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Weekly Links
October 19-23, 2009

 


EVENTS OF THE WEEK:


Promotion, Achievement & Mentoring Award Social
October 20, 4:30-6
Dr. Patricia Adams has won the Mentoring of the Year Award, join us in celebrating this achievement and the many others of all WFU & WFUSM Women Faculty.
Event Audience: Women Faculty (WFU & WFUSM) and specially invited guests.
To RSVP click here.
Add this appointment to my Outlook calendar.


To view all the scheduled WHCOE events visit: http://www1.wfubmc.edu/whcoe/Weekly+Links/

IN THE NEWS:

 

Vigil to Honor Victims of Domestic Violence Homicide, Monday, October 19, 6pm, at Family Service, Inc, 1200 S Broad Street.  Sponsored by Family Services Safe Relationships Division and Vigils for Healing.  For more information, contact Family Services, Inc at 722-8173 or Vigils for Healing at 922-5694.

 

Free Bone Density Screening, Thursday, October 22 from 11:30am - 2pm. The Screening will take place in the Women's Health Center of Excellence Resource Room, located in Piedmont Plaza II, First floor [map]. There is no appointment necessary and each screening only takes about 10 minutes, so take a quick break and come on by!

 

SELAM Educational program "Ask For It: Women and the Power of Negotiation" Featuring Sara Laschever.  Saturday November 7, 2009, Hynes Convention Center - Sheraton Boston - Marriott Copley Place Boston, MA. Register online today by clicking here! Pre-registration is encouraged.

 

Recent Academic Medicine (October 2009) Articles:
Missing the Elephant in My Office: Recommendations for Part-Time Careers in Academic Medicine Not About Us Without Us 
Interventions That Affect Gender Bias in Hiring: A Systematic Review

 

Super Professor Meets Supermom (Recent Article in Chronicle of Higher Education)

 

Available All the Time: Etiquette for the Social Networking Age
As social networking sites and 24-hour Blackberry access blur the lines between business and personal lives, managers and employees are struggling to develop new social norms to guide them through the ongoing evolution of communications technology. Wharton faculty and other experts say the process of creating rules to cope with the ever-expanding reach of modern communications has just begun, but will be shaped largely by individuals and organizations, not top-down decrees from a digital Emily Post.
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/2349.cfm

 

Collaboration in Academic Medicine: Reflections on Gender and Advancement

 

Position Announcements from ELAM

Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri - Kansas City.  
Associate Dean for Curriculum, University of Colorado, Denver School of Medicine.