EVENTS 2006-7
State of Science
Wednesday, March 7th 2007, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Catalina Room, Student Union
ADVANCE's State of Science is a unique opportunity to hear University of Arizona President, Dr. Robert Shelton, Provost, Dr. George Davis, Vice President for Research, Dr. Leslie Tolbert, and Science Foundation Arizona President, Dr. William Harris talk about the state of science nationally and at the University of Arizona. Our focus will be on successfully moving towards a more multi-disciplinary team oriented research model. Successful interdisciplinary researchers at the University of Arizona will also share their insights into what makes a productive multi-disciplinary project.
Distinguished Lecturer – Dr. Ellen Mosley-Thompson
Career Discussion Session, Thursday, March 22nd 2007,
Time and Place TBA
Public Lecture, Thursday, March 22nd 2007, 4:00 PM, Place TBA
Dr. Mosley-Thompson is a Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University and a Senior Research Scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center. She is a world renowned climate researcher whose research focuses on deciphering Earth's volcanic history, determining the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet and understanding abrupt climate changes. For more information, please see her website.
Faculty Stewardship Workshop: Evaluation of Faculty
Monday, March 26th 2007, 1:30-3:00 PM, Sabino Room, SUMC
This workshop for Heads, Directors and Senior Faculty presents information on improving the effectiveness of annual performance, promotion and tenure and probationary reviews. Registration required, contact advance@vpr.arizona.edu.
Faculty Stewardship Workshop: Active Management of Departmental Climate
Monday, April 2nd 2007, 1:00-2:30 PM, Sabino Room, SUMC
This workshop for Heads, Directors and Senior Faculty presents best practices for managing workplace climate. Topics will include the factors that both create and threaten collegiality, productivity and retention as well as leadership. Registration required, contact advance@vpr.arizona.edu.
Leadership Lunch: Dr. Susan Beck, Head of the Department of Geosciences
Friday, April 6 2007, 12:00-1:00 PM, Sabino Room, SUMC
This brown-bag lunch for female Graduate Students, Post-docs and Junior Faculty in STEM fields is an informal opportunity to discuss strategies for success in academia. During the 2007-2008 academic year this will be part of a series of lunches featuring Senior Faculty in STEM fields discussing such things as their own pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance. Dr. Susan Beck is a Professor of and the Department Head for Geosciences here at the University of Arizona. She has an active research program in Seismology and Tectonics and is well known and respected within her field. She has served on many national-level science committees, including the National Academy of Sciences, the International Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS), and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
UA ADVANCE: What do we know about subtle discrimination in the academy and what are we doing about it?
Wednesday, April 11 2007, 3:00-4:30 PM. Sabino Room, SUMC
In this lecture, a portion of the ADVANCE leadership team will review key research findings about subtle discrimination in the academy and present new studies ongoing at the University of Arizona that should result in greater inclusion of women and minorities in science and academic leadership.
Faculty Stewardship Workshop: Effective Faculty Mentoring
Monday, April 16th 2007, 2:00-3:30 PM, Rincon Room, SUMC
This workshop for Heads, Directors and Senior Faculty presents information on the benefits and best practices of effective mentoring. Registration required, contact advance@vpr.arizona.edu.
Data Blitz on Environmental Sustainability
Thursday, April 19th 2007, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Ventana Room, Student Union
Five UA faculty members will be selected to talk about their research within the context of Environmental Sustainability. Each speaker will have five minutes to present their research, followed by a five minute discussion period. After the formal presentations their will be reception where speakers and the audience can mingle for further discussion.
Strategic Persuasion Workshop for Female Faculty, Post-Doctoral Candidates & Graduate Students
Junior Faculty: Friday, April 20th 2007, 8:00AM-12:00
PM, AME, N715
Senior Faculty: Friday, April 20th, 2007 1:00-5:00 PM AME, N715
Graduate Students & Postdocs: Saturday, April 21 2007, 8:00am
- 2:30 pm (tentative), Ventana Room, SUMC
These workshops focus on negotiation, communication and conflict resolution skills. Through a variety of instructional and interactive approaches, the sessions promote individual success through successful negotiation at the departmental, campus, and professional organizational levels. The session for graduate students will include a panel discussion on equity issues for women in STEM. These workshops are free and open to female faculty, post-docs & graduate students engaged in all fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Registration required, contact advance@vpr.arizona.edu.
