Do you ever wonder what your faculty expect of you? Have you been given directions or instructions, but wonder what your faculty is asking of you? Do you have questions about what professors are looking for during the dissertation process, or how they interpret performance on comprehensive exams? Do you wonder if your professors are saying x, but really mean y? Professors have expressed that when they say X …, they mean X.  Is there a way to listen differently? Is there a way to be sure that you are understanding expectations clearly?

Each year, PROMISE; Maryland’s AGEP and The Graduate School at UMBC host a dinner seminar to allow graduate students to ask questions of faculty. This year, the  ”When Faculty Say ‘X’ … ” seminar will be held on Friday, October 11, 2013 in the first floor lecture hall of Academic IV (The George and Betsy Sherman Building) at UMBC. A full-course dinner will be served.
This is your chance to ask the faculty any questions about expectations, understanding requirements, how they say “no”, how they show their approval, express sentiments using body language, etc. You can ask any and all questions during the seminar, or post questions (anonymously) in advance as a comment on this website. 

• UMBC Students, please RSVP here: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/18932
• Students from other schools, RSVP by commenting here, 1) Name 2) School 3) Department.  This seminar is free!

*ALL* students are asked to post questions for faculty here! These can remain anonymous. Faculty will answer your questions at the dinner seminar on Friday, October 11, 2013.

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Photo reference: Partial cover image from Steven Strogatz’ The Joy of x — A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity, from NY Times Blog “Steven Strogatz and The Joy of x“ http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/joy-of-x/?_r=0

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Related PROMISE article:

Communicate with your faculty (A message for new and continuing grad students.)

Do you ever wonder what your faculty expect of you? Have you been given directions or instructions, but wonder what your faculty is asking of you? Do you have questions about what professors are looking for during the dissertation process, or how they interpret performance on comprehensive exams? Do you wonder if your professors are saying x, but really mean y? Professors have expressed that when they say X …, they mean X.  Is there a way to listen differently? Is there a way to be sure that you are understanding expectations clearly?

Each year, PROMISE; Maryland’s AGEP and The Graduate School at UMBC host a dinner seminar to allow graduate students to ask questions of faculty. This year, the  ”When Faculty Say ‘X’ … ” seminar will be held on Friday, October 11, 2013 in the first floor lecture hall of Academic IV (The George and Betsy Sherman Building) at UMBC. A full-course dinner will be served.
This is your chance to ask the faculty any questions about expectations, understanding requirements, how they say “no”, how they show their approval, express sentiments using body language, etc. You can ask any and all questions during the seminar, or post questions (anonymously) in advance as a comment on this website. 

• UMBC Students, please RSVP here: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/18932
• Students from other schools, RSVP by commenting here, 1) Name 2) School 3) Department.  This seminar is free!

*ALL* students are asked to post questions for faculty here! These can remain anonymous. Faculty will answer your questions at the dinner seminar on Friday, October 11, 2013.

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Photo reference: Partial cover image from Steven Strogatz’ The Joy of x — A Guided Tour of Math from One to Infinity, from NY Times Blog “Steven Strogatz and The Joy of x“ http://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/26/joy-of-x/?_r=0

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Related PROMISE article:

Communicate with your faculty (A message for new and continuing grad students.)

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General Body meeting #2 agenda!

Date/Time: September 23^th, 2013 – 12-12:50pm at Sondheim 108

Agenda

·          Introduction

o    Officers should introduce themselves.

§  Name, Position, Year, Major, and an interesting fact!

o    GB introduction

§  Name, Year, and when you joined SAL

·          What is SAL and what are we about?

§  Honors and Service

·          Becoming an Official member

§  Email Catherine at cwofford@sigmaalphalambda.org if you have any questions.

§  Go on http://salhonors.org/

§  Fill out an invitation request form to request info regarding official membership                                                 http://salhonors.org/membership/invitation-request/

·          Attending Meetings

o    Meetings are bi-weekly. We will send out emails to remind you so include your email on sign in sheet.

o    Add us on myUMBC.

o    Add us on Facebook.

o    Brenden explain point system

o    AT THIS POINT, PASS OUT A SIGN IN SHEET WITH NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, YEAR, AND MEMBER (OR NOT).

