Are you a MD/PhD student, in your last year of medical school, or in your last year of dental school?

The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Students to Service Loan Repayment Program (S2S LRP) is providing $120,000 to medical (MD and DO) or dental (DDS or DMD) students in their final year of school in return for a commitment to provide primary health care full time for at least 3 years at an approved NHSC site in a Health Professional Shortage Area of greatest need.

APPLICATION DETAILS (AT-A-GLANCE)

Application: https://programportal.hrsa.gov/extranet/application/s2s

Deadline: October 13, 2016 

Application Guidance Package: http://www.nhsc.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/studentstoserviceprogram/applicationguidance.pdf

Factor on Determining the NHSC Award: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dc4IAHq0d-g

For full information regarding the National Health Service Corps Students to Service Loan Repayment Program, please visit the website: http://www.nhsc.hrsa.gov/loanrepayment/studentstoserviceprogram/.

The CAHSS Dean’s Research Fund (CDRF) provides a biannual (proposals due Oct 1 and Apr 1) competitive funding opportunity for up to $5,000 to support the research endeavors of CAHSS tenured and tenure-track faculty and lecturers. Funds will support developing or established scholarly and creative projects. Faculty on visiting or short-term appointments are not eligible to apply. Awarded funds will be available through the end of the fiscal year following the award year. After completion of the grant term, awardees must provide evidence of work produced and a short report describing how funds were spent and how any equipment purchased has been designated for continued College use.

Items that are eligible for CDRF funding include: travel, equipment, supplies, books, research participant costs, undergraduate or graduate student support, and other items necessary for research endeavors. No faculty salary support or course releases may be funded through this initiative. Funds supporting this initiative are provided by the Office of the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Applications will be reviewed by the CAHSS Research Advisory Committee, which will make recommendations to the Dean. Proposals will be judged on: the quality of the proposed project, feasibility of the work, and how the project will benefit from CDRF assistance.

Limit one application per faculty member per funding cycle. Limit one award per faculty per two years.

Link for application materials: http://cahss.umbc.edu/cahss-deans-research-fund/ 

Information from CAHSS Dean's Office

by David Hoffman and Craig Berger

UMBC turns 50 next Monday, and will mark the occasion starting this weekend with a celebration beyond anything our campus has ever seen. (We'll be there, and you should be too!).

In anticipation of the big event, let's talk about the birthday gifts we'd like to give UMBC to celebrate the end of its first half-century and the dawn of its next (#BDayGifts4UMBC).

Here's what we'd choose

• Historical markers telling the amazing stories behind familiar features of campus life. How did the free hour come into being, and who had the idea for a campus pond? What role did students play in transforming The Commons' Student Organizations Space from a storage room into a social hub? What stately brick building once stood in the shadow of the mighty oak behind the Stadium Lot? (OK, there already is a marker for that one, but we bet you haven't noticed it).
• A presidential debate at the new Events Center during the 2020 election cycle. (If this event lives up to its potential, how could they refuse?).
• Free drinks at Starbucks any time a faculty member and student show up together; or an undergraduate with a graduate student; or staff members from departments in different divisions. Let's make it even easier to build connections that cross the usual lines.
• Endowed chairs and professorships to support research on civic agency and imaginative approaches to social change. We care about those things a lot, and they're a UMBC specialty. Let's make it easier to learn from what we're all doing and share it with the world.
• A Creativity Center for student organizations, fully staffed and stocked with supplies and equipment for all kinds of projects, with ample storage space for everything from kinetic sculptures to rockets and more.
• A student-run coffee house designed and conceptualized with interdisciplinarity in mind. Environmental Science majors and Sustainability Interns could contribute to the design of environmentally sustainable business practices. Engineering majors could assist with the design of the physical space. Students minoring in Entrepreneurship could facilitate the development of a community-minded business plan. The space would serve as an informal hub for student organization brainstorming and collaboration, an intimate performance venue (perhaps booked by the Student Events Board), and a monument to the idea that UMBC students from various backgrounds can join together and design a gift that keeps on giving.
  
• An emergency fund that could be tapped whenever a student experiences unexpected hardships that threaten their ability to continue their education at UMBC. Students would work with alumni to drive fundraising for the scholarship. 

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. A NEW DATE WILL BE POSTED SOON

The University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) is hosting the PROMISE STEM GRAD EXPO  on Saturday, October 15, 2016 in the SMC Campus Center on UMB’s campus. This interactive event is being designed to inform, engage, and encourage underrepresented and under-served groups to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields. With an emphasis on biomedical and related research areas, participants will receive a wealth of information about graduate school. Undergraduate students and career professionals considering a return to school for graduate studies will walk away with the ability to confidently apply to  graduate school and finance their  graduate education. The event will feature informative workshops, and conversations with deans, faculty, and current graduate students. Representatives from local colleges and universities will be on hand for a graduate fair to answer your questions.

This is a FREE event. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

• Date & Time: Saturday, October 15, 2016, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
• Location: University of Maryland Baltimore, Southern Management Corporation Student Center – 621 W. Lombard Street SMC 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201

This event is sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP-T), and The Graduate School at the University of Maryland Baltimore.

Please mark the date. Stay tuned to this page for regular updates, and additional information.

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Photo credits: “Gene deletion may shed new light on the development and progression of autism,” by Vlad Serephim – Creative Commons, http://thejupital.com/creative-commons-gene-deletion-may-shed-new-light-on-the-development-and-progression-of-autism/, Historical PROMISE Photo – 2009 NEWSWISE:  http://www.newswise.com/articles/four-university-of-maryland-baltimore-students-fulfill-promise, Caption: Credit: University of Maryland, Baltimore, Newest PhD graduates of University of Maryland, Baltimore PROMISE program: (l to r) Jocelyn Reader, Trudy Smith, Stacey Simmons Williams, and Marishka Brown. Besides exceling academically Williams also gave birth to her daughter in her first academic year.

The University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB) is hosting the PROMISE STEM GRAD EXPO  on Saturday, October 15, 2016 in the SMC Campus Center on UMB’s campus. This interactive event is being designed to inform, engage, and encourage underrepresented and under-served groups to pursue master’s and doctoral degrees in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) fields. With an emphasis on biomedical and related research areas, participants will receive a wealth of information about graduate school. Undergraduate students and career professionals considering a return to school for graduate studies will walk away with the ability to confidently apply to  graduate school and finance their  graduate education. The event will feature informative workshops, and conversations with deans, faculty, and current graduate students. Representatives from local colleges and universities will be on hand for a graduate fair to answer your questions.

This is a FREE event. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

• Date & Time: Saturday, October 15, 2016, 8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
• Location: University of Maryland Baltimore, Southern Management Corporation Student Center – 621 W. Lombard Street SMC 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201

This event is sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP-T), and The Graduate School at the University of Maryland Baltimore.

Please mark the date. Stay tuned to this page for regular updates, and additional information.

Share the registration link! https://stemexpo2016.eventbrite.com

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Photo credits: “Gene deletion may shed new light on the development and progression of autism,” by Vlad Serephim – Creative Commons, http://thejupital.com/creative-commons-gene-deletion-may-shed-new-light-on-the-development-and-progression-of-autism/, Historical PROMISE Photo – 2009 NEWSWISE:  http://www.newswise.com/articles/four-university-of-maryland-baltimore-students-fulfill-promise, Caption: Credit: University of Maryland, Baltimore, Newest PhD graduates of University of Maryland, Baltimore PROMISE program: (l to r) Jocelyn Reader, Trudy Smith, Stacey Simmons Williams, and Marishka Brown. Besides exceling academically Williams also gave birth to her daughter in her first academic year.