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The Next GSA Meeting is Thursday, May 8 th at 1pm in the Room 2215 on the 2 nd floor of the Campus Center

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Coming this April: RESOURCE WORKSHOP!

The Graduate Student Assembly is hosting a resource workshop specifically for graduate students! Speakers include Michael Gaskins and Frances Schlesinger! There will be 30 minutes of presentations and then time for students to network with resources and enjoy some food!

 

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Going on a Conference? Need Some Money to Make it Happen?

Apply for a Professional Development Grant (PDG) from the GSA!
The PDG represents the largest program expenditure of the GSA. The GSA allocates funds to reimburse matriculated graduate students who attend or present their research at conferences and professional meetings related to their field of study. A student presenting a paper or poster can be rewarded up to $500 to aid trip expenses.  A student not presenting a paper or poster can be rewarded up to $400 to aid trip expenses.  Program details, reward breakdown, and program guidelines and application requirements can be downloaded at http://www.gsa.umb.edu/programs.htm .

(Please drop applications off at the Students Activities and Leadership Office on the 3 rd floor CC-just ask the front desk will time stamp your application and place the materials in the GSA mailbox.)

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Be a Mentor!

 

The UMB/CPCS Harbor Point Youth Outreach project provides after school tutoring and mentoring to kids at Harbor Point through our partnership with the Walter Denny Youth Center.  Over 25 boys and girls benefit from this program on Monday through Thursdays for 3:30 – 5:30 PM.  Volunteer for service and there are opportunities for credit or competencies. All levels of experience are welcome—you chose the day and time.  Tutors must submit CORI and SORI forms.  Contact Suzanne Allmendinger at suzanne.allmendinger@umb.edu or 617.287.7124 for more information.

 

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A Call for Proposals:

 

Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA)
Proposal deadline: Sunday, June 15, 2008
Conference dates:  October 22-24, 2008
Call for Proposals found at:  www.nera-education.org

Dear Fellow Graduate Student,

My name is Meg Monaghan, Membership/Recruitment Chair for the Northeastern Educational Research Association (NERA).  We have recently issued a Call for Proposals (see attachment or www.nera-education.org ) for our annual conference and are trying to spread the word about this outstanding organization.

For nearly four decades, NERA has strived to encourage and promote educational research by providing a forum for both experienced and novice researchers. As a regional affiliate of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), we offer an accessible venue for presenting your work, sharing ideas, and building long-lasting and rewarding professional relationships.

NERA prides itself as a nurturing environment for graduate students and emerging scholars.  Graduate students are invited to attend the conference for FREE and are encouraged to submit proposals for paper and poster sessions.

You are invited to present your research, learn from others' efforts, make new friends, and rejoin old ones at our 2008 Conference, which will be held from October 22-24, 2008 at the Marriott Hotel in Rocky Hill, CT.   NERA's 2007 conference was a smashing success; this conference promises to continue supporting your work and helping you connect with exciting colleagues.

Our annual conference has been a place that researchers from across the professional continuum can come to present findings, hear the latest trends in research from a wide array of fields, hone their methodological skills, and network with scholars from world class institutions and organizations.

Please consider submitting a proposal and joining NERA today!  The deadline for proposal submission for the 2008 conference is Sunday, June 15, 2008.  Please visit our website at www.nera-education.org .

If you have any questions, or if you wish to be removed from any future NERA emails, please feel free to contact me at neramembers@gmail.com .

 

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A Call for Proposals:

 

MICAI 2008: 7th Mexican International Conference on

             ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

 

                www.MICAI.org/2008

 

October 27 to 31, Mexico City, Mexico

 

Proceedings: Springer LNAI, IEEE, and special issues of journals

 

Submission deadline: May 5 (abstract); May 12 (full paper).

 

 

                CALL FOR PAPERS

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Topics of interest include all areas of Artificial Intelligence. Poster session, workshops, tutorials, and cultural events are planned.

