Calendar

Calendar is organized with the most recent entry first.


When	What	Where	RSVP to	Target audience

March 23, 2010 4:00- 5:00	SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Dr. Marilyn Farquhar co-sponsored by the Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Lecturer program She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among other honors, she has won the Wilson Medal of the American Society of Cell Biologists, the Homer Smith Medal of the American Society of Nephrology, the Distinguished Scientist Medal of the EMSA, the Rous-Whipple Award of the American Society for Investigative Pathology, the Carl Gottschalk Prize from University of North Carolina, the A.N. Richards Award for Excellence in Research from the International Society of Nephrology and FASEB Award for Excellence in Science.	RMSB 4th floor conference Med Campus	No RSVP needed	UM

Thurs March 18 2010 3:00	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine This focus group meets every-third-thursday. The contact person is Dr. Mary Lou King	MEA 202	n/a	open to all

March 17 or 19 2010	SEEDS Industrial Engineering Speaker Series A “You Choose” award to Dr. Eunji Lim is bringing in a series of Distinguished Scholars in Industrial Engineering who will present seminars and lead mentoring interactions. Dr. Joyce Gibson is the second speaker in this series.	MEA 202	open to all	UM

Feb 2010 TBD	SEEDS Speed Mentoring event, COE and CAS Contact people Barbara Whitlock and Helena Solo-Gabrielle	TBD	n/a	UM

Feb 16\| 2010	SEEDS Distinguished Scholar, Medical School Dr. JoAnn Trejo, Associae Professor, the University of California, San Diego. Her seminar will be ""Regulation of Protease-activated Receptor Signaling and Trafficking" followed by a mentoring talk "Diversity in Science: The Importance of Mentoring". Download her article on mentoring.	science talk at 3:00; mentoring talk at 4:00 RMSB 4th floor conference Med Campus	No RSVP needed	UM

Jan 25 2010 2:00 high tea; talk 3:30	SEEDS Co-sponsored Distinguished Scholar, COE Dr. Linda Sanford Member of the National Academy of Engineering, Senior Vice President IBM, will speak on *Building a Smarter Plant: Strategies for Meaningful Change.* A mentoring "High tea" will precede her seminar.	MEA 202	No RSVP needed	UM

Thurs Jan 21 2010 3:00	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine This focus group meets every-third-thursday. The contact person is Dr. Mary Lou King	RMSB 4th floor conference room	n/a	Med women basic scientists

Thurs Dec 17 3:00	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine This focus group meets every-third-thursday. The contact person is Dr. Mary Lou King	RMSB 4th floor conference room	n/a	Med women basic scientists

Tues Dec 15 2009	DEADLINE for You Choose Award Applications Tenure-track and research faculty may request support for whatever career-stimulus program or project they choose. Go to the awards page to read award details and the applications of past winners. Click here to download an application. If you are not applying this year and if you would like to review applications please enter your name and email here and Thank You!	n/a	n/a	UM

Fri Dec 11 3-5 PM	SEEDS Postdoctoral Fellow Speed Mentoring at the Miller School of Medicine This event is designed to help answer questions about moving your career to the next level. The event is followed by a social mixer with light refreshments. Click here for a printable announcement. Mentors and Mentees please click here to register.	CFB 6th floor Excecutive Center	RSVP	Miller Medical School faculty and postdocs

Thurs Dec 10\| 4:09	SEEDS Industrial Engineering Speaker Series A SEEDS You Choose Award to Dr. Eunji Lim is bringing in a series of Distinguished Scholars in Industrial Engineering who will present seminars and lead mentoring interactions. Dr. Amy Cohen is the second of three speakers.	MEA 202	open to all	UM

Sat Nov 21 2009	SEEDS Career Workshop Scientific Writing workshop was led by Dr. Judith Swan, Ph.D. in Biochemistry from MIT, Associate Director of the Princeton Writing Center, co-author of The Science of Science Writing (pdf) and hosted by Dr. Paquita Zuidema through a SEEDS You Choose Award. It was attended by 175 faculty, postdocs and grad students drawn from all three campuses. Please see SEEDS website details	All day RSMAS auditorium	SEEDS home page	UM

Thurs Nov 19 3:00	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine This focus group meets every-third-thursday. The contact person is Dr. Mary Lou King	RMSB 4th floor conference room	n/a	Med women basic scientists

Wed Nov 11 2009	SEEDS NIH grant writing workshop Offered through a You Choose Award to Joy Lincoln, Assistant Professor, Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology proposal, with cost share by Richard Bookman’s office, was the first in three forums on navigating the NIH system. Ramona Hicks, NIH/NINDS Program Director led the workshop	2:00- 5:00 Lois Pope 7th floor auditorium	n/a	UM

