WELCOME!

Fall Dinner:Fellows of the Graduate School

October 13, 2015

Thank President Santa Ono

Returning this year to update us on the state of UC… and

graduate research & education in particular!

Thank Chip Montrose, Dean of the Graduate

School Covering half of cost of Fellow dinners Staff support Support of a new graduate student

mentoring initiative

Bill Ball, VP for Research Covering other half of dinner costs

Thank Lori Griffin in Graduate School

Assisting with all things Graduate Fellows!

Megan Tischner in Graduate School Updating and improving our website

https://grad.uc.edu/fac-staff/fellows.html

Important Functions of Graduate Fellows

Invite distinguished speakers to UC Distinguished Seminar Committee

Recognize outstanding researchers Rieveschl Committee for Awarding

Distinguished Scientific Research Increase quality & number of our

members Membership Committee

Fellows Distinguished Seminar Series

Pat Limbach, Chair

George Deepe, Miguel Roig-francoli, Mary Sue Morrow, Santa Ono

Graduate Fellow Speakers Louis Langrée

Music Director, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra; November 24, 2015, 4pm, CCM: "Challenges and Rewards of a Conductor in the 21st Century" (with CCM as co-sponsor)

John Watson, PhD Professor of Bioengineering, UCSD; April,

2016, National Academy of Engineering, Former NIH Institute Director; Artificial Hearts, NIH Clinical Trials: Details to follow (with CEAS as co-sponsor)

Co-Sponsorship Program

Support for a speaker recruited elsewhere at UC Up to $1,000 for travel and/or honorarium

Received five excellent requests Before our September 18th deadline Able to fund three of these in 1st round

May entertain additional requests in Spring, 2016 Depending on available funds

Distinguished Speakers in this Round

Eduardo Bonilla-Silva; Duke U (April 26, 2016) How ideological beliefs explain acts of racism Hosted by Jennifer Malat (Sociology)

Geoffrey Parker; OSU (February, 2016) Environmental crisis and its social and political

impact in 17th century Europe Hosted by Tracy Teslow (History)

Tyler VanderWeele; Harvard U (April 20, 2016) Causal inference- mediation & interaction methods Hosted by Chris Sullivan (CECH)

Our Continuing Role

Invite distinguished speakers to UC Distinguished Seminar Committee

Recognize outstanding researchers Rieveschl Committee for Awarding

Distinguished Scientific Research Increase quality & number of our

members Membership Committee

Reorganized Our Rieveschl Awards

Committee

John Hutton, interim chair

Joe Caruso, Edna Kaneshiro, Litsa Kranias

Rieveschl Committee

Call for Nominations in late September Award

Recognizes distinguished achievements of national and international acclaim in an area of scientific research

Given for particular work or sum of faculty member’s accomplishments, especially at UC

Deadline for submissions of 20-page nominations is Friday, December 4, 2015

Our Continuing Role

Invite distinguished speakers to UC Distinguished Seminar Committee

Recognize outstanding researchers Rieveschl Committee for Awarding

Distinguished Scientific Research Increase quality & number of our

members Membership Committee

Retain Our Membership Committee

Bruce Ault, chair

Kathryn Gutzwiller, Milind Jog, Barbara Ramusack, Alison Weiss

Membership Committee Call for Nominations in late September Seek nominations from all graduate

colleges of the University Nominees should have

Demonstrated excellence in research/creative/scholarly works

Extensive record of graduate mentoring Deadline for submissions of

nominations is Friday, December 4, 2015

Recent Change in Leadership of Fellows

Elect an Incoming Chair in odd-numbered years Provide a smoother transition in

leadership Andrew Steckl was elected Incoming

Chair of the Graduate Fellows 2015-2016 to “learn the ropes” Assuming Chair of the Fellows on

September 1, 2016

Expanded our Executive Committee

Dave Butler and Sandra Degen; current and past chairs

Andrew Steckl; incoming chair

Bruce Ault, Joe Caruso, Pat Limbach; committee chairs

Valerie Hardcastle, Jeff Whitsett; members at large

Goals of Executive Committee

Re-define our mission and vision Active input from all Fellows

Improve our finances Building a reserve account for investment

Increase our visibility inside & outside UC Improving the website (photos and bios) Co-sponsoring speakers and events Mentoring young faculty and students

Graduate Student Fellows Chip Montrose and I developed a program

to recognize and mentor Five talented PhD students/ yr. from all across

UC who have advanced to candidacy GSF would join group of faculty mentors

Fellow, emeritus/emerita faculty, others Goal is to broaden perspective of each GSF

Keep strongest students interested in academic career by having them learn the breadth and depth of the university system

Suggestion from President Ono

GS Fellow Program Sought valuable feedback

President Ono, Provost Davenport and GF Executive Committee

GS Fellow would receive $2,000/yr Up to 4 yrs to support stated career goals

Conference travel, workshops, exhibitions, etc. Contract signed by all team members Networking to select teams & max interactions

Program supported by Graduate School First group to begin in September, 2016 20 GS Fellows at steady state ($40,000/yr.)

Interviews Begin Tomorrow for Vice

President for Research

Please come prepared and participate in this important

recruitment!

Time for Dinner!

Fellows of the Graduate School

October 13, 2015

Thank You for Attending Tonight

See you at the Louis Langrée lecture November 24th

and the Winter Dinner