UMBC

• McNair Course (PROF-it: Professors in Training) begins Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2004. Classes held in Rm. 521, Administration Building. Last day of class: May 5, 2004
• UMBC/UMB Graduate Research Conference: Friday, April 23, 2004
• UMBC Peer mentors Meetings: Wednesdays @ 10 a.m. 3/31, 4/21, 4/28, Rm. 318, UMBC Commons.

UM College Park

• Dr. Tull will be at College Park, available for meetings and discussions: Mondays, 2-4 p.m., 1st floor conference room 1138A, Lee Building. Next Date: Monday April 26.
• UMCP Graduate Appreciation Week: April 19-23
• UMCP GRID (Graduate Research Interaction Days): April 22-23
• UMCP Peer Mentors' & UMCP Students' Brunch Meeting: April 25 (Sun.)

UMB

• PROMISE Resource Room, open daily, 9-5, M-F. Jill Pegues available daily for discussions.
• 
  UMB Graduate School Seminars
  8:30 to 10 a.m. (Continental Breakfast: 8 a.m.)
  Terrace Lounge, Baltimore Student Union
  "Starting Your Own Lab - The Do's and The Don'ts"
  Thursday, April 29, 2004
  Russell J. DiGate, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Research,
  School of Pharmacy, UMB
  For more information, contact Mary Fish, graduate programs services
  coordinator, at 410-706-8323 or mfish@umaryland.edu
• Parking and Directions, visit: http://www.parking.umaryland.edu/
  
• UMBC/UMB Graduate Research Conference (GRC): April 23, 2004

Important PROMISE Events

February 18, 2004: Success Seminar, "Career Preparation for Masters & PhD Students: Looking for a Job and Marketing Yourself Effectively", features speakers from Verizon, NIH, and the Rochester Institute of Technology. Location: UMBC, Cabaret Room, 1st floor, The Commons.

February 27, 2004: Women of Color Lunch Pt. 2/Follow-up, Women's Center (in the RAC a.k.a. "the Gym", down the hallway, 2nd classroom on the right, 1st floor. UMBC 1:30-2:30, food will be served.

March 5-7: PROMISE Retreat (Community Building Event) at Coolfont, Berkeley Springs, West VA. Board the bus at 3 p.m. Friday, March 5, from the front of the Administration Building at UMBC, visit the PROMISE COOLFONT page.

March 10 (Wednesday): "Money Matters: Preparations for the World of Credit Ratings, Investments, and other Financial Issues", UMBC, Cabaret Room (Commons, First floor, behind the Information Desk), 4:30 p.m. - 6 p.m. Food will be served.

March 12 (Friday): PROMISE tri-campus seminar, "Choosing a Career in College and University Teaching:
Advantages and Challenges for Scientists of Color", UMCP, UM College Park Visitors Center, Conference Room, 4-7 p.m. Food will be served. Come out and learn about the merits of academic life.

April 1 (Thursday): A Conference for the UMBC Community : "Effective Graduate Student Mentoring: A Research Priority", Thursday, April 1, 2004, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m., UMBC Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor, 3 p.m. @UMBC (features special guest Dr. Chontrese Doswell along with Dr. Renetta Tull and the UMBC/UMCP Peer Mentors).

April 14-15 (Weds./Thurs) Responsible Conduct in Research Conference at UMCP, Adele Stamp Student Union, April 14-15. Colony Ballroom, 8:30-4:30. Please register via the link above. Dr. Davis is on the planning team.

April 16 (Friday): PROMISE tri-campus seminar, REFLECTIONS: Looking back to move forward, (Soul Food Theme!!) 5:30 p.m., Room 218, HSF 1, UMB Campus. TRANSPORTATION: UMCP, contact Gloria Anglon: ganglon@socy.umd.edu, UMBC: take the Gold Line UMBC Shuttle Bus. (UMBC Gold Line Shuttle Stop # 4, UMB/HSF on Baltimore Street. The Health Sciences Facility 1: HSF Building will be right in front of you.) ABOUT REFLECTIONS: Eat delicious soul food and join your fellow graduate students as we reflect on the things of the past that may have caused you to stray from your set courses. Consider successful strategies that can be used to guide us forward, to transform the negative into the positive, to get back on track or to transform our non-productive behaviors, thoughts, actions into production-particularly as it deals with doing well in courses, completing dissertations, studying, etc.

May 1 (Saturday): Cookout and Recognition of Graduates. Patapsco Valley State Park, Pickall Areas #707A and 707B. Entry cost: $3.00 per person with Maryland License plates, $4.00 per person with other state license plates. Reserved pavilion for 250 people, 53 parking spaces. This is a FAMILY AFFAIR! Family and Friends are Invited!

Summer 2004: UMB Summer Research Program and PROMISE summer research rotations, UMBC Summer Horizons, UMCP Summer research programs

June 1-2: "Ethics & Responsible Conduct of Research", UMB

July 2004: Summer Horizons (@ UMBC), includes summer students at UMB and UMCP

August 20-21: Tri-campus PROMISE Summer Success Institute (for new and continuing students)

Other AGEP and National Events

April 2, 2004 (Friday): "Twenty-First Century Women in Science and Engineering: A Career Development Workshop, Focus on Graduate Students and Postdocs", National Science Foundation Headquarters, Arlington, VA, Rm. 1235, 4:00-6:30 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited, please pre-register by March 22 by sending name, affiliation, and email address to BioTred@hotmail.com. The National Science Foundation headquarters: 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA, 1 block South of the Ballston-Marymount University Metro stop on the Orange Line.

August 2004: Howard-University of Texas AGEP (HUTEP) Postdoctoral Institute, Texas

October 2004: SREB Conference, Atlanta

October 2004: Emerge Conference, Atlanta