October 2009
Science & Health Fair
The Rutgers University Science & Health Fair twas held on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 in the Douglass Campus Center and was a great success! To view pictures of the event, please visit our Science & Health Fair website.
Women in Graduate School Funding & Grant Writing Workshop
On Friday, October 16th, 2009 the Women in Graduate School graduate organization, in conjunction with WISEM and the GSA, hosted a Funding and Grant Writing Workshop: Sharpening your skills for a successful proposal in the Busch Campus Center.
September 2009
Assistant Professor. The Program of Women's Studies and the
Department of Biology at Denison University invites applications for a
new tenure track position beginning fall 2010. A Ph.D. by summer 2010
is required; a strong potential for excellence in teaching and a
productive research program are essential. Both discipline and area of
specialization are open but we are especially interested in candidates
who can analyze the intersection of race and/or gender as it relates
to biology or medicine. Teaching responsibilities include introductory
courses in both Biology and Women's Studies, and advanced courses
reflecting both the candidate's expertise and the needs of the
Department and Program.
See our websites:
http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/biology/index.html and
http://www.denison.edu/academics/departments/womensstudies/about.html
for more detailed descriptions of the position and the programs.
Applicants should submit electronic application materials online at https://employment/denison.edu: a cover letter addressing their
motivations for teaching at a small, residential college that values
quality interactions between faculty and students; separate statements
of 1) teaching philosophy with brief descriptions of proposed advanced
courses, 2) research interests and future plans, and 3) potential to
foster and support diversity among our students, faculty, and
community; curriculum vitae; copies of transcripts (graduate and
undergraduate); and the names, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers
of three references. Review of applications will begin November 20,
2009 and continue until the position is filled.
July 2009
Rutgers researchers have discovered a potential new way to treat childhood epilepsy using a widely available therapeutic drug. To download the news release of Rutgers Professor, Dr. Gabriella D’Arcangelo's, research please click here.
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What’s Next?
DVIN Life Science Fellowship Training Program
Are you a 2009 graduate in a life-science field looking for hands-on experience to go with your degree and further exposure to the sector?
The DVIN Life Science Fellowship Training Program is an intensive, hands-on, three-month skills training program that will place recent science graduates (Fellows) at the region’s life science companies.
The program is open to graduates of the class of 2009 and will provide a comprehensive introduction to careers in the life-science sector.
The Fellowship
As a Fellow, you will receive:
• Three months of on-the-job experience and training by professionals in key life science specialties including biology, chemistry, physics, bioengineering and bioinformatics.
• The chance to contribute to the work of a successful life-science firm
• Regular evaluations of skills and work performances
• A recommendation letter upon successful completion of the program
• A chance to network and attend workshops with other young professionals in the field
Note: Some placements offer stipends and other benefits, while others are unpaid – see training plans for more information.
The fellowship will provide critical on-the-job experience to complement your academic background and serve as a stepping stone to a career in the field of life sciences.
In order to be eligible, participants must:
• Have received a degree (associates or higher) in a life science field of study in 2009 (prior to the start date of Sept. 1st)
• Have received their degree from an institution in the Delaware Valley (14 county region)
• Be available to work at least 20 hours per week from September 1, 2009 through November 30, 2009.
Applications will be due on July 10, 2009
For more information
Visit http://www.delawarevalleyinnovationnetwork.com/updates/life-science-fellows
Or write to dvin "at" phillyfellows.org
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The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and School of Design, Department of City and Regional Planning in conjunction with the International Council of Women Health Issues (ICOWHI) invite you and yours students to participate in the 18th Congress in Philadelphia April 2010.
The overall purpose of this leading edge, solution driven conference is to establish a dialogue about contemporary issues that women face in cities that impact their health and life experiences. National and international participants will be actively involved in three days of dialogue, planning and networking in response to keynote and panel presentations. Expert speakers in the fields of urban design, health sciences, health policy, law, social policy, education and sociology among others will identify and critically analyze best practices and new strategies to enhance women's health in cities as well as foster new paradigms of scholarship and practice that integrate environment and health care.
Penn-ICOWHI 18th International Congress on Women's Health
Wednesday, April 7- Saturday, April 10, 2010
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
"Cities and Women's Health: Global Perspectives"
Please forward your abstract submission for the 18th PENN-ICOWHI conference to: http://www.icowhi.org/submitabstract/abstractform.cfm
The deadline is July 31, 2009 but we encourage you to submit as soon as possible.
June, 2009
The 3rd Annunal NewJersey’s Women in Science & Technology Workforce Summit was held this year on Friday, June 5th and was a great success. Keep your eyes open for the summit report!
On June 8th, 2009 the Office for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, & Mathematics held its first graduate student workshop entitled "Finding the Balance: Achieving stability between work and life."
Thanks to all those who participated in the RUTCOR Operations Research BBQ on June 15th. Drs. Mine Subasi & Melike Baykal-Gursoy spoke on their experiences in the field and helped us to understand how we can encourage more women to get involved in OR.
May 28, 2009
On Thursday, May 28th, 2009 Debbie Goldstein presented on "Managing Difficult Conversations: At the Lab AND in the Home" to a group of over sixty faculty, staff, and students. Thanks to all those who made our reception such a great success! This event was sponsored by RU FAIR, Bio-1 Wired, and the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, & Mathematics.
