Winter Dissertation House – Coming January 22-25, 2013

Join us for the Winter Dissertation House at UMBC. Applications are due by December 14, 2012.

If you are a Graduate Student at UMBC, and if you are working on your graduate school courses, proposal, or dissertation, then this event is for you!The on-campus setting provides Dissertation House participants with productive and rewarding scholastic engagement. Students who participate in this program will spend each day thinking, writing, and sharing ideas about their doctoral dissertations. Students will learn effective time-management skills; learn how to set small manageable goals, and will meet with a dissertation coach in one-on-one consultations to discuss and address obstacles that might prevent them completing their degrees.This is a weekday (9 a.m. – 5 p.m., non-residential) commitment set for the week of Tuesday, January 22 – Friday, January 25, 2013.This information and other details about the Dissertation House can be found on: http://www.thedissertationhouse.com

Students from other schools within the University System of Maryland may apply and will be considered if there are spaces available.

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Applications Due: Friday, December 14, 2012 (Extended and Final Deadline!)RSVP on MyUMBC by clicking “I can attend” here: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/14797

AND follow the link below for Applications Procedures.
http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/

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Name: Fritzie Charne-Merriwether

Hometown: Queens, NY

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: My total history here at UMBC has been roughly 4 years and one semester. I was a Community Director from 2003 to 2005. Returned to UMBC in 2010.

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Special Assistant to Vice President for Student Affairs.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?

A: Parent liaison; administrative & program management support to the Vice President & the Division of Student Affairs.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: Working with the Parents of our UMBC students has been a real joy. I truly enjoy connecting with them and getting them connected to UMBC. Navigating a University system as an outsider can be extremely frustrating. I am glad I can assist parents with that process which in turn provides support to their students as well.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: I have learned at UMBC that to be the best you have to consistently challenge yourself and those around you. That you must always assess not only your strengths but also your weakness. That being a leader means you lead even when you think no one is watching.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: My two beautiful children, Kaelyn (6) and Mason (5). I truly believe I have the best babies in the world. They are amazing to me and I cheer them on every day.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: UMBC is just a special place. When I arrived here back in 2003, I fell in love with this place, the students and staff. I was sad to leave in 2005, but I was a military spouse and we had orders to Germany. Even after moving on, I stayed connected to UMBC through the students and colleagues I have connected with during my tenure. I was blessed with the opportunity to come back in 2010 and I couldn't be happier. There is something to be said about a place that even after you leave you still feel connected and want to come back. But that is what is so special about UMBC!

BONUS VIDEO QUESTION: What else would you like to share? Ask yourself a question and answer it.

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Meghan Carpenter has been selected as UMBC's nominee for Student Regent for 2013-2014. Meghan is a junior majoring in American Studies and Political Science. She is the Director of Community and Governmental Affairs for UMBC's Student Government Association, and represents UMBC students on the University System of Maryland Student Council, the Maryland Higher Education Commission's Student Advisory Council, and UMBC's Neighbor Relations Committee. Meghan also works as a research assistant for Professor Carolyn Forestiere, and as an office assistant for UMBC President Freeman Hrabowski. Meghan also blogs for USDemocrazy.net, and has authored two posts for the UMBC BreakingGround web site.

The Student Regent is the sole student member of the University System of Maryland Board of Regents, which governs a state public higher education system that includes the UMBC, the University of Maryland College Park, Towson University and 9 other institutions, along with two regional higher education centers. As UMBC's nominee for the position for 2013-2014, Meghan will be interviewed next weekend by the University System of Maryland Student Council, which will forward the names of three finalists for consideration by Governor O'Malley.

The past 10 UMBC nominees all have been selected as finalists, and three have been appointed Student Regent: Phil Shockley (2003-2004), Josh Michael (2008-2009) and current UMBC senior Collin Wojciechowski (2011-2012).

Good luck, Meghan!

Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.

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Patrick J. Canavan, profiled over the weekend in this piece from a Hanover, PA newspaper, was a founder of UMBC's art department, and a popular teacher here (see this photo from 1968-1969). As the article makes clear, he also was a strong-willed individual who chose to live on his own terms, carefully avoiding the limelight in order to focus on his art and his family.

I think every life is a work of art, provoking every witness to consider their own choices about how to live. You can develop your life-as-art to reflect your deepest values despite the risks and costs, or you can surrender your canvas to be painted by others in your name.

What lessons do you take from Patrick Canavan's story, and what kind of art will you make?

Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.

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(by David Hoffman) Patrick J. Canavan, profiled over the weekend in this piece from a Hanover, PA newspaper, was a founder of UMBC's art department, and a popular teacher here (see this photo...

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Name: Alex Lee

Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: This is my 3rd semester here at UMBC.

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: I am a member of the Leadership Development Team in SGA, a STRiVER, Representative of Taiwanese Student Association, STRiVE 2012-2013 coach, and Tour Guide of the Undergraduate Admissions Office.

Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus?

A: Friend, Listener, and Brother. I love helping people in any way possible.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A: The great thing about UMBC is that it is so diverse. Not is it only diverse in ethnicity, culture and religion, but it is also diverse in unique personalities, backgrounds and experiences.

Being a Tour Guide at UMBC gives me the opportunity to engage with other potential students and their parents from all different walks of life. These students are different in their own ways, coming to these tours with their own perspectives on what college really is. It is a great feeling when at the beginning of a tour students may be against or not sure if they like UMBC, but by the end of the tour both the students and parents are in love with the school. Its such a great feeling knowing that you made a difference in changing the minds of these students in coming to UMBC. Knowing that I am able to make a difference on campus as well as meeting new people, learning new things and having fun while doing it is the best feeling ever.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A: I think the most memorable as well as life changing experience for me at UMBC has to be going to STRiVE. STRiVE in a nutshell is a Winter Leadership retreat where the participants hone leadership skills, develop campus and social change projects, build community and have a lot fun. The activities will keep you engaged, and you'll emerge feeling confident, inspired and connected. STRiVE was an amazing experience because not only did I meet some amazing people who I truly can call my friends, but I have grown in so many ways.

Before STRiVE and even before college, I was a shyer more reserved type of person. I was anxious to voice my opinion let alone going out of my comfort zone. It seemed like I had reached an epiphany moment in my life during and after STRiVE. I became so much more motivated to get involved, my confidence in every aspect had increased ten fold, along with my better refined social skills. Not only had I changed for the better as a person, but I was doing actual things on campus where it made a big difference. I started to join clubs/student organizations on campus, and even holding executive positions in them. I met so many new people and really started to enjoy college.

I think STRiVE was a great experience and a great segway to help people find themselves. It gave people a chance to grow, and use that growth to help others develop their life skills. STRiVE was the gateway for me to loving UMBC even more.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A: Learning new things, trying new things, constructive criticism and BUNNIES

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A: UMBC squirrels are infamous. They are so cute and entertaining to watch, one time I was walking to class and I saw a squirrel holding an entire muffin just nibbling on it.

I spent a lot of my time in the SGA Office and the Student Organization Space. Its a great place to just hang out, eat and do work. The 7th floor of the library is nice, especially when its empty and they have the big round tables up. There is so much to UMBC, and its so hard to name a few of the countless exciting and interesting things about UMBC. I'm just glad to be part of this great community.

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A few minutes before the zero hour, people begin to stir in the large lecture hall. I look around nervously. I want to go to the protest at noon, but that would involve standing up and walking out of class, which is exactly what the organizers have called for. My feelings are mixed, and I'm not sure what I will do. I want to see the action. I want to stand for justice. But I don't feel close enough to the cause of the protest to claim it as my own. Such a big gesture would seem vaguely fraudulent. I'm just an anonymous freshman, cautious, unsure. The activists who have been visibly involved to this point seem to be operating with vastly greater assurance and passion than I feel. They seem full of concern for the victims of injustice, and driven by righteous rage on their behalf. I find their intensity alluring and repellent at the same time. I want to feel just as deeply, and because I don't, I wonder whether their passion can truly run as deep as it appears, or whether they just wish they could be involved in something big, a cause as stark and important as those of U.S. civil rights heroes from decades past.

People start to stand up. I hesitate. But when my T.A. stands and shoulders his pack, I feel safe enough to follow, and join the stream of students heading to the rear of the hall. Minutes later I find a spot on the outskirts of a crowd of 2,000 people near the heart of UCLA's campus, and watch the Student Body President and other speakers address the cause: apartheid (a system of legal oppression of blacks by whites) in South Africa, and the University of California's investments in companies doing business there. The purpose of the protest is to demand that the university to divest (sell off) its South Africa-tainted holdings, in order to put pressure on the oppressive government to abandon the apartheid system. When some of the protest leaders move to occupy part of the administration building, I walk away, recognizing that they have crossed a line I feel I cannot, and wondering again about their motives and the source of their capacity to act on love and anger. The date is April 23, 1985.

Fast forward more than a year, to July 18, 1986. Activists have built shantytowns on University of California campuses to dramatize conditions for black South Africans, and repeatedly have pressed their case to the university's Board of Regents, which has rejected proposals for divestment. But the activists have succeeded in shifting the politics of the issue. This time, when the divestment question comes to a vote of the Regents, they prevail, 13-9. I am one of the 13; the vote takes place at my first meeting as the Board's student member. I'm proud of this, but also well aware that I have done little to earn the glory of the moment. In the coming months other universities also will decide to divest, and will contribute to the international effort that ultimately will bring down the apartheid regime.

