The PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PSC) program is a highly competitive doctoral degree program within the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy.

 

 

Students in our PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences program study problems at the interface of chemistry, biology, and engineering to understand human health and disease, identify new drug targets, and discover and develop better drugs. Our program is highly collaborative and each student's PhD project is tailored specifically to his or her research interests. Graduate students receive a $25,000 stipend, comprehensive health insurance, and have their tuition and fees covered. That makes the total financial package worth about $40,000 a year! The program trains students for outstanding careers in government, academia, and industry. Learn More

  

Informational video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJyCa60uao0

Summer Research Programs 

• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
• American Indian Fellowships
• Faculty-Student Team Fellowships

The Intramural Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (iCURE) program is now accepting applications for fall 2020 research experiences!

Applications for iCURE must be submitted by January 17, 2020 for research experiences that will begin in September 2020.

iCURE particularly encourages the participation of individuals from underrepresented populations and aims to further NCI’s interest in diversity. An iCURE scholar must be a U.S. citizen, non-citizen national, or legal permanent resident of the United States.

Applicants should visit the iCURE website for information about eligibility and application instructions.

iCURE is a partnership between the NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) and the NCI Intramural Research Program (IRP), which includes the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG).

iCURE is an extension of the highly successful Continuing Umbrella of Research Experiences (CURE) program, which helps support the career progress of its scholars toward research independence and fosters and sustains diversity in the biomedical researcher pipeline.

Contact: Dr. Jessica Calzola, iCURE@nih.gov
Learn more: https://www.cancer.gov/about-nci/organization/crchd/diversity-training/icure

Registration for the 2020 Global Game Jam is open!

For the 12th(!) year in a row, UMBC is the Baltimore host site for the Global Game Jam! It will run from 5:00 pm Friday, January 31st to 5:00 pm Sunday, February 2nd, just after classes start. Space is limited, so sign up now!

For anyone who hasn’t participated, the global game jam is a 48-hour game development event, similar in spirit to a hackathon, with hundreds of host sites around the world. At 5:00 pm local time, introduce the jam and announce this year’s theme. Previous year’s themes have ranged from a phrase (“as long as we’re together there will always be problems”) to a word (“extinction”) to an image (ouroboros: a snake eating its tail), to a sound (the recording of a heartbeat). Participants brainstorm game ideas around the theme, form into teams, and spend the weekend building games that are designed to be both fun and express the theme.

The UMBC site is not restricted to just students. In previous years, we have had a mix of UMBC students, alumni, students from other schools, game development professionals, and just people with an interest in game development. You can get more information on game jams, the GGJ, and the UMBC site on the UMBC Games, Animation and Interactive Media web page.   

The UMBC site is limited to just 40 participants, so sign up early if you want to come. If you are not near UMBC, check the main Global Game Jam site for a participating location near you.

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The University System of Maryland’s Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (USM LSAMP) announces the opportunity for undergraduate scholars currently enrolled at University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Frostburg State University, or Towson University to participate in programming to enhance their summer research experience. If selected, you will join a community of undergraduate researchers, attend professional development seminars, and be eligible for a financial award totaling up to $1,500 over the course of the program. Undergraduate scholars who work with distinguished STEM faculty within the University System of Maryland qualify for the award. Student scholars conduct research over a minimum of ten weeks per semester under the direction of a faculty research mentor.  

Applicants may apply for research opportunities in any of the following NSF-classified STEM disciplines: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Geosciences, Mathematics, Physics/Astronomy, or technology areas associated with the preceding fields (e.g., biotechnology, chemical technology, engineering technology, information technology).

To be eligible for the research program, applicants must be:

• A US citizen or permanent resident at one of the aforementioned institutions

• In good academic standing

• Members of racial and ethnic groups that have been historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines. All students are welcome to apply

• Students who have no previous research experience

Program Requirements:

• Engage in research with distinguished STEM faculty within the University System of Maryland for a minimum of ten weeks beginning on Thursday, February 6th 2020.
  
  
• Attend an orientation session on Wednesday, February 5th from 11:00am - 1:00pm.
  
  
• Attend three professional development workshops.
  
