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, the 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.


Featured Resources: Also see Resources and UM links
List of SEEDS activities: from 2008 to present, organized by school: download to see the kinds of things we do! NEW
University of Miami Climate Survey , Brief preview of results, ppt (700 KB)
Informal audience participation survey from 2009 SEEDS Dinner with the President pptx (1.1 MB)
For undergraduate women Online Mentors to Guide Women into the Sciences piazza.com/witson
How to write a successful NSF Career grant: Click here for resources from our workshop
Speed Mentoring pdf (5.3 MB) on how to mount an event, and what it accomplishes.
Newsletter 2010 (pdf 1.5 MB), Newsletter 2009, a tribute to our speed mentors (pdf 760 KB)
View video of the Directors of SEEDS and the Center for Humanities discussing a new play about Madame Curie (The Radiant by Shirley Lauro)
Career survival reading list (pdf 42 KB)
Scholarly studies
Best Practices
Featured joke
SEEDS is on the NSF ADVANCE portal.
Resources from the UM library supporting SEEDS

Featured Events

CTSI (Clinical and Translational Science Institute) and SEEDS (Scientists and Engineers Expanding on Diversity and Success) present:

UM Workshop on Writing R01 Style Grants: 8 week course

When: 1:30PM - 4:30PM every Wednesday beginning June 19th for 8weeks
Where: Clinical Research Building, Room 953 (UM Medical Campus)

Register Here by June 7, 2013 (0 of 20 seats available)

June 19th
1. NIH Review Process
2. Specific Aims

June 26th
3. Approach l

 

July 17th
4. Approach Il (statistics?)

July 24th
5. Significance/Innovation

July 31st
6. Biosketch/Facility Statement
7. Title/Project Summary/Project narrative/Cover Letter

July 3/10th
No formal class/read Gopen & Swan/ using Workbook, write Specific Aims/Approach

August 7th
8. Budget/ Vertebrate Animals
9. Editing your grant

 

This class is for an Faculty/Residents writing R01 style grants.
Class is limited to 20 participants. (Post-docs will be considered only if the class is not filled)

A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: "Career Resilience: How Women Can Ensure their Continuing Professional Growth" featuring Janet Bickel, M.A.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013 in the Gordon Center for Research in Medical Education Auditorium (MED Campus)
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Please join us for a professional development seminar for Women Faculty featuring Janet Bickel!

Janet Bickel is a nationally recognized expert in faculty, career and leadership development with 40 years of experience in academic medicine and science. She led the first AAMC Office of Women in Medicine over 25 years ago, and her initiatives spearheaded its growth into the powerful Group on Women in Medicine and Science as we now know it. Her vision and leadership resulted in the creation of a rich network of professional development opportunities for women across the country.

Part I: Obtaining and Giving Mentoring Across Career Stages

Maximize your impact as a mentor
Expand your professional networks and circle of colleagues and role models in ways aligned with your goals
Recognize and deal with extra challenges that women and minorities often experience in mentoring relationships

Part II: How is Your Vision of Success and Influence Changing? Developing Strategies that Work for You

Gaining clarity on what "success" and "influence" means to you
Making more strategic choices regarding your commitments

A SEEDS You Choose award to Drs. Hilit Mechaber and Denise Marie Gervais sponsors this event. For more information, please contact Nanette Vega at (305) 243-6551 or nvega@miami.edu or Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu

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A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: "Grand Rounds: Career Success in Academic Medicine Series" featuring Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D.

Thursday, June 20, 2013 in the Clinical Research Building, Room 989 (MED Campus) 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D. is Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, and co-director of the Community Research Group. He also co-directs a newly formed degree program in Urbanism and Community Health. Join us as we explore research strategies to improve outcomes among minority populations and developing a successful, academic career in health disparities research.

A SEEDS You Choose award to Dr. Sonjia Kenya sponsors this event. For more information, please contact Dr. Sonjia Kenya at (305) 243-8893 or SKenya@med.miami.edu or Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu

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A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: ""Career Success in Academic Medicine Series" featuring Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D.

Friday, June 21, 2013 in the Lois Pope Auditorium (MED Campus) 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Robert E. Fullilove, Ed.D. is Associate Dean for Community and Minority Affairs, Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, and co-director of the Community Research Group. He also co-directs a newly formed degree program in Urbanism and Community Health. Join us as we explore advancement strategies for African Americans in academic, public health careers: what to do, what not to do, and coping mechanisms.

A SEEDS You Choose award to Dr. Sonjia Kenya sponsors this event. For more information, please contact Dr. Sonjia Kenya at (305) 243-8893 or SKenya@med.miami.edu or Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu

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A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: "Using Situational Intelligence to Facilitate Better Communication with Patients: An Intensive, Interactive Workshop" featuring Dr. J. Yellowlees Douglas, Ph.D.

