August 3, 2007. Earlier this year, UMT established the scholarship program with our local PMI chapter in Washington DC (PMIWDC). On 15 May, Mr. Mohammad Sakil became the first receipient for the UMT-PMIWDC scholarship. See UMT News. PMItoday,the monthly newspaper published by PMI reported the event in their August 2007 issue.

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July 2, 2007. In April, UMT's president, Dr. Yanping Chen attended the 2007 PMI China Government forum in Beijing as one of the PMI Board of Directors. PMItoday July 2007 issue reported this event in details.

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February 28, 2007. Earlier this month, UMT's President, Dr. Yanping Chen participated in the NASA PM Challenge Conference 2007. NASA's ASK OCE (Office of the Chief Engineer) interviewed Dr. Chen and PMI's President, Greg Balestrero. As a former China space program expert and a PMI Board of Director, Dr. Chen raised issues and challenges on how to manage program and project knowledge internally, externally and cross-generationally.

Yanping Chen: In terms of program/project knowledge, there’s the question of how to internally share that knowledge, and also how to pass it on generation after generation. NASA and all the space agencies document knowledge, and they encourage internal sharing of documents. That has been done quite sufficiently the past two or three decades. But not sharing across boundaries. That concerns me. NASA has been called to take the lead in human exploration of space. That’s not a mission that one country can accomplish—that has to be an international endeavor. It has to involve many nations— however it’s difficult for all the space agencies to share knowledge outside of themselves. Greg pointed out that you need to find a common platform to be able to share the knowledge that you have.

In terms of generations, that has been a challenge in NASA and also in other agencies, in the Chinese and Japanese space agencies. Knowledge can be kept. You can document stories. But there is also a kind of a spirit, an inspiration that is very often lost in the translation across the generations. So how can you capture that part?

The entire interview is published on VOL. 2 Issue 2 of the ASK OCE -- "a biweekly e-newsletter that provides a means for regular communication with NASA's technical workforce about best practices, lessons learned, and new developments at the Agency and throughout the world."*

* Source: http://appel.nasa.gov/askoce/

January 4, 2007. UMT's Academic Dean, Dr. J. Davidson Frame was the guest speaker at the Washington DC Chapter's International Project Management Day celebration. The International Project Management Day is on 2 November every year. It's "a day of recognition of project managers and the important contributions they make in business, government, community and not-for-profit environments." See PMItoday January 2007 issue for more details.

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July 26, 2006. UMT has earned Specialized and Professional Accreditation for its Project Management degrees by the Global Accreditation Center (GAC) for the Project Management Institute (PMI). See UMT News. The news was first reported in the PMI's weekly e-newsletter on July 21, 2006. Visit PMI's GAC Accredited Schools to see a list of institution earned GAC accreditation.

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July 3, 2006. First UMT-PMI Component Scholarship was established with PMI's Information Technology and Telecommunications SIG the beginning of this year. See UMT News. In June, we awarded the first scholarship to Mr. Gabriel Epelbaum. PMItoday,the monthly newspaper published by PMI reported the story in their July 2006 issue.

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June 28, 2006. In Peter Fretty's article Project Management 2.0 in PMI Network July issue, he interviewed Dr. Davidson Frame on the subject of people skills.

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June 1, 2006. Dr. Chen, as one of the PMI Board of Directors, participated in both the Government Forum and the Business Roundtable in Beijing in April this year. PMItoday,the monthly newspaper published by PMI featured Dr. Chen's picture as it talked about these two events in their June 2006 issue.

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May 10, 2006. Dr. Chen, as one of the PMI Board of Directors, participated in both the Government Forum and the Business Roundtable in Beijing in April. China national news channels, CETV and BTV-5 reported the PMI visit.

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