Graduate Student Newsletter
August 15th, 2007
100th Edition Editors: Kate Marshall and Malathi Narayan
Welcome New Students!!!
Biomedical Sciences Emily Andreae Amy Beres Kimberle Bos Ching-Fang Chang Ann DeLaForest David Faber Thomas Giles Matthew Greseth Stephen Hudson Moriah Iverson Andrew Karalewitz Michael Korrer Abby Kroken Steven Leonardo Noad Leigh Ziaoguang Ma Elizabeth Ntantie Gabriella Papale Kala Pettler John Savaryn Huijing Sun Benjamin Tourdot Melaine Ufkin Joshua Meiner YiFan Zhou Joshua Ziarek Biostatistics Kristin Ellis LeeAnn Watts MSTP Ogugua AneneMaidoh William Gross Christopher Roberts Oleg Vishnevsky Neuroscience Joseph Fogerty Dong-il Kim Andy Salzwedel Physiology Kathleen Beehner Koryn Carver Allison Sarkis Filip Sedlic Anthony Rick Matthew Thompson
Upcoming Events
Our GSA Social Chairs have been hard at work planning fun events this summer. Here is the list of dates and events they have planned so far. July 26th- Jazz in the Park August 18th- Susan’s Lake House August 24th- Annual Summer Picnic September 5th- Dean’s Reception Flyers are posted in each department and reminders will be sent out by Katie Westfahl and Jonathan Van Dyke.
Special Seminars
Although we are now entering the summer months and most departments do not have seminars, we will be posting dates of major seminars (no Research-inProgresses) for departments. If you have a seminar you want announced to all grad students, please let Malathi (Mnarayan@mcw.edu) or Kate (kmarshal@mcw.edu) know.
Vice President: Jim Wahlberg Secretary: Heather Scoma Treasurer: Diane Tait Biochemistry: Stephanie Cossette Biophysics: Ben Stengel Biostats: Nick Pajewski CBNA: Kate Marshall Microbiology: Tina Scneider Pharmacology: Amy Sasman Physiology: Lucas Hart IDP Biomed: Adam Gastonguay Neuroscience: Brian Clark MSTP: Lance Relland Post-Doc: Robert Kerstock Social Chairs: Katie Westfahl Jonathan Van Dyke Faculty Advisor: Lisa Cirillo GSC Faculty Advisor: Neil Hogg
In case you didn’t already know where to find this information
http://infoscope.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?doc id=7399
GRADUATE STUDENT ANNOUNCEMENTS
If you have any announcements you wish to be included in the student news letter (i.e. weddings, births, your defense date, items you wish to sell), please send it to Kate at kmarshal@mcw.edu or Malathi at mnarayan@mcw.edu.
To Keep Yourself Amused
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
GSA Council and Representatives
President: Malathi Narayan
Achievements of Professors
Recently, the teacher and mentor of the year awards were announced. Teacher of the Year
Wisconsin’s first Marcus Professor of Human and Molecular Genetics. The endowed chair was established with a $1 million gift from the Marcus Corporation Foundation to support stem cell research. He was also appointed Director of MCW’s Program for Regenerative Medicine. Congratulations to Dr. Duncan!
Dr. Owen Griffith Dr. Owen Griffith Mentor of the Year
Chronicle of Higher Ed.
Call for 2007-08 Job Diarists
The Chronicle's Careers section is looking for graduate students, postdocs, faculty members, and administrators who will be on the job market in the 2007-08 academic year and would be interested in keeping a diary of their job search. See http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2007/07/200 7071002c/careers.html. Since 1998, we've featured the job-market stories of academics in a variety of disciplines. They've written regular, firstperson accounts throughout the year of their attempts to find a faculty or administrative job in academe, and in a few cases, a nonacademic job. (You can read their columns at http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/archives/auth or_list_fp.html on the site. The second article in Part 4 of this newsletter is an example as well.) If you have a flair for writing, here's an opportunity to use it and get paid. We select about 8 to 12 diarists a year; each writes
Dr. DJ Sidjanin You can visit their web pages here http://www.mcw.edu/display/ router.asp?docid=9290 (Dr. Griffith) and http://www.mcw.edu/display/ router.asp?docid=17443 (Dr. Sidjanin) to learn more about their research interests. Additionally, Stephen Duncan D. Phil. has been named the Medical College of
three to five columns over the course of the year about his or her job search. Those selected will be paid $500 for each column they write that is accepted for publication. What you need to do: * Send us a sample column submission by August 14. If selected, your column will be published on our site in the fall as the first entry in your job-search diary. * The sample column should be between 1,200 and 1,600 words, written in a conversational, journalistic style. It should tell us about your background, career goals, constraints, and job situation in the context of broader issues involving the job market in your field and academic culture. * Humor is a plus. * Be creative, but not with the facts. We are not interested in fictionalized accounts. * Some diarists write under their own names, while others choose to use pseudonyms. Either way, we will need to know your name, institution, and discipline.
Please make that information clear when you e-mail your submission. * E-mail your submissions and questions to: jobdiary@chronicle.com * You may paste your column submission directly into an e-mail message, or send it as an attachment in Microsoft Word. Diary entries will be edited for grammar, style, taste, and length. Besides submissions from doctoral students and Ph.D.'s who are looking for their first tenure-track job, we also welcome submissions from other academics who plan to spend this year hunting for a new position, including adjunct faculty members, professors already tenured or on the tenure track, and administrators. If you are part of a dual-career academic couple, you are welcome to write a diary together. Contact: Denise K. Magner, Senior editor, Chronicle Careers (denise.magner@chronicle.com)
_________________________________________________________________________________ NOTE: The next issue of GS News will be September 15st, 2007. The editors must receive submissions for publication by September 10th, 2007. You may also submit by e-mail to: kmarshal@mcw.edu or mnarayan@mcw.edu.
Graduate Student News August 15th, 2007