May 15, 2009
Henry Hudson 400, a nonprofit foundation, will present the H209 Water Forum at the Liberty Science Center on September 9-10, 2009 to commemorate Hudson’s pioneering voyage and discovery. At H209, Dutch and American environmental, planning and engineering experts, and decision and policy makers will explore how the 21st century water challenges facing today’s city dwellers can be tackled for a sustainable future. The focus will be on the Netherlands and the New York/New Jersey metropolitan region, but the results will have worldwide benefits. To find out more about the program and how you can get involved, download the PDF application.
Dr. Rachael Winfree, assistant professor, entomology, School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, investigates the ecological value of bees and how global change affects bees and the way they pollinate. Her research on pollination across various types of landscapes is funded by the National Science Foundation. She also works with the Natural Resources Conservation Service of New Jersey to restore pollinator habitat on farmland. Recently the primary agricultural pollinator, the domesticated honey bee(Apis mellifera) has faced a decline in population, which could potentially cause declines in food production all over the world. Honey bee health problems have generated increased interest in the roughly 4,000 wild bee species native to the United States – some of which are important crop pollinators. Winfree recently discussed the importance of bees for crop pollination in an interview with FOCUS.
April 29, 2009
Dr. Jennifer Sheridan from the Women in Science & Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) of the University of Wisconsin-Madison presented at Rutgers University on Wednesday, April 29th on uncscious bias, deconstructing bias language, and the results & methods of her program's workshops. Click here to download a copy of her powerpoint presentation.
April 22, 2009
Announcing Dean Appointments of Drs. Robin Davis and Kathryn Uhrich
On July 1, Professor Robin Davis of the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience will assume the position of Executive Vice Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. A nationally recognized expert in auditory neuroscience, Robin brings to this post administrative experience, broad intellectual interests, and remarkable energy. We will be posting a formal announcement of Robin's appointment on the SAS website and issuing a press release very soon. In the meantime, I am thrilled to know that she will be joining the leadership group in SAS and that I can count upon such an intellectually and academically talented colleague as my partner in building the School of Arts and Sciences in the years ahead.
Also on July 1, Professor Kathryn Uhrich of the Department of Chemistry will assume the position of Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Kathryn's simultaneous pursuit of excellence in the laboratory and the classroom have made her one of the leaders of her department, as well as of SAS. Her research in polymer chemistry and biomaterials has earned dozens of patents and placed her work at the intersection of many of the most important trends in her field. She also has a great breadth of interests that goes beyond her own discipline and a deep commitment to undergraduate and graduate education. As with Robin, we will issue a formal announcement of Kathryn's appointment and a press release very soon.
Kathryn will join me and Robin -- along with Mike Beals, Allan Horwitz, Ann Fabian, and Joanna Regulska -- in leading our efforts to complete the transformation of undergraduate education, to expand and deepen the research agenda of our faculty, and to train the next generation of scientists and scholars. Along the way, I also entertain the immodest hope that this team will build the most innovative and forward-thinking school of arts and sciences at any American research university. At the very least, we all intend to have a good time trying!
I know you will join me in welcoming Robin and Kathryn to the SAS office. I feel very fortunate that they have agreed to take these two very important posts, and I look forward to working with them and with all of you in the year ahead.
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Douglas Greenberg
Executive Dean, School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
April 21, 2009
"Careers in Chemistry," co-sponsored by the Trenton and Princeton sections of the ACS.
The symposium will be held on Saturday, May 2nd, from 10-4, at Rider University. Thirty chemists from the local area will be talking about their jobs in a conference type fashion. Too often, students are discouraged from studying chemistry in college b/c they think they'll have to spend their life behind a bench of a pharmaceutical company. So the goal is to show undergraduate, graduate, and high school students ALL of the career options they can have with a chemistry major - not just pharmaceuticals or academia.
They'll have panel discussions running concurrently, and some individual speakers, from all different sectors of industry and government. They have forensics chemists, food chemists, flavors chemists, fragrances chemists, patent lawyers, teachers, science reporter, writers - the whole gamut - coming to talk about their traditional and non-traditional jobs, how they got there, etc...
This would also be helpful for graduate students about to enter the workplace, who are now in competition with the mass of other experienced chemists let go in recent downsizing efforts, as well as chemists who had been laid off and are looking for alternative careers.
The event is FREE, but attendees MUST PRE-REGISTER by April 26th. They will be paired up with a professional they want to personally talk to during the free lunch. The lunch and coffee hours will be great times for students to actually network with the professionals. This is NOT a job fair - there are actually going to be CHEMISTS there. The target audience is high school, college, and graduate students, as well as anyone else who is interested in all the local chemistry careers available.
April 8, 2009
Get updated on the March Bio-1 Buzz by reading their e-newsletter to connect you to the Central New Jersey WIRED (Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development) Bio-1 region's activities. This month, we celebrate Women's History Month by featuring Bio-1 projects which focus on women -- but not for women only! Their spotlight this month is on Bio-1's Governance Board member Barbara Zilinskas, a plant biologist and professor of biotechnology at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences. For Grant Seekers, Bio-1 has issued a 4th Round Request for Proposal (for 3 projects) closing on April 17th. For Job Seekers - please see the website for several unique job opportunities available now! Check out their Events and Programs section for many opportunities to help you grow and learn.
