EVENTS

Mentoring & Career Development: "The Importance of Choice and Chance in Career Development," Dr. John Hildebrand, Regents Professor & Director, Neurobiology, Arizona Research Labs

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, 12:00-1:00 PM
Sabino Room, Student Union

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.

UA Discusses Unconscious Bias: "Mind Bugs: Designing a Science of Ordinary Prejudice", Mahzarin Banaji

Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, 4:00-5:00 PM
KIVA Room 211, Education Building

In partnership with the Diversity Resource Office, ADVANCE is co-sponsoring a seminar on Unconscious Bias in the spring semester. This seminar is geared toward a general academic audience.

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, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Data Blitz on Genomics

Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 4:00-6:00 PM,
BIO5

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.

Nominate a faculty member: [PDF]  [DOC]

Mentoring & Career Development: "Your Research and the Media," Mari Jensen, Science Writer/Editor, College of Science/College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Friday, Mar. 28, 2008, 12:00-1:00 PM
Douglas 102

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.

Mentoring & Career Development: TBA

Thursday, Apr. 17, 2008, Time TBA
Sabino Room, Student Union

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.