Events at the Center
College Teaching Seminar Series , Wednesday, April 3, 3:00 pm, CIE
Faculty Career Month: Academic Job Search Overview , Thursday, April 4, 12:30 pm, CIE
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Breakfast Club Brunch and Learn, Friday, April 5, 10:30 am, CIE
Faculty Career Month: Teaching Talks & Philosophy Statements, Thursday, April 11, 12:30 pm, CIE
Faculty Career Month: Interview & Negotiations, Wednesday, April 17, 3:00 pm, CIE
Research Café with Moises Guardado, Thursday, April 18, 12:30 pm, CIE
Faculty Career Month: CIE Alumni Panel, Thursday, April 25, 12:30 pm, CIE
CIE Bowling Night, Friday, April 26, 5:00 pm, AMF Smithtown Lanes
SAVE THE DATE: May Graduation Celebration, Wednesday, May 22, 5:00 pm, Hilton Garden Inn
Conferences, Fellowships, Forums and Networking Opportunities
Southwest Airlines ¡Lánzate! Travel Program The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities and Southwest Airlines have announced applications are being accepted from college student through April 30, 2019, for the 15th Annual ¡Lánzate! / Take Off! Travel Program. HACU and Southwest Airlines will award roundtrip e-pass(es) to undergraduate and graduate students across the country who travel at least 200 miles from home to pursue a higher education and meet the eligibility criteria. An essay is required. Students selected receive e-pass(es) for use to travel between home and college or university. To read detailed guidelines, eligibility requirements and apply online, click here.
“The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities is happy to celebrate the 15th ¡Lánzate!/Take Off! Travel Award program with Southwest Airlines. This milestone represents the importance of supporting college students in their academic journey,” said HACU President and CEO Antonio R. Flores. “In its 15 year history, the ¡Lánzate! Program has made a difference by providing travel awards for students to visit their families. We are grateful to Southwest Airlines for championing Hispanic success in higher education and look forward to a continued partnership.”
NIH Summer Course: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research Identifying causal relations among variables is fundamental to science. Obesity is a major problem for which much progress in understanding, treatment, and prevention remains to be made. Understanding which social and behavioral factors cause variations in adiposity is vital to producing, evaluating, and selecting intervention and prevention strategies. In addition, developing a greater understanding of obesity’s causes requires input from diverse disciplines including statistics, economics, psychology, epidemiology, mathematics, philosophy, and behavioral or statistical genetics. However, applying techniques from these disciplines does not involve routine well-known ‘cookbook’ approaches. Rather, an understanding of the underlying principles is required so that the investigator can tailor approaches to specific and varying situations. The course will be held July 29 – August 2, 2019. Find more information here.
NIH Sumer Course: The Mathematical Sciences in Obesity Research The mathematical sciences including engineering, statistics, computer science, physics, econometrics, psychometrics, epidemiology, and mathematics qua mathematics are increasingly being applied to advance our understanding of the causes, consequences, and alleviation of obesity. These applications do not merely involve routine, well-established approaches easily implemented in widely available commercial software. Rather, they increasingly involve computationally demanding tasks, use and development of novel analytic methods and software, new derivations, computer simulations, and unprecedented interdigitation of two or more existing techniques. Such advances at the interface of the mathematical sciences and obesity research require bilateral training and exposure for investigators in both disciplines. This course will be held June 3-7, 2019. Find more information here.
Geological Society of America (GSA) On To the Future Travel Awards The On To the Future (OTF) program provides partial funding to attend the Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, 22-25 September 2019 in Phoenix, Arizona. Open to students and recent graduates from diverse backgrounds who have never attended a GSA Annual Meeting before. At the meeting students have the option to be paired with a mentor, attend special sessions including a full day professional development workshop, and meet GSA leadership. GSA encourages low-income, minority, first-generation, non-traditional, women, veterans, LBGTQ, students with disabilities, and others to apply. The deadline is 31 May. Learn more about eligibility and the application process. For questions contact: Tahlia Bear, Diversity and Career Officer,tbear@geosociety.org.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Diversity Recruitment Day Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory would like to invite undergraduate and graduate students underrepresented in STEM to visit and learn about the educational and career options currently being offered on Saturday, April 13. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from fauculty, current graduate students and post-docs on their experiences as well as tour the campus laboratories and facilities. The registration deadline is March 15. Learn more here.
Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Binghamton University is a world-class institution that unites more than 130 broadly interdisciplinary educational programs with some of the most vibrant research in the nation. Our unique character – shaped by outstanding academics, facilities and community life – promotes extraordinary student success.
Increasing campus diversity is one of Binghamton University’s most important strategic priorities. Binghamton is meeting this challenge with the establishment of a program of Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships that will allow the university to better recruit highly qualified candidates for research and scholarship in disciplines that have found it difficult to attract a diverse faculty. This fellowship program mirrors the goals of the SUNY faculty diversity program which advance diversity and inclusive excellence by encouraging the recruitment, retention and promotion of outstanding scholars from different backgrounds, including individuals from groups who have historically been underrepresented in higher education.
Our goal is to develop top-tier candidates when faculty positions appear in these departments, so that they may remain at Binghamton in a tenure track capacity when their postdoctoral work is completed. Each fellowship appointment is up to two years. Persons interested in this position should apply online here.
Canada/USA Matchcamp Positions Canada/USA Mathcamp ( www.mathcamp.org) is a summer program for talented high school students from all over the United States, Canada, and the rest of the world. At Mathcamp, students interact with world-class mathematicians, explore advanced topics in mathematics, and find a true intellectual peer group. The mentor job is a hybrid between a teaching position and a camp counselor role. Your primary responsibility is to teach great classes, and you’ll be doing this in the context of a residential summer program: you live, eat, and play with the campers. It’s a lot of work and a lot of fun. As a mentor at Mathcamp, you get an amazing teaching experience: there is no set curriculum, so you create your own classes and teach the math you’re interested in. From group theory to projective geometry, from complex analysis to cryptography, from fractals to voting theory – there is an abundance of mathematics that can be taught (with a little imagination) at camp level. You’ll have support (in both curriculum design and pedagogy) from master teachers, and you’ll work with students who are exceptionally smart and engaged.
Since women and minority students often face a shortage of role models in mathematics, we are especially eager to recruit mentors from these groups. For more information on the position and how to apply, visit http://www.mathcamp.org/mentor/.
SBU Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Research Program – As part of President Stanley’s initiatives in the Arts, Humanities, and Lettered Social Sciences (AHLSS), the Graduate School is pleased to announce its sixth call for nominations. The Graduate Fellowship and Faculty Research Program provides one year of funding, at $20,000 each, to six doctoral students who have advanced to candidacy – and who have completed their department’s allocated funding. These fellows, in turn, teach two courses during the academic year, creating release time for assistant or associate professors to focus on research and program development. Each program may nominate up to two student candidates and two faculty member candidates. Eligibility: Doctoral students from all departments in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts, who have advanced to candidacy by the nomination deadline of Wednesday, April 10, 2019 and will have completed their department’s allocated funding, irrespective of the campus (i.e. Southampton, Manhattan, East Campus, etc.). Part One: Student Nomination Procedures – For each student nomination, the Graduate Program Director completes a GFFRP PART ONE Google Form and submits the following documents in pdf format to gradfinance@stonybrook.edu by Wednesday, April 10, 2019.
Women’s Research in STEM Showcase – Stony Brook’s GWISE and GSO are excited to present our annual Women’s Research in STEM Showcase next week; Thursday, April 4 from 6-9pm in SAC Ballroom B. Mark your calendars and bring your friends! Food will be served. Come check out and support the awesome research women are doing at SBU. Also a special thank you to the Graduate School for funding the printing of our posters and catering for the event! Visit SBUGWISE.com for more information.
