Post on 13-Jul-2015
President
Donna Shalala
Chair of the National
Academies report
Beyond Bias and
Barriers: Fulfilling the
Potential of Women in
Academic Science
and Engineering
re 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
RSMAS
Dean
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
Dean
Pascal
Goldschmidt
SEEDS Co-PI
“Broad based science
is extraordinarily helpful
in building bridges
among groups.”
College of Engineering
Dean
James Tien
SEEDS Co-PI
Doubled the number
of women faculty
in Engineering:
from four to eight !
Chair of Biology
Director 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
RSMAS
Professor
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
RSMAS
Professor
Susan Sponaugle
SEEDS Steering Committee
Member
Interdisciplinary
studies on the
dynamics of
population
replenishment and
connectivity in marine
organisms
College of
Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Barbara 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
Medicine
Professor
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
Professor
Helena 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
Medicine
Professor
Mary Lou King
SEEDS Steering Committee
Member
Avid birder
Avid developmental biologist
Avid teacher of professional
skills
College of Arts &
Sciences
Chair of Sociology
Robert Johnson
SEEDS Director of
Assessment
The SEEDS climate
survey is now online and
ready for you to take!
SEEDS Program
Manager
Natasha Jobbagy
SEEDS Program
Natasha organizes
everything in
SEEDS!
College of Arts &
Sciences Theatre Arts
Assistant 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
Professor
David 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 Arts
MFA 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
Lecturer
Janet 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 Arts
Lecturer
Lee Soroko
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS Actor
MFA 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 Arts
Assistant Professor
Jennifer Vellenga
SEEDS Interactive Theatre
SEEDS Actor
MFA 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 Actor
MFA 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 Actor
A 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 Engineering
Assistant 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 & Sciences
Anthropology
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/NINDS
National Institute of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke
Program Director
Ramona 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
RSMAS
Meteorology &
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
RSMAS
Meteorology and Physical
Oceanography
Assistant 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!
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
Dias
Universidade 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
Lecturer
Led discussion on Building Leadership in Plant
Conservation. Attendees were faculty, graduate students
and community leaders in plant conservation
SEEDS Luncheon 2008
Preside
nt
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
Lowman
Pioneer of tree
canopy ecology
Author of
Life in the
Treetops and
It'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 Barald
University of Michigan
SEEDS sponsored talk
at the Miller School of
Medicine:
Tips to Mentors for
Writing NIH Postdoc
Applications
SEEDS Sponsored
Mentor
Barbara Liskov
Member of the National
Academy
of Engineering
Associate Provost for Faculty
Equity
Ford Professor of Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
College of Engineering
Distinguished Speaker, Monday
Nov 9, 2009
Security of Internet Storage
SEEDS is sponsoring a mentoring
“high tea” event after her seminar
SEEDS Sponsored
Mentor
Linda Sanford
Member of the National
Academy of Engineering
Senior Vice President, IBM
College of Engineering
Distinguished Speaker, Monday
Jan 25, 2010
Building 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
Networking
Focus Groups
Career Workshops
Distinguished Scholar
Lecturers
Sponsored Mentors
Climate survey
You Choose Leadership
Awards
Interactive Theatre