April 3, 2009
Meetings for faculty interested in learning more about the programs being put into place by NSF, NIH, NIST, DOE, etc. as part of the federal stimulus packages and how to apply for them:
1. SEBS Meeting
Wed April 1, 10:00 am
Foran Hall, Room 138A
Cook Campus
I will be joined by Holly Crawford, Associate Dean for Research at Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
2. Newark Meeting
Wed April 1, 3:00 pm
Aidekman Research Center
Main Seminar Room
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
197 University Avenue
Newark
3. Life Sciences Meeting
Thurs April 2, 2:30 pm
Life Sciences Auditorium
145 Bevier Rd
Busch Campus
I will be joined by Ken Breslauer, VP for Health Science Partnerships and Dean of Life Sciences. We will spend most of the time on NIH which has issued a dozen RFAs.
4. Engineering Meeting
Thurs April 2, 4:00 pm
CAIT Auditorium
100 Brett Road
Busch Campus
5. Camden Meeting
Mon April 13, 12:15 pm
Armitage Hall, Faculty Lounge, 3rd Floor
311 N. 5th St., Camden
6. NSF Talk in Core Auditorium, Busch Campus by Haym Hirsh, NSF
Mon April 20, 11:00 am
Core Auditorium
96 Frelinghuysen Rd
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8018
Haym Hirsh, a faculty member in Rutgers Computer Science Department on leave to NSF will talk about strategies for writing successful NSF proposals and NSF programs that address the stimulus package.
Humanities and Social Science Funding Announcements
The announcements below were received in the last two weeks. Please contact Tim Kirby, SAS Grants Facilitator, at 2-2278 or timkirby@sas.rutgers.edu with any questions regarding funding for humanities or social science research.
Rutgers Research: Council Grants guidelines for 2009 have been posted here. Deadline is April 6th.
Rutgers Faculty Panel Discuss Experiences as Reviewers on NIH study sections
Mon May 11, 10:30am
Biomedical Engineering (BME) Building – Auditorium
599 Taylor Road, Busch Campus
Piscataway, NJ
Panelists: Linda Brzustowicz, Stephen Crystal, Kathryn Greene, Tamara Minko, Patrick Sinko
Come hear reviewer insights into why some NIH proposals get funded, and others do not. Your Rutgers colleagues who sit on NIH study sections will share what they have learned as both reviewers and grant recipients. Criteria for "stimulus" funding as well the standard extramural programs will be discussed. This is highly recommended for those applying to June 5 R01 deadline.
National Science Foundation
NSF is predominantly using its ARRA funds to supplement its existing programs. All key upcoming deadlines are here.
National Institutes of Health
NIH's ARRA funding plans involve numerous new programs all of which are listed here. Several are of particular relevance:
1. Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research
Due date: April 27
NIH has designated at least $200 million for a new initiative called the NIH Challenge Grants in Health and Science Research This new program will support research on topic areas which address specific scientific and health research challenges in biomedical and behavioral research that would benefit from significant 2-year jumpstart funds. NIH Institute and Centers have selected specific Challenge Topics within each of the Challenge Areas. The research in these Challenge Areas should have a high impact in biomedical or behavioral science and/or public health.
2. Administrative Supplements
Due date: Varies by Institute.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH Research Grants to request administrative supplements for the purpose accelerating the tempo of scientific research on active grants. Consistent with the intent of the Recovery Act, the purpose of this
program is to promote job creation and economic development along with accelerating the pace and achievement of scientific research. The funding method being used to support this program, administrative supplements, can be used to cover cost increases that are associated with increasing the tempo of scientific research funded under the parent grant and/or achieving certain new research objectives as long as they are within the scope of the parent project. Some examples of the types of supplements that could be appropriate include, but are not limited to, hiring additional personnel or funding investments in equipment and technology to leverage the goals of the project or to enhance energy efficiency of the conduct of the project. For individual institute due dates, click here.
3. Competitive Revision Applications
Due date: April 21
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the opportunity for investigators and United States institutions/organizations with active NIH-supported research project grants (including SBIR and STTR) to submit revision applications (formerly termed competitive supplements) to support a significant expansion of the scope or research protocol of approved and funded projects.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Proposals on How Housing Matters to Families and Communities
Deadline: April 17, 2009 (Summary of Proposal)
Grant Amount: Not to exceed $1 million
* If you are interested in applying, please contact Marissa Vatsky at mvatsky@winants.rutgers.edu.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is pleased to announce a new competitive research grant program on How Housing Matters to Families and Communities. The goals of this program are to (1) determine through rigorous, empirical analysis, if and how housing affects the well-being of families, children, communities and their local economies and (2) translate research findings into policy-relevant insights to inform a new generation of affordable housing policies and programs. Rather than informing policy principally through practice, as the Foundation's preservation and public housing investments attempt to do, the new competitive research program would be more directly policy focused. Its purpose is to determine whether the policy case for affordable housing can be strengthened by rigorous empirical research that determines if and how housing affects the well-being of families, children, communities and their local economies; beyond the shelter value of the physical dwelling itself. Rigorous research may also yield more compelling narratives about the importance of housing in family and community outcomes that often are a prerequisite for long-term policy change.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Active Living Research and Healthy Eating
Research Rapid Response Grants - Round 2
Deadline: July 17, 2009
Amount: Up to $150,000
Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research are national programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) that support research to identify promising policy
and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity. This call for proposals (CFP) supports time-sensitive, opportunistic studies to evaluate changes in policies or environments with the potential to reach children who are at highest risk for obesity, including African-American, Latino, Native American, Asian-American and Pacific Islander children (ages 3 to 18) who live in low-income communities or communities with limited access to affordable healthy foods and/or safe opportunities for physical activity. Research studies may focus on one or both sides of the energy balance equation—on physical activity (including sedentary behavior), healthy eating or both. Studies funded under this CFP are expected to advance RWJF's efforts to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015. Grants will be awarded on a rolling basis.
