Several graduate students have expressed a need for assistance with MATLAB.  In order to assist you with understanding some of the more advanced concepts of MATLAB, PROMISE, the Graduate Student Development Unit of the Graduate School, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will sponsor a special, customized session for graduate students and others who want more in-depth instruction. The service will be provided by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (CIRC).

Special MATLAB Workshop
Friday, November 11, 2011
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Engineering Building (ENGR), Room 122

Features:
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* A prepared demonstration of numerical computation in MATLAB
* Advanced programming techniques in MATLAB
* MATLAB tutors will be present to provide individualized assistance.

Presenters:
Jonathan McHenry, with support from Zana Coulibaly and Xuan Huang.

This session is being coordinated by Professor Matthias Gobbert, with support from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. We thank Dr. Gobbert for putting the session together.

Graduate students from any discipline may attend. Please RSVP. Financial support for this workshop is provided by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP.  Please utilize this unique opportunity to get the assistance that you need for your courses and projects.

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This post is mirrored on MyUMBC PROMISE: Support for Graduate Students: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/9311

Photo courtesy of CIRC: http://www.umbc.edu/circ/

Several graduate students have expressed a need for assistance with MATLAB.  In order to assist you with understanding some of the more advanced concepts of MATLAB, PROMISE, the Graduate Student Development Unit of the Graduate School, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics will sponsor a special, customized session for graduate students and others who want more in-depth instruction. The service will be provided by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting (CIRC).

Special MATLAB Workshop
Friday, November 11, 2011
4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Engineering Building (ENGR), Room 122

Features:
_________

* A prepared demonstration of numerical computation in MATLAB
* Advanced programming techniques in MATLAB
* MATLAB tutors will be present to provide individualized assistance.

Presenters:
Jonathan McHenry, with support from Zana Coulibaly and Xuan Huang.

This session is being coordinated by Professor Matthias Gobbert, with support from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. We thank Dr. Gobbert for putting the session together.

Graduate students from any discipline may attend. Please RSVP. Financial support for this workshop is provided by PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP.  Please utilize this unique opportunity to get the assistance that you need for your courses and projects.

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This post is mirrored on MyUMBC PROMISE: Support for Graduate Students: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/9311

Photo courtesy of CIRC: http://www.umbc.edu/circ/

We are pleased to announce that more than 25 of our PROMISE students and affiliates will be attending the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Compact for Faculty Diversity/Institute on Teaching and Mentoring: http://www.instituteonteachingandmentoring.org/Institute/index.html in Atlanta, GA, October 20-23, 2011. The SREB participants will be discussing some thoughts related to their experiences and plans in this thread.

Undergraduate and graduate students who participate in the following NSF programs are invited to submit abstracts for the 2012 Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM:

Key dates related to abstract submission and travel
*** The deadline for poster and oral abstract submissions is October 21, 2011.
*** Notification of abstract acceptance will be sent by December 2, 2011.
*** The deadline to submit travel award applications is October 21, 2011.
*** Travel awards will be announced on or before December 2, 2011.

For questions regarding the online abstract submission process, please contact Donna Behar at dbehar@aaas.org.

Sincerely,
Yolanda S. George, Deputy Director
AAAS Directorate for Education &
Human Resources Programs

The PROMISE Success Seminars and Workshops website contains full lists of workshops for:

• Graduate Students
• Postdoctoral Fellows
• Interest in teaching and the professoriate (PROF-it)

Archived posts by title on the PROMISE Success Seminars site include the following:

