#TeamGetItDone Gets it Done! DH Marathon SSI 2011

The 12 hour DH marathon at the 2011 Summer Success Institute started with 11 participants and ended with three triumphant women! Kudos to all who accepted the challenge, and special congratulations to Nikki, Maritza, and Patti, the last three standing!

The theme for the DH was #TeamGetItDone, based on a Twitter hashtag that was created and regularly used by DH members and Ph.D. candidates Sophoria “Nikki” Westmoreland (Mechanical Engineering, UM College Park), and Alexis Williams (Human Development, UM College Park). The energy at the DH at SSI was high and the participants worked hard! Congratulations to all!!


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The 9th Annual PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) was held at the Sheraton Town Center Hotel in Columbia, Maryland this past weekend. This year, we featured an outdoor component, hosted by Terra Trax from Arizona.  The team leader, Craig Imler, is an Outward Bound-trained facilitator, who has been leading retreats for PROMISE since 2004.  Many alumni mentioned that their turning points came “at Coolfont.” In past years, we’ve had PROMISE retreats at the Coolfont Conference Center in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, and at the Rocky Gap Conference Center in Cumberland, Maryland. This year, we brought the “Coolfont” and “Rocky Gap” experiences and our facilitator team to the SSI. This was the first year that we combined the SSI and the retreat.

A full list of activities can be found on the SSI’s website:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/


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Approaching the (future) grand entrance
The two-story foyer
The rehearsal studio
The main theater (control booth is visible on 2nd floor)
The fly tower (backstage), where people and scenery will be raised and lowered
View from the Dresher Conference Room (2nd floor)
Dresher Conference Room, from across the foyer
View from the 4th floor toward downtown Baltimore.
I'd like to think that once the building opens,
the weather will always be just like this.

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It was a pleasure to meet so many of you at the Graduate School's orientation on Monday, August 15. We look forward to meeting the rest of you at the evening orientation on Wednesday, August 24.  As promised, we are posting information about the upcoming seminars and workshops for 2011-2012. Here is the link:
http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/umbc-grad-student-success-seminars/


For starters, if you are a TA or interested in teaching at any point, please register for the Teaching & Learning Workshop that will be held next Friday, August 26.
Breakfast and lunch will be served. 
http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/7230

As part of that teaching workshop, Dr. Robert Deluty is presenting a lunch seminar on "Life/Work Balance."  You do not have to attend the teaching workshop to attend the lunch seminar, but you must register here: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/7354 so that we can order a lunch for you.

Please join us for these professional development seminars. We seek to provide  holistic approaches to graduate education that supplement your disciplinary training with skills that you can use in graduate school and in your careers. More importantly, these workshops provide you with opportunities to build community among fellow graduate students, faculty, and staff. 



Additional websites:

We wish you well!

Best regards,

Renetta Tull, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Development
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My reading about dinosaurs begged more questions, of course, about what it would be like to be twenty times the size of an elephant, and about the experience of time: Those millions of years since the mighty creatures walked the earth stirred my imagination.  Even the lifetimes of my parents (aged 29 and 36) seemed impossibly long, and I tried to envision being able to look back on so vast a stretch of time.  The really captivating thing was that I had a mind and memory of my own, and could experience of time passing, and so had direct access to the glimmer of a hint of the answers to some of my questions.

And so, one summer morning, I decided to run my own private experiment.  I came up with it as I was putting on my sandals (made from recycled tires, with real tire treads on the soles), on the shaggy blue carpet in the bedroom I shared with my brother, before running outside to play with friends.  The experiment was to try to remember that moment for as long as I could: across the months and years, even as I grew older, even older than my parents were then.  It's possible I hoped that by doing so I would hold on to a piece of the little boy who thought about time and dinosaurs, so that I would never fully experience whatever awful transition seemed to have drained most adults of their passion for such things.

The month was August; the year, 1973.  The memory persists.  The experiment continues.

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The 2011 PROMISE Summer Success Institute will sponsor a 12 Hour Marathon “Dissertation House”  session at the Sheraton Columbia Hotel on Friday, August 19.  The marathon will last from 1:00 PM Friday, 8/19 until 1:00 AM Saturday, 8/20.  This session is limited to PROMISE DH alumni and a limited number of guests.

Eligibility and Instructions

Interested students must:


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The 2011 PROMISE Summer Success Institute will sponsor a 12 Hour Marathon “Dissertation House”  session at the Sheraton Columbia Hotel on Friday, August 19.  The marathon will last from 1:00 PM Friday, 8/19 until 1:00 AM Saturday, 8/20.  This session is limited to PROMISE DH alumni and a limited number of guests.

Eligibility and Instructions

Interested students must:


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We have several alumni who are current professors and others who are in postdocs or STEM positions with plans to enter the professoriate later in their careers or serve as adjunct faculty.

Here is a short list:

Dr. Oliver Meyers (UMBC), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University

Dr. Alycia Marshall (UMCP), Associate Professor of Mathematics, Anne Arundel Community College

Dr. Stacey Williams (UMB), Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Notre Dame

Dr. Jesus Caban (UMBC), Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, UMBC, Researcher – NIH

Dr. Lorrie Frasure, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UCLA

Dr. Christopher Whitt (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Political Science, Augustana College

Dr. Calandra Tate (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Mathematics, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Dr. Cyntrica Eaton (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Norfolk State University

Dr. B. Michelle Harris (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences, UDC

Dr. Kholiswa Laird (UMBC), Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, University of Rochester

Dr. Latese Briggs (UMBC), Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry,  MIT/Harvard Broad Institute on Genomics

Dr. Robert Alexander (UMBC), Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Sylvester Mosley (UMBC), ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, FDA

Dr. Dawn Ward (UMBC), Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Stevenson College

Dr. T. Sean Vasitis (UMB), Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Dr. Jocelyn Reader (UMB), Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenbaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School and Medicine, Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland University College

Dr. Marishka Brown (UMB), Postdoctoral Fellow, Respiratory Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania


 

Alumni of the Dissertation House are listed here:

http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/alumni/

 

This page contains many first placement positions and will continue to be updated.


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The “Community Building Experience” is a retreat, sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), that involves team building exercises and bonding opportunities for graduate students, staff, and faculty who are dedicated to increasing the numbers and diversity of Ph.D.s in fields supported by the National Science Foundation.  The “Community Building Experience” is another major activity of the PROMISE training program.  Each PROMISE program is designed to equip graduate students with tools and experiences that will enhance completion of the Ph.D. degree, motivate potential transition to the professoriate, and encourage subsequent success in the academy.  The PROMISE Community Building Experience has been held at the Coolfont Conference Center and the Rocky Gap Resort and Conference Center during either the end of February or the beginning of March, with programs facilitated by the Outward Bound Professional group.  All graduate students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines, ethnicities, and backgrounds are invited to attend!

Read more about the retreat and other community building events:

http://promisecommunitybuilding.blogspot.com/


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