Practical Steps to Completing a Master’s Thesis or Dissertation

PROMISE: Maryland’s Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professionate (AGEP) is a National Science Foundation alliance of the 12 institutions within the University System of Maryland, dedicated to the increasing the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduates in the sciences and engineering who go on to academic careers. AGEP is a program of the National Science Foundation, and PROMISE is one of several AGEPs with the United States.Broadly, students can participate in PROMISE regardless of their status (full-time, part-time), ethnicity, discipline, or source of funding.Narrowly, students who are underrepresented will be strongly supported as they utilize the services and resources of PROMISE;these students can be encouraged to consider PROMISE to be one of their major mechanisms of support.PROMISE has activities for undergraduate students, with a focus on cultivating graduate students, supporting postdoctoral fellows, and faciltating future faculty diversity in STEM.http://www.usmd.edu/institutions/USM InstitutionsVisit one of USM's 12 Institutions:Bowie State UniversityCoppin State UniversityFrostburg State UniversitySalisbury UniversityTowson UniversityUniversity of BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, BaltimoreUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore CountyUniversity of Maryland, College ParkUniversity of Maryland Eastern ShoreUniversity of Maryland University CollegeUniversity of MD Center for Environmental ScienceRegional Higher Education CentersFind out more about USM's systemwide learning centers, offering access to USM resources for working Marylanders:Universities at Shady GroveUniversity System of Maryland at Hagerstown

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Completing your Master's Thesis or Ph.D. Dissertation should be treated as a full-time job. Consider joining this session if you are struggling to put down a plan for yourself or follow up with your schedule to finish your degree. In this event, you will learn how and when to ask for help, what your research advisor job is, how to create a realistic timeline to finish your degree, time management skills, and how to navigate uncertainty. Join Dr. Carter-Veale, a Dissertation Coach nationally recognized for helping hundreds of students finish their degrees. Dr. CV has obtained master's degrees from Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison; her services include helping students navigate sticky situations, leverage productivity techniques, and overcome barriers to promptly complete their degree.About our speaker:Dr. Carter-Veale has over 15 years of experience in graduate education. She has presented her dissertation writing workshops and boot camps for MIT, Duke University, Howard University, University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Cornell University, and the Dissertation Institute, to name some.She is the CEO of PhDCompletion.com, co-founder of the PROMISE Dissertation House, the on-campus dissertation coach at UMBC, and has authored four (4) books about Ph.D. completion (Mastering the Ph.D. Completion Process, Ph.D. Completion: If You Can Write a Master's Thesis You Can Write a Dissertation, Ph.D. Completion: Practical Steps to Selecting a Dissertation Topic and Ph.D. Completion: Methods Journal).<a href="https://phd-completion.com/about-dr-carter-veale-dr-cv/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">To learn more about Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, please visit her webpage. </a>All graduate students in the University System of Maryland and University of California, Davis are invited to attend this event. Please RSVP to participate in the event. The link to share the session will be emailed via Eventbrite.If you need any accommodations or have questions, don't hesitate to contact Yarazeth Medina at yarazeth@umbc.edu.

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