Events & News

Keep an eye on this area for AGEP-related news and events. If you would like your event posted here or if you have information to share with the community, please send an email to Richard Rowley.

Recent News & Events

Graduate Workshop: Time Management Nov 1, 2006
Timothy Whelsky, the Associate Director of the BU University Service Center, sharerd information that focused on time and priority management. A number of personal examples were discussed to better help those in attendance with the subject.

Graduate Workshop: FUNDING Oct 4, 2006
Graduate Workshops offer opportunities for AGEP grad students to meet and discuss issues related to life at BU. This first meeting featured Katina Csigi from the Chemistry Department. She addressed funding opportunities and resources for writing proposals.

Coming Events

Archive of News & Events

Finding the Perfect Doctoral Program
March 1st, 4:00 pm LSEB room 103. Pizza and drinks will be served.

NEA-Day MIT 2007
April 2007.

AFRAMATH 2007
Saturday, April 28, 2007.
More information may be found at: http://math.bu.edu/people/ep/AFRAMATH07/

URI Writing Workshop
June 11-16, 2007.
The University of Rhode Island (URI) is offering a writing workshop to AGEP students June 11-16th. URI is covering the housing costs, however students are responsible for their own travel and meals during the 6-day workshop.
http://www.neagep.org/news_1.asp#uri

Graduate Connection Sept 7, 2006
The Graduate Connection allowed graduate students from all disciplines to visit with representatives from various offices that serve the graduate student body. Students could learn about family services, housing, health services, and the community service center as well as 8 other offices.
The weather permitted the event to be held at Fox Fountain. The outdoors provided a clean and fresh atmosphere for conversation. An entire discussing was held in Spanish at an out door table. Pamphlets and brochures were readily available and decorated the event. Students expressed positive comments about the venue and food as well as the opportunity.

Annual Research Symposium Oct 13, 2006
This event hosted by the BU UROP office had 8 SURF participants travel to the event and 7 SURF students participate. The students continued their research efforts from the summer, in collaboration with their mentors, in the form of STEM posters. The titles of their work ranged from “Solving Brake Squeal: Silence from Sand” to “Biosynthesis of Auxin: Conversion of Tryptophan to Indole 3-acetaldoxime”. The SURF students thanked BU and the AGEP office for the opportunity to present and gain experience at the BU Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium. The AGEP office looks forward to continuing these presentations in the future and packaging it as interest points when recruiting new SURF students. A few students mentioned they will be applying to programs at the Boston University Medical Campus.

NEA Partner Science Day at UPRM
The University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, recently hosted the first Northeast Alliance Partner Science Day on their campus in February 2006. Students from Alliance schools and UPRM showcased their work in a poster session while faculty and administrators were available to discuss each school's programs with interested students. Pictured below are BU's contingent (front: Andrew Inglis, Shirley Sanchez, Jeremy Goodman; rear: Richard Rowley, Eugene Manley, Tracy Pritchett, Michelle Cronin, Shang-Hua Teng). Visit UPRM's website.

AGEP Program Receives Continued Funding - March 2005
The Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate recently received renewed funding from the National Science Foundation to continue and expand its activities. A number of new Alliance and Partner schools have been added to extend the reach of the NEA's efforts. Read the story in the Daily Free Press.

SURF 2004
Each year, Boston University awards Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURFs) to talented undergraduates in science, math, and engineering who apply from BU and from other schools. SURF recipients for 2004 include:

Shanadeen Begay, Northern Arizona University
(mentor: Professor David Coker, Chemistry)

Greg Boulet, Boston University
(mentor: Professor Charles DeLisi, Bioinformatics)

Daniel Hernandez, Boston University
(mentor: Professor David Fried, Mathematics)

Cheryl Matthews, University of Maryland Baltimore County
(mentor: Professor Alice Cronin-Golomb, Psychology)

To learn more about SURF, visit the program information on the UROP website.

African-American Mathematics: Successes and Challenges - February 28, 2004
Part of a series of interdisciplinary math symposia, this event is free and includes panel discussions as well as a keynote speaker. To learn more about the symposium and to register, visit http://math.bu.edu/people/ep/AFRAMATH/.

SURF Applications available - December 1, 2003
Undergrads! Thinking about grad school? Want to know what research is really like before you make a commitment? Applications for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships are now available! These 10 week fellowships are open to sophomores, juniors, and non-graduating seniors for summer 2004 and involve performing research in a Boston University laboratory under a faculty mentor. For more information and application instructions, visit http://www.bu.edu/urop/surf/.

Also check out other research opportunities that may be available to you at http://www.bu.edu/urop/forstudents/funds/beyondbu.html.

NEA-Day - November 14, 2003
On November 14, 2003 the Northeast Alliance hosted its first NEA-Day conference on the campus of Boston University, entitled "Highways and Roadblocks to Diversity in Science, Math and Engineering Programs." Minority students and their mentors from the Alliance institutions gathered to exchange ideas and best practices on student recruitment and retention, graduate student hurdles, mentoring practices, and life after the doctorate. Guest speakers from various institutions offered their own insights into these issues during the keynote address and various panel discussions. Students presented posters of their research work while mingling with faculty, guests, and other students during the course of the day. To see the agenda for NEA Day, click here.