Agenda

Sunday, october 5

Upon Arrival in Houston: Take taxi on your own to the Hilton Hotel located adjacent to the Rice campus at 6633 Travis Street, Phone: 713-313-4000. Check into room.

• 6:00 pm Vans leave Hotel
  • Lissett Bickford and Joanna Papakonstantinou will meet attendees in hotel lobby
• 6:30 pm Dinner/ Martel Lobby, Duncan Hall
  • Donna Dean, PhD, Senior Science Advisor, Lewis-Burke Associates LLC
  • “Random Collisions and Ordered Events on the Pathway to Academic Success”
• 8:30 pm Vans return to Hilton Hotel

Monday, october 6

Kyle morrow room, fondren library

• 7:45 am Vans leave Hilton Hotel
  • Allison Heath meets attendees in hotel lobby
• 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 am Seiichi Matsuda (Chemistry), Joff Silberg (BCB), Matteo Pasquali (CHBE)
  • What Is A Search Committee Looking For?
  • Putting Together A Successful Faculty Application
• 9:30 am Sherry Woods (UT Austin), Rebecca Richards-Kortum (BIOE)
  • How To Stand Out In The Interview
  • How to Maximize the Impact Of Your Interview Seminar
• 10:30 am Coffee Break
• 11:00 am Margaret Beier (PSY), Vicki Colvin (Chemistry), Jim Pomerantz (PSY), Laura Malisheski (Harvard)
  • Finding The Right Institutional Fit For You: How To (Safely) Find Out About The Culture Of The Department And College

Lunch / duncan hall, room 3092

• 12:00 pm Sarah Keller, University of Washington
  • Conserving Time while Teaching, and Other Hints for New Faculty

Kyle morrow room, fondren library

• 1:30 pm Behnaam Aazhang (ELEC), Jim Kinsey (Chem), Michael Diehl (BIOE), Junghae Suh (BIOE), Tatiana Schnur (Psychology)
  • How and When To Negotiate a Good Start Up Package
  • Negotiating a good start up package (S/E perspective)
• 2:30 pm Rob Raphael (BIOE), Judith Greenberg (NIH), Farinaz Koushanfar (ELEC)
  • How to Obtain Funding
• 3:30 pm Coffee Break
• 4:00 pm Rebekah Drezek (BIOE), Maryrose Franko (HHMI)
  • Building Your Lab: Transitioning to Independence
• 5:00 pm Coffee on your own/Time to review slides for Tuesday
• 6:15 pm Dinner
  • Home of Paula Krisko&Michael Wolf, Professor&Chair of Mathematics, Will Rice Masters.
• 8:00 pm Vans return to Hilton Hotel

Tuesday, october 7

Kyle morrow room, fondren library

• 7:45 am Vans leave Hilton Hotel
  • Kimberly Heck meets attendees in hotel lobby
• 8:00 am Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 am Mike Gustin (BCB), Yousif Shamoo (BCB)
  • Teaching Your First Course: Balancing Teaching and Research
• 9:30 am Jennifer West (BIOE), Kathy Matthews (BCB), Jason Hafner (Physics)
  • Understanding The Tenure Process
• 10:30 am Coffee Break
• 11:00 am Janet Braam (BCB), Jess Logan (PSY), John Olson (BCB)
  • Balancing Your Life

Lunch / anderson commons, mcnair hall

• 12:00 pm Mikki Hebl (Psychology)
  • Fear of Failure, Fear of Success
• 1:15 pm Meet with Department Chairs and Key Senior Faculty for individual meetings
  • See “Schedule for Individual Meetings and Practice Talks” for locations
  • Note: After your individual meeting, please go to your Practice Talk room
• 2:30 pm Deliver Practice Talks
  • See “Schedule for Individual Meetings and Practice Talks” for locations

Martel lobby, duncan hall

• 4:30 pm Reception with the Deans of Engineering and Science and Faculty
• 6:30 pm Vans return to Hilton Hotel
  • Dinner On Your Own

Wednesday, october 8

Depart for airport on your own