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In this Newsletter:
* STEPS Mini-Conference
* Montgomery Fellow Lunch today! Still a few spaces
* DCAL's Learning Community
* Lunch with GRAD Alum from local biotech company
* Postdoctoral Opportunity: The Tufts Training in Education And Critical
Research Skills Program
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* STEPS Mini-Conference *
Hello Everybody,
Excited for the Mini-conference this weekend?! We are! If you are
planning on attending, but haven't yet RSVPed, please do so! It will be
THIS SATURDAY from 10:30am-3pm in Kemeny Hall 007. Please RSVP by email
or the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/111438722902254
There are some other opportunities related to the Mini-Conference that
may interest you as well. We are hosting Dr. Ariel Marshall, Senior
Policy Adviser to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, for dinner on THIS FRIDAY at 6pm
at Jesse's Restaurant. We have two spots left for dinner which will be
decided on a first-come-first-serve basis. However, STEPS only has funds
to cover the meals of the Mini-Conference speakers. This is a very
special opportunity to have the ear of a staffer for a US Senator (one
who influences funding for NSF, NASA, and DoE). Dr. Marshall wants to
know about the research going on here at Dartmouth and the support that
federal agencies provide to our work. Try practicing describing your
research in 1-3 mins to somebody not in your department. You can also
arrive early and get a drink from the bar; Jesse's happy hour is from 4:30-6:30
and includes $2.50 draft beer/cider. Please dress in business casual or
better for dinner. Please email [log in to unmask] if
you are interested and available in attending dinner.
We are also looking for some additional labs (outside of biomedical
sciences) to give Dr. Marshall a lab tour on Saturday morning around 9:30am.
Please email me if that interests you.
Lastly, we will be having a regular lunch meeting next week Tuesday at
1pm in Haldeman 124. Please RSVP by email or through Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/105118316910774
Please let me know if you have any questions!
Thanks,
Nick Warren
STEPS President
* Montgomery Fellow Lunch today! Still a few spaces *
Montgomery Fellow Lunch with Rhodessa Jones
Date:
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Time:
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3598687
Come enjoy lunch and conversation with the Montgomery Fellow, Rhodessa
Jones.
Where: The Montgomery House, Off Rope Ferry Rd, across from Dick's House.
Lunch provided
RHODESSA JONES is Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco acclaimed
performance company CULTURAL ODYSSEY. She is an actress, teacher, singer,
and writer. Ms. Jones is also the Director of the award winning Medea
Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, which is a performance workshop
that is designed to achieve personal and social transformation with
incarcerated women. Ms. Jones has been invited to be a MONTGOMERY FELLOW
at Dartmouth College for the entire Fall 2017 term conducting residency
activities including workshops and lectures. Rhodessa just received THE
THEATRE BAY AREA LEGACY AWARD “for extraordinary contributions to the
Bay Area theatre community.” Rhodessa is presently a contributor to the
just released publication Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches,
Edited by Sharrell Luckett, Tia M. Shaffer © 2017 – Routledge Publishing
House. Rhodessa’s chapter, “Nudging the memory: creating performance
with the Medea Project: Theatre for Incarcerated Women” anchors the
section on “Methods of social activism”. This ground-breaking collection
is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors
seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions
of Black culture in theatre arts.” Jones was hired by the University of
California, Berkeley to teach the BLACK THEATER WORKSHOP entitled “Performance:
An African American Perspective” for Spring Semester 2016. Rhodessa
received the Theatre Practitioner Award presented by Theater
Communications Group during July 2015. The award recognizes “a living
individual whose work in the American theatre has evidenced exemplary
achievement over time and who has contributed significantly to the
development of the larger field”. On May 16, 2014 Rhodessa was the
Keynote Speaker for Graduation Commencement, Department of Theater,
Dance, and Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley. Ms.
