Grad Voices Matter: Listening Sessions for UMBC Graduate Students Real Talk. Real Impact. Your Voice Starts Here
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The Office of Graduate Student Life (OGSL) is hosting a series of Graduate Student Listening Sessions to hear directly from you—UMBC’s diverse graduate student community. Whether you’re balancing work and school, navigating identity, adjusting to a new environment, or finding your academic path—we’re here to listen.

Global Grad Voices (for International Graduate Students)
  • In-Person: Tuesday, July 15 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
  • Virtual (Evening): Tuesday, July 15 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
  • Virtual (Morning): Thursday, July 17 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Students Balancing Life & Learning (for commuter students, part-time students, working professionals, and student-athletes, etc.)
  • In-Person: Thursday, July 17 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
  • Virtual (Evening): Thursday, July 17 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

Light refreshments will be provided at in-person sessions

Why Attend?

The insights gathered will directly shape how OGSL builds community and support systems for graduate students. Your help connecting us with students—and those who work closely with them—is vital to this work.

sign up here
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Applications is open for Damon Runyon–St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Fellowship Award.
The Damon Runyon–St. Jude Fellowship supports bold early-career scientists conducting research with potential to transform the prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of pediatric cancers.


Eligibility:
  • Open to MD, PhD, MD/PhD, DDS, DVM, and DO holders
  • Research must be directly relevant to pediatric cancer (no need to be a pediatrician)
  • Application Deadline: August 15, 2025
  • 4-year award | Starting at $70,000/year + expense & child allowances

Level 1 Candidates : Applicants with Degree conferred between August 15, 2022 - August 15, 2025 or Joined Sponsor's Lab on or after August 15, 2023.

Level 2 Candidates : (Board Eligible Physician-Scientists)- Applicants must apply within two years of ending their clinical fellowship and anytime prior to their initial assistant professorship appointment (or equivalent); postdoctoral fellows, clinical fellows, and clinical instructors are eligible to apply. Applicants cannot be in their Sponsor’s lab more than four years prior to the application deadline date. Applicants to include a copy of diploma.

Learn more and apply at www.damonrunyon.org


Please share widely and encourage eligible candidates to apply!

No hard copies or emailed applications will be accepted. 

Photo by Louis Reed on  Unsplash
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The Office of Graduate Student Life (OGSL) is hosting a series of Graduate Student Listening Sessions to hear directly from you—UMBC’s diverse graduate student community. Whether you’re balancing work and school, navigating identity, adjusting to a new environment, or finding your academic path—we’re here to listen.

 Session Themes Include:

• Balancing Life & Learning (Working Professionals & Part-Time Students)

• Global Grad Voices (International Students)

• Inclusive & Intersecting Identities (LGBTQ+ Students, Students of Color, & Students with disabilities)

• STEM & Beyond (STEM and Non-STEM Students)

• Open Sessions (For all graduate students, regardless of background or discipline)

What to Expect:

 Small-group conversations in a supportive space

 In-person & virtual options

 Sessions available during the day and evening

 Light refreshments provided at all in-person sessions

 Why Attend?

Because your experiences help shape the future of graduate student life at UMBC. These sessions inform how OGSL creates community, advocates for resources, and responds to your needs.

 Sessions begin as early as Tuesday, July 15 — so sign up soon!

 https://forms.gle/D3KeKdARz5vTunMGA 


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You're Invited to Join the Remaining CoNECD Summer Webinars! happening on July 11, 18, and 25 at 12:00 PM EST. These sessions offer timely insights on equity, inclusion, and broadening participation in engineering and STEM education. 

Please note that participation in these sessions counts toward CIRTL certification.

July 11: Peer Review as an Equity Practice
Time:  12 PM
Presenters : Dr. Diana Kardia and Dr. Kelly Mack 
Register here

July 18: The Broadening Participation in STEM Conceptual Framework: An HCI model to identify and disrupt gender inequities in engineering
Time:  12 PM
Presenters : Dr. Heidi Doellinger
Register here

July 25: An Examination of Possible Factors Associated with Gender Balance in Engineering Education
Time:  12 PM
Presenters : Dr. Julie Smith
Register here

Individual email reminders will be sent the Monday prior to each webinar.
We look forward to your participation in these engaging and informative sessions!
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Registration opens today for our final teaching development workshops of the summer 2025.

Reflect on your career journey and sources of support using a living document known as a mentor map in this two-session online workshop designed for graduate students at any stage in their career who want to reflect on their career journey and sources of support in that journey.

About this workshop

Mentoring is critical to career success and persistence, and building and understanding mentoring networks will help students to both feel more confident and have tools to be successful in their career journeys. In this workshop, participants will reflect on their career journey and sources of support in that journey using a living document known as a mentor map. Students will also reflect on their own journeys and how that journey may impact their current mentor map.

  • Describe and identify the different roles that relationships play in their career journey
  • Create a pathway map, a living document that can be used to reflect and assess the role they and others play in their professional and personal development

Workshop details:

Event Dates: July 17 and 31
Event Time: 11:00 AM- 12:30 PM
Event Capacity: 30
Event Venue: Online

Registration link
Registration will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis and registrants from CIRTL member institutions or alumni of CIRTL member institutions will receive priority. Once registration closes, all registrants will be notified of their enrollment statu
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With a Care.com membership, eligible employees* can get help with gaps in care this summer. Parents, you can get summer camps reimbursed (read carefully the guidelines).

