Sponsored Mentors

In the SEEDS Sponsored Mentors program, SEEDS sponsors a mentoring event with distinguished speakers that other University of Miami entities have invited to give research seminars. This program assures that internationally renowned speakers can engage effectively with UM groups who may seldom interact with top scientists, particularly junior faculty, women faculty, postdoctoral scholars and graduate students. The interactions allow a focus on career development issues.

If you are hosting a seminar speaker who may be appropriate for this program, contact the SEEDS Director, Kathryn Tosney, for details and authorization. The budget is modest, able to supply some refreshments before, during or after a mentoring event. The chosen mentor is welcome to give a formal presentation, but informal sessions with directed discussion are also appropriate. Mentors are also be supported fully by SEEDS You Choose Awards made to faculty or by the SEEDS Distinguished Scholar Program.

Mentoring events

For photos, comments and assessment of each event, click on "full report"

Marilyn Farquhar

SEEDS Co-sponsored Distinguished Scholar
On March 23, 2010, Marilyn Farquhar, member of National Academies of Sciences and of Arts and Science. 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. She gave both research and mentoring talks and also led a mentoring event for senior women.
Co-sponsored by Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology.

Click here to see photos and participant answers to the following questions:
What was the most significant thing you learned today?
Was this event useful to you, and if so, how?
Was this event what you expected? Please elaborate.
Did this event help you to establish useful contacts? Please elaborate.
How might this event be improved in the future?

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Linda Sanford

SEEDS Co-sponsored Distinguished Scholar
Linda Sanford, member of the National Academy of Engineering, Senior Vice President at IBM, spoke on Jan 25, 2009, on "Building a Smarter Planet: Strategies for Meaningful Change" and mentored junior faculty and women from IBM.
Co-sponsored by The College of Engineering

Click here for photos and participant answers to the following questions:

What was the most significant thing you learned today?
Was this event useful to you, and if so, how?
Was this event what you expected? Please elaborate.
Did this event help you to establish useful contacts? Please elaborate.
Did the networking /lunch portion of this event help you establish new contacts or gain new information?
How might this event be improved in the future?

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B Liskov

SEEDS Co-sponsored Distinguished Scholar
On Nov 9, 2009, with Barbara Liskov from MIT, member of the National Academy of Sciences .who gave a research talk on "Security of Internet Storage."and led a mentoring event focused on junior faculty.
Co-sponsored by The College of Engineering

Click here for photos and participant answers to the following questions:

What was the most significant thing you learned today?
Was this event useful to you, and if so, how?
Was this event what you? Was it what you expected? Please elaborate.
Did the networking portion of this event help you establish new contacts or gain new information?
How might this event be improved in the future?

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H Ayhan

SEEDS Industrial Engineering Speaker Series
A “You Choose” award to Eunji Lim brought in Hayriye Ayhan, an Associate Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, who gave a seminar ”Queuing Networks with Cross-Trained Serve.” and led a mentoring event, Sept. 17, 2009

Click here for photos and participant answers to the following questions.

What was the most significant thing you learned today?
Was this event useful to you? Was it what you expected?
How might this kind of event be improved in the future?

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Lucia Lohmann

SEEDS co-sponsored a mentoring event with the Annual Gifford Arboretum Lecturer, Lúcia Lohmann from the Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil, who led a discussion on Building Leadership in Plant Conservation. The attendees included faculty, graduate students and community leaders in plant conservation, March 24, 2009. See photos of the event.
Co-sponsored by The Gifford Arboretum

Mary Bunge

SEEDS Sponsored Mentoring Event
The Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Lecturer, Susan L. Lindquist gave a mentoring talk, "Yes We Can! A Woman’s Perspective on a Life in Science", March 24 at 4 p.m. Dr. Lindquist is a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and member of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Lindquist presented her research seminar titled "Protein folding mechanisms propelling rapid evolutionary change" on Tuesday, March 24, from noon to 1 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium.
Co-sponsored by Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology.

SEEDS also sponsored an evening mentoring event of two dozen junior and senior faculty with Susan Lindquist, at Sandy Lemmon's home on Tuesday March 24, 2009.
See photos and assessment

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Kate Barald

SEEDS Co-Sponsored Sponsored Mentoring Event with Kate Barald, the University of Michigan, who described Tips to Mentors for writing NIH Postdoc applications during a 2.5 hour workshop, RMSB 6018, March 5, 3:30 - 5:00. Co-Sponsored by the Miller Graduate School. She also led a mentoring session for junior faculty and postdocs at the SEEDS Director's home.
Co-sponsored by The Department of Biology.

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Meg Lohman

SEEDS Co-Sponsored Sponsored Mentor Dr. Meg Lohman, Director of Environmental Studies, New College of Florida, and 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 including people in high school through tenured faculty.
Co-sponsored by The Department of Biology.

SEEDS: Scientists and Engineers Expanding Diversity and Success

Sponsored Mentors