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• Food and drink may not be stored in lockers.
• Please make sure you’ve checked out any Library books you’d like to store in your locker.

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As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, June 2nd from 5pm to 10pm.  While many systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are several systems which require the downtime of key services for short times during this window.  The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.

• The new web hosting environment (virthost and jabba) will be partially unavailable (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)
• Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)
  
• All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is patched
• Expected to be unreachable from 5pm to 8pm
• All HFS (user) servers will be offline
• License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)
  
• Perseus will be unavailable
• myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality
• Expected to be down from 5pm to 7pm only 
• Wiki will be unavailable
  
• The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable
  
• Expected to be down from 5pm to 7pm only
• Userpages will be unavailable

Call for Papers

Mellon Emerging Scholars Conference

“Sustaining Diverse and Inclusive Communities”

Thanks to generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Queens College has undertaken a three-year project led by faculty and students to advance understanding and formulate plans of action that foster diversity and inclusion in urban communities and higher education.  As part of this, the College will host a two-day conference to showcase research by emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

The two-day conference will be held on November 13-14, 2017, on the Queens College campus located in the heart of the world’s most diverse urban place.  Our students hail from 150 different countries and speak 70 different languages.  The conference will afford ample opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange and contribute to the professional development of the emerging scholars who participate as well as for students and faculty from across CUNY. A special reception for undergraduates, held on the first evening of the conference, will provide them a chance to meet and talk with conference presenters and attendees to learn more about shared fields of interest and careers in higher education.  Conference proceedings will be broadcast via the web and also captured for later podcasts, thus amplifying their impact.  Publication of selected papers as a book is also planned.  Finally, time will be set aside for interviews arranged in advance of the conference for open faculty positions at Queens College and other CUNY campuses to take advantage of this recruitment opportunity to enhance faculty diversity. 

Scholars, especially those in the early stage of their career, are invited to propose papers no more than 30 minutes in length. While limited travel and accommodation support will be provided, participants are encouraged to solicit funding support from their home institutions. 

Learn more about the conference by go to:

http://mellondiversity.qc.cuny.edu/

Learn more about Queens College by going to:  http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Pages/home.aspx

Please send a 250-word proposal and CV to:

Mellon Conference Program Committee

c/o Michael Wolfe, Dean of Social Sciences

Michael.Wolfe@qc.cuny.edu

Deadline:         August 15, 2017

9:00 – 9:20 a.m

• Registration

9:20 a.m.

• Welcome
  • Yarazeth Medina, Coordinator for Graduate Student Development and Postdoctoral Affairs, The Graduate School
  • Justine Johnson, Associate Director, Meyerhoff Graduate Fellows Program
  • Sundiata Jangha, Director of Upward Bound Mathematics and Science Center 

9:40 a.m.

• Preparing for Graduate Study: Timelines and Choices
  • K. Jill Barr, J.D. ,  Sr. Assistant Dean of Graduate Enrollment, The Graduate School
  • Gay Warshaw,  Manager, Recruitment and Admissions, The Graduate School

10:00 a.m.

• Elements of the Graduate School Application: GRE, Transcripts, Letters of Recommendation, Statement of Purpose
  • Dr. Renetta Tull, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs, Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP

10:30 a.m.

• Understanding Graduate School – Panel of Graduate Students
  • Timothy Munuhe, PhD student, Mechanical Engineering Department
  • Denise Williams, PhD student, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
  • Nopondo Ndoh Esemoto, PhD student, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department
  • Ana Maldonado, PhD student, Psychology Department

11:00 a.m.

• Introduction: Dr. Renetta Tull, Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Student Development & Postdoctoral Affairs, Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP
• Motivational Talk by Dr. Freeman Hrabowski, President, UMBC

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