Date: Mon 3/13/2017
Time: 9:00 AM - 1:50 PM
This mini-workshop is part of ongoing initiatives undertaken by both the School of Public Health and the UAB Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) designed to foster professional development among its members. The mini-workshops are designed to give trainees and investigators ranging from graduate students through senior faculty insight into succeeding within the academic environment
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Date: Wed 1/13/2016
Time: 9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
This interactive workshop is designed to reinforce ethical research conduct and communication. The day will begin with light refreshments, followed by brief introductions of attendees and organizers.
Date: Wed 12/10/2014
Time: 12:30 PM - 4:50 PM
This half-day workshop is targeted at those who wish to learn successful strategies for securing winning proposals from the National Science Foundation. It is taught by experienced faculty who have received NSF grants and who serve as evaluators on NSF review panels and by NSF program staff.
The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program and other Training Grants Video
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This interactive workshop is designed to reinforce ethical research conduct and communication. The day will begin with light refreshments, followed by brief introductions of attendees and organizers. Dr. Brown will give an overview of UAB’s research assurances including IACUC and IRB.
Date: Tue 8/5/2014
Time: 11 AM – 12:30 PM
This half-day workshop is targeted at those who wish to learn successful strategies for securing winning proposals from the US Department of Agriculture. It is taught by experienced faculty who have received USDA grants and who serve as evaluators on USDA review panels and by USDA program staff.
Energetics may be defined as the study of the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of the acquisition, storage, and utilization of metabolizable energy by biological organisms. Understanding these processes is critical to the understanding of ecology and evolution and has implications for public health.
Each participant will be asked to write a title and abstract for a grant proposal addressing a question or challenge.
Academic Associations are a leading source of research funding But how does one go about obtaining this funding? Are there cautions and downsides? Three expert UAB panelists will lead an informal conversation concerning these additional grant opportunities from these academic/disease-oriented organizations.
The Creativity in Research mini-workshops are a part of ongoing initiatives undertaken by both the School of Public Health and the UAB Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (NORC) designed to foster creativity among its members.
This workshop is designed to address aspects of grant writing and grant getting. Day One, Dr. Braveman will discuss a strategy for approaching the grant writing process that he has found successful with any granting agency. At the end of the day, a mock review panel will be held, demonstrating aspects of the grant review process, as well as the thought processes of grant reviewers when scoring a grant.
This informal luncheon on authorship is being offered in order to help investigators consider and negotiate authorship decisions. At this roundtable discussion, senior representatives of all five departments will offer insights as to how they navigate decisions about determining, ordering, and apportioning credit to authors. General questions and current concerns are encouraged to be discussed during the Q&A period.
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This workshop is designed to give graduate trainees, faculty investigators and department heads information on: interviewing; negotiating from the interviewer’s perspective; and successfully recruiting and hiring effective faculty members from top executive search consultants.
This workshop is designed to give trainees and investigators ranging from graduate students through faculty exposure to the perspective of those who sit within the granting organizations on what makes for more successful grant applications. Speakers will be highly experienced individuals who have seen and participated in the evaluation and decision-making process for many grant applications. The domains of industry, philanthropic, NIH, & NSF will all be represented.
Read more: Successful Grant Writing - from the Perspective of Funding Institutions
The primary goal of the workshop is to familiarize junior and senior faculty with career path options for planning and professional development that may include non-traditional positions.
Read more: Promotion and Tenure in Academic Career Development
The major goal of the workshop is to help current and future investigators with negotiating and navigating various aspects of their careers, including faculty positions, finance, space, and ethnical challenges which arise in negations, collaborations, and mentoring.
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As researchers submitting manuscripts, many of us frequently complain about the quality of the reviews that we receive. The ability to review a manuscript well may come with experience, but to my knowledge, postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty, who comprise a large proportion of those reviewing manuscripts do not get ‘training’ on how to review manuscripts early in their career.
Read more: Peer Review: Improving your Effective Manuscript Review Writing
Many talented academicians/scientists struggle to balance the achievement of goals in research and academia with climbing the ladder of leadership. For many new faculty members climbing the ladder to leader occurs concurrently with climbing the ladder to academic/research success. However, leadership roles can present challenges to productive scholarship.
Read more: On the Road to Meeting One's Scholarship Goals: Leadership
Many young faculty in academia face challenges on how to advise students and fellows. Good mentoring is critical for both mentors and mentorees. This progrAM is designed to introduce strategies, concepts, and exAMples of how to be good mentors and mentorees in academia.
Read more: On the Road to meeting One's Scholarship Goals: How to be a mentor
A growing communications gap has become apparent in recent years between journalists and the public-at-large on one hand and scientists and scientific expertise and research institutions on the other hand. It is wise, if not imperative, for those with a research portfolio to equip themselves with skills enabling them to communicate their work to the public, as well as media agencies that directly reach the public.
Regardless of your level of self-confidence or degree of technical knowledge, interviewing for private industry or academic jobs can be very intimidating – it's even harder for those who are shy or introverted. This session will help you learn how to mentally prepare to present yourself, and will offer specific strategies for writing cover letters, answering difficult interview questions, and evaluating job opportunities to choose the best match for you.
Read more: Interview Strategies: Putting your best foot forward
Many talented academicians struggle to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and to achieve personal goals such as earning tenure due to a lack of publications. The adage, "Publish or Perish" still hangs over the heads of many new faculty members.
Read more: On the Road to meeting One's Scholarship Goals: Being a Productive Scholar