Jones was just recently the Spring 2014 Interdisciplinary Artist in
Residence for the College of Letters and Science and the School of Human
Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Beginning in 2015
Rhodessa will be a Visiting Professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga,
California. During 2015 Rhodessa will direct the African American
Theater Company production entitled, Xtigone at the Buriel Clay Theater
in San Francesco. During January 2014 Rhodessa traveled to New York City
to the PUBLIC THEATER to direct BLESSING THE BOATS: THE REMIX, Sekou
Sundiata’s acclaimed solo theater work. Other directing credits include
the upcoming new play Lost in Language by the renowned NTOZAKE SHANGE;
the 2007 production of Lysistrata, produced by the African American
Shakespeare Company; Eve Ensler’s Any One of Us, VDAY: Until the
Violence Stops Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York; and
Will Power's The Gathering. To begin 2013 The Office of Mayor Edwin M.
Lee and the San Francisco Art Commission presented the 2013 Mayor's Art
Award to Rhodessa Jones, for her “lifetime of artistic achievement and
enduring commitment to the role of the arts in civic life”. In June 2012
The U.S. Department of State, Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau
selected Rhodessa as an “ARTS ENVOY”! As one of San Francisco’s most
revered artists she received grant support to journey to South Africa to
continue her work in collaboration with Urban Voices Festival inside the
Naturena Women's Prison in Johannesburg, South Africa and then journey
on to participate in the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South
Africa. In March 2012 Ms. Jones conducted residency activities at Brown
University for the Arts in the One World Conference. During December of
2007 Ms. Jones received a United States Artist Fellowship to support her
work. In 2004 she was honored with an Honorary Doctorate from California
College of the Arts. Other awards include a San Francisco Bay Guardian
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, a San Francisco Community Leadership
Award “in recognition of outstanding contributions to improving the
quality of life in the Bay Area” in 2000. In May 2003 Ms. Jones was
awarded a Non-Profit Arts Excellence Award by the San Francisco Business
Arts Council, and in June 2003 she received an Otto Rene Castillo Award
for Political Theater. Rhodessa’s published works include: A Beginner’s
Guide to Community - Based Arts, New Village Press; Imagining Medea:
Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women, The University of
North Carolina Press; and Colored Contradictions An Anthology of
Contemporary African – American Plays (“Big Butt Girls, Hard-Headed
Women”), Penguin Group.
* DCAL's Learning Community *
DCAL's Learning Community for Future Faculty
Date:
Monday, October 16, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3411556
In order to cultivate a community focused on teaching and learning
amongst graduate students and postdocs, DCAL has established a Learning
Community for Future Faculty (LCFF). The focus of this group is to share
the rewards and challenges of college teaching, while digging a bit
deeper into best practices and techniques for teaching. The LCFF meets
monthly on the 2nd Monday of the month.
* Lunch with GRAD Alum from local biotech company *
GRAD Alum Visit - Molly Croteau
Date:
Friday, October 20, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3472101
Come have lunch with GRAD alum, Molly Croteau.
41 Haldemen with lunch provided
See bio below:
Molly Croteau, Ph.D. in Chemistry
Scientist, Bioassays at Avitide, Inc.
Lebanon, New Hampshire
Molly obtained her Ph.D. in Bioinorganic Chemistry from the Dartmouth
Chemistry Department in February of 2016. Her thesis work was developing
new methods to understand chemical reduction and oxidation reactions in
metalloproteins (proteins that contain metals); specifically a
brilliant-blue colored protein called Azurin. In simple terms, she
studied how the smallest unit of energy (an electron) changes how the
metal interacts or binds with the protein, and how you can detect this
electron change in a new way that would help scientists with more
complex proteins and metals. While her work would never go on to cure
cancer or fight crime, it does lay the foundation to help future
researchers develop alternative energy fuels using the simple electron
and natural proteins as the workhorse. Molly then applied her
fundamental knowledge about binding interactions and obtained a job with
Avitide, Inc. right in Lebanon, New Hampshire in February 2016.
About Avitide:
Avitide has been around since 2013 and was started at one lab bench in
Adimab (another Upper Valley biotech company) with roughly 3 employees.