Mon Nov 9 noon	SEEDS RSMAS Women Scientists Meeting Su Sponaugle, Rana Fine, Sharon SMith, Josephina Olscoaga, Paquita Zuidema, Margie Oleksiak, Beth Babcock and Villly Kourafalou discussed RSMAS 2010 SEEDS Distinguished Speaker candidates. UM's three-months of maternity leave was discussed, with the recommendation that SEEDS actively promote adoption of flexibility in policies so that women can work from home, work part time, or otherwise make arrangements to continue working as they deem necessary/ beneficial for their careers/family. It was noted that NSF now allows/requests two months of postdoc maternity leave. Some flexibility/support should come from grant indirect costs. Other issues broached were the overly sharp focus of the President's Advisory Committee on Science, bias in the peer review process, and the upcoming SEEDS You Chose awards. Announcement of the award competition were sent out after the meeting.	SLAB conference room	n/a	RSMAS women scientists

Mon Nov 9 2009	SEEDS CO-Sponsored Distinguished Scholar Dr. Barbara Liskov from MIT, member of the National Academy of Engineering, will speak at 3:30 about "Security of Internet Storage." Her seminar will be followed by a mentoring "high tea", all junior faculty are welcome.	3:30 -5:30 MEA 202	n/a	COE

Thurs Nov 4 2009	SEEDS mentoring: CV review & Academic Advancement for Women In Academic Medicine and Leadership 31 junior faculty women met one-on-one with nine senior women to assess CVs and career issues, presaged by networking and followed by general discussion. See the full report with assessment and career hints from the event and photographs of participants participating.	a faculty home	SEEDS home page	Women in Academic Medicine

Mon Oct 19 4:30- 8:00	SEEDS UM-wide dinner featured President Donna Shalala, the inaugural SEEDS Interactive Theatre skit, The Mid-Term review, SEEDS Award Winners and Speed Mentoring participants and an audience perception survey (1.1 MB). Click here to see who came.	Bank United Center	RSVP here	UM

Thurs Oct 15 12:30-1:10	SEEDS Interactive Theatre Full Dress Rehearsal of their sketch: The Mid-Term Review for Tenure for Tenure Oct 15th, 12:30 in Cox 102.	Cox 102	none needed	UM

Tues Oct 6 noon	SEEDS RSMAS Women Scientists Meeting Su Sponaugle, Rana Fine, Pam Reid, Amy Clement, Paquita Zuidema, Margie Oleksiak, Lynne Fieber, Lisa Beal and Villly Kourafalou discussed RSMAS participation in the Oct 19 Annual SEEDS dinner, planning for the annual SEEDS Distinguished Scholar for RSMAS, a Speed Mentoring event in February, and a possible SEEDS panel on life/career balance. A survey of faculty by Rana Fine was reported to identify strong RSMAS interest in child care facilities. This issue will be followed up strongly.	SLAB conference room	n/a	RSMAS women scientists

Thurs Oct 1	SEEDS "You Choose" competition opens Applications for $2500 awards will be due Dec 15th 2009; up to six winners will be announced in February. For details and inspiration from past winners, see the SEEDS Awards page.	n/a	n/a	UM

Thurs Sep 17 3:00	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine In today's edition of this regular every-third-thursday meeting, this group is discussing the Annual SEEDS Dinner, (Oct 19 at 4:30) at which they are sponsoring a "clicker" (electronic response unit) event, designed to identify and quantify what issues are important to our community.	RMSB 4th floor conference room	n/a	Med school women basic scientists

Thurs Sep 17 11:00	SEEDS Steering Committee; medical school focus The SEEDS representatives for the medical school, Professors King and Keitz, met with the Seeds Director to plan and integrate upcoming programs and events.	RMSB	n/a	n/a

Thurs Sept 17\| 4:00, with event after	SEEDS Industrial Engineering Speaker Series A “You Choose” award to Dr. Eunji Lim is bringing in a series of Distinguished Scholars in Industrial Engineering who will present seminars and lead mentoring interactions. First is Dr. Hayriye Ayhan, an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, whose seminar will be ”Queuing Networks with Cross-Trained Servers.” The mentoring event will take place immediately after her seminar.	MEA 202	open to all	UM

Thurs Sep 14 11:30	SEEDS Steering Committee; RSMAS focus The SEEDS representatives for RSMAS, Drs. Fine and Sponaugle, met with the Seeds Director to plan and integrate upcoming programs and events.	RSMAS commons	n/a	n/a

Tues July 7 9:30	SEEDS Steering Committee Discussed goals, assessments, progress on SEEDS programs, website and planning for the next academic year.	Cox 215	-	SEEDS steering committee

Thurs June 18 2009 3:00	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine This group meets at 3:00 on the third Thursday every month.	RMSB 4th floor conference room	n/a	Med school women basic scientists

