President Donna Shalala
Chair of the National Academies report
Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineeringre the SEEDS NSF grant: “We have to
do this.”
Provost Tom
LeBlanc
Established a University-level SEEDS office as a focus for diversity programs in the sciences across all three UM campuses
SEEDS main $upporter
RSMASDean
Roni Avissar
“…A distinguished scientist and prominent scholar who will bring strong leadership to the rich academic resources of the Rosenstiel School…” - Donna Shalala
SEEDS Co-PI
College of Arts and Sciences
Interim Dean
Jacqueline Dixon
SEEDS Co-PI
As a geologist and as an administrator, Dean Dixon says “I enjoy... climbing active volcanoes.”
Miller School of Medicine
DeanPascal
Goldschmidt
SEEDS Co-PI
“Broad based science is extraordinarily helpful in building bridges among groups.”
College of Engineering
DeanJames Tien
SEEDS Co-PI
Doubled the number of women faculty in Engineering: from four to eight !
Chair of BiologyDirector of
SEEDS
Kathryn Tosney
SEEDS NSF grant PI
Spent twenty years at the University of Michigan: ten years before and ten years during an NSF Advance for Women in Science Program
RSMASProfessor
Rana Fine
SEEDS Steering Committee Member
Studies the role of oceans in climate change on time scales of decades
Serves on international panels that set policy
RSMASProfessorSusan
Sponaugle
SEEDS Steering Committee Member
Interdisciplinary studies on the dynamics of population replenishment and connectivity in marine organisms
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant ProfessorBarbara Whitlock
SEEDS Steering Committee Member
Combines classic and molecular approaches to study plant diversity and evolution from the DNA to the population levels
Miller School of MedicineProfessor
Sheri Keitz
SEEDS Steering Committee Member
Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity and
Development
Chief of Medicine Miami VA Center
Advisor on Diversity to President Shalala
College of Engineering
ProfessorHelena Solo-
Gabriele
SEEDS Steering Committee Member
Associate Dean of Research
Studies microbes in water, the environmental impact of treated wood and hydrology in the everglades
Miller School of MedicineProfessor
Mary Lou King
SEEDS Steering Committee Member
Avid birderAvid developmental biologist Avid teacher of professional skills
College of Arts & Sciences
Chair of SociologyRobert Johnson
SEEDS Director of Assessment
The SEEDS climate survey is now online and ready for you to take!
SEEDS Program ManagerNatasha Jobbagy
SEEDS Program
Natasha organizes everything in SEEDS!
College of Arts & Sciences Theatre
ArtsAssistant Professor
Jennifer Burke
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS Interactive Theatre DirectorMFA from Brandies U, recent projects include performing at the Kennedy Center and building the SEEDS Interactive Theatre from the ground up!
College of Arts & Sciences Biology
ProfessorDavid Wilson
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS Interactive Theatre FacilitatorHas been everything: Dean of Arts & Sciences, Chair of Faculty Senate, Director of Undergraduate Neuroscience Program...has won teaching awards and the McLamore Outstanding Service Award– and now he is in theatre!
College of Arts & Sciences Theatre
ArtsMFA candidate
Marc Mocahbe
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
His films, web series and music videos have won many awards; he has worked for Animal Planet, Grammy Award winning Jolipop Entertainment, Speed TV and Showtime Networks and served as faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
SEEDS actor
College of Arts & Sciences Theatre Arts
LecturerJanet Allard
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS Actor MFA Yale School of Drama, dramatic writing. Recent works include Vrooommm! a NASComedy, The Unknown: a Silent Musical, and Untold Crimes of Insomniacs
College of Arts & Sciences Theatre
ArtsLecturer
Lee Soroko
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS ActorMFA U. Texas, acting, movement and combat. Multiple directing and acting credits including off-Broadway, Yale, Triad stage and Savanna Shakespeare Festival
College of Arts & Sciences Theatre
ArtsAssistant Professor Jennifer Vellenga
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS ActorMFA in directing from Ohio U, among many acting and directing roles, directed at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego
College of Arts and Sciences Theatre Arts
Lecturer
Maha McCain
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS ActorMFA Ohio U; acting credits include Law & Order, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Miami’s own Just the Funny
Glenn Patron
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS ActorA retired businessman who has “done it all” in his second career as a performer: Amateur and professional theatre, stand-up, TV soap operas and radio in English & Spanish.
