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Center for the Advancement of Multicultural Perspectives on Science (CAMPOS) Presents: 2016-2017 CAMPOS Cafecito/Coffee Breaks

Oct. 26, Dec. 1, 2016

Feb. 16, Apr. 6, Jun. 1, 2017

All Cafecitos/Coffee Breaks: 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. | UC Davis ADVANCE Office 1100 Surge III “The Grove”

Pre-registration suggested.

For more information, visit edu/related-conferences-events or call 530-752-4792

Audience: Faculty members, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students

Topics:

Exploring the Relationship between Stereotype Threat and an Inclusive Environment

· This presentation should benefit educators, students and staff interested in deepening their understanding of the experiences of health professions students related to stereotype threat. Our research findings suggest that faculty and peers have a big impact (positive or negative) on the climate of inclusivity as experienced by underrepresented students. Through this presentation and discussion we will explore inter-relational best practices that foster inclusion and student success.

Improving Equity, Diversity, and Workplace Climate Among Faculty at UC Davis

· This presentation will provide an overview of the two main activities of the Inclusive Campus Climate Initiative of the Advance Program: The STEAD workshops for members of faculty recruitment committees and the COACHE faculty job satisfaction survey. These activities aim to increase equity and diversity in faculty recruitment and to assess (and thereby help to improve) faculty members’ satisfaction with the many aspects of their work at UC Davis. The goals, approach, and outcomes of each effort will be presented and offered for discussion.

Mentorship: Its Role and Importance for Latinas in STEM

· Our interviews with Latina President Postdoctoral Fellows and other STEM scholars yielded powerful narratives of the importance of mentorship within and outside the academic context for the development of a scientist identity and academic success i. This presentation will discuss our preliminary analysis of these findings.

Institutionalizing Inclusion: Policies and Practices that Sustain and Enable Inclusive Climates

· The policy and practices initiative has been reviewing polices as well as practices related to faculty recruitment, advancement and retention with the goal of breaking down barriers to inclusion in the faculty ranks. Some suggested changes have already been implemented and others will be presented in our final report to the campus. Come to the cafecito to discuss the draft of the findings and recommendations of this final report.

Capital Resource Network-Helping to Attract and Retain the Best and the Brightest

· The Capital Resource Network is a program created at UC Davis that serves as a collaborative regional resource to recruit and retain highly competitive, educated, skilled and diverse talent, both academic and staff appointees. The fee-for-service program uses a proactive and intentional approach to welcome, introduce, and integrate top talent and their families to the region. Seeking to attract and retain the best and the brightest, the program’s dual career support efforts strategically recognize the importance of employment opportunities for the accompanying spouse or partner, who is critical to the decision-making process.

2016-2017 ADVANCE CAMPOS Cafecitos-Coffee Breaks Flyer FINAL.pdf

University of California
PRESIDENT’S POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
2017–2018 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

THE PROGRAM. The University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program was established in 1984 to encourage outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers at the University of California. The current program offers postdoctoral research fellowships and faculty mentoring to outstanding scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service will contribute to the diversity and equal opportunity at the University of California. The contributions to diversity may include public service towards increasing equitable access in fields where women and minorities are under-represented. In some fields, the contributions may include research focusing on underserved populations or understanding inequalities related to race, gender, disability or LGBT. The program is seeking applicants with the potential to bring to their academic and research careers the critical perspective that comes from their non-traditional educational background or understanding of the experiences of members of groups historically underrepresented in higher education in the United States.

AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS. Fellowships are awarded for research conducted at any one of the University of California’s ten campuses. The award includes a salary starting at $47,844 depending on field and experience, benefits including health insurance and paid vacation/sick leave, and up to $5,000 for research-related and program travel expenses. Each award is for a minimum of 12-months and may be renewable for an additional term upon demonstration of academic/research productivity.

ELIGIBILITY. Applicants must receive a Ph.D. from an accredited university before the start of their fellowship. Successful applicants must present documents demonstrating that they are legally authorized to work in the United States. Individuals granted deferred action status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program are encouraged to apply.

