About the Bridges Program: Bridges is a small non-profit that provides stringed instrument lessons and an orchestral experience to students in Baltimore City Schools. The Director position is a part-time, contractual job that requires on average approximately 18 hours per week. MAESTRO Ensembles, Inc. (which oversees the Bridges Program) is an equal opportunity employer.

The UMBC Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship
Application Deadline: Friday, July 15, 2022

The Dissertation Fellowship is designed to provide doctoral candidates at UMBC an opportunity to devote the necessary concentration and attention towards finishing the writing of their dissertations. The Fellowship is specifically designed for students with full-time jobs off-campus, for those without any financial support who are making steady progress with their writing, and for whom having additional time and resources would permit them to complete the process more expeditiously. This Fellowship is not available as an option for students with available graduate assistantship support.

The Dissertation Fellowship could provide promising doctoral candidates with financial support so that they may reduce their current obligations and partially offset any reductions in salary or increases in expenses. No additional work assignments other than work on the dissertation are to be associated with this support.

Priority will be given to students who demonstrate that the Fellowship will allow them the needed time to complete their writing and to make revisions in time to defend the work within a realistic but expeditious time frame. Awards will be made to students who have demonstrated a commitment to provide at least 20 hours per week for an entire academic semester to writing the dissertation.

Dissertation Fellowship awards are available for Fall 2022. The duration of an award is for one semester. The maximum level of support for Fall is a total stipend of $10,000 per Fellowship plus tuition remission for two credits of 899. Dissertation fellows are required to register for 9 credits of 899 (which is billed at 2 credits). We will provide tuition remission for the cost of 899 only. Please note that fellows are required to pay for 2 credits of mandatory fees associated with 899.

To be considered for a Dissertation Fellowship, the Ph.D. candidate must:

• be in good academic standing;
  
• provide a letter of support from the Chair of the Dissertation Committee that:(1) describes the state of the dissertation and the probable impact of receipt of the Fellowship on the progress toward completion; and, 2)verifies that no UMBC-administered financial support is available for the student;
• provide, if employed outside the university, written evidence from the student's employer indicating the employers willingness to reduce job time and duties in order for the student to participate in the Fellowship;
  
• submit a dissertation abstract of no more than two pages in length; and
  
• submit a 1 to 2-page management plan signed by the Chair of the Dissertation Committee describing the status of the dissertation work, the steps required to complete the work, and the feasible time line for completion.
  
• Identify, if a prior recipient of a Dissertation Fellowship, the prior term (e.g., Spring 2021) in which the Fellowship was received.

Applications for Fall 2022 Dissertation Fellowships will be accepted by the Office of the Associate Dean of the Graduate School until 4:30 p.m., Friday, July 15, 2022. Completed applications MUST be submitted via email as a single PDF to DFFall2022@umbc.edu. A committee consisting of three members of the Graduate School Leadership Team will review applications and announce recipients of the Fellowship by Friday, August 5, 2022. Selection will be based on the extent of convincing evidence that the award will provide the critical element needed to complete the dissertation.

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Alan Sherman in the Computer Science Department. Below is an example of the email. For privacy purposes, we removed the To field.

Please note that Professor Sherman did not send these messages. Two visible red flags in these emails are:

1. The From address is not a UMBC email. In the example above, if the Computer Science Department or Prof. Sherman were sending this email, the From address would have been a UMBC email address. However, it was sent from <barry01d1@gmail.com>, which is not a UMBC affiliate. Notice that the email's name is not registered under  Prof.Sherman’s name but Barry Melvin's. This is another giveaway that the professor did not send this email. However, please note that the email could have been spoofed, even if it appears to originate from a UMBC email. Therefore, always check with DoIT(security@umbc.edu) or email/contact the impersonated person on a completely different email when you see a conflict in the address.

1. Phone number.  A lot of scammers will ask for your number. If their number gets reported, they could easily get a new one. The same can be said for an email address; however, they will lose responses from other phishing email recipients if their email is blocked. If you ever receive a job offer asking for a phone number in general,  BE SUSPICIOUS!

2. The email template. This template is very common. After a quick Google search, we found three Job scams articles with the same template. So if you are ever in doubt, GOOGLE IT! UMBC will not use a known phishing template to offer you a job opportunity.

Other emails that are sending the same templates:

• talktojameselliot15@gmail.com

• admin@vpn-work.com

• admin@vpn-work.com

• admin@umbc.live

• pamilar001@gmail.com

• jasonharvey001@gmail.com

• mcgerald.collins@gmail.com

If you have received any message similar to the one listed above, please forward it with its headers tosecurity@umbc.edu. For instructions, visit: https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970.

For more information about phishing, visit:https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=98136.

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Receive any suspicious emails?

Forward it to security@umbc.edu along with the email headers. For instructions, visit: https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970.

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The price is $650 plus utilities. If you are interested in it. Please contact at 616-7173732. Thank you.

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