“When Faculty Say ‘X’ …” — Ask questions, hear from faculty. Dinner seminar Monday, 10/17 Each year, PROMISE and the Graduate School host a dinner seminar that allows graduate students to ask questions of faculty. This year, our  annual “When Faculty Say ‘X’, They Really Mean ‘Y’” seminar will be held on Monday, October 17, 2011 in the Library, 7th floor.  It is important to note that faculty often say [...] ]]> Each year, PROMISE and the Graduate School host a dinner seminar that allows graduate students to ask questions of faculty. This year, our  annual “When Faculty Say ‘X’, They Really Mean ‘Y’”... http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/when-faculty-say-x-ask-questions-hear-from-faculty-dinner-seminar-monday-1017/ https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/9174/guest@my.umbc.edu/021ff04792e14be0425c89a4b332f279/api/pixel agep grad-students gradstudents graduate-school graduate-student-professional-development promise promise-marylands-agep seminars umbc-grad-school university-of-maryland-baltimore-county workshops Grad Student & Postdoc Development https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/gspd https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/xsmall.png?1695134616 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/original.jpg?1695134616 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/xxlarge.png?1695134616 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/xlarge.png?1695134616 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/large.png?1695134616 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/medium.png?1695134616 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/small.png?1695134616 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/xsmall.png?1695134616 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/066/fd3771a0ce0803416cfb6a914448d0d0/xxsmall.png?1695134616 PROMISE @ UMBC: Support for Graduate Students 2 0 false Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:26:57 -0400 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 10:26:57 -0400 A LATTE to Energize Student Leaders Later this month, the Office of Student Life-trained student Leadership Consultants will facilitate the annual Leadership and Teamwork Training Experience (LATTE), a two day, off campus retreat for student organization leaders.  About 35 participants will build a peer network, learn about their leadership styles, discover helpful campus resources and take away new ideas for sustaining their energy and building their organizations.  Past participants have given the retreat great reviews, so don't miss your chance to be a part of it.

LATTE will take place from Saturday morning, October 22nd through Sunday afternoon, October 23rd at the Skycroft Conference Center in Middletown, MD (bus transportation provided from UMBC).  Participation is free.

Here's a link to the application: www.tinyurl.com/umbclatte2011app.  The application deadline is this Friday, October 7th.

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Our chapter’s main focus is to educate members regarding the variety of BME related industries in the area by having frequent guest speakers and site visits from industries such as Osiris-stem cell therapy, MedImmune-biopharmaceutical, UMBC incubator, GE Heathcare, etc. Besides educating members, these speaker and visitation events are also used to facilitate students-professional networking and exposure to the array of job opportunities in BME related industries. Also, members will have the opportunity to learn about discoveries and innovations in the BME field through facilitated discussions each meeting. In addition, our chapter is planning on having engineering faculty and student social events, peer mentoring, and outreach and volunteer events.

Both undergraduate and graduate students of UMBC are welcome. Since we are a newly found organization and therefore very member-focused, we strongly encourage our members to suggest site visits and events they would like to engage in. Our first meeting is Wednesday October 5th at noon in ITE229 with subsequent meetings on every other Wednesday. We’ll talk about recent exciting innovations in the BME field, future planned events, visits and speakers, and take suggestions on other events and site visits we can offer.

Please email our secretary Phillip Kang (pkang1@umbc.edu) if you’re interested in joining the club or to be enrolled in our email list. Please mark your calendars for Wednesday Oct 5th!

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We are pleased to announce that more than 25 of our PROMISE students and affiliates will be attending the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Compact for Faculty Diversity/Institute on Teaching and Mentoring: http://www.instituteonteachingandmentoring.org/Institute/index.html in Atlanta, GA, October 20-23, 2011. The SREB participants will be discussing some thoughts related to their experiences and plans in this thread.


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I’m asking some of the people you might encounter on the UMBC campus, including students, faculty, staff and alumni, to answer a few questions about themselves and their experiences. These are their responses.

Name: Joey McElroy

Hometown: Catonsville, MD

Q: How long have you been at UMBC?

A: 2 Years

Q: What is your current title (job or student organization position)?

A: Student Events Board Programmer
Q: In 12 words or less, what role(s) do you play on campus? 

A: Event enthusiast, planner, promoter, attendee, and that commuter who never leaves campus.

Q: What aspect of your UMBC role(s) do you enjoy most?

A:  It sounds cheesy, but meeting new people is the coolest part of being on SEB. Whether it is an incoming freshman or Snoop Dogg himself, I have met some of the coolest people through my involvement on campus.

Q: What is the most important or memorable thing you learned in college/have learned at UMBC?

