Mentoring and Networking
Opportunities for Networking:
- National meetings
- Local meetings
- Anywhere
- After presentations
Strategies for Networking
- Mention introduces
- Ask mentor
- Make connection based on place/topic
- Look up contacts
- How to stand out – email before event and create connection; clarify intention/expectations (be limited)
- Taxi
- Business cards (see Educational Media)
- NIH bio sketch
- Informational interview; make them feel good
Types of Mentor
- Content
- Career
- Personal
- Strategy/politics
- Coaching
- Resources
How to Approach People
- Schedule them and have an agenda
Due Diligence
- Web of Science Author Finder (shows citations)
- NIH Reporter (shows grants)
- Harvard Catalyst (shows coauthors)
Peter Cahn’s blog
- Stuck in the Middle June 12, 2012Associate professors register more job dissatisfaction than faculty of other ranks according to a national survey conducted by the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education. In several categories, associate professors feel less valued and less supported. Their dissatisfaction may reflect a concentration of resources for early career faculty and t […]
- Women PhDs and the Pipeline May 25, 2012Why women doctoral students are shunning academia. […]
- The Lost Art of Asking May 8, 2012How to pose a question to a speaker. […]
Faculty Publications
- Medial Posterior Meniscal Root Tears Are Associated with Development or Worsening of Medial Tibiofemoral Cartilage Damage: The Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study.
- LC-MS and LC-MS/MS studies of incorporation of 34SO3 into glycosaminoglycan chains by sulfotransferases.
- Endemic Fungal Infections in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Associated with Anti-TNF Antibody Therapy.
- Changes in Apaf-1 conformation that drive apoptosome assembly.
- BET protein function is required for inflammation: Brd2 genetic disruption and BET inhibitor JQ1 impair mouse macrophage inflammatory responses.
Where we’re from
