institute</a> (<em><a href="https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2015/08/22/thinkbigdiversity-after-the-promise_agep-ssi-whats-next/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">continuing PROMISE theme for 2015-2016: #ThinkBigDiversity</a></em>), and is part of the AGEP’s programming to encourage diverse STEM students to prepare for and apply to graduate school.</p>
    <p><strong>Co-sponsors include Penn State University, Binghamton University – State University of New York (SUNY), the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland College Park, University of Virginia, and Howard University.</strong> The Intel Foundation is a national sponsor for the GEM GRAD Lab.</p>
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    <p><span>Here are basic facts for the GEM GRAD Lab at UMBC:</span></p>
    <h2><span><strong>Time and Location</strong></span></h2>
    <p><strong>Date:</strong> Saturday, September 19, 2015</p>
    <p><strong>Time:</strong> 8:00 AM – 3:30 PM</p>
    <p><strong>Location:</strong> The Engineering Building Lecture Hall &amp; Atrium (ENGR 027 – Lecture Hall 5)</p>
    <p><strong>Directions and Parking:</strong> <a href="http://about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide/directions/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Guide/Directions</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/dir//39.2546052,-76.7139554/@39.2542158,-76.7125694,262m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!4m1!3e0" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Google Map Street View Image</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Engineering,+Baltimore,+MD+21250/@39.254607,-76.714081,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c81dcbc92bb529:0x4295ae81faa77bed" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Google Map Coordinates: 39.254657, -76.713960</a></p>
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    <li>Parking Lot 8: Participants driving personal cars (right in front of the Performing Arts building on Hilltop road)</li>
    <li>Parking Lot 22: For buses.</li>
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    <p><em>Follow the signs! We will have several for parking and to get to the building.</em></p>
    <p>Please follow the link to see the parking map of the UMBC campus.</p>
    <p>Parking map: <a href="http://about.umbc.edu/files/2012/08/2015-2016-Parking-Map.pdf" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://about.umbc.edu/files/2012/08/2015-2016-Parking-Map.pdf</a></p>
    <h2><span><strong>Lodging</strong></span></h2>
    <p>If you are arriving on Friday, Sept. 18, 2015, and checking out on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, please consider our preferred hotel, The Hotel at Arundel Preserve, <a href="http://hotelarundel.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://hotelarundel.com/</a>, which has a special UMBC rate of $139/night + tax for this event. The UMBC room rate (for two queen beds or a king bed with a sleeper sofa) is available until Friday, September 4, 2015.</p>
    <h2><strong>AGENDA</strong></h2>
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    <td>8:00 AM – 9:00 AM</td>
    <td>Registration, Pre-Survey and Continental Breakfast</td>
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    <td>9:00 AM – 9:30 PM</td>
    <td>Welcome and Greeting from UMBC:
    <p><strong>Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D.</strong>, Associate Vice Provost, Graduate Student Development &amp; Postdoctoral Affairs; Co-PI University System of Maryland PROMISE AGEP; Co-PI University System of Maryland LSAMP</p>
    <p>• Segment from UMBC’s President, <strong>Freeman Hrabowski, Ph.D.</strong>, <em>via video</em></p>
    <p>• Remarks: <strong>K. Jill Barr, J.D.</strong>, Senior Assistant Dean, Graduate Enrollment Management, UMBC</p></td>
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    <td>9:30 AM – 10:30 AM</td>
    <td>Workshop 1: Why Graduate School
    <p>• <strong>Howard G. Adams, Ph.D.</strong>, Former Executive Director of GEM</p></td>
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    <td>10:30 AM – 11:30 AM</td>
    <td>Workshop 2: How to Apply
    <p>• <strong>Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D.</strong>, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development &amp; Postdoctoral Affairs, UMBC</p></td>
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    <td>11:30 AM – 1:00 PM</td>
    <td>Lunch &amp; Graduate Fair
    <p><em>Graduate School Opportunities: </em> UMBC, University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Baltimore, Towson University, University of Virginia, Penn State University, Binghamton University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore</p></td>
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    <td>1:00 PM – 2:00 PM</td>
    <td>Workshop 3: How to Fund Graduate School
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    <li>Moderator: <strong>Zakiah N. Pierre, Ph.D.</strong>, GEM Fellow</li>
    <li><strong>Rosemary Parker, M.S.,</strong> Director, Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering (CMSE), University of Maryland, College Park</li>
    <li><strong>Shanise N. Kent, JD, MBA</strong>, Director of Diversity Programs &amp; Initiatives, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering &amp; Applied Science, Binghamton University</li>
    <li><strong>Justine Johnson,</strong> Associate Director of the NIH-IMSD Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program, UMBC</li>
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    <td>2:00 PM – 2:45 PM</td>
    <td>Workshop 4: Voices from the Field
    <p>• Introduction: <strong>Janet C. Rutledge, Ph.D.</strong>, Vice Provost &amp; Dean for Graduate Education, UMBC</p>
    <p>. Moderator: <strong>Acklyn Murray</strong>, GEM Fellow, Computer Science, Howard University</p>