A:  My time at UMBC has taught me to take a little risk and put myself out there. All throughout grade school I was awkwardly shy, but UMBC has completely changed that. Even just a few years ago, I would have never imagined doing things like running a major event, or going on a 5 day leadership retreat.

Q: Complete this sentence: "I am a big fan of __________"

A:  Harry Potter… And Disney. It’s actually kind of a problem.

Q: Do you have any UMBC stories, little-known facts about UMBC, favorite spots on campus, or anything else you’d like to share?

A:   My all time favorite spot on campus is the Student Orgs Space, I have easily spent more time there than I have in class. Between SEB, SGA, and other Student Orgs, there is always something going on.

GET INVOLVED- Especially if you aren’t the type of person who normally would. Getting involved is the easiest way to find your place on campus and get the most out of your time at UMBC.
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My "only at UMBC" list would include:
  • Only at UMBC is the largest indoor open space on campus lined with giant chess pieces
  • Only at UMBC do students frequently practice dances, play Go and Chess, study, and hold student organization meetings in the same space (the Student Orgs Space on The Commons' 2nd floor) at the same time
  • Only at UMBC is the big, crazy, fun night before classes start each fall called Big Crazy Fun Night
  • Only at UMBC does the SGA award large grants to students to back their proposals to improve some aspect of the campus (through the Prove It! competition, which will take place later this semester).
OK, that last one isn't really "only at UMBC," because Prove It! has been imitated on other campuses.  But it's a UMBC original.

What's on your list?

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Before I started working at UMBC in 2003, I had lived in Southern California for nearly all of my 36 years. People on campus asked me all the time what could possibly have motivated me to leave paradise for . . . this.

I admit that I didn't come to Baltimore for the weather. But I am a big fan of the rain, sleet and snow. I could live without the tear-inducing blasts of frigid wind plaguing Commons Drive on winter mornings, but that aside, I love the cold.

Cold, wet weather reminds me that I came here by choice, and that I have the power to shape my life, my career and my contributions. No mere inertia or taken-for-granted assumptions about my destiny hold me here. Against the 75-degrees-and-sunny backdrop of my former life, snowflakes and raindrops are symbols of freedom and personal agency.  

I think everyone could use those symbols, those reminders to choose and not simply surrender to the tug and pull of the taken-for-granted. Maybe you have your symbols too.

Summers are very different too: July and August in Southern California are not nearly as moist as they are here. So I must also treasure the heat and humidity as symbols of freedom, right? But no. They just make me sweat.

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The employees are hard at work in Dissertation House @ UMBC on September 23-24, 2011.

Employee DH

Employee DH

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Employees at work in the DH

Yvette Mozie-Ross, Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management, shares her experiences with employees

 


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The employees are hard at work in Dissertation House @ UMBC on September 23-24, 2011.

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Employee DH

Employees atwork in the DH

Employees at work in the DH

Yvette Mozie-Ross, Assistant Provost for Enrollment Management, shares her experiences with employees

 


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Developing this critical eye is a key to success, not just as a researcher but also as a leader and agent of change.  If you want to make a difference in the world, it helps to be able to recognize the subtle forces that shape situations, imagine alternative futures, and spot openings for action.  

In this post and two others in the coming weeks, I'll feature accounts from UMBC undergraduates of how participation in research is expanding their perspectives and preparing them for the challenges and opportunities ahead.  First up is Eliana Nessaiver, INDS major:

Undergraduate research is a unique experience that is at the same time educational and fascinating. My research focused on evaluating the mid Atlantic offshore wind energy resource – or, put the way I say it when not presenting my research to a scientific body, seeing if Maryland is windy enough to put up some wind turbines.
The research had nothing to do with my major, interdisciplinary studies in medical imaging, but that didn’t impact the effect of the experience on my academic life – short and long term. I learned to get organized, to work independently, to pinpoint when I was confused and ask the right clarifying questions. I learned just how relevant the seemingly dry research done in a cloistered lab can be to the wider community. Every time I heard the phrase “wind energy” on the radio, I found myself turning up the volume. This was why I was going to school and struggling to earn a difficult degree. Not for some manufactured class project (although don’t get me wrong, those can be interesting as well,) but for the application of my education to real-world problems, with personal guidance from an interested and motivating professor. This experience crystalized my decision to pursue a PhD after I graduate from UMBC, and my research background gave me the skills I needed for the research position I held at Johns Hopkins University this past summer.
Undergraduate research is a facet of UMBC that should not be overlooked by those who want to put an extra spark into their undergraduate education. The three semesters I spent on this project are three I will certainly never regret, or forget.
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