PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP and the Graduate Student Development Unit at UMBC congratulate our Associate Dean, Dr. Robert Deluty on the publication of his 46th book. Dr. Deluty, also Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, leads the annual graduate student seminars on work/life balance, and addressing graduate students' feelings of stress. Deluty has as one of his research interests, "the creative processes and products of poetry and psychotherapy." 

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The post below also appears on UMBC's Insights website: https://umbcinsights.wordpress.com/2014/09/29/robert-deluty-graduate-school-publishes-his-46th-book/

The project is a four-year study of mosquitoes and environmental hazards and amenities in five west Baltimore neighborhoods. I need a GA to help with a variety of duties related to the project: recruiting community participants for activities such as citizen-science, participatory mapping, and the like; maintaining relationships with participants by attending meetings; helping with logistics for community events and activities; and, mostly next summer, there is a possibility of helping with sampling mosquitoes (training provided on the job -- it's very easy to learn the techniques). There will be some variation in work load from week to week, but the time commitment will average out to approximately 10 hours/week. I would like the person to start as soon as possible, and it would continue through the end of next summer with a strong possibility for renewal.

Students should contact me at dbiehler@umbc.edu if they would like further details.

Conference Theme: Diversity, Creativity, and Art Expression

Washington DC December 10, 2014 

The conference will be held at the Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Washington DC Area- Silver Spring. 

The conference welcomes proposals from experts in liberal arts education, social sciences, humanities, public policy, and scholars, academics, consultants, professional researchers, independent scholars, practitioners, artists and performers, and PhD/graduate students in liberal arts programs, humanities, interdisciplinary studies, social science, sociology, and history. Proposals may be considered as they are relevant to the theme of the conference. Early submissions are greatly appreciated. All submissions must be in Microsoft Word. 

For information about Proposal submission and registration, please visit the website.

University Health Services is working on the Healthy Campus 2020 initiatives through the Healthy Retrievers Program here at UMBC. 

So much attention is focused on the health of undergraduate students in relation to success in college.  Since the lifestyle of a graduate student is often very different from the undergraduate, we are attempting to collect data to support our Healthy Retriever programming efforts specific to the graduate student population.  

We have constructed a very simple survey (no longer than 3 minutes) that we'd like for you to complete. This is an anonymous survey so no information will be linked to respondents in any way.  We ask you to take a moment and complete this survey. We'd like participants to complete it by October 10th.  

We want to help graduate students succeed, and this effort will focus on graduate students and their specific needs.  Thank you for your assistance.

Yours in health,

Jennifer K. Lepus

Director, University Health Services

The LLC has just released the schedule of classes for this coming Spring (see attachment on the LLC Group's site). Keep in mind that these are the classes offered by our department's faculty members.

We are gathering class schedules from our affiliated departments and encourage you to check our website again in a couple of weeks for that additional information.

As a reminder, you cannot register for any classes without first obtaining permission from your LLC advisor, so you are encouraged to consult with your advisor in a timely fashion.