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UAdiscusses... Unconscious Bias 2007-2008
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August

Heads Up Retreat
Day: Tuesday
Date: August 14th, 2007
Time: 7:15a.m. – 3:15p.m.
Location: Marriot University Park Hotel
Contact: Juan Garcia, 621-5066 or jugarcia@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: Office of Academic Affairs
Description: A day of discussions and workshops. The keynote speaker will be Toni Schmader, Associate Professor of Psychology speaking on Unconscious Bias. Workshops include Mentoring, Evaluation and Climate led by Jeff Goldberg, Tsianina Lomawaima, Al Kaszniak, JP Jones, Beth Mitchneck, Allison Vaillaincourt.

September

ADVANCE Monthly Career Development/Mentoring Sessions: Dr. Mike Evans, Assistant Professor, Laboratory for Tree Ring Research
Day: Friday
Date: September 21st, 2007
Time: 10a.m. – 11a.m.
Location: Sabino Room, Arizona Memorial Student Union
Contact: Margaret Harden, 549.8425 or hardenm@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: ADVANCE
Description: 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.  Additional topics may include presenting scientific research to the media, strategies for writing successful grant proposals, and developing professional networks within the scientific community. 

October

ADVANCE Distinguished Lecturer: Margaret Murname
Day: Thursday and Friday
Date: October 4th and 5th, 2007
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Contact: Margaret Harden, 549.8425 or hardenm@email.arizona.edu
Description: Distinguished Lecturers give a public lecture and a more informal career talk with graduate students, post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty. The career talks will be geared toward mentoring, career advancement, and the overall trajectory of a scientist’s career.  The goal of these lectureships is to provide models of success, showcase leading female scientists and facilitate networking among women scientists and engineers across institutions. 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.

ADVANCE Monthly Career Development/Mentoring Sessions: Dr. Linda Powers, Thomas R. Brown Chair, Biomedcial Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Day: Thursday
Date: October 18th, 2007
Time: 12p.m. – 1p.m.
Location: Sabino Room, Arizona Memorial Student Union
Contact: Margaret Harden, 549.8425 or hardenm@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: ADVANCE
Description: 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.  Additional topics may include presenting scientific research to the media, strategies for writing successful grant proposals, and developing professional networks within the scientific community. 

November

Data Blitz on Nanotechnology
Day: Thursday
Date: November 1st, 2007
Time: 4p.m. – 6p.m.
Location: Arizona Memorial Student Union, Room TBA
Contact: Margaret Harden, 549.8425 or hardenm@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: ADVANCE
Description: 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.

ADVANCE Monthly Career Development/Mentoring Sessions: Dr. Marcia Rieke, Professor and Astronomer, Astronomy, Planetary Sciences and Steward Observatory Day: Friday
Date: November 16th, 2007
Time: 12p.m. – 1p.m.
Location: Room 102, Douglas Building
Contact: Margaret Harden, 549.8425 or hardenm@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: ADVANCE
Description: 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.  Additional topics may include presenting scientific research to the media, strategies for writing successful grant proposals, and developing professional networks within the scientific community. 

December

ADVANCE Monthly Career Development/Mentoring Sessions: Dr. Mary Poulton, Professor and Department Head, Mining and Geological Engineering
Day: Thursday
Date: December 13th, 2007
Time: 12p.m. – 1p.m.
Location: Santa Rita Room, Arizona Memorial Student Union
Contact: Margaret Harden, 549.8425 or hardenm@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: ADVANCE
Description: 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.  Additional topics may include presenting scientific research to the media, strategies for writing successful grant proposals, and developing professional networks within the scientific community.

Spring Highlights

Inclivity in Academia: An Ombuds Perspective
Day: Thursday
Date: January 31st, 2008
Time: 3p.m. – 4:30p.m.
Location: Gallagher Theater
Contact: Claudia D’Albini, 626.5589 or dalbinic@email.arizona.edu
Sponsor: The UA Ombuds Program, Diversity Resource Office.
Description: Have you had experiences with a hostile supervisor or colleague, or a demanding and rude student and felt like you could use some tools to deal with the situation?  In this seminar case studies from academia will be discussed and the relationship between diversity and conflict will be briefly explored.  There are repercussions to incivility and the impact of these behaviors on individuals and the institution will be discussed.  Finally, a few tools to helping those who work with challenging colleagues, supervisors, students, and parents will be presented.

Mahzarin Banaji, Mind Bugs: Designing a Science of Ordinary Prejudice
Thursday, February 21st, 2008, Place & Time TBA
Dr. Banaji is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Her research focuses on human thinking and feeling as it unfolds in social context. Her focus is primarily on mental systems that operate in implicit or unconscious mode and is perhaps most well know for her work with Anthony Greenwald and Brian Nosek in maintaining an educational website that measure automatic attitudes and beliefs
involving self, other individuals, and social groups. It can be reached at http://www.implicit.harvard.edu. Among Dr. Banaji’s accomplishments, she has received Yale's Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence, a James McKeen Cattell Fund Award.

 

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