Career
Suffolk County Community College Announcement is hereby made for a 10-month, full-time, tenure-track appointment beginning in the fall 2019 semester on the Ammerman Campus in Selden. Suffolk County Community College is an open admissions institution committed to serving a diverse student population in a variety of degree and career programs. The successful candidate must be able to teach the full spectrum of physics courses at the conceptual, vocational, algebra/trigonometry, and calculus based levels. Specific subjects include mechanics, E&M, thermodynamics, waves, optics and modern physics. The successful candidate should be familiar with both traditional and computer-based laboratory instruction. Recent experience in research in physics is desirable (experimental, theoretical, computational or educational research). A willingness to learn and apply new pedagogical approaches, to be actively involved in curriculum and course development within the discipline, and college service on committees is essential. Find more information here.
University of Colorado Boulder The Engineering Plus Program in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a full-time Instructor position. Program. This program integrates traditional engineering disciplines such as Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical Engineering with a multi-disciplinary and design-based approach. This position will support the Engineering Plus Program in the fulfillment of the program’s educational mission. The Engineering Plus program also partners with the award-winning Integrated Teaching and Learning Program to deliver hands-on, design rich engineering curriculum. The University of Colorado Boulder is a dynamic community of scholars and learners situated on one of the most spectacular college campuses in the country. As one of 34 U.S. public institutions belonging to the prestigious Association of American Universities- and the only member in the Rocky Mountain region– CU Boulder has a proud tradition of academic excellence.
Candidates must have earned either a Master’s Degree, supplemented with extensive teaching experience, or a Ph.D. in an engineering discipline or a closely related field. Successful candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to high-quality undergraduate engineering education and active engagement in an engineering field. An interest in improving undergraduate engineering education and modern pedagogy is desirable, and teaching experience is preferred. Ability and desire to teach two or more core engineering courses (such as first-year design, engineering math, thermodynamics, statics, materials science, circuits, and data analysis) are essential. For more information on the Engineering Plus Program, please visit here.
Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship Binghamton University is a world-class institution that unites more than 130 broadly interdisciplinary educational programs with some of the most vibrant research in the nation. Our unique character – shaped by outstanding academics, facilities and community life – promotes extraordinary student success.
Increasing campus diversity is one of Binghamton University’s most important strategic priorities. Binghamton is meeting this challenge with the establishment of a program of Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships that will allow the university to better recruit highly qualified candidates for research and scholarship in disciplines that have found it difficult to attract a diverse faculty. This fellowship program mirrors the goals of the SUNY faculty diversity program which advance diversity and inclusive excellence by encouraging the recruitment, retention and promotion of outstanding scholars from different backgrounds, including individuals from groups who have historically been underrepresented in higher education
Our goal is to develop top-tier candidates when faculty positions appear in these departments, so that they may remain at Binghamton in a tenure track capacity when their postdoctoral work is completed. Each fellowship appointment is up to two years. Persons interested in this position should apply online here.
The Miriam and the Rhode Island Hospitals Director of Neuropathology Position The Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at The Miriam and the Rhode Island Hospitals is seeking a neuropathologist to join the faculty of the Lifespan Academic Medical Center and the Warren Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University. The Miriam Hospital/Rhode Island Hospital is an EEO/AA employer and encourages applications from minorities, women and protected persons.
The successful candidate must qualify for a full-time medical faculty position at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University. This requires a national reputation and scholarly achievements appropriate for the academic rank. Minimum requirements include: board certification in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology by the American Board of Pathology (or Canadian equivalent), or equivalent credentials. The director of neuropathology is expected to develop and maintain a research program in a field related to neuropathology; there is tremendous potential for collaboration with the faculty of the Robert J and Kathy D Carney Institute for Brain science, including strong collaborative research programs in neuroscience, neurodegenerative disease, or behavioral sciences. Candidates should have experience in a university hospital or comparable institution with an active surgical pathology, neuropathology, and autopsy service and a commitment to teaching and research. Please apply through Interfolio System at https://secure.interfolio.com/apply/58944. Please contact Lissi Marte at (401 606-4467) or Lissi.Marte@Lifespan.org with any questions about the Interfolio System.