APPLICATION. Apply online at: ppfp.ucop.edu

DEADLINE: November 1, 2016

Berkeley Davis
Irvine
Los Angeles Merced
Riverside San Diego
San Francisco Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz

More information:
President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
University of California
visit online: ppfpinfo

University Partnerships for Faculty Diversity – Partner Programs with University of Colorado, Boulder, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, The California Alliance,UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs, and the UC-affiliated National Labs. Please visit: http://ppfp.ucop.edu/info/about-ppfp/partnerships.html

2017-18 Call for Applications.pdf

Of interest:

Dear colleague,

We are happy to inform you that we are organizing an EMBO Practical Course on the Plant Microbiota (26 March – 7 April 2017), a rapidly advancing research field. This Practical Course will cover a mix of lectures and hands-on training, including advanced bioinformatic analysis.

We would be pleased if you could encourage interested PhD students or post-docs to submit application documents at http://events.embo.org/17-plant-microbiota/

Please find the EMBO practical course poster attached. We kindly ask you to post it in your institution.

17-plant-microbiota.pdf

The faculty of the Biology Department in the College of Natural and
Behavioral Sciences at California State University Dominguez Hills invites
applications from individuals for a Tenure Track position in the Biology
Department. Applications will be reviewed starting October 1, 2016.

The Position
We are seeking either a marine biologist or computational biologist
who has passion for teaching biology and conducting research with
undergraduates and Master’s students. Teaching responsibilities may
include general education, introductory biology, non-majors courses,
as well as upper-division and graduate courses in the candidate’s
specialty.

Biology Department, College of Natural and Behavioral Sciences
The Department of Biology offers four baccalaureate programs, an M.S.
program, and two Minor programs. Recognizing the crucial role of research
in science education, the Biology Department is committed to offering
research opportunities to all interested and qualified students.
The Department also offers courses that satisfy General Education
requirements, and service courses for majors in Clinical Sciences,
Health Sciences, Liberal Studies, Physical Education, and Human Services.

Mission
The fundamental mission of the Biology Department is to provide an
intensive, progressive, and balanced learning experience in cell and
molecular biology, organismal biology, microbiology, and environmental
biology to serve a student population that is highly diverse, both in
educational and ethnic background, and in academic and career goals.

For more information see: http://www4.csudh.edu/biology/index

The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will be committed to teaching, mentoring, and
advising a highly diverse student population. The position requires
the establishment of an active research program, as well as service to
the university. The candidate may have the opportunity to work with the
Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) to innovate K-16 education.

Qualifications
Background Checks
The successful candidate is required to complete a thorough background
check and the employment offer can be rescinded if the background check
reveals disqualifying or falsified information.

Minimum Qualifications
• A Ph.D. in biology or a related field is required.
• Experience in teaching undergraduates from diverse age,
socioeconomic, cultural, and academic backgrounds.

Preferred Qualifications
• The applicant must have demonstrated potential for effective
teaching of lower and upper division undergraduate and graduate courses
in biology and related fields, with high academic standards using
a variety of methodologies. The applicant must possess scholarly
and professional competence as demonstrated by a record of research
publications. The applicant must be interested in mentoring and working
closely with undergraduate and Master’s students both in the classroom
and in research. The applicant must be willing to participate actively
in curriculum development and to work cooperatively within a multi-
disciplinary department and college. The applicant must have demonstrated
ability and/or interest in working in a multiethnic, multicultural
environment.