Mentoring & Career Development: "Navigating the Tenure Process," Dr. Mike Evans, Associate Professor, Laboratory for Tree Ring Research
EVENTS 2007-8
Friday, September 21, 2007, 10:00-11:00 AM, Sabino Room, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance. This is the first session in this series.
Distinguished Lecturer: Dr. Margaret Murnane
Career Discussion Session, Thursday, October 4, 2007,
11:00-12:00 AM
Sabino Room of the Student Union
Public Lecture, Thursday, October 4, 2007, 4:00-5:30
PM
Kiva Room of the Student Union
Dr. Margaret Murnane will be the Fall 2007 ADVANCE Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Murnane is a Fellow at JILA and a member of the Department of Physics at Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado. She received her PhD degree in physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1989, and has been at the University of Colorado since 1999. She runs a joint research group and a small laser company with her husband, Dr. Henry Kapteyn. Her research interests have been in ultrafast optical and x-ray science. Dr. Murnane is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. In 1997 she was awarded the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society, and in 2000 she was named a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow. In 2006 she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Mentoring & Career Development: "Creating a Funding Roadmap" Dr. Linda Powers, Thomas R. Brown Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thursday, October 18, 2007, 12:00-1:00 PM. Sabino Room, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Data Blitz on Nanotechnology
Thursday, November 1st, 2007, 4:00-6:00 PM, 408 & 410 Optical Sciences (Meinel)
Five UA faculty members will be selected to talk about their research within the context of Nanotechnology. Each speaker will have five minutes to present his or her research, followed by a five minute discussion period. After the formal presentations there will be a reception where speakers and the audience can mingle for further discussion.
Nominate a faculty member: [PDF] [DOC]
Mentoring & Career Development: "Working with Governmental Agencies: Life as PI of a Big Project" Dr. Marcia Rieke, Professor & Astronomer, Astronomy, Planetary Sciences & Steward Observatory
Friday, November 16, 2007, 12:00-1:00 PM, Douglas 102
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Mentoring & Career Development: "Leadership and Management - It's Up To All of Us" Dr. Mary Poulton, Professor and Department Head, Mining & Geological Engineering
Thursday, December 13, 2007, 10:00-11:00 AM, Santa Rita Room, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Mentoring & Career Development: "Crafting a Successful Grant Proposal" Dr. LouAnn Gerken, Director of Cognitive Science & Dr. Neal Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences
January 24, 12:00 -1:30 PM, Presidio, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for female graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
EVENTS 2008-9
Dialogue Shatters the Myth that Silence Creates: Stereotypes and the Muslim American Community
October 16, 2008, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. at Holsclaw Hall, School of Music
Learn about stereotypes faced by the Muslim American community, and how these stereotypes hurt not only members of this community, but all communities. Tools to promote better understanding will be shared and implications for the academy will be discussed.
Mr. Rehab is the Executive Director of the Chicago Office of CAIR, the nation's largest Muslim American civil liberties and advocacy group. CAIR's vision is to promote justice and mutual understanding. Mr. Rehab is a regular contributor to the Chicago Tribune and to Chicago Public Radio. He has been interviewed more than 200 times by newspaper, radio, and TV correspondents.
Mimi Koehl, Virginia and Robert Gill Professor of Integrative Biology, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Monday November 10, 2008.
Career Discussion: 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Family and Consumer Sciences Building, Room 219
General Science Lecture: 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. BioSciences West, Room 301
“Settling down: Can microscopic larvae of bottom-dwelling marine animals use odors to help them land in the right place in turbulent environments?”
Many bottom-dwelling marine animals produce microscopic larvae that are dispersed to new sites by ambient water currents. How do these larvae manage to land in suitable habitats? We have been dong field and laboratory studies of how dissolved chemical cues released by organisms on the substratum are dispersed in turbulent, wavy water flow, and how tiny, weakly-swimming animals can respond to those odors in ways that affect where they land. We are addressing this question using larvae of the Hawaiian sea slug, Phestilla sibogae, which must land on reefs where their prey, the coral Porites compressa, are abundant.
