Files shared by the presenters:

Participant Folder:

• Review_Criteria
• Reviewer_comments1
• Reviewer_comments2
• TipsforApplying
• WS_PersonalStatement
• WS_PreviousResearchExperience
• WS_ProposedPlanofResearch

Essays:

• 01Personal_Statement_winner_draft2015
• 02Personal_Statement_winner2015
• 03personalstatement-winner2-2nddraft2015
• 04PersonalStatement_winner2_2015
• 05FrancesPersonalStatement
• 06rubricByRobinWalker
• 07Reviewer_comments
• 08PattiProposedResearch
• 09Proposed Research-winner2-draft2015
• 10ProposedResearch_winner2_2015
• 11Research Statement-winner-3rddraft2015
• 12Research_Statement_winner_2015

UPDATE September 15, 2018:

NSF GRFP Presentation (download):

2018 NSF GRFP Presentation – UMBC

UPDATE September 13, 2018:

Due to inclement weather approaching our region we will move our seminar to a webinar format. This session is still virtually on! Instructions to participate and have an enjoyable webinar experience:

– The website will open 15 minutes before our scheduled start time.

– Click on the following website (Bb Collaborate Ultra):

NSF GRFP – Funding Seminar

– Log in using your name (this will be displayed for others in the session).
– Please mute your microphone. Please make sure you are not sharing video.
– Any questions that you wish to ask our presenters will be addressed through the chat. You can see the chat and other options by expanding the pink arrows on the bottom right corner of your screen. Anything you post here will be seen by others, please be professional.
– Thank you for participating and looking forward to seeing you there.
– Lastly, our speakers will engage in providing feedback via email for those participants working on their applications.

The NSF PROMISE AGEP, the Graduate School at UMBC, along with the USM Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate programs (LSAMP-BD) are sponsoring another award-winning preparation seminar for  the National Science Foundation’s NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). The fellowship is worth more than $100,000.

Fellows share in the prestige and opportunities that become available when they are selected. Fellows benefit from a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 along with a $12,000 cost of education allowance for tuition and fees (paid to the institution), opportunities for international research and professional development, and the freedom to conduct their own research at any accredited U.S. institution of graduate education they choose. (Ref: https://www.nsfgrfp.org/general_resources/about)

• Saturday, September 15, 2018
• 10 AM

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The information below remains posted as a reference, and will be part of the archive. The seminar will be held ONLINE only. The in-person workshop has been cancelled due to weather.

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• Sherman Hall, 1st floor auditorium, Room 003
• UMBC [Sherman Hall is between the Administration Building and the University Center which houses the Starbucks]
  • Part 1: Funding Your Graduate Education (Breakfast served), 10 AM – 12 noon
  • Part 2: NSF Fastlane – Starting your application within the system (Lunch served), 12 – 3 PM.
• RSVP:
  • Students at UMBC, please RSVP via MyUMBC: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/60538
  • If you are a student from another campus, please RSVP and let us know that you are coming by going to the comment section below, and posting your 1) name, 2) school, 3) major/discipline, and 4) indication of grad student or undergrad student.
    • Students from all schools are invited, particularly the 12 within the University System of Maryland. 
    • We also extend a special invitation to all students who are enrolled in schools that have LSAMP and AGEP programs, e.g., Morgan State University, Howard University, UDC, etc.

Speakers: 

Dr. Frances Carter-Johnson, Data Scientist, National Science Foundation

Dr. Patricia Ordoñez, Associate Professor, Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras

UMBC has been sponsoring a preparation workshop for several years, and the speakers, UMBC PhD alums, and NSF GRFP winners themselves, have since coached winners through their seminars at UMBC, MIT, Harvard, at schools in Puerto Rico and more! Collectively, the speaker/coaches have assisted with more than $1 Million in fellowship money for those in their workshop audiences!

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

Annual USM PROMISE AGEP Fall Harvest Dinner & Networking Reception 

Monday, November 5, 2018 • 5:00 – 8:00PM • Colony Ballroom, Stamp, College Park Campus

An invitation from PROMISE at College Park

All USM graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and staff are invited to the Annual USM PROMISE AGEP Fall Harvest Dinner & Networking Reception.

To register, please fill out this RSVP: Fall Harvest RSVP

Contact Program Director, Office of Graduate Diversity and Inclusion, Christopher Perez for additional information: cperez6@umd.edu

As part of our effort to provide a sense of community, we invite you to bring a guest from your support system with you (e.g., family, friend.)

ALL attendees must RSVP (including family and friends).

This is a FREE event.

Transportation:

Free transportation will be provided from UMBC. A bus will be departing at 3:30 PM from Administration Circle and will be back on campus at 9:00 PM. If you intend to take the bus, please email promisestaff@gmail.com with the subject “Bus Fall Harvest” and provide your full name, campus, department, and cell phone number. You will get a confirmation email. The bus leaves on time, please plan to arrive at the stop at least 15 minutes prior to the time.

Eastern Shore Transportation:

Free transportation will be provided from UMES. More information forthcoming.

RSVP is required, please follow this link:

https://go.umd.edu/fallharvest2018

We’re heading to Arlington, Virginia this coming October 2018 for the SREB Compact! If you went to the PROMISE SSI this year, think of The Compact as PROMISE SSI quadrupled! Yes, there are nearly 1000 students from around the country at the conference. As a group, PROMISE has traveled with graduate students to past SREB conferences around the US. This year, the conference is hosted in Arlington, Virginia from October 25 – 28, 2018. In order to go, you need to be nominated by the PROMISE AGEP. Read some of our former posts for the SREB conference here.

