Please fill out the Google form via the attached link if you are interested in purchasing a shirt or graduation cord. You can find it here: https://goo.gl/forms/2bOL8HUKwDdhbcCq1

We need to put in our orders as soon as possible so please respond soon. You will be required to pay in advance for any shirt or cord orders. Photos of each can be found in the link. Shirts are $15 each (you may buy as many as you would like if you want an extra for family or friends) and cords are $7 each.

Please either Venmo the money to Han @nguhan1 or bring the appropriate amount of money, in cash, to our meeting on Monday, April 30th. We will not take orders after Monday, April 30th because we want to make sure the shirts and cords get to you in time!

Please contact Olivia Orr at oolivia1@umbc.edu or 443-883-0773 with any questions.

We hope you all got through Finals week, studied hard, and now are ready to relax and enjoy the Winter break. Congratulations to all those who graduated and we hope that you will keep in touch and continue partnering with the UMBC Pre-PA society.

Thanks to all of you for your membership to the society this semester. It had come such a long way thanks to all of your continued participation and help! As a student based organization, it is our goal to make sure you feel like the Pre-PA society holds stimulating, informational meetings, and that you feel a sense of personal involvement with your other Pre-PA classmates and colleagues.

Last semester we asked that you take just a few minutes to fill out a feedback survey about the Pre-PA society. This feedback survey is completely anonymous and not mandated by the university but something we have created so that we can best provide you with what you are looking for during our meetings or events. Your feedback is genuinely valuable and just taking a few minutes to fill this out will help us extensively! You will find it here as well as on our myUMBC group page:

https://goo.gl/forms/163VzDEBTOVb4qwX2

Have a wonderful break and feel free to contact us with any questions you may have over the break! Looking forward to seeing you all next semester as we already have many speakers booked. (If you know any PAs that would be willing to speak let us know!)

*If you have asked to be added to the Pre-PA GroupMe and still have not, please email with your number again or text me your name.

To cap off this semester's informative and intriguing EHS seminar presentations and discussions, tomorrow's final seminar is being led by our own EHS Professor Diane Flint, who will be talking about public policy vs public administration, and how they affect EMS and health care at large.

• How does policy affect implementation?
  
• How does administration affect policy?
  
• How can we work with both to obtain the best outcomes for our public?

Wednesday, December 5, 2017 in Sherman Hall Rm 305, 3:00pm - 5:00pm. 

As always, if you want to view remotely and don't know how, please contact Kara Buckmaster for assistance (by 2:30pm, 12/05/17 please).

EHS Graduate Seminar 11/28/2017
SPEAKER: Instructor Jenn Ryan
TOPIC: Art of Writing in "Emergency Management" Style

Have you ever wondered about how and why the writing style in some areas of work is different from normal writing? Have you noticed that the people who know the writing style of a particular field are more likely to get professional-level jobs in that field?  Please join us tomorrow (Wednesday) for the grad seminar, in which instructor Jenn Ryan Grey will help us learn the skills of writing in "emergency management" style.   Be there!

3pm-5pm, Sherman Hall Rm 305, or via Blackboard, using a new and improved camera technology. Need help logging in?  Please contact Kara Buckmaster at the above email for assistance, before 2:30p.

LIVE LINK via BLACKBOARD:
https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/13876aa9beb44d42b1e7cfe5df3004f6

SPEAKER: Jeff Halverson, PhD, UMBC Department of Geography and Associate Dean of the Graduate School

TOPIC: Natural Disasters From A Geophysical And Human Geographical Perspective

Dr Halverson's deep knowledge of the relationships between disasters and human-geography interactions, will add to all of our understanding how to predict the kinds of consequences we can expect from various kinds of interactions between natural and man-made phenomena.

Be There!

I would suggest that on-campus students arrive a bit earlier than usual, given that it's likely that we will have a number of non-EHS visitors this time around.  

Off campus and you don't know how to log in to the simulcast?  Contact Kara Buckmaster.

This EHS grad seminar is a special one, covering a really important topic: the need for legal and safety protection for refugee women and children. As you probably know, there are scores of large refugee camps in different parts of the world, and, all too often, women and children are abused or worse, either in the camps or on their way to the camps. We are even seeing some of this here in the States, in the commercially staffed refugee detention centers on contract to ICE.

If you look at the refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Hungary, Libya, Central African Republic, etc, human rights abuses against women and children are rampant. So, come and learn from our own students (Noor Abdel Rahman, Taylor Lutich, and Kara Buckmaster) about this important issue dogging the world's attempts to provide emergency health and humanitarian services for refugees in disparate parts of the world. Non-EMS students and faculty are welcome to attend.

John Warchal is an alumnus of our EHS undergraduate program, and holds a Master of Science degree from Johns Hopkins University.  He'll be talking on 11/1/2017 (Wednesday, 3:00pm-5:00pm in Sherman Hall, Room 305, A Wing) about the importance of using analytical methods in emergency preparedness and response decisions...which is one of the most powerful tools for breaking away from the old "well, we always did it this way" crowd. Much of what John has to share with us can be applied to many of the decisions we make, which affect the well-being and lives of others.   Be there!

LIVE LINK via BLACKBOARD:

https://us.bbcollab.com/guest/13876aa9beb44d42b1e7cfe5df3004f6