Friday, June 28, 2013 in the Clinical Research Building, Room 1080 (MED Campus) 1:00PM - 5:00PM

Interaction between patients and clinicians has long been a particularly neglected aspect of clinician education and training. In particular, most clinicians lack an understanding of an invaluable set of skills reading their patients' body language, including their use of physical space, posture, arrangement of hands and feet, and facial expressions. This interactive workshop will present clinicians with valuable tools to use in patient interactions, including how to discern when patients are masking or ignoring symptoms, signs of insecurity or fear, and signals of deception—particularly useful when patients are non-compliant but unwilling to admit it.

A SEEDS You Choose award to Dr. Baharak "Baha" Moshiree sponsors this event. For more information, please contact Dr. Baha Moshiree at (305) 243-8644 or bmoshiree@med.miami.edu or Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu.

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SEEDS Presents: COACh Leadership Workshop with Dr. Sandra Shullman

Friday, April 26, 2013
Map and Charts Room (RSMAS Library, Map & Chart Room)
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

SEEDS will host a COACh Leadership workshop with Dr. Sandra Shullman. Space is limited to 15 participants (Faculty). Please RSVP to Marisa Hightower at mhightower@bio.miami.edu.

COACh is a grass-roots organization working to increase the number and career success of women scientists and engineers through innovative programs and strategies.

Sandra (Sandy) Shullman, Ph.D. has had a distinguished career working with senior executives and executive teams in a wide range of national and multi-national organizations such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, BP, Deutsche Bank, Lafarge, Siemens, UBS, Nationwide, BankOneChase, and Ingersoll Rand.

In addition to over fifteen years of executive leadership of an organizational and behavioral healthcare firm, Dr. Shullman served as Director of Managerial Effectiveness Programs at the Center for Creative Leadership, where she led major projects involving performance management and executive and managerial effectiveness.

For further information, please contact Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu.

SEEDS Presents: "Strategic Persuasion: Skills in Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution and Negotiations" with Dr. Barbara Butterfield

Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Newman Alumni Center, Library
AM Session: 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM
PM Session: 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

SEEDS will host a Negotiations workshop with Dr. Barbara Butterfield. Space is limited to 25 participants (Faculty). Please RSVP for either the AM session or the PM session by Friday May 3, 2013. For further information, please contact Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu.

Barbara Butterfield has more than 35 years of service in higher education. She is executive consultant to the University of Michigan and senior consultant to the Segal Company. Dr. Butterfield is a consultant educator in the area of faculty development for both COACh and ADVANCE Programs, supported by grants from the National Science Foundation. Her experience has been in higher education in public, land grant, private, and research Universities and in corporate education both in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Butterfield holds a Ph.D. in education administration and is an alumna of The University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business Advanced Management Program. She is the author of three books and is a past president of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

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SEEDS Interactive Theater Presents: "Beyond the Fourth Wall: Theater for Dialogue"
Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Jeffrey Allen Steiger, will be conducting a workshop for undergraduate and graduate students focused on methods for creating theatre for provoking dialogue. In this highly interactive workshop, participants will have the opportunity to explore important issues related to their experiences on campus and in the surrounding community. Then, by exploring acting and directing techniques that range from basic principles on theatre making to more advanced methods for crafting original work, original scenes will be generated that ask hard questions of a potential audience. Writers, directors, and actors are all encouraged to attend this workshop.

Jeffrey Allen Steiger is the founding Artistic Director of the CRLT Theatre Program at the University of Michigan and has been working in theatre and with interactive theatre techniques for over twenty years. Jeffrey has used theatre to work with instructors, professors, medical professionals, and administrators within and outside of the university community. He has written and directed more than 25 plays and sketches that have been performed at over 60 academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and the University of Nagoya, Japan. Mr. Steiger's recognitions include the TIAA-CREF Hesburgh Certificate of Excellence, the James T.Neubacher Award, and a leadership role in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Interactive Theatre Focus Group. He has also collaborated with Robert Mankoff, editor of the New Yorker Cartoons, on using improvisation to explore Mankoff's ideas regarding status and the psycho-biological roots of humor.