Wed May 13 12:30	SEEDS College of Engineering Women Met outside the engineering building and went for lunch at the Student Union	Union	-	COE women

Tues May 5 12:30- 1:30 2009	SEEDS Interactive Theater at RSMAS SEEDS Interactive Theater presentation of *The Mid-term Review*	SLAB 130	By invitation	RSMAS

Mon April 20 noon	SEEDS RSMAS Women Scientists Meeting Su Sponaugle, Rana Fine, Villy Kourafalou, Beth Babcock, Claire Paris, Margie Oleksiak, Lisa Beal, Paquita Zuidema, Danielle McDonald, Shuyi Chen, and Amy Clement planned the May 5 interactive theater event	SLAB conference room	n/a	RSMAS women scientists

Monday April 13\| 12:00 - 2:30 2009	SEEDS Interactive Theater Inaugural SEEDS Interactive Theater presentation of *The Mid-term Review* for College of Arts and Sciences administrators	TBD	By invitation	CAS chairs & directors

Monday April 13\| 12:00 - 2:30 2009	SEEDS College of Engineering Women In this third COE meeting, Dr. Helena Solo-Gabriele met with three un-tenured faculty who recently started at UM, Drs. Noel Ziebarth, Na Li, and Eunji Lim. Discussions focused on promotion and tenure and each un-tenured faculty received copies of promotion and tenure guidelines that had been approved the semester before they came to UM. These guidelines were also distributed to other new faculty.	Union	By invitation	COE women

Thursday April 16 11:45- 1:30	SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Mentoring event and lunch with the Annual Gifford Arboretum Lecturer, Dr. Lúcia G. Lohmann (short biography, pdf), Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, who will lead a discussion on Building Leadership in Plant Conservation	La Palma Restorante	By invitation	Junior faculty & graduate students

April 3 2009 3:00- 4:00	SEEDS Speed Mentoring Event Medical school junior faculty engaged in basic or translational science will meet with senior faculty mentors for an intense hour-long session divided into eight-minute one-on-one interactions, followed by a social hour. E-veritas notice	RMSB 3109 Medical School Campus	email	Medical basic science senior & junior faculty

Friday April 3 11:00- noon	SEEDS Interactive Theatre Focus group meeting with playwright Stephan Svobodo and Jennifer Burke, our SEEDS Theater Director, to research development of an additional SEEDS Theater Sketch.	TBA	Dr. Helena Solo- Gabrielle	COE Women Scientists

Friday April 3 9:00- 10:00	SEEDS Interactive Theatre Focus group meeting with playwright Stephan Svobodo and Jennifer Burke, our SEEDS Theater Director, to research development of an additional SEEDS Theater Sketch.	RMSB 4th floor conf room Med Campus	Dr. Mary Lou King	Med School Basic Science Women

April 2 6:30- 9:30 2009	SEEDS mentoring event Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias, SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer SEEDS Website details	Dr. Rana Fine's residence	By invitation	RSMAS junior scientists

April 2, 3:00-4:00 2009	SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias Research seminar, *Clouds in the Amazon: The role of biosphere-atmosphere interactions* followed by a networking reception in the RSMAS Breezeway SEEDS Website details	SLAB conference room RSMAS	No RSVP needed	UM

March 25 2009 7:00- 10:00 PM	SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Mentoring event and dinner with Dr. Susan L. Lindquist, co-sponsored by the Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Lecturer program SEEDS Website report	Host Residence	By invitation	UM junior faculty

March 24 2009 4:00- 5:00	SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Yes We Can! A Woman’s Perspective on a Life in Science presented by Dr. Susan L. Lindquist co-sponsored by the Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Lecturer program SEEDS website details E-veritas announcement	RMSB 4th floor conference room Med Campus	No RSVP needed	UM

March 12 2009	SEEDS ‘You Choose’ Leadership Awards Winners announced. SEEDS website details	n/a	n/a	UM

Wed March 11 12:30	SEEDS College of Engineering Women The second meeting was well attended by the COE women faculty. In addition to general conversations about work and family we also discussed a SEEDS STEP initiative and the need to nominate female engineers as part of the College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series.	Union	-	COE women

March 9 2009 noon- 1:00	SEEDS RSMAS Women Scientists Meeting Planned schedules for the RSMAS Distinguished Lecturer and an interactive theater event; discussed applying for an ancillary STEP grant; assessed past Speed Mentoring event; planned for a day care initiative	SLAB conference room	n/a	RSMAS women scientists

March 5 2009 3:30- 5:00	SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Tips to Mentors for Writing NIH Postdoc Applications, presented by Dr. Kate Barald website, The University of Michigan Cosponsored by the Miller Medical School Graduate Program	RMSB 6018 Med Campus	Dierdre Lactivia	RSMAS faculty & graduate students