·          Planned events for the year

o    1 social event and at least 1 volunteer event a month

                                    (Maryland Food Bank) -

                                    Date: September 28th (The date that we are aiming for) if not then the 5th of October

                                    Time: TBA

                        Brenden will coordinate the rides where we will agree to carpool to the volunteer site

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o    What day works best for you?

§  Survey?

o    Any volunteering events you would like to participate in or ideas?

o    General Member suggestions of any local volunteer events in the area?

·          Volunteering Opportunities

o    Volunteering Forms. Will be uploaded on the FB page and the myUMBC page.

o    Since we are about honor and service, we would like to have at least two volunteering opportunities you can partake in, we will share this with you at meetings. We will start this week.

§  American Red Cross Greater Chesapeake & Potomac Blood Region

·          Occupation: Greeter.

·          Description: Working with people in for Montgomery Chapter House Blood Drives.

·          Time availability: Flexible hrs and days

o    Orientation or Training 1 or 2 times a month.

·          Skills: people with some experience with customer service

·          Go to http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp1202209.jsp

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·          Arundel House of Hope, Day Resource Center

·          Providing hospitality for homeless men and women over the age of 18

·          Need volunteers monthly

·          Skills – Individuals who are good with working with people.

·          Go to http://www.homelessshelterdirectory.org/cgi-bin/id/shelter.cgi?shelter=11081 or contact The Day resource center at 410-863-4888

Social Media (myUMBC and Facebook)

·          Continue to stay posted on both our myUMBC and Facebook site for updated information regarding more volunteer opportunities . If anyone has any other questions please contact any of the e-board members via email.

SAL MEETING 9/23/13

Meeting began at 12:10 pm on Monday Sept. 23 in room 108 of the Sondheim Building. 

Introduction by Vice President Aaron Keys

Introductions by all guests – 23 guests present today

What is SAL –Our mission and what our goals and objectives are

Explaining how to become an SAL member

Explaining the Volunteer Events for Fall 2013

-          Planning the Maryland food bank drive Sat Sept 28. 12-3

-          Sent around sign-up sheet for volunteers, made a google document with names of all those who volunteered

-          Surveyed the group to see what days work best for everyone- weekends, mainly Saturdays but with possible alternate days to allow others to gain volunteer hours

Two Volunteer Opportunities throughout the semester.

-          American Red Cross Greater Chesapeake and Potomoac Blood Region

-          Arundel House of Hope, Day Resource Center

Brenden explained points system and how coming to the volunteer opportunities gains more points which will result in prizes and giveaways at the end of the semester.

Q/A session at the end to find out any issues/concerns/desires of current of future members

Next Friday UMBC will host the Third Mid-Atlantic Student Colloquium on Speech, Language and Learning (MASC-SLL). This is a one day, student run event that brings together students, postdocs, faculty and researchers from universities in the Mid-Atlantic area doing research on speech, language or machine learning.

This year MASC-SLL will be held from 10am to 5pm on Friday 11 October on the seventh floor of the Albert O. Kuhn Library. The program includes more than 30 posters, eight short talks, three breakout sessions and a panel. More than 100 students and postdocs from 13 universities are expected to participate. Seven projects involving UMBC students will be presented.

The event was organized by a student committee including five PhD students: Snigdha Chaturvedi (UMCP), Ben Johnson (UMBC), Michael Paul (JHU), Jennifer Sleeman (UMBC) and Bryan Wilkinson (UMBC). They were supported by a program committee of 14 additional students from seven universities in the middle-Atlantic region.

The first MASC-SLL colloquium was held in 2011 at Johns Hopkins University and the second in 2012 at the University of Maryland, College Park. This year the colloquium was made possible with the generous support of the UMBC Provost office, UMBC Graduate School, the UMBC College of Engineering and Information Technology and the UMBC CSEE Department.

We look forward to welcoming MASC-SLL participants and hearing about their research.

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