Dates: Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13, 2018.

Location: UMBC, Commons Building, Rooms: 331 and 328.

Time: 9 am – 5 pm (each day).

This activity is open to any full-time UMBC employee who is working on a thesis or dissertation, at any university, e.g., UMBC employees who are in the doctoral program at Frostburg University. This activity is also open to UMBC graduate students who are full-time employees, career professionals, or non-traditional returning students.

Dissertation Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale

Applications are open until September 21, 2018.

To be considered for this DH please complete the following:

Registration: Please log into myUMBC (https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/62952). Click the “Going” button at the bottom, *AND* follow the application procedures on the main website for the Dissertation House: https://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/apply/. The application period to apply to attend this Dissertation House will close on September 21st.

Event Details:

• The Dissertation House runs from 9 AM – 5 PM, for two days, Friday, October 12 and Saturday, October 13.

• Students must plan to attend the full session, for each of the 2 days. 

• The daily schedule includes 2 mini-lectures and 5 hours of writing per day.

• Breakfast, Lunch, and a snack will be served daily.

• The Dissertation House is free for UMBC’s graduate students.

• There are 18 spaces available for the Dissertation House. 

• Details regarding eligibility can be found on the application page of the website for the Dissertation House.

Read about The Dissertation House in UMBC’s Alumni Magazine: Byrne, R.  (2011, Fall) “The Write Stuff”, UMBC Magazine. p. 12. More information about the Dissertation House: https://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/about/

From the Diversity Advisory Council

Save the Date: September 17, 2018, @ 4 pm

Where? SMC Campus Center, Ballroom A

The Diversity Speaker Series continues this fall with John T. Wolfe Jr., Ph.D., MS, who will address the UMB community with his presentation “Managing Disruption: Cooperating and Collaborating Even When We Disagree.”

For more information and to register click the following link:

RSVP

Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the group of Professor James Moore. The group has a strong activity in the area of lymphatic system performance, including fluid pumping, solute mass transport and cellular transport, as they relate to normal system function, immune response, cancer metastases, and disease states such as oedema. Both experimental and modelling approaches are employed.

Reference ENG00396

Date posted 14 August 2018

Closing date 13 September 2018

For more information please visit: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/description/ENG00396/research-associate

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