This workshop is scheduled for Saturday, April 13, 2013 from 1:00PM - 5:00pm at the Gables Campus. For more information, please contact Jeffrey Steiger at jeffreyallensteiger@gmail.com

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A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: "A Science Policy Workshop for the UM Community"
Friday, April 12, 2013 in SLAB Seminar Room, S/A 103 (RSMAS Campus) 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
In this time of shrinking federal and state budgets for research, it is critical that scientists inform themselves about science policy. Many students and scientists, however, are not familiar with the process of developing science policy, how it affects their research or how they can get involved. We are hosting a one-day workshop to provide a crash course on science and climate policy featuring experts from Washington, DC and Boulder, CO.

A SEEDS You Choose award to Dr. Amy Clement sponsors this event. For more information, please contact Angela Colbert at (305) 421-4032 or acolbert@rsmas.miami.edu or Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager, at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu

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SEEDS and the Department of Cell Biology Present Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, March 5, 2013
Dr. Renee Reijo Pera, will present a seminar entitled, "Programming and Reprogramming in Human Development and Pluripotent Stem Cells." Dr. Reijo Pera is the Director of the Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research and Education and a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University. Her research is aimed at understanding the genetics of human embryo growth and development and in characterizing the basic properties of human embryonic stem cells, especially their ability to differentiate to all cell types including germ cells. She has received numerous awards throughout her career and most recently was named Outstanding Faculty Mentor at UCSF in 2005 and one of the twenty Top Women on Leadership featured in Newsweek 2006. Her presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, 2013 from 12:00-1:00 PM in the Rosenstiel Medical Science Building, 4th Floor Auditorium (MED Campus). For more information, please contact Priscilla Acosta at (305) 243-9093 orpacosta@med.miami.edu.

After the seminar, SEEDS will be hosting a mentoring event in the Cell Biology Conference room 4139 from 1:50-2:50 PM. To RSVP for the SEEDS mentoring event after the seminar, please RSVP here

SEEDS (Scientist and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success) and RIM (Research and Innovative Medicine) present a NIH Applicants: Resubmissions Workshop
The NIH Applicant: Resubmission Workshop will take place Wednesday, March 20, 2013 from 9:30AM - 1:00PM in the Clinical Research Building, Room 692 on the Medical Campus. This workshop is for researchers who are thinking of resubmitting their R01 proposals to NIH.

I. Interactive Workshop (bring your Summary Statements)

• What are the common problems leading to high scores?
• Understanding your Summary Statement
• Should I re-submit? If so, when should I re-submit?
• How to strengthen your grant for resubmission
• How to answer the reviewers in one page

II. An open panel of experts will be available to answer your questions

There will be an opportunity to sign up for a one-on-one mentoring session focused on your Summary Statement. This will be held as a Speed mentoring event on March 27th

Space is limited to 40 participants. Refreshments will be provided.
This workshop is for any faculty who submits grants. It will be highly interactive and participatory. For more information, please contact Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager at (305)284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu.

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A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: Unlocking the Geoweb: Incorporating Space and Place into Your Research
School of Nursing Executive Board Room

Date Options: Saturdays: February 23; March 23 and April 20

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Data visualization and geospatial analytic tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have traditionally remained a luxury of researchers with specialized software and training, but recent free and open-source tools and the rise of the "Geoweb" have unlocked doors to incorporating geographic frameworks into nearly any area of research. Yet few platforms provide professional support for the integration of these methods across disciplines or for faculty pursuing non-traditional research partnerships.

Join us for a 5-hour faculty-only professional development workshop featuring short talks and demos, multiple hands-on exercises, roundtable discussion of your own work, networking opportunities, and a panel of researchers who have "gone spatial."

This event is sponsored by a SEEDS You Choose award to Drs. Justin Stoler and Diane Ter-Ghazaryan. For more information, please contact Diana Ter-Ghazaryan at terghazar@miami.edu or Justin Stoler at stoler@miami.edu

SEEDS Co-Sponsored Distinguished Scholar, Dr. Joan B. Rose
Dr. Rose, will present a seminar entitled, "The Water Microbiome and Development of a QMRA Tool." Dr. Rose is an international expert in water microbiology, water quality and public health safety. She has published more than 300 manuscripts. Her presentation is scheduled for Monday, March 4, 2013 from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM in the McArthur Engineering Annex, Room MEA 202. For more information, please contact Lizett Bowen at (305) 284-3391 or lizbowen@miami.edu.

Prior to the seminar, SEEDS will be hosting a mentoring event in the Dean's Conference Room, McArthur Engineering Building, Room 289 from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM. To RSVP for the SEEDS mentoring event prior to the seminar, please click here.