For more information please visit
https://my.csudh.edu/psp/paaprd/EMPLOYEE/HDHPRD/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?
Page=HRS_CE_JOB_DTL&Action=A&JobOpeningId)43&SiteId=1&PostingSeq=1

Forwarding

Dear Colleagues,

We are actively recruiting strong undergraduates from the physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematics, engineering, and computing to join an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Quantitative Biosciences (QBioS) at Georgia Tech. Applications are welcome by December 2, 2016 for entrance in August 2017:

http://qbios.gatech.edu

The QBioS Ph.D. at Georgia Tech was established in 2015 and we welcomed our inaugural class of 9 Ph.D. students in August 2016:

http://bit.ly/qbios_phd2016

The QBioS program includes an interdisciplinary group of over 50 participating program faculty from six schools in the College of Sciences, including Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology:

http://qbios.gatech.edu/people/faculty

The mission of QBioS at Georgia Tech is to enable the discovery of scientific principles underlying the dynamics, structure, and function of living systems – at scales spanning molecules to organisms to ecosystems. The Ph.D. training program is designed to prepare students from a diversity of backgrounds for fulfilling careers in academia, industry and government. The training program features:

* Foundational courses in Quantitative Biosciences
* Rotations in computational and/or experimental groups
* Selection of thesis advisor from all program faculty
* Rigorous and personalized quantitative training
* Five-year program of study from entrance to defense

Please forward this email and pdf flyer to undergraduate students at your institution. Interested students should apply via the links here:

http://qbios.gatech.edu/prospective-student/overview

Students are encouraged to email us at admissions for more information, as well as consult the FAQs for information on courses, research, and applications materials:

http://qbios.gatech.edu/prospective-student/faqs

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
Joshua Weitz
Professor of Biological Sciences
Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences
Georgia Institute of Technology

on behalf of the QBioS graduate committee

Young-Hui Chang, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Jennifer Curtis, Associate Professor of Physics
James Gumbart, Assistant Professor of Physics
Christine Heitsch, Professor of Mathematics
Taka Ito, Associate Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Patrick McGrath, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
Christine Payne, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Soojin Yi, Professor of Biological Sciences

qbios_gt_flyer_current.pdf

See https://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/jobs/dsi-academic-coordinator.php

Academic Coordinator

Data Science Initiative
University of California, Davis

The University of California, Davis, Data Science Initiative (DSI) is looking for an innovative, enterprising individual with a passion for bringing data science to researchers and students and developing programs to build and support a vibrant, multidisciplinary data science community and culture on campus. The Academic Coordinator will work closely with the DSI Directors to further develop and realize the goals and plans for the initiative and also to coordinate the many varied activities of the initiative. The incumbent will engage with researchers from across campus, identify collaboration opportunities, develop and manage projects, and organize research. The Academic Coordinator will play a significant role in planning the long-term structure of data science services on campus. She/he will also develop working relationships with industry affiliates and other institutions, including national laboratories.

Salary: $64,920-$126,468 (Appointment rank and salary based on qualifications and experience).

For additional details and information on how to submit an online application, please visit
https://www.lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/jobs/dsi-academic-coordinator.php

Candidates applying by October 12, 2016, will receive first consideration. The position will remain open until filled.

UC Davis is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

UC Davis is a smoke- and tobacco free campus effective January 1, 2014.

Forwarded from Titus Brown
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Dr. Cameron Neylon will be giving a talk, “Excellence is Bullshit”, on Thursday, Sep 15th, 2016 at 3:30pm in the Data Science Initiative space (Shields Library, 3rd Floor, SE corner).

Dr. Neylon is a scholar of open access and open science, and the economics and governance of sustainable infrastructure. He contributes broadly to the global conversation on how to do science more openly, and how to support and maintain scholarly communities. He is currently a Professor of Research Communications at the Centre for Culture and Technology at Curtin University. He has previously worked for PLOS, the Open Access publisher and at the Science and Technology Facilities Council UK. His online home is at http://cameronneylon.net/.

His visit is hosted by C. Titus Brown (UC Davis SVM) and the Innovating Communication in Scholarship project. Dr. Neylon is available for meetings on Thursday; please contact Titus at ctbrown with your availability if you are interested in meeting with him.

