Top Tier: Postdoctoral Committee Meeting Minutes Monday, Oct 19 2020
Present: Barbara St Pierre Schneider, Alexander Barzilov, Hong Sun, Kenneth Varner, Dave Schwartz, David Cappelli, Jessica Word, Elena Gandia Garcia, Joel Snyder, Kim Dawes, Rafael Oganesyan, Zihui Ma, Jennifer Rennels, Qing Wu, Kim Dawes, Valarie Burke, Emily Lin, Susanna Newbury, Excused: Laura Kruskall, Nevena Cvijetic,
Absent:
Committee Charge - Sub-committee sign-up Distribute and promote the new PostDoc Handbook (Valarie) Postdoctoral Handbook update Share the new Postdoc Handbook: UNLV Today Grad Faculty email Emails to current Postdocs and current Postdoc Advisors
Create a repository of successful proposals for faculty interested in obtaining postdoc funding Chair, Barbara St Pierre Schneider, Professor, Nursing Hong Sun, Associate Professor, Chemistry & Biochemistry Qing Wu, Associate Professor, Personalized Medicine, College of Sciences; Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public health David Cappelli, Professor and Associate Dean Community Engagement, Dental Medicine Alexander Barzilov Valarie will ask Bri about GA
Increase network and involvement with the National Postdoctoral Association - i.e. perhaps obtain funding from UNLV to attend the national conference. (Valarie) Implement comprehensive communications plans to highlight the impactful work being done by postdoctoral scholars. Chair, Nevena Cvijetic, Graduate College Rafael Oganesyan, Program Manager, Office of Undergraduate Research Kim Dawes, Benefits Specialist, Human Resources David G. Schwartz, Associate Vice Provost, Office of Faculty Affairs Suzy Newbury, Associate Professor of Art History, Dept. of Art Jessica Word Jennifer Rennels, Professor, Psychology
Collaborate with Research and Economic Development and OSP to increase the number of grant proposals that fund doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars. Chair, Valarie Burke, Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Services, Graduate College Elena, Gandía García, Associate Professor-in-Residence, WLC Mathew Sunil, Varre, Doctoral student & GPSA Student Rep, GPSA Joel Snyder, Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program, Psychology Zihui Ma, Assistant Professor in Residence, Hospitality. First Name, Last Name, Title, Department First Name, Last Name, Title, Department First Name, Last Name, Title, Department First Name, Last Name, Title, Department
Committees for Spring 2021 Publish annual post-survey reports and de-identified results. Chair, Valarie Burke, Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Services, Graduate College Jessica Soria, GA for Graduate College Student Services
Additional projects and engagement at the will of the Committee and as need arises.
From September’s Meeting - committee discussion/Ideas: Postdocs looking for their own funding (Joel) How to write a postdoc fellowship Showing how postdocs can be funded (Joel) Challenges Paying postdocs well - to be competitive and recruit them to UNLV President/campus postdoc incentive Awarded a grant, UNLV offers an allocated amount toward salary too
Moving Evals to Folio? Cons: Time consuming, doesn’t follow PD after they leave UNLV Pro: Great experience for PD who want to go into academia; training opportunity; CV required; download/take with you what you load into Folio; has different categories - to use it as a database Can we have postdocs just opt in to use?
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