REFLECTIONS 2004
 
The Reflections Seminar Series is an end-of-semester forum for sustained,
positive conversations about graduate study--conversations that allow
constructive reflection and sharing of experiences that can lead to improved
academic learning and personal development for all.
 
This semester's seminar will have a "soul food" theme. Every ethnic group
has what it calls "soul food"- soothing, comfort food shared with others
that brings back warm memories at the same time providing nourishment and a
time for reflection . Like soul food, or food that is made with feeling and
care, "Reflections" is a time for you all to connect with others with whom
you share a common bond (working towards a Ph.D.) to express
feelings/thoughts about graduate study and share experiences and survival
strategies. "Reflections," like Soul Food, is preparing to supply nourishment that you need to
meet the intense labor needs of graduate study--those essential vitamins and
minerals of academic life.
 
Please join your fellow graduate students from 
UMB, UMBC, UMCP and Johns Hopkins on 
 
Friday, April 16, 2004 starting at 5:30pm 
 
as we welcome prospective graduate students to our campus. 
 
There will be a short informal
workshop titled "The (Wo) Man in the Mirror: Balance through Reflection"
presented by Pamela Love, Research Administrator, Doctoral Candidate and
author of her new book "It's All about Love: Living Your Purpose in Spite of
Your Past."
 
Dinner will be served! Please RSVP on or before Monday April 12, 2004 to:
jpegues@som.umaryland.edu. Feel free to bring a friend.
 
Location: Room 218 Health Sciences Facility I (HSFI). HSFI is located at
685 W. Baltimore Street (between MLK Blvd and Greene Street). You must show
your ID to the guard on duty. As you enter the building, make a right and
take the elevators to the second floor. Room 218 is the first conference
room as you exit the elevator on the left. Signs will be posted.
 
Directions: http://www.parking.umaryland.edu/beltway.cfm
Parking: Please park in the Grand Garage at the corner of Paca and Baltimore Streets (Parking stamps will be provided before you leave). You will have to walk (make a left) out of the garage, then a right onto Baltimore St. Walk two blocks (pass the Hospital), and the HSF building will be on your left. 
UMCP students: Please contact Gloria Anglon (ganglon@socy.umd.edu) for transportation details, UMCP will provide a bus.
UMBC students: The UMBC Gold Line shuttle bus will leave at 5:00 on Hilltop Circle, down the street from the Commons. See the http://www.umbc.edu/transit/GoldSchedule.htm for more details. UMB’s HSF building is Stop #4 on the Gold Line Route. The bus will leave HSF at 9:07 and return to UMBC by 9:30 p.m. 
 
 
 
RELECTIONS host: 
Jill L. Pegues
 
Program Coordinator
PROMISE: Maryland's Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate
"An NSF funded program developed to increase the number and diversity of
Ph.D.s in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
fields."
 
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Office of Student Research
660 West Redwood Street, 324 HH
Baltimore, MD 21201-1596
Phone: (410)706-3026
Fax: (410)706-0094
E-mail: jpegues@som.umaryland.edu