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Since the Smithsonian’s Big Ten Academic Alliance Fellowship (BTAA/SI) was conceived in 2012, 40 of these prestigious fellowships have been awarded. The University of Maryland has the distinction of having the highest number of recipients, all of them women.

Marisa Franco ('17, Psychology) was offered a tenure-track professorship in the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services at Georgia State University after graduating from Maryland in 2017.

Expertise, insight, patience, and empathy.  One-to-one consultation and collaborative discussion. An anthology of academic backgrounds and life experiences.

We can all remember our first job search. It probably involved sustained effort, rounds of disappointment and a bit of luck. For an international graduate student, in short supply of an extensive network, and the know-how of cultural differences, it can be an added challenge to navigate a system.  

Marisa Franco graduates this spring with a Ph.D. in Psychology and has accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Georgia State University.  She is a success story for Maryland and the Graduate School because she was a participant in many of its programs for underrepresented doctoral students on the path to the professoriate.