Weekly Links
November 17-21, 2008

EVENTS OF THE WEEK:

Research Program Related Events:

Event Audience: All Faculty
Research Strategies Workshop
November 19th, 11:30 –1, Cancer Center rooms 2A & 2B
Building Productive Relationships with Faculty, Funders, and Community Partners: Navigating Personalities, Personal Interests, and Politics - Joseph Tobin, MD, Anesthesiology and Jane M. Foy, MD, Pediatrics
Political acumen is vital for building and establishing a successful research program. Learn how to interact effectively and strategically with other researchers, funders, and other key stakeholders to advance your research and career.
Lunch is courtesy of Jazzercise (http://www.winstonsalemjazz.com/). Contact whcoe@wfubmc.edu to RSVP. For the full 2008-2009 workshop schedule, visit the research page.

To view all the events coming up in the next quarter visit: http://www1.wfubmc.edu/whcoe/Weekly+Links/

IN THE NEWS:

Women’s Words and Wisdom: a monthly e-newsletter that features short, punchy articles, quotes, and other bits of wisdom.   http://www.womensmedia.com/new/Newsletter-October-2008.html

Tomorrow’s Professor: A newsletter sponsored by The Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning.  Issue #898 discusses the realities of Dual Careers.  http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/postings.php


Climbing the Academic Ladder:  Nancy Andrews, Dean of Duke Medical School, on the challenges facing women in science. 

New research tries to shift discussion beyond enrollment rates to the actual experience of male and female students in college.  

The business section of the New York Times discussed the affect of the credit crunch on hospitals and their expansion and modernization plans.  http://tinyurl.com/hospitals-credit.

The Trent Center For Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series presents: "The Estrogen Elixir: Women and Science in the Making and Unmaking of Hormone Replacement Therapy", Elizabeth Watkins, PhD, Professor of History of Health Sciences, The University of California, San Francisco
Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12-1, lunch provided at NOON. Talk begins at 12:15.
Duke North Hospital Lecture Hall 2002.
For more information, please contact us at 668-9000 or trent-center@duke.edu.


The Office of Research Integrity's newsletter features several interesting articles, including two on COI issues in research misconduct inquiries and investigations. Of particular interest is an article on page 5 that focuses on ORI's perspective on dealing with COIs.   http://ori.dhhs.gov/documents/newsletters/vol16_no4.pdf

Scientist Seeks To Halt Exodus Of Women From Science Careers
Even though men and women earn graduate degrees in the sciences in equal numbers, more than half of women ultimately leave the field - whether they work at universities or in the private sector, studies show. 

Upcoming events from the WFU Professional Development Center: