Executive Board
Graduate Student Association
2012 – 2013 Executive Board
Doaa Rashed, President
Program: Ph.D. Language Literacy & Culture
Hometown: El-Beheira, Egypt
Previous Degree(s): Master of Arts in ISD/ESOL Bilingual & Bachelor of Arts in Teaching English as a foreign Language
Why UMBC?: I came to UMBC in 2000 in a professional development training program for teachers, and learned about the ESOL Master Program, so I came back five years later to get a master degree.
Post-UMBC Plans: Continue research in the area of teacher identity and retention, and teacher professional development.
Words I Live by: “We live in a culture of domination. What values and habits of being reflect our commitment to freedom?” --Bell Hooks
Program: Ph.D. Language Literacy & Culture
Hometown: El-Beheira, Egypt
Previous Degree(s): Master of Arts in ISD/ESOL Bilingual & Bachelor of Arts in Teaching English as a foreign Language
Why UMBC?: I came to UMBC in 2000 in a professional development training program for teachers, and learned about the ESOL Master Program, so I came back five years later to get a master degree.
Post-UMBC Plans: Continue research in the area of teacher identity and retention, and teacher professional development.
Words I Live by: “We live in a culture of domination. What values and habits of being reflect our commitment to freedom?” --Bell Hooks
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Jesse Fox, Vice President
Program: Ph.D Molecular and Cell Biology
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
Previous Degrees: BS in Biology from North Carolina A&T State University
Program: Ph.D Molecular and Cell Biology
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
Previous Degrees: BS in Biology from North Carolina A&T State University
Why UMBC?: The supportive nature of the graduate community.
Words I live by: “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
Words I live by: “The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” – Albert Ellis
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VACANT, Vice President for External Affairs
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Patricia Abete, Treasurer
Program: Ph.D Biological Sciences
Hometown: Montevideo, Uruguay
Previous degree:Bachelor of Science
Program: Ph.D Biological Sciences
Hometown: Montevideo, Uruguay
Previous degree:Bachelor of Science
Why UMBC? Uruguayan investigator working at UMBC send us an email telling about UMBC and strongly recommended the program.
Post-UMBC plans: Post-doctoral fellowship
Words I live by: “The only mistake God made was not giving human beings two lives: one for rehearsing and the other one for living” Vittorio Gassman.
Post-UMBC plans: Post-doctoral fellowship
Words I live by: “The only mistake God made was not giving human beings two lives: one for rehearsing and the other one for living” Vittorio Gassman.
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Ian Brown, Historian
Program: Ph.D. Language, Literacy, and Culture
Hometown: Durban, South Africa
Previous Degrees: BA – International Relations; MA in Education – Urban and Diverse Learners
Program: Ph.D. Language, Literacy, and Culture
Hometown: Durban, South Africa
Previous Degrees: BA – International Relations; MA in Education – Urban and Diverse Learners
Why UMBC?: Only school with a full interdisciplinary PhD, and therefore the flexibility to mold a particular area of interest. The program also has professors who are leading scholars in their field.
Words I live by: “repeat the actions of your own success to be successful; know your own formula, your own ingredient, what makes you, you” – KRS-One
Words I live by: “repeat the actions of your own success to be successful; know your own formula, your own ingredient, what makes you, you” – KRS-One