We’re heading to the ATL this coming October 2014 for the SREB Compact! If you went to the PROMISE SSI this year, think of The Compact as PROMISE SSI quadrupled! Yes, there are nearly 1000 students from around the country at the conference. As a group, PROMISE has traveled with graduate students to past SREB conferences in Atlanta, Tampa, and Crystal City. This year, we return to Atlanta. In order to go, you need to be nominated by the PROMISE AGEP. Read some of our former posts for the SREB conference here.

YOU have a chance to go with us to Atlanta, but PROMISE must nominate you. You cannot nominate yourself. We guarantee that we will take at least 8 people; we may take more. One year, we had so many great responses that we received additional funding and we took 30 people!

Here are some facts about the conference:

1.  This is the 21st Institute on TEACHING AND MENTORING/Compact for Faculty Diversity, October 30 – November 2 , 2014, Omni CNN Center, Atlanta, GA. We tend to refer to this conference as “SREB.”

1. Scholars nominated to attend the Institute should ONLY be individuals who have an expressed interest in pursuing a career as faculty in a college or university (any postsecondary institution.) All of the sessions at the Institute will focus on topics and issues related to teaching at the postsecondary level. Consequently, scholars who are not interested in becoming a member of the faculty at the postsecondary level will not benefit from attending this Institute.

1. Nominated scholars must be minority or underserved STEM majors enrolled in a Ph.D. program. SREB will not accept nominations from students. (We will consider select masters students who are on track for Ph.D. programs. Note that Social Sciences are part of the “Science” in STEM.)

1. The conference will be in Atlanta, GA. Hotel rooms at the CNN Omni Center will be available at no cost to you. Single rooms will not be available for scholars. Students will be placed in double rooms. 
2. UMBC’s President, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski will be this year’s Keynote Speaker.
3. Nominees must be part of the PROMISE: AGEP-T. This means that you must be a graduate student at one of the institutions within the University System of Maryland. If you are interested, you must show evidence of participation in a PROMISE AGEP event prior to September 8, 2014.

TO APPLY: 

Write a comment to this post (below) with the following information (do not send email, email will not count). Please follow this order:

a) YOUR NAME

b) University & Department (no abbreviations). You must be a graduate student in a STEM field from one of the universities listed here: http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/. Include the link for your department and your laboratory.

c) Provide at least one link for your professional website. If you have more than one, you may provide up to three links, e.g., LinkedIn, department website.

d) Planned year of graduation for your PhD

e) One paragraph that describes the reason why you want to be a professor.

f) Which PROMISE events have you attended, and what have you learned?

g) If you’ve been “The Compact” in the past, what did you learn?

Once you apply using this format, send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com with the subject “SREB 2014 application, now online” so that we will have your email logged in our database for this event.

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We’re heading to the ATL this coming October 2014 for the SREB Compact! If you went to the PROMISE SSI this year, think of The Compact as PROMISE SSI quadrupled! Yes, there are nearly 1000 students from around the country at the conference. As a group, PROMISE has traveled with graduate students to past SREB conferences in Atlanta, Tampa, and Crystal City. This year, we return to Atlanta. In order to go, you need to be nominated by the PROMISE AGEP. Read some of our former posts for the SREB conference here.

YOU have a chance to go with us to Atlanta, but PROMISE must nominate you. You cannot nominate yourself. We guarantee that we will take at least 8 people; we may take more. One year, we had so many great responses that we received additional funding and we took 30 people!

Here are some facts about the conference:

1.  This is the 21st Institute on TEACHING AND MENTORING/Compact for Faculty Diversity, October 30 – November 2 , 2014, Omni CNN Center, Atlanta, GA. We tend to refer to this conference as “SREB.”

1. Scholars nominated to attend the Institute should ONLY be individuals who have an expressed interest in pursuing a career as faculty in a college or university (any postsecondary institution.) All of the sessions at the Institute will focus on topics and issues related to teaching at the postsecondary level. Consequently, scholars who are not interested in becoming a member of the faculty at the postsecondary level will not benefit from attending this Institute.

1. Nominated scholars must be minority or underserved STEM majors enrolled in a Ph.D. program. SREB will not accept nominations from students. (We will consider select masters students who are on track for Ph.D. programs. Note that Social Sciences are part of the “Science” in STEM.)

1. The conference will be in Atlanta, GA. Hotel rooms at the CNN Omni Center will be available at no cost to you. Single rooms will not be available for scholars. Students will be placed in double rooms. 
2. UMBC’s President, Dr. Freeman Hrabowski will be this year’s Keynote Speaker.
3. Nominees must be part of the PROMISE: AGEP-T. This means that you must be a graduate student at one of the institutions within the University System of Maryland. If you are interested, you must show evidence of participation in a PROMISE AGEP event prior to September 8, 2014.

TO APPLY: 

Write a comment to this post (below) with the following information (do not send email, email will not count). Please follow this order:

a) YOUR NAME

b) University & Department (no abbreviations). You must be a graduate student in a STEM field from one of the universities listed here: http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/. Include the link for your department and your laboratory.

c) Provide at least one link for your professional website. If you have more than one, you may provide up to three links, e.g., LinkedIn, department website.

d) Planned year of graduation for your PhD

e) One paragraph that describes the reason why you want to be a professor.

f) Which PROMISE events have you attended, and what have you learned?

g) If you’ve been “The Compact” in the past, what did you learn?

Once you apply using this format, send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com with the subject “SREB 2014 application, now online” so that we will have your email logged in our database for this event.