Monday March 2 7:00 PM	SEEDS Steering Committee Meeting Planning and assessment meeting	Tosney residence	n/a	SEEDS steering committee

Monday Feb 23 2009 6:30 PM	SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Dr. Meg Lowman, website, author of Life in the Treetops and It's a Jungle Up There" as well as five other books and more than one hundred journal articles, led a group discussion of gender and mentoring issues in academic science with a diverse group ranging from students in high school through tenured faculty. Cosponsored by the Biology Department.	Tosney residence	Natasha Jobbagy	CAS faculty, grad, undergrads, high school students

Wed Feb 19 noon	SEEDS College of Engineering Women Lunch discussion at the Student Union	Union	-	COE women

Feb 10 2009 noon	SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine Meeting discussed the You Choose award that Joy Lincoln from their group won, possible people to invite for their SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer and an upcoming Speed Mentoring event	RMSB 4th floor conference room	n/a	Med school women basic scientists

Feb 4 2009 noon	SEEDS RSMAS Women Scientists Meeting Discussed inaugural speed mentoring event, SEEDS theatre initiative, upcoming SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer for RSMAS, PIRE effort	RSMAS SLAB conference room	n/a	RSMAS women scientists

Feb 2 2009 noon- 1:30	SEEDS Speed Mentoring RSMAS Organized by Dr. Lynn Fieber and Dr. Su Sponagule SEEDS website report e-veritas	RSMAS SLAB conference room	SEEDS home page	RSMAS faculty & graduate students

Jan 15 2009	SEEDS ‘You Choose’ Leadership Awards Competition announced via SEEDS listserve, SEEDS website and e-veritas	n/a	Apply: SEEDS home page	Scientists, engineers doing basic research

Wed Jan 13 noon	SEEDS College of Engineering Women Lunch discussion at the Student Union. This was the first meeting attended by a majority of the COE women faculty. Drs. Nina Miville and Jacqueline James agreed to serve as the organizers for these meetings. At this first meeting, the discussions's focused on family and work issues.	Union	-	COE women

Dec 11 2008 9 AM	SEEDS Interactive Theatre Trial presentation seeking feedback on the theater sketch The Mid-Term Review that the SEEDS theater Group developed following focus group interactions	Cox 213	SEEDS home page	CAS & COE faculty

Dec 8 2008 11:00- noon	SEEDS Interactive Theatre Meeting of a focus group of women from CAS and COE with Jeffery Steiger, Director of the University of Michigan interactive theater, Stephan Svobodo, Playwright and Jennifer Burke, SEEDS Theater Director, to research development of the first SEEDS Theater sketch	Cox 213 Gables campus	SEEDS home page	CAS & COE women scientists

Dec 8 2008 noon 1:00	SEEDS Interactive Theatre Focus group meeting with Jeffery Steiger, Director of the University of Michigan Interactive Theater, Stephan Svobodo, Playwright and Jennifer Burke, our SEEDS Theater Director, to research development of the first SEEDS Theater Sketch	SLAB 236 RSMAS campus	SEEDS home page	RSMAS women scientists

Nov 18 2008 2:00- 3:30	SEEDS Steering Committee Meeting Planning and assessment meeting	Hurricane 100 room	n/a	SEEDS steering committee

Nov 18 2008 11:00– 2:00	SEEDS Inaugural event Lunch with President Donna Shalala SEEDS website Report News coverage	Hurricane 100 room, BankUnited Center, Gables	SEEDS home page	UM women scientists & engineers

Oct 25 3:00- 5:00	SEEDS Steering Committee Meeting Planning and assessment meeting	Tosney residence	n/a	SEEDS steering committee

Oct 10 2008 4:00-5:00	SEEDS Executive meeting Planning for SEEDS first year	227 Ashe Gables campus	n/a	SEEDS director & coPIs

Oct 8 2008 12:20- 1:10	SEEDS Focus Group Meeting Meeting of the SEEDS Director with women scientists and engineers on the Coral Gables campus to discuss SEEDS programs	Cox 166 Gables campus	K. Tosney	CAS & COE women scientists & engineers

Sept 16 2008 noon- 1:30	SEEDS Focus Group Meeting Meeting of RSMAS women scientists with the SEEDS Director to discuss SEEDS programs	SLAB 236 RSMAS campus	n/a	RSMAS women scientists

August 15 2008 noon- 2:00	SEEDS Focus Group Meeting Meeting of Epidemiology junior and women faculty with the SEEDS Director to discuss SEEDS programs	Clinical Research Building	n/a	Epi-demiology faculty

May 12-14 2008	NSF ADVANCE PI meeting Annual meeting of NSF ADVANCE leaders	DC	n/a	NSF PIs

SEEDS: Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success

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