Dr. Renetta
Tull, Dr. Wendy Carter-Veale, and Dr. Rubin Landau led two PhD workshops in August 2012: Proposal Writing,
recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_proposal_writing_Aug2012, and The
Final Defense, recorded session at http://bit.ly/ELA_FinalDefense.
More about the
speaker:
Renetta Garrison
Tull is Assistant Dean for Graduate Student Development at UMBC and Director of
PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP (alliance members: UMBC, the University of Maryland
Baltimore, and the University of Maryland College Park). Tull earned the B.S. in
Electrical Engineering from Howard University, and both the M.S. in Electrical
Engineering and the Ph.D. in Speech Science from Northwestern University. She was an Anna Julia Cooper
Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) and a researcher in speaker recognition
technology with the Trace Center (Rehabilitation Engineering) prior to coming
to UMBC. In her current roles, Tull works to increase community and
professional development opportunities for underrepresented graduate students
and postdocs at UMBC, UMB, and UMCP through targeted PROMISE AGEP programs that
include: Professors-in-Training (PROF-it), Dissertation House, the Community
Building Retreat, Fall Harvest, Research Symposium, Reflections Health and
Wellness Seminars, and others. These programs, along with PROMISE’s recruitment
efforts and the growing recognition of Maryland’s commitment to diversity at
the graduate level, have contributed to increases in applications.