Talk abstract:

Excellence is Bullshit:

“Bullshit” is a technical term, referring to a statement which is neither true nor false, in which the speaker’s goal “is to impress the listener and the reader with words that communicate an impression that something is being done or has been done, words that […] obscure the facts of the matter being discussed”. You might think that “excellence” (and its bedfellows “quality” and “impact”) are also technical terms, defined with a similar precision.

On occasion effort is made to define these words, but in use this precision fails. Their deployment in guidelines, assessment criteria, and mission statements usually functions as a way of avoiding difficult questions: questions of values and the political argument over whose values are more deserving of being supported and resourced. In this sense “excellence” in the way we use it in the academy is a textbook example of bullshit.

I will argue that the rhetorical and political power of excellence (and quality and impact) as concepts is a result, not of any imposition from the outside by administration or government, but of the stories we academics tell ourselves. That the negative effects of quantitative research assessment practice on diversity, creativity, and indeed the ability of the academy to achieve positive impacts in the wider world, is a consequence of our own rhetorics, and that it is up to us to change them.

https://www.npr.org/player/embed/492954687/493319143

Grad student & postdoc positions: Evolutionary ecology of plant-microbe symbiosis.

See https://labs.wsu.edu/stephanie-porter/research/

Post doc details below. Note – Dr. Porter was a PhD student at UC Davis and she is both brilliant and awesome.

“Postdoctoral Position: Plant-microbe symbiosis and biological invasions

A postdoctoral position in plant-microbe symbiosis and biological
invasions is available in the Porter lab
(https://labs.wsu.edu/stephanie-porter/) at Washington State
University, Vancouver. The postdoc will join an NSF-funded project to
examine the ecological and evolutionary forces reshaping plant-microbe
symbioses during biological invasions (DEB-1355216). This research
will leverage genomic tools in the model symbiosis between leguminous
plants and nitrogen-fixing symbiotic rhizobium bacteria to examine
ecological dynamics and the evolution of cooperation in natural and
experimentally evolved invasions.

Project opportunities: There will be intellectual freedom for the
postdoc to pursue novel projects as well as the opportunity to
collaborate on ongoing Porter lab research on the Medicago-Ensifer
model invasion biology system, including plant and bacterial
population genomics, quantitative genetic cross-inoculation
experiments in the greenhouse, and/or studies of ecological dynamics
in the field. Research will be conducted in close collaboration with
the Friesen lab at Michigan State University
(http://friesen.plantbiology.msu.edu/) and funding will be provided
for the postdoc to visit scientists at MSU on a regular basis, if
desired. The postdoctoral researcher will be expected to lead-author
peer-reviewed scientific articles and funding will be provided to give
national conference presentations.

Location: Washington State University, Vancouver is a vibrant, rapidly
growing institution
(http://cas.vancouver.wsu.edu/science-graduate-programs/faculty-research)
located in the greater Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area, near the
Columbia River, Cascade Mountains and coastal ocean, and as such
offers an exceptional quality of life.

Qualifications:

PhD in evolutionary ecology, genomics, microbial biology, and/or plant biology
Demonstrated written and oral English communication skills & publication record

Appointment is for one year at full time plus benefits starting at
$45K annually, with NIH-level salary increases for years of
postdoctoral experience; expectation of renewal for up to three years
pending quality performance. The start date is flexible.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is
filled. To apply, please send a single pdf email attachment with
“Microbial Symbiosis Postdoc” in the email subject line. Include a
1-page statement of research interests and experience, a curriculum
vitae, copies of relevant publications, and contact information for 3
references, to stephanie.porter@wsu.edu
.

PorterEtal_Ni adaptation ms_ismej201688a.pdf

Got this via the Intertubes:

From: Nicholas Kaplinsky
Subject: Tenure track Systems Biology position at Swarthmore College – please post and distribute

Dear friends,

The Department of Biology at Swarthmore is hiring a Systems Biologist. I would appreciate it if you would pass the attached announcement on to talented postdocs whok might be interested in the position and post it in your department.

Thank you,

Nick Kaplinsky

SYSTEMSBIOLOGY_Swarthmore_final.pdf