The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct a nationwide test of its Emergency Alert System today, Wednesday, October 4, beginning at approximately 2:20 p.m. Eastern Time. The phone alert is expected to last about one minute and will be accompanied by a unique tone and vibration. Radio and TV stations will also broadcast a test alert at the same time. This is only a test. For more information, please see FEMA’s full announcement. 

Please visit https://police.umbc.edu/emergency-preparedness/ for resources and information about emergency response and readiness at UMBC.

Join us on October 19th from 6-7pm for a unique workshop to help you gain skills to navigate graduate school and finish your program in a timely matter. Getting your degree might entail earning good grades and long hours doing research, but with the right mindset and tools it can take much less time. Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale has helped hundreds of students at UMBC to successfully complete their degrees while serving as an academic advisor, mentor, and dissertation coach at the Graduate School at UMBC. Her services include helping students navigate sticky situations, leverage productivity techniques, and overcome barriers to promptly complete their degree.

This event is open to all graduate students in any year of study, but will particularly help students who are new graduate students, first-generation graduate students, international students unfamiliar with academic culture in the United States, and those students who have found themselves struggling to navigate interpersonal challenges with their advisor or within their departments. The information shared is based on research on retention efforts for underserved and underrepresented communities in graduate school.

Dr. Carter-Veale has over 15 years of experience in graduate education. She has presented her dissertation writing workshops and boot camps for MIT, Duke University, Howard University, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and the Dissertation Institute to name some. 

She is the CEO of PhDCompletion.com, co-founder of the PROMISE Dissertation House, the on campus dissertation coach at UMBC, and has authored 4 books about PhD completion (Mastering the PhD Completion Process, Ph.D. Completion: If You Can Write a Master's Thesis You Can Write a Dissertation, PhD Completion: Practical Steps to Selecting a Dissertation Topic and PhD Completion: Methods Journal).

To learn more about Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale please visit her webpage.  All graduate students are invited to attend this event. 

Please RSVP by clicking the "Going" button below.

 If you need any accommodations or have questions, please contact our staff at promise@umbc.edu. Accommodations can be made if requested a week before the event. 

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