The William T. Grant Foundation
Understanding the Acquision, Interpretation, and Use of Research Evidence in Policy and Practice
Applicants should submit letters of inquiry by May 12, 2009. Selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals, which will be due by October 6, 2009.
The foundation has a longstanding interest in supporting research that can inform policy and practice. Our particular focus is on policies and practices that affect youth ages 8 to 25 in the United States. In this area, there are significant gaps between research and policy, and between research and practice. Researchers express frustration that policymakers and practitioners do not use or misuse research findings. Policymakers and practitioners suggest that research is often not relevant to their work or is not easily accessible or understood. Many researchers, research funders, and intermediary organizations have sought to address these gaps by encouraging the production of more rigorous research evidence, better research syntheses, and improved approaches to disseminating research evidence. Policymakers have also tried to improve the connection between research and practice by mandating the use of research findings through law or regulation.
Relatively little research attention has been devoted to understanding the user side, that is, studying what affects policymakers and practitioners acquisition, interpretation, and use of research evidence. At the Foundation, we believe studies of this topic will increase our understanding of how to improve the production and subsequent use of research for and in policy and practice. For the next several years, we anticipate supporting a group of research projects, with award amounts ranging from $100,000 to $600,000, covering direct and indirect costs for two to three years of work. Our total estimated budget for these projects is $1.5 million per year.
The Foundation will consider applications for newly initiated studies and add-on studies to existing projects. Add-on studies must address research questions not covered by prior funding from us or other funders, but can cover secondary analyses of existing data or collection and analyses of new data. We encourage interdisciplinary projects, and welcome applications from researchers in various fields and disciplines such as anthropology, communication studies, economics, education, family studies, human development, organizational studies, political science, prevention research, psychology, public administration, public policy, public health, social work, and sociology.
March 10, 2009
Save the date! The 3rd Annunal NewJersey’s Women in Science & Technology Workforce Summit will be held this year on Friday, June 5th from 8:30am to 4pm in The Conference Center at Mercer, West Windsor, NJ.
To read the latest news release about the NSF ADVANCE RU FAIR Professors, click here for the article entitled, "Encouraging and Mentoring Women Scientists: Four Rutgers Women Get Down to Work with RU-FAIR."
March 9, 2009
Congratulations to Dr. O'Neill, the recipient of the 2009 Odom Visionary Leadership Award!
Dr. Barbara O'Neill, Professor II, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics and Rutgers Cooperative Extension Specialist in Financial Resource Management, was selected by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy to receive the 2009 William E. Odom Visionary Leadership Award at the annual Jump$tart dinner in Washington, DC on April 1. The Odom Award is the highest award given nationally for individual contributions that further personal financial education/literacy among students in kindergarten through college. Mr. Odom, former chairman of Ford Motor Credit Company, was the inspiration for the award and its first recipient.
March 3, 2009
The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering & Technology (TARGET) Program
Do you have a daughter, niece, or neighbor in middle or high school? The Academy at Rutgers for Girls in Engineering & Technology (TARGET) program, sponsored by the School of Engineering, starts Monday, June 29 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Through a series of hands-on activities, TARGET familiarizes girls with different engineering disciplines and negates stereotypes concerning their ability to do well in math and science. A registration fee of $250 is required; the registration deadline is March 3. For more information, visit the website or contact Evelyn H. Laffey via email or phone at 732-445-2687, ext. 19.
February 23, 2009
The Office of Undergraduate Education is seeking undergraduate students in science and math majors to serve as learning community peer mentors for incoming first-year or transfer students. There are residential and non-residential peer mentoring opportunities with varied compensation packages. All Rutgers University students are encouraged to apply.
Mentoring positions available for the following learning communities:
* Summer Bridge to Science Success
*Achievement in Math and Science Living-Learning program on Busch Campus/Metzger
Hall and Cook Campus/Perry Hall
*Achievement in Math and Science Commuter program
*Rosalind Franklin Community For Women on Busch Campus/Winkler Hall
*Science Success Fast Track Living-Learning Community for transfers on Busch
Campus/Winkler Hall
*Science Success Fast Track Non-Residential program
Dr. Nina Fefferman speaks about her unique research, developing mathematical models for detecing disease outbreaks, in this issue of Rutgers Focus.
Know of any Rutgers female graduate students interested in living on campus and working with female undergraduates pursuing the sciences? If so, please encourage them to apply to the Bunting-Cobb Mentor in Residence Program. Download the application here.
