Fall 2011 EVENTS
Developing the Educational side of a Proposal
November 16, 2011 - 12.00pm - 1.30pm
411 Richards Hall
Up and Coming Educational Tools
December 8, 2011 - 12.00pm - 1.30pm
411 Richards Hall
Spring 2012 EVENTS
Work-Life Balance and Your Health
January 26, 2012 - 12.00pm - 1.30pm
411 Richards Hall
Collaborating with Industry
February 23, 2012 - 12.00pm - 1.30pm
411 Richards Hall
Administrative Career Paths
March 21, 2012 - 12.00pm - 1.30pm
411 Richards Hall
Tenure Promotion Reflections
April 14, 2012 12.00pm - 1.30pm
411 Richards Hall
Fall 2010 EVENTS
Hitting the Ground Running
Date / Location: 15 September 2010, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: New and seasoned faculty are invited to share sage advice on starting off your career on the right foot. Carol Paronis, Penny Beuning and Rebecca Carrier will be leading the discussion. A great opportunity to meet new colleagues! Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Starting Your Own Company
Date / Location: 7 October 2010, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Professor Paul Zavracky will present on his experiences in starting his own company - twice!
International Research Collaboration Panel
Date / Location: 11 November 2010, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Katy Tucker (Health Sciences), Denise Garcia (Political Science), Paul Champion (Physics), and Elizabeth Podlaha-Murphy (Chemical Engineering) will share their experiences with international research collaborations.
Electronic Tools to Improve Research Communication
Date / Location: 8 December 2010, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Seth Merriam of the EdTech center and Joe Case of Marketing�s Video and Digital Media Office will present electronic tools (MyFiles, Googledocs, Wikis, Facebook, YouTube) for exchanging and organizing data and files within your research group or with your research collaborators.
Summer 2010 EVENTS
Working with Foundations - With Karen Drew
Date / Location: 18 May 2010, 12:00 - 2:00 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Karen Drew, Director of Principal Foundation Gifts at Northeastern University will conduct a workshop on working with foundations. Ms. Drew's area of expertise includes facilitating the growth of mutually beneficial partnerships between all units on campus and foundations and corporate-giving programs.
Career Proposal Writing Workshop
Date / Location: 01 June 2010, 10:00 - 2:00 pm, 340 Egan
Description: Dr. Horst Wittmann, Senior Research Development Officer in the Office of the Provost, and Professor Sara Wadia-Fascetti, of Civil Engineering will host a 2-hour workshop on strategies for successful career proposal writing.
Working with the Media and Public Relations
Date / Location: 16 June 2010, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 411 Richards
Description: Renata Nyul, Director of Communications in the Office of Public Relations will conduct a workshop on how to best present yourself when working with the media and other aspects of acing public relations.
Navigating the Pre-Tenure Years
Date / Location: 21 July 2010, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 411 Richards
Description: Come meet with recently tenured faculty and share experience on how to navigate and manage choices in the years before the tenure review.
Year in Review
Date / Location: 3 August 2010, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, 411 Richards
Description: Come join colleagues for lunch to discuss the year in review and to learn about upcoming networking activities for the 2010 - 2011 academic year.
Spring 2010 EVENTS
Administrative Career Paths: A Panel Luncheon
Date / Location: 20 January 2010, 11:45 - 1:25 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: An Informal discussion with faculty administrators: Associate Dean - Agnes Chan, Vice Provost for Undergraduate & Cooperative Education - Susan Powers-Lee, and Director of Assessment - Coleen Pantalone.
Speaker: Vice Provost of Research Ken Blank
Date / Location: 18 February 2010, 2:50 - 4:30 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: The Vice Provost will speak about research initiatives and opportunities on campus.
Panel of Recently Promoted Faculty
Date / Location: 17 March 2010, 11:45 - 1:25 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: An informal discussion with recently promoted faculty members.
Career Decision Making
Date / Location: 22 April 2010, 2:50 - 4:30 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Professor Y. Barry Chung, Chair of Counseling and Applied Psychology will present on "Strategies to Match your Career Personality."
Fall 2009 EVENTS
ADVANCE Open House
Date / Location: 24 September 2009, 3 - 5pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Stop by for an informal reception to learn about ADVANCE and meet with colleagues.
Negotiation Skills and Leadership Development
Date / Location: 26 October 2009, 11:45 - 1:25 pm, Alumni Pavilion, 716 Columbus Place
Description: Speaker Prof. Hannah Riley-Bowles (Harvard), discusses the power of good negotiation skills and gender differences in negotiation outcomes.
Making International & Interdisciplinary Connections: Panel of Fulbright Scholars
Date / Location: 17 November 2009, 4 - 6 pm, 440 Egan Research Center
Description: An afternoon discussion on women in science, humanities and social sciences and how to establish/maintain international research and global collaborations with alumni of the
Fulbright Exchange Program followed by hors d'oeuvres and networking.
Research Exchange and Presentation Critique
Date / Location: 3 December 2009, 2:50 - 4:30 pm, 411 Richards Hall
Description: Meet faculty in complimentary research areas and practice effective communication of your work through a peer review of a 5 minute presentation of your research.
SUMMER 2009 EVENTS
Navigating the Pre-Tenure Years
Date: 20 May 2009
Description: Come meet with recently tenured faculty and share experience on how to navigate and manage choices in the years before the tenure review.
Supporting Research with Different Funding Mechanisms
Date: 22 June 2009
Description: Faculty who have funded their research through NIH, NSF, and private foundations will share their experience and strategies for finding funding opportunities and writing, strengthening, and securing funding for their research proposals
Panel on Work-Life Balance
Date: 20 July 2009
Description: Faculty will share their experience and strategies for balancing their career and family life, including strategies for childcare
Research Interest Exchange and Presentation Critique
Date: 12 August 2009
Description: Meet faculty in complimentary research areas, learn to more effectively communicate your research area, and initiate discussion of interdisciplinary collaborations through this research exchange. Based on the RSVP, faculty will be paired in groups of 4 and have 10 minutes each to share their research focus and obtain feedback and questions from their group on clarifying and sharpening their research pitch.
For more information on these workshops, please feel free to contact Carolyn Lee-Parsons or Kathryn Schulte.