YOU have a chance to go with us, but PROMISE must nominate you. You cannot nominate yourself. We guarantee that we will take at least 8 people; we may take more. One year, we had so many great responses that we received additional funding and we took 30 people!

Here are some facts about the conference:

1.  This is the 25th Institute on TEACHING AND MENTORING/Compact for Faculty Diversity, October 25 – 28, 2018, Crystal Gateway Marriott , Arlington, VA. We tend to refer to this conference as “SREB.”

1. Scholars nominated to attend the Institute should ONLY be individuals who have an expressed interest in pursuing a career as faculty in a college or university (any post-secondary institution.) All of the sessions at the Institute will focus on topics and issues related to teaching at the post-secondary level. Consequently, scholars who are not interested in becoming a member of the faculty at the post-secondary level will not benefit from attending this Institute.

1. Nominated scholars must be minority or underserved STEM majors enrolled in a Ph.D. program. SREB will not accept nominations from students. (We will consider select masters students who are on track for Ph.D. programs. Note that Social Sciences are part of the “Science” in STEM.)

1. The conference will be in Arlington, VA. Hotel rooms at the Crystal Gateway Marriott will be available at no cost to you. Single rooms will not be available for scholars. Students will be placed in double rooms. 

1. Nominees must be part of the PROMISE: AGEP-T. This means that you must be a graduate student at one of the institutions within the University System of Maryland. If you are interested, you must show evidence of participation in a PROMISE AGEP event prior to September 16, 2018.

1. The graduate school department at UMB, UMD and UMBC have provided additional funding for AGEP scholars to attend the conference. Please make sure to apply!

TO APPLY: 

Write a comment to this post (below) with the following information (do not send email, email will not count). Please follow this order:

a) YOUR NAME

b) University & Department (no abbreviations). You must be a graduate student in a STEM field from one of the universities listed here: http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/. Include the link for your department and your laboratory.

c) Provide at least one link for your professional website. If you have more than one, you may provide up to three links, e.g., LinkedIn, department website.

d) Planned year of graduation for your PhD

e) One paragraph that describes the reason why you want to be a professor.

f) Which PROMISE events have you attended, and what have you learned?

g) If you’ve been “The Compact” in the past, what did you learn?

Once you apply using this format, send an email to promisestaff@gmail.com with the subject “SREB 2018 application, now online” so that we will have your email logged in our database for this event.

DEADLINE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

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Forthcoming: Information about our orientation/logistics meeting, and agenda of the event.

https://www.sreb.org/institute-teaching-and-mentoring

https://instituteonteachingandmentoring.org/

Agenda: https://instituteonteachingandmentoring.org/Media/Default/Forms/2018%20AgendaAtaGlance.pdf

Welcome & Community Building Reception

Thank you for visiting this event’s information page. We also ask that you CREATE a profile on The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Leadership (CIRTL) website: https://www.cirtl.net so that you can access materials that are part of the national center.

Please RSVP in the following link at myUMBC if you are UMBC affiliated by clicking the “I can attend” button at the bottom: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/61224.

If you do not have a UMBC account, please email promisestaff@gmail.com with the following items:

Subject line: T&L Seminar

The body of the email with the following information: Full name, Campus, and Department

Continental breakfast and lunch will be served.

Topics include:

• $2000 “Professors in Training” (PROF-it) Opportunities at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) – UMBC/CCBC Teaching Fellows Program
• Teaching Undergraduates Through the “Introduction to an Honors University (IHU)” Program
• The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Leadership (CIRTL) – UMBC’s Role in the national center, and available resources
• “Teaching Disciplinary Thinking” 
• Instructional Technologies (Including Blackboard, Bb screencasting, and Bb Collaborate for virtual office hours.)  
• Conflict Resolution: What Every TA Needs to Know
• Assisting Students with Disabilities
• Counseling Center
• Panels of experienced TAs and instructors in Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines, and for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields.

Don’t Miss the Opportunity to Present
FIRST TIME IN THE U.S.A

Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit an abstract – Extended deadline is now July 30, 2018.

For abstract submission go to the following link:

https://www.xcdsystem.com/weef/abstract/index.cfm?ID=CK3RwTr

Letter from the WEEF-GEDC chair:

“Dear colleague,

Peace engineering envisions and works towards a world where prosperity, sustainability, social equity, entrepreneurship, transparency, community voice and engagement, and a culture of quality thrive. Engineers have the power to play a vital role in delivering creative solutions that can radically transform and improve human and natural wellbeing.

As we educate future engineers, we must ensure that they embrace their role as engineers of peace. We must provide them with the skills, understanding, capacity for reflection, sense of social responsibility and ethics, and resources to successfully navigate the socio-political impacts of their projects, engage in transdisciplinary developments and frankly, imagine, design, and create a better world for us all.

On behalf of the conference planning committee, I would like to invite you to submit an abstract for presentation or poster to the 2018 World Engineering Education Forum – Global Engineering Dean’s Council to be held in the heart of the Southwest, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Ramiro Jordan, PhD
Chair, 2018 WEEF-GEDC”