 

The recent MICAI events (2005, 2006, 2007) received around 450 submissions from over 40 countries each. The acceptance rate (oral session) was around 26%. Among keynote speakers were John McCarthy, Tom Mitchell, Ronald Yager, and Pedro Domingos, to name just a few. There were over 500 attendees.

 

 

PROCEEDINGS AND SUBMISSION

 

Papers accepted for oral session will be published by Springer in LNAI:

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Poster session papers will be published separately. Special issues of journals are anticipated.

 

Submissions are received via webpage; see guidelines there. By May 5, only abstract is to be registered; the full text is due by May 12.

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

May 5: Registration of abstracts.

May 12: Uploading of full text of registered papers.

June 24: Acceptance notification.

August 11: Camera-ready and payment deadline.

 

 

CONTACT

 

General inquiries: micai2008 at MICAI dot org; see www.MICAI.org/2008 .

 

 

PLEASE CIRCULATE this CFP among your students and colleagues. We apologize if you receive this CFP more than once. We send it in good faith of its interest for you as an AI-related researcher; please let us know if this is wrong.

 

 

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Up Coming Gerontology Colloquium

Spring 2008 Semester Speakers Gerontology Colloquium Series

Monday, April 28, 2008
1:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., W-3-125
Stefan Gravenstein, Ph. D.
Quality Partners of Rhode Island, Brown University Co-sponsored by the Rosalie Wolf Geriatric Center, UMass Medical School “High-Quality Nursing Home Care Begins With A Vision.”

Monday, May 12, 2008
1:00 P.M. - 2:15 P.M., W-3-125
Department faculty/research assistants.
Highlights of research at the Gerontology Institute

 

 

The Venture Development Center

cordially invites you to an

 

Intellectual Property Presentation

 

 

 

IP Basics: An Innovator’s Guide to Choices and Implications

 

 

Monday, April 28, 2008

 

Campus Center, 3rd floor, Room 3540

 

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

 

About the speaker

 

 

Ruth Atherton, PhD, JD, is Senior Patent Counsel for Genzyme Corporation. She earned her PhD in cell and molecular biology from Cornell University and Sloan-Kettering Institute and her JD from Fordham University School of Law where she specialized in intellectual property.

 

Recently, she founded Raising the Blues, Ltd. a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to bringing music to

children undergoing medical treatment, in recovery, or with special needs.

 

 

 

 

The Changing World of Work in US Retail Trade

A panel discussion of findings from a national study

Wednesday April 30, 2008

8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

University of Massachusetts Boston

Campus Center - 3 rd Floor - Ballroom C

As a sector, retail trade exemplifies the central dilemma of low wage work in modern economies. Giant

retailer Wal-Mart is the largest US employer, and overall, retail is one of the largest employment sectors

in the country. What happens to jobs in this industry, which is a major provider of entry-level jobs, is a

key element of the broader picture of low wage employment nationwide.

Retail work is undergoing significant change in the United States. To explore these changes, and their

impacts in terms of turnover, skill levels, and other key workforce variables, the authors conducted 18

case studies of food and consumer electronics retail businesses. They spoke to employees from top

corporate executives to frontline employees, visited stores, and reviewed HR statistics.

The two study authors will present selected findings: Françoise Carré, Ph.D. Center for Social

Policy, McCormack Graduate School, University of Massachusetts Boston and Chris Tilly, Ph.D.

Department of Regional Economic and Social Development, University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Discussants of the study findings will include: Prof. David Weil¸ School of Management, Boston

University and Mr. Joel Boone, Vice President for Labor Relations, Stop and Shop Supermarkets.

Copies of the report will be available. The research was sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation.

Event sponsored by the Center for Social Policy, J. W. McCormack Graduate School at UMass Boston

and the Center for Industrial Competitiveness and Department of Regional Economic and Social

Development at UMass-Lowell.

Apologies for cross postings.

 

 

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