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#PROMISE2011 – The PROMISE Summer Success Institute

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...

Posted: August 22, 2011, 9:42 PM

Scenes from the Performing Arts & Humanities Building Site

Along with other participants in UMBC's 2011 university retreat, I took a tour of the Performing Arts and Humanities Building construction site.  The building rising on the site is slated to be...

Posted: August 22, 2011, 8:38 PM

Additional Co-Create UMBC Content on Facebook and Twitter

For those of you reading Co-Create UMBC posts through MyUMBC (thank you!), please consider following Co-Create UMBC on Facebook and Twitter.  There you'll find shorter posts about the things I'm...

Posted: August 18, 2011, 1:02 PM

Welcome New Graduate Students!

Information on seminars and workshops for 2011-2012

Dear New Graduate Students, It was a pleasure to meet so many of you at the Graduate School's orientation on Monday, August 15. We look forward to meeting the rest of you at the evening...

Posted: August 17, 2011, 9:53 AM

Experiment In Progress

I was not quite six years old.  I didn't have much of a vocabulary, and found TV shows other than cartoons utterly boring.  But my tiny, everyday world was filled with mind-stretching mysteries....

Posted: August 15, 2011, 9:28 PM

Dissertation House 12 Hour Marathon Session Comes to...

Full Title: Dissertation House 12 Hour Marathon Session Comes to PROMISE SSI The 2011 PROMISE Summer Success Institute will sponsor a 12 Hour Marathon “Dissertation House”  session at the Sheraton...

Posted: August 10, 2011, 12:05 AM

Dissertation House 12 Hour Marathon Session Comes to...

Full Title: Dissertation House 12 Hour Marathon Session Comes to PROMISE SSI The 2011 PROMISE Summer Success Institute will sponsor a 12 Hour Marathon “Dissertation House”  session at the Sheraton...

Posted: August 10, 2011, 12:05 AM

Alumni in the Professoriate and in the STEM Enterprise

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...

Posted: July 28, 2011, 1:00 AM

Community Building for Grad Students and Postdocs

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...

Posted: July 28, 2011, 12:18 AM

Summer Success Institute Registration is open!...

Full Title: Summer Success Institute Registration is open! (August 19-20, 2011)Dear Graduate Students, Postdocs, and PROMISE Alumni, We are pleased to announce that our 9th Annual PROMISE Summer...

Posted: July 27, 2011, 5:53 PM