• September 2011 Seminars for Graduate Students at UMBC
• Summer Success Institute Registration is open! (August 19-20, 2011)
• Summer Horizons Graduate School Preparation Program: July 20
• UMBC Provost Elliot Hirshman (PROMISE PI) will be the new president at San Diego State University
• Apply for UMBC-CCBC Teaching Fellows program FALL 2011
• PROMISE Cookout – Saturday May 7
• UMBC Will Participate in a Pilot for the Council of Graduate Schools
• Events for March 2011: Dissertation House, Proposals, Teaching Portfolios, Lift Up (Haiti) Movie, Career Roundtables
• PROMISE Spring Opening Dinner Meeting: “Getting to Level 10″ — Friday, 2/18/11
• Preparing for Global Leadership: Cultural Competence and Connections with and for International Students and Colleagues
• Advice for Preparing and Delivering Graduate Level Presentations by Barrett Whitener @PROMISE Symposium, Jan. 21, 2011
• “Reflections” @UMB: Complementary/Alternative Medicine (Tai Chi, Acupressure, and more!)
• PROMISE Research Symposium, Coming January 21, 2011
• PROF-it Professors-in-Training 12/3, January 2011 $$ opportunities for Grad Students, & 2011 Dissertation House. Plus, SREB’s Dr. Bob Belle comes to UM College Park to discuss interviewing Dec. 3!
• PROMISE Fall Harvest Dinner Welcomes Dr. Erica Corral, winner of Hispanic award for STEM, Nov. 19
• Grad Student Workshops on Writing. Nov. 17 & Nov. 19
• Practical Steps for Completing Your Thesis or Dissertation. Saturday, Nov. 13
• “Preparing for the Professoriate” Workshops on Fri. Nov. 5
• Faculty Forum with Grad Students! Fri. 10/22 (Free Dinner!)
• Date changes for October! 10/8 seminar [Fac(x,y)] moved to 10/22, 10/20 seminar [IRB, RCR] moved to 10/26
• PROF-it “Professors-in-Training” Seminars, Fall 2010
• Grad Student Success Seminars and Meetings, September 2010
• Secrets of the Faculty Interview. Coming Aug. 20. 10:30 AM
• Mini “Graduate Horizons” Session at UMBC: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
• Reminders of SSI 2007 & 2008
• Summer Success Institute (SSI) 2010, Coming August 21
• New home for PROMISE Success Seminars

The Graduate Schools at UMBC and College Park will hold orientations this week, and UMBC will hold its first graduate student seminar on Friday, August 26. UMBC’s Evening Graduate School Orientation will be held on Wednesday, August 24 at 4:30 PM.

UM College Park invites all new and continuing graduate students of color and all other interested students to attend the Annual Networking Reception at the Nyumburu Cultural Center in the Multi-Purpose room. 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM on Thursday, August 25. This reception offers students and an opportunity to meet and greet graduate student groups and offices that support students of color at College Park; network with faculty, staff, and group leaders on campus; and learn about various student groups. Refreshments will be served.

At the end of the week, UMBC will host a Teaching and Learning Workshop for all new TAs on campus and all students interested in teaching. The workshop will also feature an “Success Seminar” free 1 hour luncheon workshop on Life/Work Balance  for all graduate students with Psychologist Dr. Robert Deluty.

• All UMBC Graduate Student Success Seminars for 2011 – 2012 are listed here:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/umbc-grad-student-success-seminars/

• Postdoctoral seminars are listed here:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/postdocs/

• PROF-it (Professors-in-Training) and Professors Beyond Borders (PBB) seminars are listed here:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/professors-in-training-prof-it/

The 9th Annual PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI) was held at the Sheraton Town Center Hotel in Columbia, Maryland this past weekend. This year, we featured an outdoor component, hosted by Terra Trax from Arizona.  The team leader, Craig Imler, is an Outward Bound-trained facilitator, who has been leading retreats for PROMISE since 2004.  Many alumni mentioned that their turning points came “at Coolfont.” In past years, we’ve had PROMISE retreats at the Coolfont Conference Center in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, and at the Rocky Gap Conference Center in Cumberland, Maryland. This year, we brought the “Coolfont” and “Rocky Gap” experiences and our facilitator team to the SSI. This was the first year that we combined the SSI and the retreat.

A full list of activities can be found on the SSI’s website:

http://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/

We have several alumni who are current professors and others who are in postdocs or STEM positions with plans to enter the professoriate later in their careers or serve as adjunct faculty.

Here is a short list:

Dr. Oliver Meyers (UMBC), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University

Dr. Alycia Marshall (UMCP), Associate Professor of Mathematics, Anne Arundel Community College

Dr. Stacey Williams (UMB), Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Notre Dame

Dr. Jesus Caban (UMBC), Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, UMBC, Researcher – NIH

Dr. Lorrie Frasure, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UCLA

Dr. Christopher Whitt (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Political Science, Augustana College

Dr. Calandra Tate (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Mathematics, College of Staten Island, CUNY

Dr. Cyntrica Eaton (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Norfolk State University

Dr. B. Michelle Harris (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences, UDC

Dr. Kholiswa Laird (UMBC), Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, University of Rochester

Dr. Latese Briggs (UMBC), Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry,  MIT/Harvard Broad Institute on Genomics

Dr. Robert Alexander (UMBC), Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Dr. Sylvester Mosley (UMBC), ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, FDA

Dr. Dawn Ward (UMBC), Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Stevenson College

Dr. T. Sean Vasitis (UMB), Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Dr. Jocelyn Reader (UMB), Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenbaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School and Medicine, Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland University College

Dr. Marishka Brown (UMB), Postdoctoral Fellow, Respiratory Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania

Alumni of the Dissertation House are listed here:

http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/alumni/

This page contains many first placement positions and will continue to be updated.