New on SEEDS site
Perception survey (pdf 1.1 MB)
From the SEEDS dinner
SEEDS People, Events
PPT (14 MB)
Newsletter (pdf 760 kb):
A tribute to our Speed Mentors
Assessment and photos of the
CV Review & Academic Advancement for Women In Academic Medicine
Featured Events
For ALL events, see the
SEEDS calendar
November
Scientific writing workshop
9 AM to 4 PM Saturday, Nov 21, in the RSMAS auditorium. Led by Dr. Judith Swan, Princeton, Ph.D. in Biochemistry from MIT and co-author of The Science of Science Writing (pdf). Organized by Paquita Zuidema through her SEEDS You Choose award.
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Open only to those who RSVP'd earlier! To see who is coming, click here.
SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine
Nov 19, 3:00 PM in the fourth floor Cell Biology Conference Room. The contact person is Dr. Mary Lou King
December|
SEEDS Industrial Engineering Speaker Series
The second of three speakers brought in by a “You Choose” award to Dr. Eunji Lim, Dr. Amy Cohen, professor of mathematics and former Dean of University College at Rutgers University will speak Dec 10 at 5:00 PM followed by a mentoring event.
SEEDS Women Basic Scientists in Medicine
Dec 17, 3:00 PM in the fourth floor cell biology conference room. The contact person is Dr. Mary Lou King
January
SEEDS Sponsored Distinguished Scholar
Dr. Linda Sanford, member of the National Academy of Engineering, Senior Vice President at IBM, will speak Jan 25, 3:30-4:30 in MEA 202 on Building a Smarter Planet: Strategies for Meaningful Change. A mentoring "high tea" will precede her seminar at 2:00
History of SEEDS
The National Academies report Beyond Bias and Barriers, chaired by President Donna E. Shalala, documented that, despite advances in the proportion of women and other underrepresented minorities in science and engineering graduate programs, relatively few become successful faculty. Accordingly, University of Miami Provost Tom LeBlanc established a University-level SEEDS office as a focus for diversity programs across all three UM campuses. SEEDS orchestrates grass-roots efforts to study and improve climate and policies and has an NSF ADVANCE award for programs designed to increase opportunities for ALL scientists and engineers at UM.
You Choose Award competition is now open
Tenure-track and research faculty: request support for a career-stimulus program of your choice. Click here to read past winning applications and download an application. SEEDS expects to make six awards by Feb. 1, 2010. Applications are due December 15, 2009
Reviewers are needed: to volunteer, please click here.
Brief reports
The SEEDS NIH grant writing workshop, led by NIH/NINDS Program Director Ramona Hicks on Nov 11 2009, resulted from a You Choose award to Joy Lincoln. It was the first of three forums on navigating the NIH system.
SEEDS sponsored a mentoring event on Nov 9, 2009, with Barbara Liskov from MIT, member of the National Academy of Engineering.
CV Review & Academic Advancement for Women In Academic Medicine and Leadership On Nov 9th 2009, 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.
SEEDS UM-wide networking dinner on Oct 19th 2009 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.
NEW features:
Career survival reading list (pdf)
Scholarly studies
Best Practices
Featured joke
SEEDS is now on the NSF ADVANCE portal.
Resources from the UM library supporting SEEDS. Also see Resources and UM links.
