The Office of Faculty Development has awarded Mutual Mentoring Grants to ten teams and four individual faculty for 2020-21. 2020-21 Mutual Mentoring Team Grant Recipients: Bio Learn Mentoring Group…, Kari Loomis, , lecturer, biology A group of biology faculty members expanding their existing learning community by creating focused mentoring groups and offering professional development in STEM education. …, Lisa Chasan-Taber, , professor and chair, biostatistics and epidemiology A mentoring network to support, advance, and retain early-career faculty in biostatistics and epidemiology through a roundtable discussion…, Maryclare Griffin, , assistant professor, mathematics and statistics A support network addressing the unique career challenges junior tenure track women face in mathematics and statistics, including multiple seminars…, Deborah McCutchen, , senior lecturer, associate director for Junior Year Writing (JYW) Program, Haivan Hoang, , associate professor, English, associate director of the Junior Year Writing Program A professional development team aiming to improve members’ respective multimodal junior-year writing courses by…, Mari Castañeda, , incoming dean of Commonwealth Honors College and professor, communication , Jennifer Lundquist, , associate dean of research and faculty development and professor, sociology A group of women full professors from ten disciplinary areas and four colleges meeting monthly for support and advice as…, Jamie Rowen, , associate professor, legal studies and political science Monthly mentoring meetings devoted to topics such as understanding promotion/tenure, developing a support network, excelling at research,…, Caryn Brause, , associate professor, architecture , Carey Clouse, , associate professor, architecture and landscape architecture and regional planning (LARP) The LEAP group will meet to support, strategize, and steer shifting career trajectories, helping individual…, Rachel Green, , assistant professor, comparative literature and Israel/Palestine studies A support group for academic mothers addressing the competing demands of scholarly productivity and home life through a…, Shuang Zhou, , assistant professor, physics A writing group composed of faculty in “soft matter” field with a focus on improving the quality and quantity of grant proposals of all members through open planning,…, Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, , assistant professor, music and dance, saxophone Building professional and musical relationships among faculty in the woodwind area through musical collaboration, round-table discussions, and…, Karen Kurczynski, , associate professor, modern and contemporary art College of Humanities and Fine Arts, history of art and architecture Organizing a faculty seminar with contemporary art historians at Brandeis…, Stephen Paparo, , associate professor, music education, choral conductor College of Humanities and Fine Arts, music and dance Working with professional coach Katie Linder to develop a five-year strategic plan for…, Jonathan Wynn, , associate professor, undergraduate program director, incoming chair College of Social and Behavior Sciences, Sociology Hosting mentoring and scholarship conversations and retreats for current and…, Caroline Yang, , assistant professor, English College of Humanities and Fine Arts, English Establishing a mutual mentorship with Esther Kim Lee of Duke University with the goal of co-editing an anthology on the…
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