“Funding Your Graduate Education”
An Annual “Special Saturday Success Seminar”
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Saturday, September 12, 2015
UMBC Sherman Hall, Room 003
(First floor Lecture Hall. Sherman Hall is between the Administration Building and the University Center. It is across the walkway from the Sondheim Building.)
Speakers:
Dr. Frances D. Carter-Johnson, AAAS S&T Fellow at the NIH Center for Scientific Review
Dr. Patricia Ordóñez, Department of Computer Science, University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras
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Our speakers, UMBC Alumni and former NSF GRFP winners, bring their award winner seminar back to UMBC! This seminar has been presented at the National Science Foundation’s HBCU-UP national conference, the American Association for the Advancement in Science’s Emerging Researchers Network national Conference, Harvard, MIT, Spelman, Clemson, and at others universities in Puerto Rico, Texas, and DC. Our speakers have been part of MIT’s Tech TV series, and continue to be sought-after speakers on the topic of graduate funding.
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Dr. Carter-Johnson is a graduate of UMBC’s Department of Public Policy and formerly served as a STEM Policy Analyst at Westat. Dr. Carter-Johnson has degrees in Public Policy, Applied Physics, Pure Physics, and Mechanical Engineering from UMBC, Georgia Tech, and Spelman College. She has received research support and fellowships from NASA, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP), SREB, The Department of Education, GEM, the American Evaluation Association, NIH, and MIT. Dr. Carter-Johnson completed her postdoctoral training at the Teaching and Learning Laboratory at MIT, and is a Science and Technology Policy Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She currently designs studies and analyzes data to develop policy solutions to enhance diversity in the biomedical workforce at the Center for Scientific Review at the National Institutes of Health.
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Dr. Ordóñez is a graduate of UMBC’s Department of Computer Science. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras. Dr. Ordóñez has degrees from Johns Hopkins University and UMBC in Hispanic and Italian Studies, and Computer Science respectively. She has taught several classes at UMBC and was a Technical Trainer for UMBC’s Training Centers, focusing on JAVA Computer Programming Certifications and curriculum development. Dr. Ordóñez was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, and has received fellowships and/or recognition from Xerox, Verizon, Google, The Ford Foundation, The Hispanic Scholarship Fund and UMBC. Dr. Ordóñez is the Leader of Biomedical Informatics Function for the Puerto Rico Clinical and Translational Research Consortium, and her research is focused on applying machine learning, data mining, and data visualization to big time series data for the purpose of improving medicine and on developing assistive technologies for programming. Dr. Ordóñez also presents this workshop on graduate research funding in Puerto Rico in Spanish.
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Our speakers’ work on the topic of graduate funding was presented at the “Understanding Interventions” national conference in 2012, and was published in a paper by the American Association of Engineering Education in 2013. This year, in addition to their annual workshops in Boston, their seminar, “The $10 Million Dollar Plan: Increasing Graduate Funding and Diversity in Computing” was presented at the 2014 Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, in Seattle, WA. Their list of winners continues to grow, and participants who have taken their workshops have won the prestigious NSF GRFP Fellowship and other awards, totaling more than $1 million of fellowship money!
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Learn how to apply for the NSF GRFP Fellowship, learn about the nuances of submitting a fellowship to NSF, have terms deciphered, and start your application on Fastlane – NSF’s computer system.
- Please feel free to take a look at information that was posted for seminars in the past. Information from the 2012 seminar: https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/how-to-fund-your-graduate-education-dr-ordonez-rozo-and-dr-carter-johnson-promise-alumni-present-their-award-winning-seminar-on-saturday-sept-15-2012/
- Information from 2013 seminar (take a look at the comments for some great tips on saving money, shared by graduate students): https://promiseagep.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/jobs-fellowships-grad-school-funding-saturday-breakfast-lunch-seminar-sept-7-2013-umbc/
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PLEASE RSVP (Breakfast refreshments and lunch will be served):
- UMBC’s students: http://my.umbc.edu/groups/promise/events/34284
- If you are not a student at UMBC, RSVP by posting in the comment section at the bottom of this message with your name, school, and discipline (academic department)/major.
Graduate students and undergraduates from all schools in the region are invited to attend this seminar. All current LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate Fellows are required to attend the workshop, and are required to apply for the NSF GRFP.
Directions and Parking:
http://about.umbc.edu/visitors-guide/directions/
See the “Comments” section below for more details.
The schedule for the day is as follows:
9:00 – 10:00 AM – Setting up the account (If you wish to do this, bring your laptops)
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Seminar “Funding your graduate education”
12:00 PM – 2:00 PM – Lunch Seminar – Starting your application – NSF Fastlane session
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Hi My name is Ali-Sha Alleman, I am a Ph.D. student at Morgan State University’s Social Work program. I would like to attend your Sept. 12th program. My email is allay@morgan.edu
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Correction: Ali-Sha Alleman’s email is alall7@morgan.edu.
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Dear Ali-Sha, Greetings! Please note that the program will primarily feature funding for STEM programs, although it could provide information that you can use to probe for other opportunities in social work, that are outside of NSF. As a student in a social work program, you are not eligible to apply for the NSF GRFP. For general reference, the social science disciplines that are eligible are as follows:
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Archaeology
Biological Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Anthropology, other
Communications
Decision Making and Risk analysis
Economics (except Business Administration)
Geography
History and Philosophy of Science
International Relations
Law and Social Science
Linguistics
Linguistic Anthropology
Medical Anthropology
Political Science
Public Policy
Science Policy
Sociology (except Social Work)
Urban and Regional Planning
Social Sciences, other (specify)
Our speakers may know of some additional resources that may be helpful.
Kind regards,
Renetta Tull
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Thanks Dr. Tull.
Ali-Sha Alleman
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My name is Avinash Dudi
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Masters in Computer Science
I would like to attend the event on Sept. 12th.
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Nelson J. Quispe-Benavides, University of Maryland, College Park, Mechanical Engineering
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Hi my name is Vanessa. I attend the University of Maryland, College Park. I am a Master’s student in Human Computer Interaction.
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RSVP for:
Name: Stephanie Folling
University: UMCP
Major/Discipline: Masters of Education in Teaching, Learning, Leadership & Policy; Minority and Urban Education
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Jahin Patwary
UMD 2016
M.S. Mechanical Engineering
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Name: Yvette Tamukong,
School: University of Maryland College Park,
Discipline: Agricultural and Natural sciences (academic department)/
Major:Environmental Science and Technology
RSVP: Sept. 12
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Hello. I would like to attend the seminar tomorrow. I recently applied to University of Maryland school of nursing for an MSN in Nursing Informatics.
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I would love to attend this seminar. sounds like it would be very useful
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Hello my name is Aquia Richburg. I am an applied math PhD student at UMCP. I would like to attend the program on September 12.
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Hi,
My name is Itohan Ebhojiaye. I am a studying Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland in College Park. I would like to attend the seminar tomorrow.
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