The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, in collaboration with CTSI, hosts a workshop on Mentoring each spring. This year's workshop "Mentoring: Tales from the Front" will be on March 22nd, from 4:00-5:30pm in Helen Wood Hall Room 1W-509, with a reception to follow. Our two features speakers are Denham Ward, chair emeritus of Department of Anesthesiology, and Deborah Fowell, associate professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology. Both speakers received mentoring awards from URMC in 2011. To register, please click here. For any questions about the workshop, please contact Kurt Zeller at kzeller@ur.rochester.edu or 276-5668.
The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity has put together several ways for you to thank and honor your mentor all this month. For questions about this site, please contact Kurt Zeller at kzeller@ur.rochester.edu or 276-5668.
Watch University leaders (Dr. Vivian Lewis, Dr. Michael McKee, Dr. Jeffrey Alexis, and Dr. Paul Burgett) thank their mentors.
A new study titled Researcher Resilience through Multidimensional Mentoring- an upstate New York Initiative investigates the role of two different types of trainee and faculty mentoring education (workshops for mentors and peer mentor groups) in promoting resilience. The Principal Investigator, Dr. Vivian Lewis, Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, is seeking underrepresented minorities and women graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and junior faculty and their mentors to participate, for more information click here.
The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, in collaboration with CTSI, hosts a half-day conference on Mentoring each spring. The workshop will be on March 22nd in the afternoon and registration for the conference will be available soon. If you would like to attend the conference, please contact Trina Viggiano at tviggiano@ur.rochester.edu or 273-5664.
This office, with support from the Faculty Working Group on Mentoring, completed a Mentoring Report in the Fall of 2010. This report, which has been accepted by the Deans, Provost, and President, concludes that mentoring is an important need throughout the University and provides general principles and recommendations for each school to increase mentoring here at Rochester. To read this report, please click here.
Clifton Poodry, PhD, Director of the NIH Division of Minority Opportunities in Research, visited Rochester on October 12, 2011. To view the webcast, click here.