Data Blitz on Computational Modeling & Simulation in STEM
Thursday November 13, 2008, 3:00-5:00 PM, Kiva Room, Student Union Memorial Center
Five UA faculty members will be selected to talk about their research within the context of Computational Modeling & Simulation. Each speaker will have five minutes to present his or her research, followed by a five-minute discussion period. After the formal presentations there will be a reception where speakers and the audience can mingle for further discussion.
Panelists include:
- Paloma Beamer, Community, Environment & Policy, “Monte Carlo Simulations for Exposure and Risk Assessment: Case Study Farmworkers' Children Exposure to Pesticides”
- Anna Dornhaus, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, “Individual-based models help understand the benefits of different behavioral strategies in social insects”
- Rob Erdmann, Materials Science & Engineering, “Simulating Microscopic Fluid Flow in Porous Materials”
- Florence Tama, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, "Multi-scale modeling to unveil functional motions of biological molecules"
- Andy Wedel, Linguistics, “Modeling Evolution of Cultural Categories”
Career Discussion Series: “Career Mapping," Dr. Billye Foster, Professor of Agriculture Education
Thursday November 20, 2008, 12:00 -1:00 PM, Sabino, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Career Discussion Series: “"Crafting a Successful Grant Proposal" Dr. LouAnn Gerken, Director of Cognitive Science & Dr. Neal Armstrong, Professor of Chemistry and Optical Sciences
Thursday January 22, 2009, 12:00 -1:30 PM, Kiva, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Career Discussion Series: “Forming Scientific Collaborations," Dr. Jonathan Overpeck, Director of Institute for the Study of Planet Earth, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences & Dr. Sharon Megdal, Director of Water Resources Research Center, Professor of Public Administration and Policy
Thursday February 19, 2009, 12:00 -1:00 PM, Sabino, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Career Discussion Series: “Launching Yourself Out of a Postdoc," Dr. Emmanuelle Meuillet, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Molecular & Cellular Biology
Friday March 27 2009, 12:00 -1:00 PM, Sabino, SUMC
Each month ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty in STEM fields discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
Panel Discussion on Influence without Authority
Thursay April 23 2009, 3:00 - 4:30 PM, Agave Room, SUMC
We all know faculty members who are influential, without necessarily being in positions of formal leadership or with access to significant resources or power. We know that these faculty's opinions and counsel are often sought. How do they do it? Join us for a panel discussion on the attributes and strategies of such individuals.
Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP by April 20 to advance@vpr.arizona.edu.
Poster Highlights from EventEVENTS 2009-10
DATA BLITZ SEMINAR
We Are All Related: A Systems Approach to Biology and Ethics
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
1:00-3:00 p.m., Ventana Room, SUMC
CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES Going Places? Energize Your Career with Career Mapping
Thursday, September 24, 2009
12:00-1:30 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC
Dr. Billye Foster is a Professor of Agricultural Education at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Special Assistant for Diversity to the Dean. She actively serves in the UA ADVANCE Stewardship Workgroup.
Each month UA ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty and other scholars to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance. Discussion in small-group setting provides an excellent opportunity for mentoring and networking across departments and colleges, as well as across rank and discipline. This is the first session in this series for Academic Year 2009-2010. Refreshments will be served.
JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Alicia Soderberg, Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow and Carnegie-Princeton Fellow at Princeton University
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Location TBA
Dr. Alicia Soderberg from Princeton University will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Speaker and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Astronomy Department Lecture Series. Dr. Jill Bechtold, Professor of Astronomy and Astronomer at the Steward Observatory nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.
Dr. Soderberg received her PhD in astrophysics from the California Institute of Technology in June 2007. Her research focuses on the endpoints of stellar evolution, especially the deaths of stars 10 to 20 times more massive than the Sun. These stars live very brief lives by cosmic standards - a million years or less - then explode catastrophically, as supernovae or gamma-ray bursts. Why only some supernovae develop the relativistic jets characteristic of gamma-ray bursts is one of the interesting unsolved questions in astronomy, and Dr. Soderberg is a leading scientist working on this problem. Cosmic explosions capture the public's imagination, and Dr. Soderberg has described her research in numerous public forums, through interviews for the BBC, articles in Skyu and Telescope, Science Magazine, Astronomy Magazine, Science News and New Scientist. She is the winner of the 2009 Annie Jump Cannon prestigious award given by the American Astronomical Society for "outstanding research and promise for future research".