    <p><strong>.</strong> <strong>Kenneth E. Newsome, M.S.</strong>, Electrical Systems Engineer, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory</p>
    <p><strong>. Rhea Thompson,</strong> Doctoral student, Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES), University of Maryland College Park</p>
    <p><strong>. Hector Medina, M.S.</strong>, Doctoral student, Mechanical Engineering, UMBC</p></td>
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    <td>2:45 PM – 3:00 PM</td>
    <td>Closing (raffle and surveys)</td>
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    <td>3:00 PM – 3:30 PM</td>
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    <p>Networking</p>
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    <h2><span><strong>Registration</strong></span></h2>
    <h2><span>Registration is now open. Please register here, via the GEM program’s official process:</span> <strong><a href="https://egem.gemfellowship.org/events/ViewEvent.aspx?contextID=10167" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://egem.gemfellowship.org/events/ViewEvent.aspx?contextID=10167</a></strong></h2>
    <p><em>Please note that all student participants must register via the website above. The PROMISE AGEP is not able to take a list of students nor email notifications in lieu of the registration process that is outlined within the link above. Thank you for following this procedure. </em></p>
    <p>Registration is free. To share this page and its contents, feel free to use the shortened version of the URL: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/UMBC-GEMGRADLab" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://tinyurl.com/UMBC-GEMGRADLab</a></p>
    <h2><span><strong>Transportation</strong></span></h2>
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    <li><em><strong>Frostburg students:</strong> </em>To reserve a bus seat you must email Wendy Wilson in the Office of Graduate Services at <a href="mailto:wwilson@frostburg.edu">wwilson@frostburg.edu</a></li>
    <li><strong><em>College Park students</em>:</strong> Contact Taifa Simpson, Director, LSAMP in the <a href="http://www.cmse.umd.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering</a> for bus information, <a href="mailto:tsimpson@umd.edu">tsimpson@umd.edu</a>.</li>
    <li><strong><em>Penn State students</em></strong>: Contact Wayne Gersie, Director, <a href="http://psuengineeringdiversity.com/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Multicultural Engineering Program</a>, Office of Engineering Diversity, <a href="mailto:wgersie@engr.psu.edu">wgersie@engr.psu.edu</a></li>
    <li><em><strong>Binghamton students:</strong></em> Contact Shanise Kent, Director of Diversity Programs &amp; Initiatives, Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering &amp; Applied Science, Binghamton University</li>
    <li><strong><em>UMES students:</em> </strong>Contact Tracy Bell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Department of Natural Sciences, <span>University of Maryland Eastern Shore,</span> <a href="mailto:tdbell@umes.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>tdbell@umes.edu</span></a></li>
    <li><em><strong>Howard students:</strong> </em>Contact Kamla Deonauth Ph.D., Director, Graduate School, Howard University</li>
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    <h2><span><strong>The Graduate Fair</strong></span></h2>
    <p>The lunch activity will include a graduate school fair that will feature colleges and universities who are interested in talking with students about applying to their graduate programs. <em> Schools that are interested in sharing their graduate programs with guests are invited to reserve a table at the “Lunch &amp; Graduate Fair”</em> by emailing <a href="mailto:promisestaff@gmail.com">promisestaff@gmail.com</a>, with the subject “GEM GRAD Lab Lunch Fair.” This free table space is limited. Priority will be extended to co-sponsoring schools, and institutions within the <a href="http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University System of Maryland</a>.</p>
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    <p>The PROMISE AGEP is led by UMBC, the University of Maryland Baltimore, and the University of Maryland College Park. All of the universities within the University System of Maryland are part of the PROMISE AGEP. Read more about PROMISE AGEP: Maryland Transformation (AGEP-T) here: <a href="https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/about/about-promise-the-agep-for-maryland/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/about/about-promise-the-agep-for-maryland/</a></p>
    <p>Official Flier: 2015 GEM GRAD Lab at UMBC</p>
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<Title>Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia&#8217;s Game) Workshop &#8211; Friday, 3/30/12</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. William Robinson, 2011 <a href="http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PROMISE SSI</a> Mentors-in-Residence, will present their annual “Got S.W.A.G.?” workshop for advanced Ph.D. students, postdocs, and assistant professors, at the <a href="http://www.nsbe.org/Convention/Convention/Graduate-School-%28GSC%29.aspx" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">2012 National Convention for the National Society of Black Engineers </a>on Friday, 3/30/12.  Dr. Beyah and Dr. Robinson were former graduate students in the NSF FACES AGEP at Georgia Tech, and both are now tenured engineering professors at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt respectively.  Graduate students who are going to be in Pittsburgh this week should make it a priority to attend this workshop.  Students who are not attending the NSBE conference, or who will not be traveling to Pittsburgh on Friday, should read the abstract so that you can take time to think about some of the issues that need to be addressed to be prepared for success in academe.</div>
    
