UMBC's Office of Sustainability and Campus Planning are excited to offer a tree planting volunteer program to help increase the tree canopy of our campus! Thanks to a generous grant from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, we have over 900 trees coming to campus and we need your help! 

If you are interested, please sign up using this Google Form. Friends and family members are welcome. Meeting location will be outside the Chesapeake Employers Insurance Arena! 

Please wear clothes that can get dirty and close-toed shoes. All tools and equipment will be provided. 

Thursday, October 19th between 12pm and 2pm

 Friday, October 20th between 10am and 12pm

Additionally, as part of the grant, there is a competition for multimedia storytelling related to your time volunteering so think of creative ways to capture photos, videos, and more if you would like to contribute!

OCA Mocha and UMBCs Center for Global Engagement are partnering to host an exhibit in conjunction with International Education Week (IEW) that centers around UMBC community members experiences with living, studying, or working in an international or intercultural environment. 

Artists regardless of location or experience are invited to submit hangable work created using any medium. 

The exhibit will open on October 30, 2023, and close on December 8, 2023

Submissions must be received by October 15, 2023. 

Full details available on the attached call.

After initial approval, all GSOs must re-register with the Community Liaison at the beginning of every academic year. 

The deadline has already passed this year, but we are offering an extended registration deadline until Friday October 20th, 2023. 

This is a requirement if you wish to access funding and room reservations.

To register click here 

If you have any questions please email GSA@umbc.edu and in the subject line : 

Attn: Community Liaison GSO

Join us on October 19th from 6-7pm for a unique workshop to help you gain skills to navigate graduate school and finish your program in a timely matter. Getting your degree might entail earning good grades and long hours doing research, but with the right mindset and tools it can take much less time. Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale has helped hundreds of students at UMBC to successfully complete their degrees while serving as an academic advisor, mentor, and dissertation coach at the Graduate School at UMBC. Her services include helping students navigate sticky situations, leverage productivity techniques, and overcome barriers to promptly complete their degree.

This event is open to all graduate students in any year of study, but will particularly help students who are new graduate students, first-generation graduate students, international students unfamiliar with academic culture in the United States, and those students who have found themselves struggling to navigate interpersonal challenges with their advisor or within their departments. The information shared is based on research on retention efforts for underserved and underrepresented communities in graduate school.

Dr. Carter-Veale has over 15 years of experience in graduate education. She has presented her dissertation writing workshops and boot camps for MIT, Duke University, Howard University, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and the Dissertation Institute to name some. 

She is the CEO of PhDCompletion.com, co-founder of the PROMISE Dissertation House, the on campus dissertation coach at UMBC, and has authored 4 books about PhD completion (Mastering the PhD Completion Process, Ph.D. Completion: If You Can Write a Master's Thesis You Can Write a Dissertation, PhD Completion: Practical Steps to Selecting a Dissertation Topic and PhD Completion: Methods Journal).

To learn more about Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale please visit her webpage.  All graduate students are invited to attend this event. 

Please RSVP by clicking the "Going" button below.

 If you need any accommodations or have questions, please contact our staff at promise@umbc.edu. Accommodations can be made if requested a week before the event. 

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