  
• Submit a three one-page journal entries based on your experience (entry, mid-semester, and concluding).
   
  
• A 2-page culminating reflection will be submitted at the conclusion of the research experience.    
  
  
• Submit a time log of research every two weeks.
  
  
• Awardees will be required to present a research poster and/or a give an oral presentation of the project expected results at the UMBC Undergraduate Research Achievement Conference on April 22, 2020 or your home institution's spring research symposium. Students must attend and engage with the entire conference. Research presentations at other conferences can be substituted with prior approval on a case-by-case basis. 
  
  
• Students are also encouraged to present at the Annual Research Symposium at the University of Maryland, Eastern Shore. 

Please note: The NSF USM LSAMP logo and funding disclaimer must be included on the poster or presentation.

Application:

We ask that undergraduate scholars completely fill out and submit the following USM LSAMP Research Program application form. The submitted application is due no later than Tuesday, January 21st, 2020.

Emily Godfrey is a Dance major with a minor in Psychology, who will graduate in May, 2020. She is a URA Scholar and a Linehan Artists Scholar. She performed her piece, "stoP ActiNg hysterICal” at last year's URCAD, and will present again this year.

Title of your research project:
Contemporary Choreographic Perspectives

Describe your project:
My project is to research performance and choreographic techniques from various contemporary/modern companies and utilizes that information to create my Senior Capstone Work, a twelve-minute dance performed by four dancers. Over the summer, I studied with the Paul Taylor Modern Dance Company (founded in 1954) and the Peridance Contemporary Dance Company (founded in 1984). This winter, I will be studying abroad with Ann Sofie Clemmensen to Denmark to research international contemporary techniques.

Who is your mentor(s) for your project?
Professor Carol Hess is the chair of the dance department and has mentored me throughout my university experience, offering guidance from course work to compositional ideas. I have a very trusting relationship with her and I really value her advice and input.

How did you become interested in this project?
I wanted to gather as much research and experience in the process of creating my senior capstone work. I wanted to continue my dance technique training while jumping in to a company lifestyle to gain a better understanding of the career I was pursuing. I learned of the Paul Taylor Modern Dance Company through a UMBC faculty member, Constance Dinapoli, and I discovered the work of the Peridance Contemporary Dance Company when a UMBC alumni became an apprentice there.
Those companies, though vastly different in style, carry choreographic ideas and themes that captured my attention.

What has been the hardest part about your research/what was the most unexpected thing about being a researcher?
A natural change in creating a new choreographic work is translating my artistic vision to my dancers while allowing their own artistry and interpretation. All the dancers I am working with are inexperienced learning movement created by a student choreographer and performing in the modern-contemporary genre. During the process of creating the work, I had to take my time and have patience explaining the different movement styles because what was natural to me was foreign to them. Another challenge, while expected was nevertheless difficult, was working within a constrained amount of time, to complete and premier the work.

What has been the most rewarding part?
The work premiered November 8th and 9th, and when I was able to watch the piece in full performance mode, I felt fulfilled. I had been focusing on tiny (but important) details and giving my cast reminders right before the show, unsure if they would be able to embody everything. Watching the piece and hearing the audiences reaction, everyone taking their own meaning but the movement still resonating within them, was the most rewarding.

How will you disseminate your research?
I plan to present my research at URCAD 2020 by premiering my senior capstone piece again. Prior to the next performance, I plan to look over the piece and discuss with my mentor any changes or adjustments I can make.

What is your advice to other students about getting involved in research?
Research derives from your passion(s), the need to explore, discover, and create. The work is never quite done, but that is what makes the research thrilling. For myself, dance is forever evolving and changing, and I know that there will always be new inspiration and the need to share my creative outlook.

What are your career goals?
After I graduate in Spring 2020, I plan to work with a professional dance company under contract while still creating pieces to gain a choreographic fellowship.

The 14th Annual Winter Student Leadership Retreat (WSLR) will be held January 25-26, 2020.  The purpose of the retreat is to provide an opportunity for underrepresented minority (URM) students majoring in engineering and computer science to build their career, professional, and leadership skills; as well as to network with corporations and student leaders from 4-year colleges/universities and 2-year community colleges in the Washington-Baltimore-Annapolis area.