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    <div><strong><em>2nd Annual Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game) Workshop</em></strong><br>
    38th Annual Convention</div>
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    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania</div>
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    <div>ABOUT THE WORKSHOP</div>
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    <div>Title: <em><strong>Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game)</strong></em><br>
    Presenters: W<em>illiam H. Robinson, Ph.D. and Raheem A. Beyah, Ph.D.</em></div>
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    <div>Target audience: Assistant Professors, Post-docs, and Senior Ph.D. students</div>
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    <div>Maybe you are on the tenure-track now, or you are planning to accept a tenure-track position soon. But do you have the SWAG to surf the unwritten rules of academia and win tenure at a university? You must avoid being a “one-hit wonder” by sustaining your excellence in research, teaching, and service. The workshop presenters have compiled a list of lessons they learned during the tenure-track process, and will share those experiences with the audience. We will discuss how to maximize your “street cred,” which translates to the impact of your research program. Is your research valued by the community? Can you obtain strong external letters for your dossier? High-impact publications and invited seminars are keys to visibility within the academic community. We will also discuss how to build your “entourage,” which translates to your research group. What is your recruiting and management style? Hiring and mentoring good graduate students is the lifeblood of scholarly impact. We will discuss how to “make it rain,” which means winning competitive grants and young investigator awards. Do the program managers at the funding agencies know you personally? Have you leveraged your first grant (i.e., your startup package)? Faculty members are evaluated by the amount of funds brought to the university. Finally, we will discuss “winning time,” which is the art of preparing your dossier. You must make your case to win tenure with strong summaries of your scholarly contributions in research, teaching, and service. We envision an interactive discussion with the audience in an effort to diversify the landscape of academia [1].[1] D. E. Chubin, G. S. May, and E. L. Babco, “Diversifying the engineering workforce,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, January 2005.
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    <div>William H. Robinson received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1996, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In August 2003, Dr. Robinson joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. His research explores hardware and software tradeoffs to improve system performance, system reliability, and system security. Dr. Robinson’s major honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and selection for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel, both in 2008. Dr. Robinson is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM, and has additional memberships in ASEE and NSBE.</div>
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    <p>Email: <a href="mailto:william.h.robinson@vanderbilt.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">william.h.robinson@vanderbilt.edu</a>, URL: <a href="http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/%7Erobinswh" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~robinswh</a></p>
    
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    <p>Raheem Beyah is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech where he leads the Communications Assurance and Performance Group (CAP) and is a member of the Communications Systems Center (CSC). Prior to returning to Georgia Tech, Dr. Beyah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, a research faculty member with the Georgia Tech CSC, and a consultant in Andersen Consulting’s (now Accenture) Network Solutions Group. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&amp;T State University in 1998. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Beyah served as a Guest Editor for MONET. He is an Associate Editor of several journals including the (Wiley) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal. His research interests include network security, wireless networks, network traffic characterization and performance, and security visualization. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009 and was selected for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel in 2010. He is a member of NSBE, ASEE, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.</p>
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<Title>Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia&#8217;s Game) Workshop &#8211; Friday, 3/30/12</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><div>Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. William Robinson, 2011 <a href="http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PROMISE SSI</a> Mentors-in-Residence, will present their annual “Got S.W.A.G.?” workshop for advanced Ph.D. students, postdocs, and assistant professors, at the <a href="http://www.nsbe.org/Convention/Convention/Graduate-School-%28GSC%29.aspx" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">2012 National Convention for the National Society of Black Engineers </a>on Friday, 3/30/12.  Dr. Beyah and Dr. Robinson were former graduate students in the NSF FACES AGEP at Georgia Tech, and both are now tenured engineering professors at Georgia Tech and Vanderbilt respectively.  Graduate students who are going to be in Pittsburgh this week should make it a priority to attend this workshop.  Students who are not attending the NSBE conference, or who will not be traveling to Pittsburgh on Friday, should read the abstract so that you can take time to think about some of the issues that need to be addressed to be prepared for success in academe.</div>
    