February 10, 2009
Darwin's Birthday: Starting Monday February 9 Rutgers will celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin with a series of events, talks, and presentations. Please visit: http://darwin200.rutgers.edu/
NSF grant sponsors US participants for the Women's International Research Engineering Summit (WIRES) to be held in Barcelona, Spain, June 2-4, 2009: http://www.wires.gatech.edu WIRES is the first annual international summit for women who are interested in pursuing international collaborative researching opportunities. The main objective of this summit is to enable meaningful and sustainable research exchanges between female engineers from around the world while identifying issues faced by females pursuing careers in engineering that could benefit from a global strategy. The summit will be hosted by Hewlett Packard in Barcelona, Spain. If you are a female engineer and are interested in attending the summit or want more details, I encourage you to apply at the web site above.
Graduate Student Conference, "Nutrition, Endocrinology and Animal Bioscience Conference" (NEAB): This event is jointly organized by both the Nutritional Sciences, and Endocrinology & Animal Biosciences Graduate Student Associations in an effort to provide graduate students the opportunity to gain valuable experience in giving a poster presentation or a short talk on their research. In order to guarantee the success of this event, we need faculty support in encouraging graduate students to submit an abstract via email at vquick@rci.rutgers.edu by Friday, February 20th, 2009. This deadline provides enough time to organize a panel of graduate students to serve as peer-reviewers who will decide which abstracts will be chosen for oral/poster presentations. Since this conference serves as a platform to disseminate research, we can only accept abstracts from first authors who have contributed to a majority, if not all, of the work presented in the abstract. Authors of abstracts selected for oral/poster presentation will be notified by Friday, March 13th, 2009. For instructions on the abstract format, please contact Virginia Quick by email at vquick@rci.rutgers.edu or phone at (732) 932-9827.
PHILOPS News: New funding opporunties are available. For more information about which opporunties might be right for you, please e-mail sciwomen@rci.rutgers.edu
February 5, 2009
For more information on a "Mentoring Luncheon with Dr. Diana Liverman," climate change scientist from Oxford University & the Unviersity of Arizona, please download the PDF invitation.
Sir Richard Roberts visits Rutgers on February 11th to present, "Science On Trial in Libya: The Case of the Bulgarian Nurses Accused of Deliberately Spreading HIV." For more information, please dowload the PDF flyer.
February 4, 2009
The deadline for RU Fair Mini Grant applications has been extended to 5pm on March 27th, 2009. To download the Call for Proposals for NSF-supported mini grants, please click here.
February 2, 2009
The Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, & Mathematics has moved! We are now fully established in the RUTCOR building on Busch Campus. To read more about this and our other updates please click here to download the WiSEM Newsletter. Included in this issue: "WiSEM Office Welcomes Dr. Natalie Batmanian," "Congratulations to the ADVANCE RU FAIR Professors," "About the RU FAIR Proposals," "WiSEM’s New Headquarters," "Housing for Undergraduate Women Scientists," and "Call for Proposals: NSF Supported Mini-Grants."
January 25, 2009
Attention first-year women! Pursuing a science or math related major and planning to live on campus? Consider the Rosalind Franklin House living-learning community. Applications are due February 6th, 2009 by 4:30pm.
December 23, 2008
In the middle of Douglass Campus, there lies a dormitory with a history, a history which includes the successes and obstacles of two great Deans of Douglass, Drs. Jewel Plummer Cobb and Mary Bunting. To read more about the history of the Bunting-Cobb dorm, download the PDF article, "The Women Behind the Name."
The Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, & Mathematics has hit the newstands! Check out an exclusive interview with Drs. Pat Roos and Laurie Rudman in the Asbury Park Press, "Rutgers plan targets gender gap," and a feature in Rutgers FOCUS, "$3.67 million to advance women in science."
December 20, 2008
Drs. Melike Baykal-Gursoy, of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Dessi Dimova, of the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Laura Schneider of the Geography Department, and Donna Fennell, of the Department of Environmental Sciences, speak of their experiences becoming scientists in their 'My Story's' which are now available.
November 24, 2008
HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, June 20- July 15, 2008
We are very pleased to announce that funding is available through the Office of Academic Affairs for one tenured woman with stellar potential in academic leadership to attend the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration from June 20 - July 15 in Bryn Mawr, PA. Because a letter from the Executive Vice President is required for admission to the HERS Summer Institute program, our office will nominate an outstanding faculty member for funding for this program. Funding will include all fees, travel and room and board.
The Summer Institute began as a joint project of HERS and Bryn Mawr College in 1976, with initial funding from the William H. Donner Foundation. The goal of the founders was to improve the status of women in the middle and executive levels of higher education administration, an area in which women traditionally had been under-represented. Today the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute continues with the twin goals of preparing and advancing women for leadership in higher education administration.
The program accepts women who are actively seeking increased administrative responsibilities and provides
* knowledge and skills in management and governance of institutions of higher education, with special attention to accounting and budgeting, long range planning, information technology, decision making processes, and policy implementation;
* institutional perspective on the pressing issues and problems in higher education today, giving special attention to the growing diversity of the student body and the workforce;
* strategies for professional development with special emphasis on leadership, self-presentation, institutional change, and career planning; and
* continuing supportive network of peers and mentors.
In the past thirty years, over 2,000 women administrators and faculty leaders from throughout the United States, and from Canada, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, the Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Nigeria, Sweden, Wales, Iran, Singapore and the Netherlands have graduated from the HERS Bryn Mawr Summer Institute.
More information is available on their website.
Application: Because the Summer Institute is a highly competitive program we will require a CV, a more detailed letter from the candidate, and a letter of reccomendation from another Rutgers faculty member in order to select a candidate. The instructions for the candidates letter are from the HERS application form.
