RGPN McNai October Saturday Academy: Source Evaluation!

Please join RGPN McNair at our Saturday Academy grad skills workshops, focusing on evaluating peer-reviewed sources and datasets!

October 3, 2026 

1-2:30pm 
Evaluating Peer-Reviewed Sources 
Session Leader: Erika Bucciantini, PhD Student, Public Policy, UMBC 

Erika Bucciantini is a doctoral student in The School of Public Policy at UMBC with a specialization in Urban Policy. She holds a Bachelors in Humanities & Social Sciences from Western Washington University and a Masters in Classical Studies from the University of Kentucky with additional certification from the Institute for Latin Studies. Her research interests include the impact of neoclassical monuments and architecture in the American landscape, land use, and displacement.  

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/public-mcnair/events/154470  
ZOOM REGISTRATION: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9qHY2HdyQ3uYB7qnjYH_Sg 
 
2:30-4pm 
Evaluating Datasets for Academic Research 
Session Leader: Dr. Michael Rosenblum, Professor of Biostatistics,  Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University 

Dr. Michael Rosenblum is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is interested in developing innovative clinical trial designs and open-source software to efficiently learn which treatments work best for which populations. He also works in causal inference applications and model robustness misspecification (i.e. quantitative methodology), and applies his work in the forensics area outside of that. 

IN-PERSON REGISTRATION: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/public-mcnair/events/154471  
ZOOM REGISTRATION: 
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/LrdDuthSRGmseZ1SbdxCFw