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Dear Participants in PROMISE,

Our friends at MIT, have invited us to participate in a virtual event, that will be followed-up by an in-person opportunity! On August 28, at 11:00 A.M EST, MIT is conducting a virtual visit to the MIT Media Lab. The event will be hosted on the Unhangout platform, a new way of running unconferences online. During this event, you will have an opportunity to talk with current Media Lab students and learn more about their research. This is a RESEARCH EXPOSURE event, this is not an admissions event. To sign up and learn more about the event, visit here http://learn.media.mit.edu/events/medialab. To prepare for the event, look at the How-To-Unhangout instructions, https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/how-to-unhangout/ and make sure your computer fulfills the basic requirements. Feel free to share your thoughts and tweet us using the hashtag #mlunhangouts 

If you are interested in going to visit MIT to have an in-person tour, we are coordinating a trip from Maryland to Boston (by invitation only) on Monday, October 27, 2014. If you are interested in this trip to learn more about the Media Lab, please do the following, send email to promisestaff@gmail.com with:

1) Your CV

2) Link(s) to your professional website(s) (e.g., LinkedIn, university website, lab website)

3) One paragraph that explains why you want to attend, and with whom in the media lab you’d like to work/collaborate/meet, why you are inspired by that work (http://www.media.mit.edu/people/faculty), and what you can bring to the research. 

Use the subject line: “PROMISE & MIT Opportunity Oct. 27.” Please use this subject “word-for-word.” Emails without this subject line will not make it through our special filter for this opportunity, and will not be read for consideration. Emails without a CV, link(s), or the paragraph (described in #1-3 above) will not be considered. Email sent to addresses other than promisestaff@gmail.com will not be considered. The first deadline to be considered for the in-person opportunity is Monday, September 8, 2014. This will be a first-come, first-served opportunity.  We will provide a limited number of round-trip airline tickets for this trip.

Best regards,

Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D.

PROMISE AGEP Director

Dear Participants in PROMISE,

Our friends at MIT, have invited us to participate in a virtual event, that will be followed-up by an in-person opportunity! On August 28, at 11:00 A.M EST, MIT is conducting a virtual visit to the MIT Media Lab. The event will be hosted on the Unhangout platform, a new way of running unconferences online. During this event, you will have an opportunity to talk with current Media Lab students and learn more about their research. This is a RESEARCH EXPOSURE event, this is not an admissions event. To sign up and learn more about the event, visit here http://learn.media.mit.edu/events/medialab. To prepare for the event, look at the How-To-Unhangout instructions, https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/how-to-unhangout/ and make sure your computer fulfills the basic requirements. Feel free to share your thoughts and tweet us using the hashtag #mlunhangouts

If you are interested in going to visit MIT to have an in-person tour, we are coordinating a trip from Maryland to Boston (by invitation only) on Monday, October 27, 2014. If you are interested in this trip to learn more about the Media Lab, please do the following, send email to promisestaff@gmail.com with:

1) Your CV

2) Link(s) to your professional website(s) (e.g., LinkedIn, university website, lab website)

3) One paragraph that explains why you want to attend, and with whom in the media lab you’d like to work/collaborate/meet, why you are inspired by that work (http://www.media.mit.edu/people/faculty), and what you can bring to the research.

Use the subject line: “PROMISE & MIT Opportunity Oct. 27.” Please use this subject “word-for-word.” Emails without this subject line will not make it through our special filter for this opportunity, and will not be read for consideration. Emails without a CV, link(s), or the paragraph (described in #1-3 above) will not be considered. Email sent to addresses other than promisestaff@gmail.com will not be considered. The first deadline to be considered for the in-person opportunity is Monday, September 8, 2014. This will be a first-come, first-served opportunity.  We will provide a limited number of round-trip airline tickets for this trip.

Best regards,

Renetta G. Tull, Ph.D.

PROMISE AGEP Director

——————–UPDATE:  October 29, 2014 ——————-

PHOTOS from the MIT Media Lab event, October 27, 2014. We had a delegation of 12.  See the PROMISE Instagram page for additional photos: http://instagram.com/promiseagep. The “comments” section below has additional photos, and reflections from the participants.

Photo taken at the MIT Media Lab, October 27, 2014. The photo features students from UMBC: mechanical engineering, biological sciences, computer science and electrical engineering.

PROMISE AGEP: Current and future

StartUp Maryland! Pitch Across Maryland 3.0 - Get On the Bus™

Montgomery County Application Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2014 

Are you an entrepreneur ready to pitch your company? Register for your chance to film a 3-minute video pitch that will be seen online by VC, angel investors and voted on by fans around Maryland! 

Pitch Across Maryland celebrates entrepreneurship throughout Maryland. A Maryland-themed tour bus travels around the State from September 15 - October 3. At each stop, 3-minute pitches made by pre-selected startups will be filmed in the on board video studio. Qualified videos are posted online for "Fan Favorites" voting. A panel of venture capitalists and angel investors also select 8 companies with the strongest potential for growth. These companies will present at the Maryland Entrepreneur Expo on November 12, 2014 at the BWI Airport Marriott where the StartUp Maryland winner is chosen. 

The Montgomery County Department of Economic Development and the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce have partnered to host this year's Pitch Across Maryland stops in Montgomery County on Wednesday, October 1. The morning tour will be at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) on the Universities of Shady Grove campus and the afternoon will be at UberOffices in Bethesda. 

Register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1pKIj8sh4stuQfCiUt48ZEHcrpaM8rVzodoLQNx3S7o8/viewform?usp=send_form if you think you have what it takes to Get On The Bus™ in Montgomery County! 

Questions? Contact: Stephanie Eyler Business Development Specialist I Montgomery County Department of Economic Development 240-777-2015 Stephanie.Eyler@montgomerycountymd.gov