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  <Title>Alumni in the Professoriate and in the STEM Enterprise</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>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.</p>
    <p>Here is a short list:</p>
    <p>Dr. Oliver Meyers (UMBC), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Mississippi State University</p>
    <p>Dr. Alycia Marshall (UMCP), Associate Professor of Mathematics, Anne Arundel Community College</p>
    <p>Dr. Stacey Williams (UMB), Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Notre Dame</p>
    <p>Dr. Jesus Caban (UMBC), Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, UMBC, Researcher – NIH</p>
    <p>Dr. Lorrie Frasure, Assistant Professor, Political Science, UCLA</p>
    <p>Dr. Christopher Whitt (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Political Science, Augustana College</p>
    <p>Dr. Calandra Tate (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Mathematics, College of Staten Island, CUNY</p>
    <p>Dr. Cyntrica Eaton (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Norfolk State University</p>
    <p>Dr. B. Michelle Harris (UMCP), Assistant Professor, Nutrition and Food Sciences, UDC</p>
    <p>Dr. Kholiswa Laird (UMBC), Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry, University of Rochester</p>
    <p>Dr. Latese Briggs (UMBC), Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry,  MIT/Harvard Broad Institute on Genomics</p>
    <p>Dr. Robert Alexander (UMBC), Center for Disease Control and Prevention</p>
    <p>Dr. Sylvester Mosley (UMBC), ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, FDA</p>
    <p>Dr. Dawn Ward (UMBC), Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Stevenson College</p>
    <p>Dr. T. Sean Vasitis (UMB), Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland Eastern Shore</p>
    <p>Dr. Jocelyn Reader (UMB), Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenbaum Cancer Center, University of Maryland School and Medicine, Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland University College</p>
    <p>Dr. Marishka Brown (UMB), Postdoctoral Fellow, Respiratory Neurobiology, University of Pennsylvania</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Alumni of the Dissertation House are listed here:</p>
    <p><a href="http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/alumni/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/alumni/</a></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><em>This page contains many first placement positions and will continue to be updated.</em></p>
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  <Title>Community Building for Grad Students and Postdocs</Title>
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        <p>The “Community Building Experience” is a retreat, sponsored by PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP), that involves team building exercises and bonding opportunities for graduate students, staff, and faculty who are dedicated to increasing the numbers and diversity of Ph.D.s in fields supported by the National Science Foundation.  The “Community Building Experience” is another major activity of the PROMISE training program.  Each PROMISE program is designed to equip graduate students with tools and experiences that will enhance completion of the Ph.D. degree, motivate potential transition to the professoriate, and encourage subsequent success in the academy.  The PROMISE Community Building Experience has been held at the Coolfont Conference Center and the Rocky Gap Resort and Conference Center during either the end of February or the beginning of March, with programs facilitated by the Outward Bound Professional group.  All graduate students, faculty, and staff from all disciplines, ethnicities, and backgrounds are invited to attend!</p>
        <p>Read more about the retreat and other community building events:</p>
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