College of EngineeringAssistant Professor
Eunji Lim
SEEDS You Choose Winner
Won a SEEDS award to host three distinguished scholars who work in industrial engineering areas complementary to her research
Georgia Institute of technology
Associate Professor
Hayriye Ayhan
SEEDS You Choose Winner
First speaker in Eunji Lim’s Industrial Engineering Speaker Series, supported by a You Choose Award. Her seminar Queuing Networks with Cross-Trained Servers was followed by a mentoring event
College of Arts & SciencesAnthropology
Associate Professor
Traci Ardren
SEEDS You Choose Winner
Won a SEEDS award to foster a collaboration with Dr. Vera Tiesler, a physical anthropologist in Mexico
Miller School of Medicine
Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology
Assistant Professor
Joy Lincoln
SEEDS You Choose Winner
Won a SEEDS award with cost share from Bookman’s office to host five forums on navigating the NIH system
NIH/NINDSNational Institute of
Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Program DirectorRamona Hicks, M. D.
SEEDS You Choose Winner
First speaker in Dr. Joy Lincoln’s series of forums on navigating the NIH system, funded by her You Choose Award, will be speaking on November 11
RSMASMeteorology &
Physical Oceanography
Assistant Professor
Paquita Zuidema
SEEDS You Choose Winner
Won a SEEDS award to host a day-long career skills course on writing by Dr. Judith Swan, Ph.D. in biochemistry from MIT, co-author of The Science of Science Writing
RSMASMeteorology and
Physical OceanographyAssistant Professor
Lisa Beal
SEEDS You Choose Winner
Won a SEEDS award to organize an international workshop in Kiel, Germany that forms the basis of a large-scale proposal on climate change
Biostatistics, Epidemiology
Assistant Professor
Tulay Koru-Sengul
SEEDS You Choose Winner
Won a SEEDS award to attend a career development workshop for Junior Faculty Health Researchers in Biostatics
Apply for an award!
SEEDS You Choose Award Competition is
Six awards
$2500 each: you may arrange cost-share
The supported activity is up to the applicant: You Choose!
Due December 15, 2009
Details at http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/
Now Open
Women of RSMAS
Speed Mentoring, MED
Speed Mentoring, Med
Speed Mentoring, RSMAS
Speed Mentoring, RSMAS
Speed Mentoring, RSMAS
Distinguished Lecturer
Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva DiasUniversidade de São Paulo, Brasil
SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer, RSMAS
Shown with some SEEDS Steering Committee members
Distinguished lecturer
Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias
SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer, RSMAS
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Dr. Lúcia Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Gifford Arboretum LecturerLed discussion on Building Leadership in Plant
Conservation. Attendees were faculty, graduate students and community leaders in plant conservation
SEEDS Luncheon 2008
President Donna Shalala
Addressing the first SEEDS networking meeting
SEEDS Luncheon 2008
SEEDS Luncheon 2008
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Susan Lindquist, MIT, member of the National Academy of Sciences
Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Lecturer
SEEDS cosponsored her formal mentoring talk Yes We Can! A Woman’s Perspective on a Life in Science
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Susan Lindquist
at reception before the SEEDS Q & A mentoring session
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Susan Lindquist
Participants at her SEEDS Q & A mentoring session
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Susan Lindquist
Mary Lou King, introducing the SEEDS mentoring session
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Prof. Meg LowmanPioneer of tree canopy ecology
Author of Life in the Treetops andIt's a Jungle Up ThereLed a discussion of gender and mentoring in
academic science with a diverse group ranging from high school to tenured faculty
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Professor Kate BaraldUniversity of Michigan
SEEDS sponsored talk at the Miller School of Medicine:
Tips to Mentors for Writing NIH Postdoc Applications
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Barbara LiskovMember of the National
Academy of Engineering
Associate Provost for Faculty Equity
Ford Professor of EngineeringMassachusetts Institute of
Technology
College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker, Monday Nov 9, 2009Security of Internet Storage
SEEDS is sponsoring a mentoring “high tea” event after her seminar
SEEDS Sponsored Mentor
Linda SanfordMember of the National Academy of EngineeringSenior Vice President, IBM
College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker, Monday Jan 25, 2010Building a Smarter Planet: Strategies for Meaningful Change
SEEDS is sponsoring a mentoring “high tea” event before her seminar
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
The Mid-Term Review Presentation at RSMAS
The department chair meets with the junior faculty member
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
The Mid-Term Review
Flashback to the faculty meeting
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
The Mid-Term Review
Varied audience responses
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
The Mid-Term Review
More audience responses
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
The Mid-Term Review
A “faculty member” answers an audience query while David Wilson facilitates
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
The Mid-Term Review
A “time out” for faculty while the audience queries the junior faculty member
SEEDS resources
Recommended resources
See http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/resources
SEEDS resources
Recommended resources
See http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/resources
SEEDS resources
Recommended resource
See https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/
Project Implicit: Harvard online assessment
An opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences in topics ranging from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to sports teams, and gender to styles of music
SEEDS Programs
Speed Mentoring NetworkingFocus GroupsCareer WorkshopsDistinguished Scholar LecturersSponsored Mentors Climate surveyYou Choose Leadership AwardsInteractive Theatre