Backup Care offers a high quality, subsidized solution when your regular care is unavailable.

Daycare closed for vacation? Caregiver sick? Senior recovering from a fall? Care.com has flexible care options for kids and seniors, and helps you find the right care, whether through the Care.com network of vetted providers or using a preferred caregiver.

Your Care.com membership is paid for by UMBC, and employees are eligible for up to 5 days of subsidized backup care (new for FY 2026).

How it Works

1. Setup your account online or login through the app.

2. Search caregiver profiles, post a job, schedule interviews and request background checks.

3. Once you're ready to hire, easily schedule and pay your caregiver on Care.com.

Don’t have any childcare or eldercare needs? There are also hundreds of discounts you can access via the LifeMart Discount program, just by setting up your Care.com account.

Questions about childcare options? Please contact Care.com directly by calling 1-855-781-1303 or emailing backupcare@care.com.

*Eligible employees: Regular Faculty and Staff, Contingent II, and Graduate Assistants

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T‍he application for the 2026 Christine Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is now open! They are seeking current graduate students or recent graduates who are interested in exploring career options in science policy. A typical candidate is in the final years of their PhD program or has defended their thesis within the past five years, and is excited to spend time in D.C., learn about science policy, and network with science and technology policy experts. This year's Fellowship will run from March 2 - May 22, 2026.

The Mirzayan Fellowship provides the opportunity to:

  • Spend 12 weeks in Washington, D.C.
  • Work with a National Academies program team
  • Be paired with a mentor from their assigned host unit
  • Learn about science and technology policy
  • Network with experts from around the country
  • Join a cohort and alumni network of driven, like-minded individuals

International students already based in the United States are welcome, and we encourage those with strong interest but limited experience in policy to apply. 

Please use this link for more details and to submit your application.

Application Deadline:
August 20, 2025, 11:59 PM ET (DC Time)

If you have any questions, please contact us at MirzayanFellowship@nas.edu
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This flyer is packed with simple, practical strategies to help you:

  1. Build savings
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  3. Invest smartly (even with a student budget!)
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…and more!

Whether you're a new student worker, transfer student, or just trying to make the most of your money while in school, this guide is for YOU.

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National Postdoctoral Association Announces 2025-2026 IMPACT Fellowship Program

The NPA has announced the opening of the application process for the NPA IMPACT Fellowship Program ("IMPACT") class of 2025-2026. All current postdocs are eligible to apply to become an IMPACT Fellow and applications are not limited to individuals at NPA member institutions.

Apply!

Launched in 2021, the NPA IMPACT Fellowship Program (“IMPACT”) increases access to opportunities for early-career researchers based at U.S. institutions and from marginalized communities to build skills, understand strengths and develop networks. IMPACT provides participants with access to personal and career resources with a cohort of peers so that they can strategically build upon their existing skills and advance in their careers in the direction they choose. 

A central component of the Fellowship is funded Individual IMPACT Projects (IIPs) that allow Fellows to take skills learned during the Fellowship and apply them through a project in their home communities. Individuals completing the program may gain additional opportunities as IMPACT alums.

Each iteration of IMPACT provides a 16-month fellowship for six early-career researchers and includes components such as peer networking engagement; specialized interaction opportunities with NPA speakers;  IIP development and execution; external mentoring resources; individual strengths assessments and individualized interpretation; attendance at the NPA Annual Conference in San Francisco in March 2026.

After completing the IMPACT Fellowship Program, Fellows are expected to feel empowered and capable to use the knowledge, tools and resources that they gained from the program to implement IIPs at their institutions to contribute to their professional communities with particular attention to advancing the success of individuals from marginalized populations. (Note that "communities" often refers to the postdoctoral communities at host institutions; however, other communities are also allowable in this context.)

Apply!

All data collected through the application process will be used to review applicants for the IMPACT Fellowship Program. Your data submitted will be evaluated based on a candidate rubric and shared with IMPACT Task Force members.

NOTE:

1. The NPA seeks a cohort that is diverse (e.g., gender, institutions, geography, race, etc.)
2. Applicants must serve in their postdoc positions through at least Dec 2026. 
3. This is an honorary fellowship. There is no stipend provided. There are, however, many other benefits (e.g., NPA pays costs of all programming, travel to NPA Conference, IIP seed grant).
4. Industry, government, national laboratory, and postdocs at other non-academic institutions are eligible to apply.
5. The NPA seeks leaders who are also in need. 
6. Applications completed entirely or primarily using AI without the ability of the review committee to understand more about you as an individual will not be successful. (If this raises accessibility issues, please contact us using the email below.)
7. Applicants must be based in the U.S.

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Questions? Email IMPACT@nationalpostdoc.org 

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Are you a doctoral candidate or recent graduate grappling with the challenge of converting your dissertation into a publishable manuscript?  

View a recording of AERA’s engaging webinar designed to provide a roadmap for navigating the transition from dissertation to manuscript. This session offers practical strategies, tips, and best practices to help you successfully adapt your research for publication.

Webinar title: How to Do Research and Get Published - How to Convert a Dissertation or Thesis into a Manuscript

Description: Learn how to tailor your manuscript to meet the requirements and standards of academic journals, condense complex arguments, streamline literature reviews, and focus on key findings to enhance the clarity and coherence of your manuscript. This webinar includes a Q&A session to address your specific questions. Enhance your professional skills and make a significant impact in the academic community.

You can find a recording of the webinar here
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