Exciting news! PROMISE AGEP will be hosting its annual Summer Success Institute at The Hotel at Arundel Preserve on Saturday, August 20, 2016! All are welcome to come. The conference will be filled with inspiring talks and advice from mentors. A full agenda is listed below. To register, we ask all attendees to RSVP at:http://www.eventbrite.com/e/promise-summer-success-institute-ssi-2016-grad-students-postdocs-alums-thinkbigdiversity-tickets-25510062283?ref=ebtn 

Attire: Business and business casual. We are asking that all guest plan to wear colors that represent our cohesion as an alliance. Red, white, black, yellow, and blue. Red, white, yellow, and black are the colors of our Maryland flag, and there is blue in the NSF logo. All of the logos for the University System of Maryland’s institutions have combinations  and variations of these colors. Whether your palette includes yellow or gold, powder blue or sapphire, please join us and wear clothing that is within the general range of our Maryland color scheme.

Main Conference – Saturday, August 20, 2016

 

• 7:30 - 8:30 AM: Registration - 2nd Floor Foyer

• 7:45 AM: “Working Toward Your Prize” – Scholars’ Choice – Breakfast Round tables – Ballroom

• 8:30 AM: The World View & Scholarly, Global Responsibility

• 9:00 AM: Plenary 1 – Eyes on the Prize – “The Pact”

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Jean, Executive Director of EOF and the Center for Academic Development and Assessment, Montclair State University, @WordsTravel, #WordsTravel

• 9:45 AM: Plenary 2 – Learning from the Prize Winners – “Mentors and Leaders Who Are Paving Your Way.”Panel of National Award Winners and Presidents

• Panelist: Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings, Past President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Endowed Professor –  Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education, Curriculum and Instruction (CI), Educational Policy Studies (EPS), Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis (ELPA) – University of Wisconsin-Madison; Brock International Prize In Education. Paper: Toward a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy(cited 3100+ times),   author of the critically acclaimed books, The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, Crossing over to Canaan: The Journey of New Teachers in Diverse Classrooms,and Beyond the Big House: African American Educators on Teacher Education.  Honorary Degrees: Umeå University, Umeå Sweden, the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain. Dr. Ladson-Billings is a Senior Fellow of the NEA Foundation.

• Panelist: Dr. Louis Martin-Vega, President, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), Dean of Engineering, North Carolina State University,  Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 1999 IIE Albert Holzman Distinguished Educator Award, 2000 HENACC-Hispanic Engineering National Education Achievement Award, 2007 National Hispanic Scientist of the Year Award from the Tampa Museum of Science and Industry, 2008 Outstanding Engineer in North Carolina Award from the NC Society of Engineers, Industrial and Systems Engineering Alumni Leadership Award from the University of Florida in 2009, and the 2012 Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award, IIE’s highest honor. He is a past president of IIE, a member of the Pan American Academy of Engineering and the HENACC Hall of Fame, and was named as one of the 50 Most Influential Hispanics in the US by Hispanic Business magazine in 2014.

Session Leader: Dr. Christine Grant, Professor, Chemical Engineering, and Associate Dean for Faculty Advancement, North Carolina State University. 2003 Winner – White House Presidential  Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM), 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Mentor Award. Article: Dr. Christine Grant leads restructuring of College of Engineering Faculty Development Office. Follow on Twitter: @DrGrantEmpowers

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• 10:30 AM: Circle of PhDs

• 11:15 AM: Networking Break – 2nd floor foyer

• 11:30 AM: Breakout Sessions – In Pursuit of the Prize  -“Activate Your Plans” 

• Session 1: New/Incoming Students – “Expert Advice for Getting Started:  Time Management, Understanding Professors’ Expectations, and Preparing to Ace Classes”

 Speakers: 2016 PROMISE “New Student Mentor-in Residence Dream Team”

• Miryam C. Gerdine, MPH, Associate, Johns Hopkins University; Acting Branch Chief at U.S. Government, Department of Health & Human Services, HRSA; Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI)
• Levon Esters, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Youth Development and Agricultural Education Department of Curriculum & Instruction, Purdue University; Co-PI of M@P (Mentoring at Purdue)
• Marquita Qualls, Ph.D., Entropia, Inc., Former President of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE), Interact on Twitter: @DrQualls
• Sweeney Windchief, Ed.D., Assistant Professor, Adult & Higher Education, Montana State University; Specialties: Critical Race Theory (CRT), Indigenous Epistemologies, Student Success, American Indian Education Policy

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• Continuing Graduate Students (All master’s and doctoral students who have completed at least one year of graduate school)  – “Being a Professional in the Digital Age” 
  • Speaker: Clifton Griffin, Ph.D., Dean of the Graduate School, Salisbury University, former Director for Research & Graduate Studies at Texas A& M – Qatar.

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• Session 3: PP&P: Postdocs, Professors, & Professionals  – “Preparing for the Prize – Media Preparation: Tips for Engaging with the Public.”

You have your PhD, and you’re engaged in your work. What do you do when you get a call from your university’s communications office to tell you that you are being asked to discuss your work on the radio, or that your last grant caught the attention of NPR and you need to prepare for the reporter’s interview? This session, administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences’ (AAAS)  Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology, is a short version of their broader “Communicating Science” workshop.

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1:00 Lunch and Program

• Lunch and Networking with PROMISE Alumni and Faculty
• Celebration of Doctoral Candidates
• Keynote Speaker: Dr. Makola M. Abdullah, President, Virginia State University

2:30 Networking, Tweet-up, and Dessert Reception #ThinkBigDiversity

Media

Special In-Person, Live Social Media Coverage by “STEM Celebrity Social Media Personalities” (Our guests have more than 10K Twitter followers, combined):

Dr. Stephani Page, Initiator: #BlackAndSTEM

Dr. Stephani Page (Microbiologist), Initiator of #BlackAndSTEM, Follow: @ThePurplePage. Dr. Page studies protein components of microbial signal transduction pathways. Her work has been covered by Fast Company, Scientific American, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She is a “STEM social media celebrity,” known for mobilizing and engaging an online community of underrepresented scholars.

Dr. Jedidah Isler, TED Fellow

Dr. Jedidah Isler (Astrophysicist) & Team, Founder, Executive Producer, Host of Vanguard STEM,Follow: @VanguardSTEM, @JedidahIslerPhD. Dr. Isler is a TED Fellow and National Geographic Explorer. National Geographic notes that Dr. Isler “is the first African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Yale. She’s a champion of inclusion in the sciences, aiming to create a world where anyone, regardless of race, gender, or background, can pursue their interests.”

See one of Dr. Isler’s TED Talks:

Dr. Patty Lopez, 2016 Winner: Advocating Women in Engineering Award, by the Society of Women Engineers

Dr. Patty Lopez [Patricia D. Lopez, Intel Corporation, Mission Critical Data Center] (Computer Scientist), Founding Director of Latinas in Computing, she serves on boards for the Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI), the Anita Borg Institute, and  the Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W). She also served as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2013 General Co-Chair. Awards: Great Minds in STEM/HENAAC, Community Service Award, 2010; Hewlett Packard Diversity and Inclusion Award, 2004.Follow: @LatinasInC , @pittrpatt