This winter has felt a LOT like spring, so I am going to share with you my favorite COOL dessert.

And yes, it involves Cool Whip (or yogurt)

With this desert, you can pretty much add anything that you want. What I mixed in:

• Dried fruits ( papaya and banana)

• Mixed nuts (almonds and walnuts)

• Fruits (strawberries and blueberries)

• A  splash of a fruity drink ( orange or pineapple)

• Crushed Graham Crackers

Chill for 15 minutes before serving.

Unity in Diversity

Ethiopian-Eritrean Student Association

Thursday, April 5, 2012

8:00pm

University Center, Ballroom

UMBC ID = FREE

General Admission = $5.00

Ticket #: 16 of 300

Jurassic Park Movie

SEB Throwback Big Screen Bus Trip

Thursday, April 5, 2012

10:00pm

Bus departs The Commons Circle @ 9:00pm

All Guests = $3.00

Ticket #: 12 of 278

Boishahki Bang

Bangla Club

Friday, April 6, 2012

7:00pm

University Center, Ballroom

UMBC ID = FREE

General Admission = $10.00

Ticket #: 16 of 320

Hunger Games Movie

SEB Bus Trip

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Bus departs The Commons Circle @ 9:00pm

All Guests = $5.00

Ticket #: 49 of 178

Hershey Park Bus Trip - SOLD OUT!!!

Student Events Board

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Bus departs The Commons Circle @ 8:00am

All Guests = $30.00

Ticket #: 43 of 49

Gym Class Heroes

Student Events Board: Quadmania 2012

Sunday, April 22, 2012

9:00pm

The Retriever Activity Center (RAC)

All Guests = $18.00

Ticket #: 563 of 2500

Throughout the last several years, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students who participate in PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP have given various reasons for and against planning to choose careers in the academy.  Among reasons against becoming a faculty member, students have told us that “professors don’t make any money” or that “professors are poor.”  Students may be surprised to learn that they are often making assumptions without any data.  We’ve found it interesting that students who really wanted to teach and have a research program were considering going to industry because they thought that they wouldn’t make a decent living as a professor.  To combat this notion, over the years, PROMISE has been giving students opportunities to hear from, and talk with, STEM faculty  from around the country during our PROMISE Summer Success Institutes (SSI).  The students learned that not only were many of the professors making a very comfortable salary, but that many were, by their own admission, “living large!”  Students were not aware that many faculty salaries are based on a 9 month scale, which means that faculty can do something else for 3 months in the summer, including taking advantage of other opportunities to make even more money.  Some faculty choose to supplement incomes through grant funding, teaching a summer class, or working on a project in another university/industry/government lab.  Some faculty choose to take the summer off to travel, spend time with family, or as PROMISE  faculty “Mentor-in-Residence”  put it, “go fishing.”

The following table presents a sample of faculty salaries from a few STEM fields at different ranks:  Assistant Professor (entry-level, immediately following completion of a PhD or postdoctoral appointment), Associate Professor (after tenure, which generally requires 7 years of experience and a strong record of research and publications, teaching, and service), and Full Professor (promotion after having the qualifications of Associate Professor, achieving national/international reputation for scholarship, continued service to the university.) For more information on faculty rankings, see the 2011 “Promotion and Tenure” policies for UMBC as an example:   http://www.umbc.edu/provost/Faculty_Handbook/section6.pdf.  The numbers in the table showcase a range of salaries based on faculty rank for a few STEM fields. Some of the ranges represent high end or top levels of salaries, and others are medians. The time frame also varies as some numbers represent salary paid out over 9 months, while others represent an annual 12 month salary.

NOTES.  Information has been compiled from the following sources:

• Salaries 2009: Analysis of the American Chemical Society‘s 2009 Comprehensive Salary and Employment Status Survey, published by the American Chemical Society. Range in table represents median salaries. http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/careers/salaries/surveys/CNBP_026817
• Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) Faculty Salary Scale, FY 2010.   Range in table represents Grade 13, “High or Top” level. http://www.ccbcmd.edu/media/hr/faculty_salary_ranges.pdf
• “The Bent” Magazine of Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society, Spring 2012, reporting American Society for Engineering Education salary data from 2010-2011. Range in table represents median salaries.   http://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/blogs-and-newsletters/connections/2012March-special-issue.html#Faculty
• Salaries of PhD Physicists and Related Scientists During Spring 2006: Summary Report, published by the American Institute of Physics.   Range in table represents “Top” level. http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/salary/salsum06.pdf