SEEDS Presents: Annual Networking Dinner with the President
SEEDS Annual Networking Dinner with the President will take place Thursday, April 4, 2013 from 5:00PM - 8:00PM at the Newman Alumni Center's Ballroom. This event, which will host guests from all three UM campuses, will begin with a networking reception followed by opening remarks by President Shalala and Dr. Kathryn Tosney, SEEDS Program Director. After dinner, we will highlight briefly SEEDS endeavors. The evening will culminate with a SEEDS Interactive Theatre skit, presented by SEEDS Theatre Director, Jennifer Burke, and Jeffrey Steiger, SEEDS Interactive Theatre Consultant and creator of Interactive Theatre. Please RSVP by Friday, March 22, 2013. For more information, please contact Marisa Hightower, SEEDS Program Manager at (305) 284-3988 or mhightower@bio.miami.edu.

A SEEDS You Choose Award Presents: Advancing Careers in Interdisciplinary Research, February 11, 2013 in Ungar 230C on the Coral Gables Campus.
The workshop will explore the dimensions of interdisciplinary research and give students and faculty insights into developing diverse careers. Join us for research presentations, discussions, and networking. Special attention will be given to issues for women and minorities. The workshop is sponsored by a SEEDS You Choose award to Dr. Kenneth Broad, Director of the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy.

Research Submissions for afternoon poster session
-Submit 500 word abstract by Jan. 25th
-Research must incorporate no less than two disciplinary perspectives (biology, physics, history, law, etc.) in a meaningful way and include a discussion of why this integration is crucial to addressing the issue at hand Submit at: tinyurl.com/submitabstract

Contact information SEEDSAbessWorkshop@gmail.com

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"You Choose" award winners for 2011
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Bill Browne CAS	Nurcin Celik COE	Carla Hurt CAS	Mary Lou King MED
Angela Knapp RSMAS	Cynthia Levy MED	Fulvia Verde MED	Sonia Yoo MED

Brief reports
Also see Workshops, Sponsored Mentors and Lecturers pages

View more Brief Reports on selected events

	"Unconscious Bias in the 21st Century and It's Impact on Diversity and Inclusiveness." Scientists & Engineers Expanding Diversity & Success (SEEDS) hosted a seminar presented by Dr. Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Department of Psychology at Columbia University, entitled "Unconscious Bias in the 21st Century and It's Impact on Diversity and Inclusiveness." Dr. Purdie-Vaughns is recognized nationally and internationally as an expert on racial and gender achievement gaps in academic and corporate institutions and how stigma undermines intellectual performance. She conducts research on other forms of stigma including: stigma and LGCTQ groups, stigma of mental illness, and stigma based on multiple identities (intersectionality). Dr. Purdie-Vaughns has authored numerous publications that have appeared in journals such as Science, Psychological Science, and Journal of Personality & Social Psychology. She has been awarded numerous grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Russell Sage Foundation and William T. Grant Foundation. Her most recent grant from NSF examines how stigma may affect activation of the neuroendocrine and sympathetic nervous systems, systems implicated in immune responses that affect long-term health and cognitive performance.
	SEEDS Workshop: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship: Strategies for a Successful Proposal This workshop offered First and Second year graduate students in STEM fields advice and strategies for writing a successful proposal for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. We hosted a panel of three UM graduate students, who have won NSF graduate Research Fellowships, and two faculty members for tailored advice. The panel was followed by smaller discussion groups, where attendees can ask advice from panelists.
	How to Win Reviewers Over: Workshop on Writing Specific Aims This workshop is for researchers who are thinking of submitting a proposal to NIH and who have written a first draft of their specific aims. This was a hands-on workshop based on the draft of your specific aims.
	Distinguished Women in Industrial EngineeringDr. Cynthia Barnhart presented "Congestion and Delays in the National Air Transportation System" August 3, 2011, made possible by a You Choose Award to Nurcin Celik
	Miller School of Medicine is pleased to announce plans to establish a lactation support services program for employees. Details of the program are included in the University of Miami Break Time for Nursing Mothers policy (pdf). Any employee who would like to provide input into the process is invited to contact Ms. Nanette Vega, the Miller School's director of diversity and multicultural affairs in the Office of Faculty Affairs, at 305-243-6551 or nvega@med.miami.edu. The Nursing Mothers Advisory Group has been convened to identify needs, review suggestions, and discuss the best approach for our organization.

 

New features:
Speed Mentoring: how to mount an event, and why you should (pdf 5.3 MB)
Career survival reading list (pdf)
Scholarly studies
Best Practices
Featured joke

Newsletter 2009: a tribute to our speed mentors, pdf 760 kb
SEEDS is on the NSF ADVANCE portal.
Resources from the UM library supporting SEEDS.
Also see Resources and UM links

View video of the Directors of SEEDS and the Center for Humanities discussing a new play about Madame Curie (The Radiant by Shirley Lauro),