There is no cost to students who are selected to participate.  Representatives from the retreat sponsors listed below  will facilitate workshops during the retreat. Two tracks of workshops will be provided, one for 1st time attendees and another for returning attendees.  On Sunday, a third track for students who are currently enrolled at a community college will be facilitated.  Workshops to be presented include: career development (resume writing, interview tips, mock interviews), leadership development, professional development, personal development, graduate school, and a corporate information fair.  Transportation is provided to student from the Baltimore-Washington DC area.  

Approximately 4-5 students from each college or university will be selected to participate through an application review process.  The application will open November 1, 2019 and the application is available until November 22, 2019.  Persons who are selected to participate will be notified no later than December 10, 2019.

The retreat sponsors this year are: 

• Lockheed Martin
• Northrop Grumman
• W. L. Gore
• Amazon
• Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)

Created in 2007 and introduced in Pennsylvania in 2018, The Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship seeks to attract talented, committed STEM degree holders to teach in high-need middle and high schools. Fellows receive a $32,000 stipend, pursue a one-year master's degree program at a partner university, then teach for at least three years in an approved high-need school in Philadelphia or Pittsburgh. A unique aspect of our program is that mentoring is provided to support Fellows’ success in the classroom.

The Teaching Fellowship includes:

• admission to a master's degree program at one of three well-established partner universities
• teacher certification in science, mathematics, or technology education
• extensive preparation for teaching in a high-need urban or rural secondary school for one full year prior to becoming the teacher-of-record in a science or math classroom
• a $32,000 stipend (Once Fellows are certified teachers at the end of the first year, they obtain salaried employment in high-need schools.)
• after graduation, Fellows commit to teaching in a high-need urban or rural secondary school for three years
• PA Fellows who attend the University of Pennsylvania and West Chester University must seek positions in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP)
• PA Fellows who attend Duquesne University must seek positions in the Pittsburgh Public Schools (PPS) or the surrounding area
• support and mentoring throughout the three-year teaching commitment
• support of a cohort of WW Fellows passionate about science and math education
• lifelong membership in a national network of Woodrow Wilson Fellows who are intellectual leaders

 The Fellowship is open to college seniors, graduates, and career changers who:

• have majored in and/or have 30 or more college-level credits in a STEM field (science, technology, engineering, or math);
• demonstrate a commitment to the program and its goals;
• have U.S. citizenship or permanent residency;
• have attained, or expect to attain by Spring 2020, a bachelor's degree from an accredited U.S. college or university or its international equivalent (Note: Undergraduate degrees earned outside the U.S. are accepted if an approved credential evaluator declares the degree equivalent to an earned U.S. bachelor’s degree.);
• a cumulative undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale is preferred (Note: Candidates who can demonstrate excellence through other avenues will also be considered. All applications are considered in their entirety and selection is based on merit.)

Questions about your eligibility? Email Anna Gallos, Program Assistant for Fellow Selection (gallos@woodrow.org).

Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

The University of Rochester is one of the smallest and most collegiate schools among the nation’s top research universities. Our goal is to develop students as researchers, collaborators, and mentors for academia and industry.

The Kearns Center provides academic advising and coordinates professional and social activities for many summer research programs within AS&E, including four National Science Foundation (NSF) REU programs:

• Advancing Human Health, From Nano to Network
• Computational Methods for Understanding Music, Media, and Minds
• Nano-, Bio-, and Quantum Photonics 
• Physics

Our best research students come through recommendations from faculty and fellow students who recognize talent at all levels.

NSF REU students receive:

• A $4,500 research stipend
• Round-trip travel/travel reimbursement
• On-campus housing and meal plan
• An assigned advisor and mentor
• GRE test preparation classes
• Graduate school preparation seminars
• Instruction in research methods
• One credit of academic coursework
• Complimentary tickets to local museums, sporting events, and/or concerts

The Advancing Human Health, from Nano to Network program is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and is currently in a renewal year. Program operation for Summer 2020 is contingent upon successfully being renewed by the National Science Foundation.