Fast forward more than 26 years, to the week before last: I am sitting at the front of a room full of UCLA students, part of an all-day conference. The students are mired in the everyday messiness of pursuing positive changes on campus and in the wider world. They have a lot of questions, but what seems to lie behind them is wanting the assurance that what they are doing is meaningful. The issues they face involve (as always) race relations, fair access to education, and social justice. To my surprise, they want to know what it was like to have been involved in the great and successful fight for divestment, which appears to occupy the same space in their imagination that the Civil Rights Movement had in mine. Walking in the shadow of a past they envision as pure and stark in its emotional imperatives, they seem to yearn to contribute to causes and actions equally big and bold, and to tap and harness their empathy, and perhaps their anger.

To my left sits John Sarvey, who, like me, served as a UCLA Student Body President and pursued a career in higher education that has allowed him to do a lot of work with student leaders. John and I started as freshmen the same year. I never knew it, but he too was at the big divestment protest in spring 1985. He shares with the students what he felt that day: ambivalence. As it turns out, John hovered at the outskirts of the crowd, and tried to wrap his head around the motives and emotions of the activist leaders, and to understand what they signified for him. Just like me. Even after all this time, it's stirring to hear someone else voice these thoughts, especially given that John has devoted himself passionately to various causes in the years since. Just like the students in the room, I'm sifting through the meanings, processing the implications.

In a few hours, at a gathering of the living former Student Body Presidents, I will talk with the president who led the 1985 protest, and let her know that her actions sent ripples forward in time to inspire and provoke a new generation of student leaders. After 27 years, I find I'm swimming in new lessons from that long-ago day.

Fast forward to today: John Sarvey passed away yesterday at age 45, leaving behind his wife and two children. My mind is reeling. The meanings I made of the divestment protest, and the session with UCLA's student leaders, and the gathering of former Student Body Presidents are all in flux, all being reshaped again by my knowledge of their place in John's story. I see no resolution, no stable point where ambivalence, and love, and righteous anger, and the convergence of present and past all fit neatly into a narrative with an outcome and a moral. I only know that we are all vulnerable, all incomplete, and must strive with imperfect foresight and hindsight to find our causes and make our contributions.

Co-Create UMBC is a blog for and about UMBC, written by David Hoffman and Craig Berger from the Office of Student Life. Join the Co-Create UMBC group on MyUMBC. Like Co-Create UMBC on Facebook. And follow David and Craig on Twitter.

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by David Hoffman A few minutes before the zero hour, people begin to stir in the large lecture hall. I look around nervously. I want to go to the protest at noon, but that would involve...

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Dear Graduate Students,

Please note that some of our alumni have taken advantage of these fellowships in the past and have found them to be extremely rewarding! We list two here:

1) The East Asia Pacific Summer Institute (Note that Dr. Alexis Harryman, UMBC Biology, participated in this fellowship. She loved it and was a spokeperson for the seminar a few years ago. Alex participated in the Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program, and in PROMISE. )

2) The National Physical Science Consortium. (Note that we’ve had NPSC scholars in the past. This deadline in Nov. 30.)

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EAPSI

The EAPSI Program provides U.S. graduate students in science and engineering (U.S. citizens and permanent residents) with an opportunity to spend 8 weeks (10 weeks for Japan) during the summer conducting research at one of the seven host locations in East Asia and Pacific: Australia, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan.

NSF provides EAPSI Fellows with a $5,000 stipend and roundtrip airplane ticket to the host location. Our foreign counterparts provide in-country living expenses and accommodations (arrangements vary by host location).

For more information, please read the Program Solicitation, host location-specific Handbooks, and How to Apply Guide available at www.nsf.gov/eapsi. Please note that only one letter of recommendation (from current advisor) is required. Please forward this NSF research opportunity to your faculty, graduate students, and anyone interested: www.nsf.gov/eapsi. Proposal submission deadline for Summer 2013 has been extended till Thursday, December 6, 2012.

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The Traditional NPSC Program provides a two-phase, six-year fellowship, and The Dissertation Support Program provides support while the graduate student conducts dissertation research. The deadline in Nov. 30, 2012. Please apply: http://www.npsc.org.

Please pay attention to these important opportunities! Congratulations to all of you who have submitted your NSF GRFP, GEM, Ford Foundation, and NIH applications! We’re so proud of you for working hard. Several members of our community have won these awards in the past. We also thank PROMISE Alums Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson and Dr. Patti Ordóñez Rozo for working with so many of you over the past several months, both during their fellowship seminar, and on their own time. Thanks also to the Graduate School at College Park for their fellowships seminar. Good luck everyone!

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Dear Graduate Students,

Please note that some of our alumni have taken advantage of these fellowships in the past and have found them to be extremely rewarding! We list two here:

2) The National Physical Science Consortium. (Note that we’ve had NPSC scholars in the past. This deadline in Nov. 30.)

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EAPSI

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Dear Graduate Students, Please note that some of our alumni have taken advantage of these fellowships in the past and have found them to be extremely rewarding! We list two here: 1) The East...

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