This week, I am sharing time with the Dissertation House at the University of Maryland College Park. College Park provides participants with breakfast and afternoon refreshments as well as dining cards for meals that can be used at any of the campus’ eating establishments. I was happy and […]
I was thrilled! My husband kept his eye on me, but I held onto the railing and stepped down and went down those three steps! It was a wonderful feeling! I haven’t been down steps on my own since the day of my surgery, April 1. In fact, […]
Thank you for your prayers! Sometimes we say “I’ll pray for you” and when you’re sick or scared, it really brings comfort to know that people are praying for you even when you’re too tired or weak or so caught up in the basic details of what is […]
I was recently honored to be chosen as the guest speaker for the Valentine’s Day Lunch for the Graduate Student Chapter of the Women in Science and Engineering (G-WISE), UMBC’s campus. By request, I am posting the points from the talk. WISE Valentine’s Day Lunch Feb. 14, 2008 […]
I started this post months ago … in November 2007 in fact; I’m not sure why I didn’t finish it. But yesterday I went to the vigil and campus memorial service for one of our undergrads Jamie Heard. Jamie’s life touched people whether you knew him or not. […]
At one of our recent student conferences, a student came to the microphone and publicly described one of our graduate student support and development programs as “ACADEMIC CHURCH.” He said that sometimes you fall away, and you know what you’re supposed to do, then you come back and […]
Well, it has been a few months, and I’ve been contemplating another post for a while. I’ve wondered what to say and figured that I’ll talk briefly about The Secret. Yes, we’ve heard Oprah talk about the book, she did a show on it, it’s even been in […]
A few weeks ago I gave a talk to the McNairs and the title of the talk was “Your Purpose: Next Steps.” The title was partially inspired by The Purpose Driven Life, but the content of the talk was based on a great book that I read called […]
A few weeks ago, following the UMBC Research Symposium, I was talking with a group of students about some of the research that we’d observed throughout the day. We were all impressed by the various projects and the depth of scope in some of the work. As we […]
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