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    <div><strong><em>2nd Annual Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game) Workshop</em></strong><br>
    38th Annual Convention</div>
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    <div>ABOUT THE WORKSHOP</div>
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    <div>Title: <em><strong>Got S.W.A.G.? (Secrets to Winning in Academia’s Game)</strong></em><br>
    Presenters: W<em>illiam H. Robinson, Ph.D. and Raheem A. Beyah, Ph.D.</em></div>
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    <div>Target audience: Assistant Professors, Post-docs, and Senior Ph.D. students</div>
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    <div>Maybe you are on the tenure-track now, or you are planning to accept a tenure-track position soon. But do you have the SWAG to surf the unwritten rules of academia and win tenure at a university? You must avoid being a “one-hit wonder” by sustaining your excellence in research, teaching, and service. The workshop presenters have compiled a list of lessons they learned during the tenure-track process, and will share those experiences with the audience. We will discuss how to maximize your “street cred,” which translates to the impact of your research program. Is your research valued by the community? Can you obtain strong external letters for your dossier? High-impact publications and invited seminars are keys to visibility within the academic community. We will also discuss how to build your “entourage,” which translates to your research group. What is your recruiting and management style? Hiring and mentoring good graduate students is the lifeblood of scholarly impact. We will discuss how to “make it rain,” which means winning competitive grants and young investigator awards. Do the program managers at the funding agencies know you personally? Have you leveraged your first grant (i.e., your startup package)? Faculty members are evaluated by the amount of funds brought to the university. Finally, we will discuss “winning time,” which is the art of preparing your dossier. You must make your case to win tenure with strong summaries of your scholarly contributions in research, teaching, and service. We envision an interactive discussion with the audience in an effort to diversify the landscape of academia [1].[1] D. E. Chubin, G. S. May, and E. L. Babco, “Diversifying the engineering workforce,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, January 2005.
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    <div>William H. Robinson received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University in 1996, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In August 2003, Dr. Robinson joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Vanderbilt University as an Assistant Professor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010. His research explores hardware and software tradeoffs to improve system performance, system reliability, and system security. Dr. Robinson’s major honors include a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and selection for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel, both in 2008. Dr. Robinson is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the ACM, and has additional memberships in ASEE and NSBE.</div>
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    <p>Email: <a href="mailto:william.h.robinson@vanderbilt.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">william.h.robinson@vanderbilt.edu</a>, URL: <a href="http://www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/%7Erobinswh" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">www.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/~robinswh</a></p>
    
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    <p>Raheem Beyah is an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech where he leads the Communications Assurance and Performance Group (CAP) and is a member of the Communications Systems Center (CSC). Prior to returning to Georgia Tech, Dr. Beyah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia State University, a research faculty member with the Georgia Tech CSC, and a consultant in Andersen Consulting’s (now Accenture) Network Solutions Group. He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina A&amp;T State University in 1998. He received his Masters and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1999 and 2003, respectively. Dr. Beyah served as a Guest Editor for MONET. He is an Associate Editor of several journals including the (Wiley) Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal. His research interests include network security, wireless networks, network traffic characterization and performance, and security visualization. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2009 and was selected for DARPA’s Computer Science Study Panel in 2010. He is a member of NSBE, ASEE, and a senior member of ACM and IEEE.</p>
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<Title>Today&#8217;s talk: &#8220;Understanding your advisor and committee&#8221; @CarnegieMellon (sponsor: @QoLTCenter)</Title>
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<Title>Today&#8217;s talk: &#8220;Understanding your advisor and committee&#8221; @CarnegieMellon (sponsor: @QoLTCenter)</Title>
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<Title>Are you in Pittsburgh? Come to our Dissertation House Seminars @CarnegieMellon 3/27 &amp; 3/28</Title>