CAREER DISCUSSION SERIES
"Strategic Service: Ways to Make the Best of Service Expectations"
Thursday, October 22, 2009
12:00-1:00 p.m., Sabino Room, SUMC
with Dr. Erin Leahey
and Dr. Stuart Marsh
Service is a balancing act and how well you stay balanced is affected by the stage of your career and the varying expectations of your department and college. This presentation will address how the types and levels of service can change and how to make the most of your service contributions.
Flyer (pdf)Each month UA ADVANCE will host an informal career development and mentoring session for graduate students, post-docs and junior faculty to discuss strategies for success in academia. These sessions are part of a series featuring senior faculty discussing their pathway to leadership, career trajectory, and work/life balance.
DISTINGUISHED SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Amy Childress, Professor and Chair, Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno
Public Lecture
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 11:00AM
Modern Languages Bldg, Room 310
Career Discussion Session
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
2:00-2:50PM, Harvill Building, Room 234
Flyer [PDF]
Dr. Amy Childress, Professor and Chair of the Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Distinguished Speaker. Dr. Childress was nominated for the award by Dr. Glenn Schrader, Professor and Head of Chemical & Environmental Engineering Department here at UA. She will give a 50-60 minute public lecture on her research as part of the ChEE Department's lecture series, and an informal career talk with graduate students, post-docs, and junior faculty.
Dr. Childress is an accomplished researcher and leader in the field of water and wastewater treatment. In particular, she has significant research that parallels UA efforts in water desalination, brine reduction and membrane technologies. Desalination will be critically important in the future of Arizona water as Colorado river water has a high salt content.
In addition to being a leading scientist in her field, Dr. Childress actively serves in various prestigious committees and groups. During September 2007 to July 2009, she was the President of the Associate of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors, a group who actively promotes excellence in education, research and service in the environmental field.
DATA BLITZ SEMINAR
Imaging
Thursday, November 5, 2009
3:00-5:00 p.m., Ventana Room, SUMC
Flyer [PDF]
UA ADVANCE hosts a data blitz of imaging with three notable junior faculty members from different departments and schools. Dr. Seraphin Supapan, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering & UA ADVANCE Leadership Workgroup Co-Chair will facilitate this session.
Leilei Peng from the College of Optical Sciences, Rusell Witte from the Department of Radiology, and Jinhong Zhang from the Department of Mining & Geological Engineering will each present a 10-minute synopsis of their research within the context of imaging, followed by five minutes for questions. A reception with refreshments will follow, and the audience can network with the researchers and other guests.
If you are interested in presenting your research related to "Imaging" in this seminar, or your know someone that may be interested, please email us at advance@vpr.arizona.edu.
JUNIOR SCIENTIST LECTURE SERIES
Dr. Zsuzsanna Major, Assistant Professor of Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
Friday, November 6, 2009
3:00 p.m., Physics and Atmospheric Sciences (PAS) Building, Room 224
Dr. Zsuzsanna Major from the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich will visit the University of Arizona as a UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist and will give a 50-60 minute lecture on her research as part of the Physics Department lecture series. Dr. Erich Varnes, Associate Professor of Physics nominated her for the UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist award.
Dr. Major works in the field of intense pulsed lasers, with a focus on laser-matter interactions at extremely high fields. In addition to the fundamental physics interest of such studies, there are potential applications of this work to cancer therapy. Among physicists in this area, Dr. Major is noted as a very articulate expert who also has a good understanding of the experimental details of her field. Her current involvement is with tuning the Atlas MPQ laser, which is set to become one of the most intense ultra-short pulse lasers in the world this Fall 2009.
In recognition of her work, Dr. Major was awarded a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2005, and the Therese von Bayern Prize in 2009.
The UA ADVANCE Junior Scientist Lecture Series aims to increase the visibility and ultimately the number of promising early career female scientists in STEM fields. These notable junior scientists are asked to give a presentation on their research as part of their nominating department's lecture or colloquia series, as well as participate in any events or meetings coordinated by the nominating department.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. SBE-0548130. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.