We require a self-descriptive letter that:
1. identifies your immediate professional objective;
2. identifies what you consider to be your own special strengths;
3. identifies the problems, if any, which you feel might affect your professional
development;
4. describes the path you would like your career to take, including a specific projection of
where you see yourself, or would like to see yourself, in five years (be as concrete as
possible);
5. outlines the ways in which you think attendance at the Summer Institute will help you
achieve your objectives.
Our application deadline: January 31, 2008. NOTE: If no suitable candidate is found, these funds will not be awarded.
New 'My Story's' from Drs. Beverly Tepper, Wilma Friedman, and Monica Mazurek are now posted!
November 17, 2008
Drs. Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Technological University, and Monica Gaughan, University of Georgia, Athens, presentend at the "RU-FAIR Studies of Women in SEM Lecture series - Symposium on Research on Academic Women in Science." Please click their names to download a PDF version of their presentations.
November 15, 2008
We are pleased to announce that the "RU-FAIR Studies of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics Lecture series - Symposium on Research on Academic Women in Science" will be held on Monday, November 17th in Trayes Hall of the Douglass Campus Center. The event will be held from 10am to 2pm and a breakdown of the presentations follows below.
10AM: "Work and Family/Household Interference: Women and Men Faculty in Science and Engineering", Dr. Mary Frank Fox, Georgia Technological University.
11AM: "Ninety-nine Status of Women reports: Academic leadership's role in improving the status of female faculty." Research based on the qualitative content analysis of "99 Status of Women" reports, collected from the 150 research extensive universities. Dr. Monica Gaughan, University of Georgia, Athens.
12PM: Break for lunch.
1PM: Questions and Discussion with the audience about the impact of the NSF ADVANCE grant on Georgia Tech and Drs. Fox and Gaughan as a mentor-mentee pair.
Also, this month, the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics welcomes our new Assistant Director, Dr.Thessalenuere Hinnant-Bernard! Who comes to us from North Carolina via Iowa State University. She is a sociologist; please assist us in welcoming her to Rutgers, tbernard@rutgers.edu. Her web profile can be found online here.
October 21, 2008
The RU-FAIR professors will join Joan W. Bennett, Principle investigator (PI) and Co PI’s Patricia Roos, Catherine Duckett and Nancy Rosoff in the management of the multi-campus initiatives surrounding the improvement of gender equity for SEM women on the Rutgers University faculty. Named RU-FAIR professors will be provided with funds to provide time and resources to develop their own gender equity programs as well as to participate in the management of the NSF ADVANCE program at Rutgers University.
To view the RU-FAIR Call for Proposals, please click here.
October 18, 2008
Dr. Catherine Duckett presented on 'Girl Geeks' at an ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education) event.
October 5, 2008
Beautiful Untenured Female Faculty (BUFF)
BUFF is a peer to peer networking group started by Dr. Lisa Rodenburg in 2004. She has focused (selfishly) on female faculty on the Cook Campus of Rutgers, but all are welcome to attend BUFF meetings. Having spent two years as a non-tenure track Research Assistant Professor, she is very much aware of the issues faced by non-tenure track faculty, and they are also welcome at BUFF meetings. To subscribe to the BUFF mailing list, please contact Dr. Rodenburg.
The next BUFF lunch will be at noon on Tuesday October 28, 2008 at Dudley's (2nd floor of the Nabisco Food Science Building). Our special guest will be Paul Elwood, Associate Dean for Academic Personnel at SEBS. This fancy title means he handles your tenure packages, so he is a useful guy to know! Please join us!
October 3, 2008
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Susan G. Komen for the Cure has extended the Postdoctoral Fellowship pre-application deadline. Requests for Applications (RFA) are available at www.komen.org/grants or www.komengrantsaccess.org. Postdoctoral Fellowships seek to attract pre-faculty scientists into breast cancer by providing up to $60,000 annually over three years. Fellows develop skills and expertise in one of two research tracks, basic and translational research leading to reductions in breast cancer incidence and/or mortality. Pre-applications are required prior to starting a full application. Pre-applications are now due no later than October 17, 2008 8:00 pm eastern time and full applications are due November 20, 2008 8:00pm eastern time.
L'Oreal USA Announces Call for Applications for Women in Science Fellowship Program
Deadline: October 31, 2008
L'Oreal USA has announced the start of the application period for its L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science program. This national award program, now in its sixth year, aims to recognize, reward, and support five women postdoctoral researchers. The awardees will be U.S.-based researchers beginning careers in the life and physical/material sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computer science.
The grant awarded to L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science recipients will increase in 2009 from $40,000 to a maximum of $60,000 each. The amount of the grant will be based on each candidate's research experience as well as the quality of their proposal. In addition, the five fellows will be invited to attend a week of events in New York City that includes an awards ceremony, professional development workshops, media training, and networking opportunities.
The program is open to women postdoctoral researchers only. Candidates interested in applying should visit the program's Web site for complete program guidelines.
September 30, 2008
New 'My Story's' from Dr. Elena Galoppini, of the Rutgers Chemistry Department, and Dr. Lily Young, from the Department of Environmental Sciences, are available online now.