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    <p>You may think that you’re not ready to make preparations for your proposal or dissertation, but at <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/promise" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PROMISE</a>, we believe that it is never too early to start thinking about how to communicate your research.  This week, regardless of your year in graduate school, 1st to final, come and join us! We are hosting a <a href="http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/about/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dissertation House</a> in Pittsburgh on the campus of <a href="http://www.cmu.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Carnegie Mellon University</a>.  In addition to hosting the students who applied in advance to be in-residence for the multi-day sessions of the full-scale Dissertation House, we invite graduate students in Pittsburgh to our “open sessions.”  All graduate students (all disciplines, all backgrounds, all levels) at CMU, the <a href="http://www.pitt.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Pittsburgh</a>, local campuses, along with visiting graduate students who are coming to town for the national <a href="http://www.nsbe.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSBE </a>conference or the <a href="http://www.nsbe.org/Convention/Convention/Graduate-School-%28GSC%29.aspx" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSBE Graduate School Conference (GSC)</a> are invited to attend our  open (free) workshops and consultation hours.</p>
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    <li><em>Time:</em> 1:00 – 2:00 PM. <em>Location</em>: Gates-Hillman Center (GHC), Room 4405</li>
    <li>Office hours/consultation will follow: 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Gates-Hillman Room 7501. RSVP as a comment to this post, or send email to <a href="mailto:promisestaff@gmail.com">promisestaff@gmail.com</a> with the subject “CMU DH.”</li>
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    <p><em>The Dissertation House is a program of <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/promise" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)</a>.  The <a href="http://www.cmu.edu/qolt/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT)  </a>(an <a href="http://www.nsf.gov" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSF</a> collaboration between <a href="http://www.cmu.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Carnegie Mellon</a> and the <a href="http://www.pitt.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Pittsburgh</a>) has partnered with <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/promise" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP</a> to sponsor Dissertation House activities in Pittsburgh. PROMISE is a National Science Foundation alliance between<a href="http://www.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> UMBC: An Honors University in Maryland </a>(lead institution), the <a href="http://www.umd.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Maryland College Park</a>, and the <a href="http://www.umaryland.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Maryland Baltimore</a>.<br>
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<Title>Are you in Pittsburgh? Come to our Dissertation House Seminars @CarnegieMellon 3/27 &amp; 3/28</Title>
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    <p>You may think that you’re not ready to make preparations for your proposal or dissertation, but at <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/promise" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PROMISE</a>, we believe that it is never too early to start thinking about how to communicate your research.  This week, regardless of your year in graduate school, 1st to final, come and join us! We are hosting a <a href="http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/about/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Dissertation House</a> in Pittsburgh on the campus of <a href="http://www.cmu.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Carnegie Mellon University</a>.  In addition to hosting the students who applied in advance to be in-residence for the multi-day sessions of the full-scale Dissertation House, we invite graduate students in Pittsburgh to our “open sessions.”  All graduate students (all disciplines, all backgrounds, all levels) at CMU, the <a href="http://www.pitt.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">University of Pittsburgh</a>, local campuses, along with visiting graduate students who are coming to town for the national <a href="http://www.nsbe.org" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSBE </a>conference or the <a href="http://www.nsbe.org/Convention/Convention/Graduate-School-%28GSC%29.aspx" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">NSBE Graduate School Conference (GSC)</a> are invited to attend our  open (free) workshops and consultation hours.</p>
    <p><em><strong>Tuesday, March 27, 2012</strong> </em></p>
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    <li>Workshop 1:  <strong>10 Common Mistakes That Graduate Students Should Avoid</strong></li>
    <li> <em>Time: </em> 1:00 – 2:00 PM.  <em>Location:</em>  Gates-Hillman Center (GHC), Room 4405
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    <li>Office hours/consultation will follow: 2:00 – 3:00 PM, Gates-Hillman Room 7501. Bring your drafts. Ask any questions.</li>
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    <p><em><strong>Wednesday, March 28, 2012</strong></em></p>
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    <li><em>Time:</em> 1:00 – 2:00 PM. <em>Location</em>: Gates-Hillman Center (GHC), Room 4405</li>
    <li>Office hours/consultation will follow: 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Gates-Hillman Room 7501. RSVP as a comment to this post, or send email to <a href="mailto:promisestaff@gmail.com">promisestaff@gmail.com</a> with the subject “CMU DH.”</li>
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