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Throughout the last several years, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate students who participate in PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP have given various reasons for and against planning to choose careers in the academy.  Among reasons against becoming a faculty member, students have told us that “professors don’t make any money” or that “professors are poor.”  Students may be surprised to learn that they are often making assumptions without any data.  We’ve found it interesting that students who really wanted to teach and have a research program were considering going to industry because they thought that they wouldn’t make a decent living as a professor.  To combat this notion, over the years, PROMISE has been giving students opportunities to hear from, and talk with, STEM faculty  from around the country during our PROMISE Summer Success Institutes (SSI).  The students learned that not only were many of the professors making a very comfortable salary, but that many were, by their own admission, “living large!”  Students were not aware that many faculty salaries are based on a 9 month scale, which means that faculty can do something else for 3 months in the summer, including taking advantage of other opportunities to make even more money.  Some faculty choose to supplement incomes through grant funding, teaching a summer class, or working on a project in another university/industry/government lab.  Some faculty choose to take the summer off to travel, spend time with family, or as PROMISE  faculty “Mentor-in-Residence”  put it, “go fishing.”

The following table presents a sample of faculty salaries from a few STEM fields at different ranks:  Assistant Professor (entry-level, immediately following completion of a PhD or postdoctoral appointment), Associate Professor (after tenure, which generally requires 7 years of experience and a strong record of research and publications, teaching, and service), and Full Professor (promotion after having the qualifications of Associate Professor, achieving national/international reputation for scholarship, continued service to the university.) For more information on faculty rankings, see the 2011 “Promotion and Tenure” policies for UMBC as an example:   http://www.umbc.edu/provost/Faculty_Handbook/section6.pdf.  The numbers in the table showcase a range of salaries based on faculty rank for a few STEM fields. Some of the ranges represent high end or top levels of salaries, and others are medians. The time frame also varies as some numbers represent salary paid out over 9 months, while others represent an annual 12 month salary.

NOTES.  Information has been compiled from the following sources:

• Salaries 2009: Analysis of the American Chemical Society‘s 2009 Comprehensive Salary and Employment Status Survey, published by the American Chemical Society. Range in table represents median salaries. http://portal.acs.org/portal/PublicWebSite/careers/salaries/surveys/CNBP_026817
• Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) Faculty Salary Scale, FY 2010.   Range in table represents Grade 13, “High or Top” level. http://www.ccbcmd.edu/media/hr/faculty_salary_ranges.pdf
• “The Bent” Magazine of Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society, Spring 2012, reporting American Society for Engineering Education salary data from 2010-2011. Range in table represents median salaries.   http://www.asee.org/papers-and-publications/blogs-and-newsletters/connections/2012March-special-issue.html#Faculty
• Salaries of PhD Physicists and Related Scientists During Spring 2006: Summary Report, published by the American Institute of Physics.   Range in table represents “Top” level. http://www.aip.org/statistics/trends/highlite/salary/salsum06.pdf

Related articles

• 15 Things to Consider as You Prepare for Your Faculty Interview (promiseagep.wordpress.com)
• Postdoc and Faculty Jobs “Down Under.” Consider Australia! (promiseagep.wordpress.com)

2 Corinthians 5:16-21 (NIV)

16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Reflection:

Here Paul proclaims a completely new reality on a grand scale for those who are in Christ that everything has changed and has become new.This is the result of the reality of being reconciled to Christ and one that we hope and pray others will experience and receive.But more than our hopes and desires for others, it’s about God’s heart for people to be reconciled to Him and He has given us this ministry and message of reconciliation and called us to be His ambassadors to those around us.

Responding to the Transmission:

Let’s receive God’s heart even more and believe in the power of the message we have been given to proclaim to others. Let’s once again respond to the calling to be the ones that share this message of reconciliation to others who are not reconciled to God.

Hey  everyone,

Just a couple of reminders. As always, there is a mission this Thursday, at 7pm in Lecture Hall 2. Also, next Monday, April 9th at 7pm in Lecture Hall 2 we will be having a special Mission that will be Hunger Games themed in collaboration with Phi Beta Sigma. If you plan on attending this, be sure to bring equipment that you don't mind others handling (we would help make sure that the equipment is well-marked, if you want it back). For this mission, you will be asked to forfeit your weapons at the beginning. We will be running the rough version of this game this Thursday, so prepare accordingly. 

Any players who we have not heard from regarding Penn State have been emailed. If you have not been assigned a vehicle, or if you have not been contacted about driving others up, an email has been sent to your UMBC email, so be sure to check that.