I thought you might be interested in a webinar which will focus on the admissions process for those interested in PhD and/or MD-PhD admissions. Below is information on how to register for this free event, watch it remotely and tweet your questions!
The event will be held on Monday, November 28th (the Monday after Thanksgiving), from 1-3 PM EST.
Enjoy! Ruthie On behalf of the AAMC MD-PhD Section’s Communication Committee
Ruth Gotian, M.S. Administrative Director
Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program An NIH sponsored MSTP 1300 York Avenue, Suite C-103 New York, NY 10065-4805
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The Leadership Alliance Webinar: Submitting a Competitive Graduate School Application The Leadership Alliance: 20 Years of Supporting Research, Scholarship and Academic Excellence
You are invited to participate in the inaugural Leadership Alliance webinar on Submitting a Competitive Graduate School Application that will be hosted at Brown University on Monday, November 28, 2011 from 1:00pm-3:00pm (EST).
Building on 20 years of professional development, the Leadership Alliance will host a free, live webinar where a panel comprised of Leadership Alliance experts will present information on developing competitive applications to graduate training programs for various academic disciplines. This webinar is for undergraduates, faculty, administrators, and mentors.
Register here for the event!
To Watch Remotely: http://brown.edu/web/livestream/
Post questions before the webinar when you register and tweet questions during the webinar via Twitter: #TLA32 Moderator
Louise Hainline, Brooklyn College
Louise Hainline is a Professor of Psychology whose research interests are in the development of vision and problems of vision in early infancy. She also does research on how people learn in higher education. In addition to her formal administrative duties, Dr. Hainline heads several of the College’s programs in support of minority student training, most notably the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program and the Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (RISE) program. She received an undergraduate degree in Psychology with honors from Brown University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Developmental Psychology from Harvard University.
The Panel
Graduate School Application Process for Life Sciences, Joel Oppenheim
New York University School of Medicine
Joel Oppenheim is Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Sciences, New York University Langone Medical Center, a position that oversees all Ph.D. and postdoctoral training. He also serves as Director of NYU’s Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, the largest Ph.D. granting division of NYU’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and is a member of the School of Medicine’s M.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. Admissions Committees and Chairs the Ph.D. Admissions Committee. He is the founder and director of NYU’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program and is also responsible for recruiting students to all NYU School of Medicine programs. Dr. Oppenheim received his B.S. degree in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Microbiology from Loyola University School of Medicine, and was a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU School of Medicine.
MD-PhD Application Process, Ruth Gotian
Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program
Ruth Gotian is the Administrative Director of the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program for the last 15 years. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Business Management from the University at Stony Brook in New York. Since joining the staff of the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program, Mrs. Gotian has seen the size of the program increase by nearly 25%, the number of applications to their M.D.-Ph.D. Program has increased by over 30% and the number of underrepresented minority students in their program has doubled and is now one of the highest in the country. Mrs. Gotian also oversees the unique summer program for pre-M.D.-Ph.D. students, Gateways to the Laboratory Program. She is also very active on the national M.D.-Ph.D. Program scene, as she served on the National MD-PhD Executive Committee of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and is on the National M.D.-Ph.D. Communications Committee.
Graduate School Application Process for Social Sciences & Humanities, Liza Cariaga-Lo Harvard University
Liza Cariaga-Lo is Assistant Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Harvard University. She was previously Assistant Dean at the Yale Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Director of the Office for Diversity and Equal Opportunity, as well as Clinical Professor, Child Study Center at Yale School of Medicine. She received her master’s and doctorate in Education and Developmental Psychology from Harvard University. Besides teaching courses related to minority health and developmental psychology, Dr. Cariaga-Lo has also taught African American Studies and Asian American Studies courses and consults widely on cultural diversity and multicultural education issues. Her areas of research include education program evaluation, minority student development, ethnic minority health care, and public policy affecting children and families. She has just completed work on a book about the identity development of Asian Americans and is working on a children’s book about growing up in a multicultural environment.
Best Practices on Preparing Undergraduates for Graduate School Application, Cynthia Neal Spence
Spelman College
Cynthia Neal Spence is the Director of the UNCF Mellon Programs, which provides fellowships for students, particularly those of color, interested in becoming college professors in the areas of humanities, physics, mathematics, anthropology, and other disciplines employing philosophical or historical analysis. Dr. Spence also serves as an Associate Professor of Sociology at Spelman College. Her teaching and research interests in the areas of sociology, criminology, law and violence against women support the Law and Criminology concentration in the Department of Sociology. She is also the chair of the Board of the non-profit agency Men Stopping Violence. Prior to her current positions Dr. Spence served as Assistant Dean and Academic Dean from 1985 to 2002 at Spelman. She also worked as a consultant for the Ford Foundations Institutional Transformations Project, the University of Chicago Provost Initiative on Minority Affairs and the Georgia Department of Corrections, and is a former Board member of the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault. Dr. Spence is a graduate of Spelman College where she earned her B.A. degree. She earned both her Master’s and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
