Happy 10th Birthday PROMISE! From April 1, 2003 to Today: A Message from the Director

Dear Participants, Alumni, and Friends of PROMISE, Today, I celebrate 10 years as the Director of PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP. For those of you who remember my first day at UMBC, I started out in an office on the 5th floor of the Administration Building. I am so happy that so many of you who wereContinue reading “Happy 10th Birthday PROMISE! From April 1, 2003 to Today: A Message from the Director”

Henrietta Lacks (HeLa Cells) Symposium w/ “Medical Apartheid” author – March 7, 2013

PROMISE at UMB (University of Maryland – The Founding Campus, downtown Baltimore), invites you to join them for the 2nd  Biennial Henrietta Lacks Symposium: The Dignity of Difference presented by The University of Maryland. From the website: “The event features Harriet Washington, author of Medical Apartheid, and artist (and TED speaker) Rick Guidotti, founder of Positive Exposure, as wellContinue reading “Henrietta Lacks (HeLa Cells) Symposium w/ “Medical Apartheid” author – March 7, 2013″

Information for applying to graduate school (English & Spanish). Applications will be due soon!

  Applications for graduate school are usually due between December and February of the year before you are going to enter graduate school. PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP has developed a paper (presented at a conference in 2012) that will help you with the requirements for your graduate school applications. The paper can be downloaded here: Preparing forContinue reading “Information for applying to graduate school (English & Spanish). Applications will be due soon!”