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Preparation Workshop with Scott Morgan
Hello everyone,
The Graduate Student Association in collaboration with Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington is hosting a virtual leadership workshop titled "3 Minute Thesis / The Gritty Talks Training Session" on Dec 7th, at 1 pm.
The workshop is open to all graduate students at UMBC. However, it is well suited for students who are interested in participating in 3 Minute Thesis, PowerPoint Roulette, The Gritty Talks, or Ideathon events.
Interested students can reserve a spot by filling out the registration form below. Thank you.
1 PM- 2 PM
WebEx
Contact Gears: gsa-gears-group@umbc.edu
This is a short Ted-like talk for Graduate Students. Students will be given 5 to 7 minutes to talk about any open ended ideas, something that is new and surprising or just an idea or invention that the audience has never heard about.
Attendees will get tips regarding media training, public speaking, and learn how to properly express an idea in a short period of time
Registration Due: Dec 6th, Noon
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From time immemorial, GEARS has been inviting Scott Morgan to play the role of a mentor for all the Ph.D. students who plan on participating in the 3MT Competition. For the academic year 2021 – 2022 too, GEARS is planning to collaborate with him and conduct a workshop.
Attendees will receive tips regarding media training, public speaking, and how to properly express an idea in a short period of time.
December 7th
More About Scott Morgan:
Scott Morgan, President of The Morgan Group of Washington, DC, provides media training and public speaking tips to a variety of organizations, and universities. Morgan is a Senior Associate of the Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in DC.
Scott Morgan has been teaching communication skills for 21 years. His clients include the National Institutes of Health, the Mayo Clinic, Merck, NASA, EPA, City of Hope Cancer Center, and several universities: Harvard Medical School, UNC-Chapel Hill, Cornell, Maryland, Ohio State, Minnesota, Duke, Nebraska, and NC State University, and Texas A&M. He has 25 years of broadcast experience and teaches media and communication strategy to many think tanks in the Washington DC area. Specifically, as a Senior Associate with the Abshire Inamori Leadership Academy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies(http://csis.org/expert/scott-morgan). Scott graduated with honors from the University of California, Davis, and authored the book Speaking about Science published by Cambridge University Press.
Below is more information, that we have included in the announcement/flier/post for the first session:
3 Minute-Thesis Competition:
Three Minute Thesis is an International Research Communication Competition. It is developed to support student's capacities to effectively explain their research in language appropriate to an intelligent but nonspecialist audience. Participants will compete with one another and the winner will be competing in National level 3 Minute Thesis Competition.
The "Gritty Talks"
The talks that make one or two very strong points, and it's important, an onstage look at some clever new invention that the speaker was a part of creating. Music, dance, magic, puppetry, or some other performance to captivate your audience, amazement of science and discovery, the small idea or a big one, or talk that expose your audience to an issue that they may not otherwise know about.
Ideathon
"Ideathons are intensive brainstorming events where individuals from different backgrounds, skills, and interests converge to diagnose predefined problems, identify the best opportunities, and ideate the most viable solution."
Prizes will be awarded for First Place, Second Place, Third Place and People's Choice.
Participants are required to attended two training sessions with Scott Morgan in order to compete at the GEARS Symposium. The second session will occur in Spring 2022.
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A collective bargaining bill is introduced in the Maryland General Assembly, every year. This year's Senate Bill 521 can be found here. If passed, would give GAs the right to Collectively Bargain.
GAAC at UMBC is hosting a special Town Hall on December 6 from 3- 4 pm EST (more information will be provided soon), to review our Meet & Confer process and inform you of the specifics of this year's Collective Bargaining bill. We hope to hear your concerns and opinions about this bill.
Please use this Google Form: https://forms.gle/KVgTxQyrXNTXxpVP9 to submit some basic information to help us better structure the session and also any questions or concerns you may have. We will make sure to address every concern during our Town Hall.Thank you,
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
The Commons, Suite 308
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, Maryland 21250
Take some time to collect your thoughts and organize reading notes and outlines for your dissertation or thesis during the December-January break. We will be meeting over WebEx to provide a reflective space for you to work online in company with other graduate students. The session will mostly be a quiet work space and an opportunity to bring questions or projects to discuss with fellow grad students or with Erin Durham, Reference Librarian for LLC, MLL, ENGL
Another session will be offered on Wednesday, January 12th from 4-6pm. See myUMBC event post
The purpose of this fellowship is to support significant social science research by tenure-track or tenured faculty in the UMBC College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, resulting in a submittable product by December 2022.
Applications are welcome from any tenured or tenure-track faculty pursuing social science research in any CAHSS department. Fellows will receive a $6,000 award during the summer of 2022. Up to three fellowships will be awarded.
By December 2022, each Fellow agrees to complete a submittable product, which can include an external grant or fellowship proposal, journal article, policy paper, book manuscript, or book chapter; upon completion, Fellows shall provide a copy of this submitted product to the Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship. Fellows who are preparing an external proposal are expected to work with MIPAR for pre- and post-award assistance.
Interested faculty should complete and submit an application consisting of this downloadable 2-page cover sheet and proposal that adheres to the specified guidelines. The deadline for applications is FEBRUARY 15, 2022.
Applications will be reviewed and ranked by members of the Center for Social Science Scholarship Advisory Board, according to the following criteria:
For more information, interested faculty may contact Christine Mallinson, Director, or Felipe Filomeno, Associate Director.
Funds for this fellowship are provided by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS), and the UMBC Vice President for Research.
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New episode coming this Friday!
Featuring Dr. Eric Stokan, an assistant professor in UMBC's Department of Political Science.
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About The Series
Retrieving the Social Sciences is a production of the UMBC Center for Social Science Scholarship. Our podcast host is Dr. Ian Anson, our director is Dr. Christine Mallinson, our associate director is Dr. Felipe Filomeno and our production intern is Jefferson Rivas. Our theme music was composed and recorded by D’Juan Moreland. Special thanks to Amy Barnes and Myriam Ralston for production assistance. Make sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, where you can find full video recordings of recent UMBC events.
Join a discussion on how independent media outlets can reimagine journalism and get information directly to the public, without being extractive. This conversation will explore how scholars might work with journalists to better serve the public and share access to public information.
Sarah Alvarez is the founder and editor ofOutlier Media, a Detroit-based service journalism organization that identifies, reports, and delivers valuable information to empower residents to hold landlords, municipal government, and elected officials accountable for long standing problems.
J. Brian Charles is a Baltimore-based reporter for The Trace, a team of journalists exclusively dedicated to reporting on our country’s gun violence crisis. He covers inequality and criminal justice. He previously worked for Governing and The Hill.
Andrew Herrera is the director of network growth at City Bureau, a Chicago-based journalism lab reimagining local media by equipping people with skills and resources. He comes to this work from a career in consumer public relations and a decade as a political organizer on Chicago’s lower-west side.
Lisa Snowden is an independent journalist in Baltimore and founding editor of the Baltimore Beat. Seen in Baltimore City Paper, Baltimore Sun, Columbia Journalism Review, Essence magazine, Washington Post, and a force on Baltimore Twitter.
This free talk is sponsored by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Baltimore Field School and the Public Humanities Program at UMBC.