ADVANCE News

Good News From Our Colleagues !

June 2019

Dear IAC Friends,

Good News from our Colleagues !

-Marilyn Brown (SPP) is PI for an ($80,000) award from the Ray Anderson Foundation for an initiative on "Georgia Drawdown."

-Karen Head (LMC), Olga Shemyakina (Econ), and Jennifer Singh (HSoc) have been selected for the 2019-20 Provost's Emerging Leaders Cohort.

IAC ADVANCE on Futures of On-Line Teaching/Learning

March 2019

Dear Colleagues,

Valued are your voice and visions toward Futures of On-Line Teaching and Learning - shared generously in yesterday's IAC ADVANCE Lunch/Discussion !

Appreciation goes to Dean Jackie Royster, Anna Stenport (Chair, Modern Languages), Laura Taylor (Chair, Economics), Rebecca Burnett (LMC), and Karen Head (LMC) for supporting the focus on shaping and envisioning on-line instruction.

Gender & Work-Family Overload: Academia as a Revealing Case

February 2019

Dear IAC Friends,

The ADVANCE website has a new page, Reflections on Advancement of Faculty:  Issues and Solutions.

The first featured piece focuses on an issue central to our community:  "Gender and Work-Family Overload:  Academia as a Revealing Organizational Case
(Click through with the direct link above)

With good wishes for all - Mary

Invitation to participate in the Symposium on “Disability, Intersectionality & Transnational Feminist Praxis”

December 2018

Invitation to participate in the Symposium on “Disability, Intersectionality & Transnational Feminist Praxis.” Please share with your students and with other colleagues.

Sponsored by:      Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

University of Connecticut

Organized by:      Nancy A. Naples & Laura Mauldin

Date:                     March 29-30, 2019

Congratulations, Diana !

November 2018

Dear IAC Friends,

Our colleague, Diana Hicks (Pub Policy) has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for "distinguished contributions to the evaluation of national and international research and development enterprises, and for outstanding leadership in science and technology policy education."

Congratulations, Diana - and all good wishes !

-Mary