August 15, 2008
We are happy to announce Rutgers has been awarded an NSF ADVANCE grant. This grant will start on September 1 and will run for five years. Total funding is approximately $3.67 million. Associate VP Joan W. Bennett is the principal investigator and Patricia A. Roos, and Nancy Rosoff are Co-PI's.
Our grant, "Rutgers University for Faculty Advancement and Institutional Re-imagination" (RU FAIR) project at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, will promote the participation and advancement of women in science, engineering, and mathematics (SEM) on all three campuses of Rutgers University (Camden, Newark and New Brunswick) through five interrelated initiatives:
The abstract can be obtained here . Download copy of the full proposal here in pdf form, other documents pertaining to our project can be found on the Rutgers Sakai RU-FAIR project site.
June 19, 2008
RUSciwomen video channel is now available! Video from Sciwomen director Tiffany Slotwinski interviewing Dr. Diana Sanchez of the Rutgers Psychology Department about her research on multiracial identity and sexuality and Dr. Nina Fefferman about her research in mathematics and epidemiology kicks off our series!
May 30, 2008.
The New Jersy Council on Gender Parity's 2nd Annual Women in the Science and Technology workforce summit is again co -sponsored by the Office for Promotion of Women in Science Engineering and Mathematics. It will be in the Conference Center at Mercer, West Windsor, NJ on May 30th. Register here.
The keynote speaker will be Linley Erin Hall author of 'Who's afraid of Marie Curie?'. There will be discussion/breakout sessions on the following topics:
Improving Mentoring Practices, Impact of Workplace Climate, P-16 STEM Education, Using Multi-media Marketing to Promote STEM Careers, Connecting Education and Careers.
May 15 , 2008
We invite you to a seminar:
Engendering success: achieving academic retention and promotion of womenin science, engineering, and mathematics
Speakers: Cecilia H. Marzabadi
Susan A. Nolan
Janine P. Buckner
Seton Hall University, Departments of Chemistry and Psychology
Seminar 3:00 pm. Thursday May, 15, 2008.
The Atrium Auditorium,
Life Sciences Building, Busch campus.
April 7, 2008
The New Jersy Council on Gender Parity's 2nd Annual Women in the Science and Technology workforce summit is again co -sponsored by the Office for Promotion of Women in Science Engineering and Mathematics. It will be in the Conference Center at Mercer, West Windsor, NJ on May 30th. Register here. More details are available on our announcements page. The summary of the discussions in the first summit are available: download the summary (as a pdf) of the first summit.
April 3, 2008
RUSciwomen video channel is now available! Video from Sciwomen director Tiffany Slotwinski interviewing Dr. Diana Sanchez of the Rutgers Psychology Department about her research on multiracial identity and sexuality kicks off our series!
Feb. 5, 2008
Congratulations to Kathryn Uhrich and Paula Tallal for their achievements as Global REACH professors.
Feb. 1, 2008
OASIS Leadership Course for female scientists met for the first time.
Jan. 26, 2008
Associate Vice-President Joan W. Bennett with Professor Jim White and Douglass Project Director Regina Riccioni have been awarded an NSF grant for Scholarships for female students in Science, Engineering and Math. Congratulations. Applications are available and being accepted now; please email dougprog@rci.rutgers.edu or download the document here in document form or as a pdf here. NSF scholarship funding will be decided on a rolling basis beginning March 7, 2008.
Jan. 29, 2008
Three new 'my story's have been recieved from - Jolie Cizewski, Nina Fefferman and Sue Shapses.
January 23, 2008. High Levels of Mercury are found in Tuna Sushi in a study done by Joanna Burger and reported by the NY Times.
Jan. 16, 2008
Competitive funding is available for Leadership programs for female faculty in the ACE and Bryn Mawr -HERS programs.
ACE American Council on Education offers two programs for which funding is available through our office. We will fund two tenured or tenure track faculty women to attend either of these leadership programs, Leadership Forums for Women who wish to become deans and department chairs and leadership workshops on Chairing the Academic Department, a program for both men and women. Funding will cover registration fees, room, per diem and travel to the course.
Funding is available to attend either the Regional Forum for Women's leaders in Philadelphia PA on March 10-12, a women only event, or 'Chairing the Academic Department" in Washington, DC June 18–21, 2008
Hilton Washington, Embassy Row.
Program content for can be found on their website. However, topics include:
Evaluating College Teaching, Working with the Dean, Budgeting in the New Millennium, Leading in Intercultural Environments, Leadership and Team Building.
Application: Due Jan 25, in the form of a short letter indicating your academic leadership goals and a how this program would help you reach them. please indicate in the narrative which program you wish to attend and why that specific program would be optimal to help you meet your leadership goals. The name of a Rutgers professor who can reccomend you should be included.
Jan. 6, 2008
Our office is pleased to announce our women's leadership program (OASIS),
OASIS Leadership Program
For Rutgers Women Scientists
OASIS (Objective Analysis of Self and Institution Seminar)
Applications are being accepted through January 18, 2007 for the pilot session of OASIS to be held during the Spring semester of 2008. This exciting leadership program is aimed at a select group of 25 tenure-track women scientists from the three campuses of Rutgers University. The program focuses on the dual components of understanding the self as a leader as well as the context of gender and leadership within the academic institution. Rutgers women scientists will develop core personal and professional skills in ½ day Friday workshops. OASIS will provide a safe place for women to express their issues and provide mutual support for each other as they improve their leadership skills. Dates are Feb. 1, Feb. 22., March 7, and either April 4 or 18 from 12-5 pm. Catherine Duckett will provide a draft syllabus on request.
