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!

As the semester comes to a close, we want to remind you about upcoming seminars on our campuses. We’ll look forward to seeing you!

Prof-It Workshop:  Preparation for the Professoriate Seminar: Learning Styles
Friday, 12/3/10 , 12 noon – 2 PM, Commons  329.  Speaker: Dr. Anne Spence

RSVP: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/5127

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Ph.D. Completion Workshop at College Park: Effective Job Interviews

Special Guest, Dr. Bob Belle, Director of the SREB-AGEP Doctoral Scholars Program,

Headquarters: Atlanta, GA.

Friday, 12/ 3/10, 3:00 – 5:00 PM. Ulrich Recital Hall 0f Tawes Hall

RSVP: http://www.training.umd.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=catalog.CourseDetail&CLASS_ID=82309

For more workshops at College Park, visit the Ph.D. Completion Workshop Series page:

http://www.gradschool.umd.edu/grrd/workshops/

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Earn $400 during the January 2011 Winter Session!

Build your mentoring and advising skills and become a Winter Advisor for new undergraduate students at UMBC. Deadline: December 10, 2010.  Details on MyUMBC:  http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/5145

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SEMINAR: Preparing for Spring 2011 GRADUATION: Rules, Regulations, and Forms

Friday, 12/10/10. 12 noon – 1 PM. Commons 331

Presenters: Office of Progressions for the UMBC Graduate School

RSVP: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/5128

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Workshop-Dissertation House – On Campus
Winter Session, UMBC Campus only
Tuesday, January 18 – Friday, January 21, 2011, 9 AM- 5 PM
Commons 329 & 327

RSVP: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/5126 and fill out the application on that site.

For more information about the Dissertation House, visit http://www.thedissertationhouse.com

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Secrets of the Faculty Interview. Coming Aug. 20. 10:30 AM

PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) and the UMBC Graduate School present a seminar for all graduate students and postdocs:

“Secrets of the Faculty Interview”
Friday, Aug. 20, 2010
10:30 AM, Commons 331
Guest Speaker: Dr. Philip Rous, Dean of the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences.

Dr. Elliot Hirshman, UMBC’s Provost and PI for PROMISE will provide the opening remarks and introduction.

* All graduate students and postdocs are invited to attend.
* The event is free.
* Please RSVP using the public MyUMBC web page:
http://my.umbc.edu/events/3936
This event is part of the 8th Annual PROMISE Summer Success Institute (SSI). To attend *additional* events on Saturday, August 21, please fill out the registration form on the SSI’s website. Space at Saturday’s SSI is limited the first 100 graduate students and postdocs who register through https://promisesuccessseminars.wordpress.com/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi/. Additional space has been reserved for administrators, faculty, and staff. Information will be regularly updated via timelines of
http://www.facebook.com/PROMISEagep and http://twitter.com/PROMISE_AGEP.  Accounts are not needed to view these pages; these sites display
information that is available and accessible to the public.