UWPA Town Hall Meeting

Monday, April 27th, 12-1 PM
HSB, Room T733

Have you attended any UWPA events? Do you have ideas about what events the UWPA should hold in the future? Would you like to be involved in the UWPA?

Come to the Town Hall Meeting and tell us your thoughts on the UWPA

Refreshments and Pizza will be served!!! 

PARENT GROUP MEETING

You are a post-doc,

You are a parent (or soon will be),

You have some ideas on things that coud make the parent post-doc's life easier?

You think there should be more "kids friendly" activities?

Or you just want meet other UW post-docs?

Please join us at the informal UWPA parents group meeting, every last Friday of the month at 12:30 PM in the sitting area of the Vista Cafe in the Foege Building (http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?GNOM)

During this meeting, we would like to define the wishes and needs of parent post-docs.

UWPA CAREER PANEL

The 2009 UWPA Career Panel was held March 24, 2009 at the Health Science Building. Panelists from various industry and academic jobs answered audience questions about job seeking, applications, interviews, negotiations, job duties, etc.

Our panelist included:

Jan Abendroth, Senior Research Scientist, deCODE biostructures jan.abendroth@gmail.com

Kelly Fitzgerald, Technology Manager, UW Office of Technology Transfer kafg@u.washington.edu

Doug Weiser, Assistant Professor, Univesity of the Pacific, Biological Sciences dcweiser@u.washington.edu

Joel Morgan, Research Scientist, Syntrix Biosystems morganjchem@comcast.net

Emillie Clemmens, Faculty, Cascadia Community College emclemmens@yahoo.com

Rachel Johns, Research Scientist II, MRDNA rachel.johns@gmail.com

Richard Gardner, Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Pharmacology gardner@u.washington.edu

FOURTH ANNUAL UWPA RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

The 2008 UWPA Postdoctoral Research Symposium was held November 14, 2008 at the HUB. Tom Gething, Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, and keynote speaker, Dr. Sara Curran, led off the symposium with an inspirational message for postdocs.

Pictured above is Dr. Tom Gething during the keynote address.

Following the keynote address, Kate Comtois (Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) was awarded the 2008 UWPA Mentorship Award for many outstanding characteristics including excellent mentorship, encouraging postdoc to look for a balance between work and personal life, and advocating for a congenial work environment that makes it easy for her postdocs to thrive and be productive. 

We heard fabulous presentation from postdoctoral fellows on topics ranging from genes that determine self-recognition in bacteria to how to weigh the smallest particle, the neutrino. 

Postdoctoral Speakers

About Prevention Against Obesity, Dr. Ruimao Zheng from Pharmacology, School of Medicine

Effect of Controlling Response Bias on the Detection Performance of Infants and Adults, Dr. Angela Garinis from Speech and Hearing Sciences

MultiTalker: An Artificially Intelligent Tutoring System for Helping Student Groups in a 3D Virtual Environment, Dr. Baba Kofi A. Weusijans from LIFE Sceinces of Learning Center, College of Education

Genetic Determinants of Self-recognition in the Bacterium Proteus mirabilis, Dr. Karine Gibbs from the Department of Microbiology

Weighing the Neutrino, Dr. Brent A. VanDevender from Physics - CENPA

Ethnic Invisibility: A Comparison of First and Third-person Measures of Race and Ethnic Identities in Washington State, Dr. Tony Perez from the Department of Sociology

A reception for speakers and attendees followed from 5-7pm. The best speaker award, based on audience vote for presentor best able to present their topic to a broad audience, was given to Karine A. Gibbs.

Thanks to all for a very successful symposium!! 

TOWN HALL MEETING ON POSTDOC SALARIES AND BENEFITS

The Town Hall Meeting on Postdoc Salaries and Benefits was held on September 15, 2008. Thanks to all of you who attended and gave us feedback about your concerns. 

Here is some helpful information presented in the Town Hall Meeting:

The UWPA summer picnic was held July 19, 2008 at Gas Works Park. It was a beautifull sunny day and a great success this year!!! Special thanks to the grill masters Eric and Michael

The UWPA successfully developed and submitted a proposal to establish an Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) on May 20, 2005. This proposal was reviewed by Craig Hogan, Vice Provost for Research and Elizabeth Feetham, Acting Dean of the Graduate School. Thank you to all of the postdocs and faculty who contributed to this effort!

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