Target Audience: This pilot project will focus on tenure-track and tenured women scientists drawn from all three campuses of Rutgers University.
Areas of Interest:
Self Assessment of one’s own leadership style and development of plan
Team Building, Grant Writing, Communications, Time Management
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Program Benefits for Participants
2007 Selection Process
There is no fee for participants accepted into the program this year.
Application: Please send a short letter or narrative (1-2 pages) outlining your academic goals and why you would like to improve your leadership skills. The name and address of two Rutgers professors who can recommend you as a potential leader or candidate for this course should also be included. Please send you application to sciwomen ‘at’ rci.rutgers.edu before 18 January. If your cv is not available on the women in science faculty profiles webpage please send us your cv as well.
For more information, please contact:
Catherine N. Duckett, Ph.D. email: sciwomen "at" rci.rutgers.edu
Associate Director
Office of the Associate VP for Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
221 Life Sciences Building
Life Sciences Building
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
145 Bevier Rd. (Genetics)
Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8082
Tel: 732 445 5425
FAX:(732)445-1147
Oct- Dec. 2007. New 'my story's have been recieved from - Helen Berman, Deborah S. Carr,Dina Fonseca, Martha Greenblatt, Noemie Koller, Sarah Ralston, and Sarah Tomasello.
Sept. 29, 2007
Our office honored the 21st Anniversary of the Douglass project. See below for more details.
Photos of the party are also available.
Sept. 29, 2007
DOUGLASS PROJECT TO CELEBRATE ITS 21st BIRTHDAY
Birthday party will honor biologist and former Douglass dean Jewel Plummer Cobb
WHAT: A celebration of the “coming of age” of the Douglass Project, which supports
women and girls interested in studying the sciences, technology, engineering
or math
WHO: Guest of honor: Jewel Plummer Cobb, cell biologist and former dean of Douglass
College;
Honorees: Ellen Mappen, founder, the Douglass Project, and Mary Hartman, former dean of Douglass College and director of Institute for Women’s Leadership
Introduction by Carmen Twillie Ambar, dean of Douglass Residential College
Speaker: Regina Riccioni, director, Douglass Project
WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 29, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Bunting-Cobb residence hall for women in science, technology, engineering
and math, Douglass Campus, 47 Dudley Road, New Brunswick
BACKGROUND: The Douglass Project is an award-winning program created in 1986 to support girls and women who want to major in the sciences, technology, engineering or math. The Douglass Project sponsors a four-year hands-on science program for girls in grades 9 to 12. It also provides peer, faculty and graduate student mentoring as well as research, intern and job-shadowing opportunities for women and girls.
Jewel Plummer Cobb, born in 1924, is a cell biologist and physiologist who has received multiple honors for her research on cell pigmentation and for her distinguished educational work on behalf of minorities and women. From 1978 to 1981, Cobb was a professor of biology at Douglass College, where she also served as dean.
This event is sponsored by the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Rutgers University, under the leadership of associate vice president Joan W. Bennett and the associate director of the office, Catherine Duckett.
September 27, 2007
September 27, 2007
Women in Engineering Luncheon at the Busch Campus Center International Lounge, event by prior registration, 11:45-1:15. An event to aid female first year students in Engineering by facilitating introductions to deans, fellow female students and potential role models among the female Engineering faculty. Co- Sponsored by School of Engineering please contact Evelyn Hanna Laffey (ehlaffey at rci.rutgers.edu) for details.
September 14, 2007
Dr. May Berenbaum of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will speak at 11:15 am in the Alampi Room, Institute of Marine and Costal Sciences, 71 Dudley Road, Cook Campus, " The Plight of thehoneybees (Apis mellifera); What's bugging the bees?"
At 3 pm Dr. Berenbaum will give a seminar entitled 'Entomology with 2 X chromosomes: the history of women in the field' at the Institute for Women's Leadership conference room, The Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building, 162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus.
Our summit on June 8, 2007 was a success with 164 attendees, the agenda is below. Stay tuned to this space for more news and the results of our survey at the summit.
Summit on engaging and
retaining women in the science and technology workforce
Summary:
Our office is partnering with the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education to host a statewide summit on engaging and retaining women in the science and technology workforce. The science and technology sector is a major driver of New Jersey's economy, yet women as well as other groups are still under-represented in this workforce. We are looking to bring together representatives from education (teachers, administrators, counselors), government and policy making, industry, and community organizations that have a vested interest in advancing women in these fields for a one-day discussion of how to strengthen our economy by boosting their interest and participation. The summaries of our discussions will be published. ALL ARE WELCOME!
Welcome: 9 am. Dr. Phillip Furmanski, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Rutgers University.
Keynote Speaker:
Panelists: (2 panels: 'Policy in NJ' & 'The view from the field')
Breakout sessions & session leaders (afternoon):
Time:
8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. June 8, 2007
Location:
Douglass Campus Center, Rutgers, University, New Brunswick, NJ.
Further information: Suzanne Eng, 732-932-4614
sceng@rci.rutgers.edu
This event is sponsored by the Rutgers University's Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering and, Math in partnership with the New Jersey Council on Gender Parity in Labor and Education and the Rutgers Center for Women and Work.