We have grown to currently have about 35 employees in Merck’s old space
in the Dartmouth Regional Technology Center (DRTC), with a foreseeable
expansion in the future. In the biotech world, growing and purifying
biological drugs (like insulin) is a long, tedious, and expensive
process. Here at Avitide, we design and build unique molecules to help
purify biologics for large biopharmaceutical companies, so they can
bring the drugs to market directly, or be accepted into clinical trials.
We perform these tasks in 3 months, and offer more robust solutions to
the current industry. In simple terms, let’s say a company has made a
fruit smoothie, but they really only want the banana part of that
smoothie from the mixture. Typically, they would pass the smoothie
mixture through six to eight different filters, and eventually they
would get just the banana part (the pure drug substance). At Avitide, we
design and build one filter that separates the banana from the smoothie
in one shot, with minimal banana clean up afterwards. Of course, we don’t
actually work with smoothies and bananas, but with cell mixtures that
contain the expressed drug of choice.
Molly is a Bioassay Scientist at Avitide, which entails determining how
our molecules interact with the biological drug substances we receive
from clients. She uses ForteBio Octet (BLI) technology, along with other
binding technologies (ELISA, etc.) to select the best molecules from
over 5,000 to 1 or 2 lead candidates. She also is the lead manager for a
large and complex multi- year project, which entails data organization
and task delegation throughout the entire workforce.
Other Info:
Molly knew that she wanted to pursue a career in the science industry,
opposed to academia, and set her tasks in graduate school to meet this
goal. She can offer advice about what techniques most industrial science
companies are looking for in an employee, and how you can obtain those
techniques during graduate school. She can also answer questions about
large companies vs. small companies, postdoc vs. no postdoc, and other
general advice.
* Postdoctoral Opportunity: The Tufts Training in Education And Critical
Research Skills Program *
From: TEACRS Program <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 5:18 PM
To: TEACRS Program <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Postdoctoral Opportunity: The Tufts Training in Education And
Critical Research Skills Program
Dear Colleague,
We would like to tell you about an exciting postdoctoral training
program that is in place at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts,
and hope that you will pass information about this opportunity on to
your graduate students. This program, called TEACRS (Training in
Education and Critical Research Skills), is funded by the Institution
Research and Career Development Award (IRACDA) mechanism of NIH-GMS.
TEACRS is designed to prepare talented young scientists for the multiple
demands of an academic career in biomedical research. Trainees spend on
average 75% of their time conducting bench research and 25% of their
time in career development activities. Teaching skills are developed
through programs involving mentored classroom assignments at
minority-serving institutions in the Boston area. The training is
supplemented by workshops on teaching methods, career opportunities in
academia, and essential skills such as grant writing, mentoring, and
scientific presentations. The training components are sequenced to
allow trainees to balance the activities and to build on previous
experiences. TEACRS fellows receive up to four years of salary support
and a yearly travel and supply allowance.
The application deadline for positions beginning in the fall of 2018 is
March 1. Later applications will be considered if positions are
available. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with
no more than two years of postdoctoral training at the time of their
appointment to the program. Commitment to the goals of the program,
strong academic and research credentials and a demonstrated interest in
teaching and mentoring will be important criteria used in the selection
process.
For additional information on the TEACRS program and application
procedures, please visit our website, or contact Claire Moore, the
Program Director, or Jordan Wilkinson, the Program’s Research
Administrator with questions. We have also attached a printable flier
describing the program.
Thank you for your help in getting the word out about the TEACRS Program.
Best wishes,
Claire Moore
TEACRS Program Director
Mitch McVey
TEACRS Program Co-Director
Jordan Wilkinson
TEACRS Program Research Administrator
chool of Medicine-TEACRS logo
The TEACRS Program at Tufts University’s School of Medicine
(Training in Education And Critical Research Skills)
http://sackler.tufts.edu/Academics/TEACRS-Welcome
136 Harrison Ave
Boston, MA 02111
617.636.6754
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