PROMISE: Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP)
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We invite all new incoming students, current students, alumni, and staff who were, are, or will be affiliated with PROMISE to join this group.
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PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, grant # 0202169.
Additional funds for activities are provided by the Council of Graduate Schools' (CGS) Ph.D. Completion Project, The UMBC Graduate School, The Graduate School at the University of Maryland College Park, the University of Maryland Baltimore's Office of Student Research, and the UMB Medical School.
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PROMISE: Maryland's AGEP is an alliance of the three public research universities in Maryland, led by UMBC, dedicated to the increasing the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduates in the sciences and engineering who go on to academic careers. AGEP is a program of the National Science Foundation.
The alliance between UMBC, UMB, and UMCP encourages interaction between the university communities.
EVENT & PROMISE ACTIVITY PAGES (Photos included):
* DISSERTATION HOUSE:
For Ph.D. Candidates at UMBC, UMB, and UMCP who want to come together for group support, goal-setting, and coaching to finish their dissertations. Food, supplies, coaching, and encouragement are provided for both the weekend Dissertation House (at the PROMISE Retreat), and the week-long Dissertation House On-Campus experiences at UMBC and UMCP. Coach: Dr. Wendy Carter, Co-Facilitator: Dr. Renetta Tull.
http://www.umbc.edu/promise/dissertation.html
http://umbc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2550330669
* SUMMER SUCCESS INSTITUTE (SSI) -
Held each August new/incoming and continuing grad students in Maryland:
http://umbc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2383401237&pwstdfy=1ad1f9ae783ee0ace6c8e727aa40f857
* SUMMER HORIZONS
(For undergrads to learn about Grad School. Held at UMBC, summer students at UMBC, UMCP and UMB participate):
http://sites.google.com/site/thepromisearchive/Home/horizons-program-for-undergrads
http://umbc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=3218585526&ref=share
* BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORATE FELLOWS (BD Fellows)
Both UMBC & UMCP have BD Fellows, former LSAMP Scholars who have the BD Fellowship from NSF and are a part of AGEP. LSAMP was the pre-cursor to AGEP, it is the undergrad component for "Broadening Participation in STEM Fields" as per the National Science Foundation.
There are BD Fellows throughout the nation. The BD Fellows page (originated by Maryland's BDs) is here:
http://umbc.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2387127415
*When Faculty Say 'X', They Really Mean 'Y'" Seminar:
http://umbc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=18291142944
LISTING OF RESOURCES FROM THE 2008 PROMISE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM: http://umbc.facebook.com/event.php?eid=7211227873&ref=mf
Info from the Dissertation House, Winter 2008:
http://www.umbc.edu/promise/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2609
For updates on all of the latest PROMISE events, visit the events section of our PROMISE Forum:
http://www.umbc.edu/promise/forum/viewforum.php?f=11
The PROMISE Forum has information about jobs, fellowships, dissertation information, preparing future faculty, etc.:
http://www.umbc.edu/promise/forum
PROMISE BLOGS!
PROMISE Community Building: http://promisecommunitybuilding.blogspot.com/
PROMISE Tributes:
http://promisetributes.blogspot.com/
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