leadership alliance national symposium july 27-29, 2007...

Leadership Alliance National Symposium July 27-29, 2007

Program At-a-Glance

TIME GEN. SESSIONS UNDERGRAD SESSIONS GRADUATE SESSIONSCOORDINATORS & MENTORS

Day 1 - Welcome, Alumni Panel & Speaker3:00 Registration & Photos PowerPoint Prep4:00 3:00-6:00 pm 3:00-6:006:00 Dinner Served6:30 Welcome & Orientation7:15 Alumni Career Panel 7:15-8:158:30 "How to Feel as Bright and Capable as Everyone Seems to Think You Are"

(Dr. Valerie Young) 8:30-9:309:30 PowerPoint Prep (for late arrivals) Moderators Training Orientation/Introductions

9:30-10:30 pm 9:30-10:30 pm 9:30-10:30 pm

Day 2 - Presentations, Panels, Keynote & Awards

7:30 Breakfast 7:30-8:45

Photos 7:30-9:30 Set up Posters 7:30-8:45 am9:00 Student Poster Presentations Review Poster Presentations Review Posters

9:00-10:30 am 9:00-10:30 am 9:00-10:30 am10:30 Coffee Break Break down posters 10:30-11:0011:00 Student Oral Presentations-Session I Moderate Oral Presentations

11:00-12:15 11:00-12:1512:15 Transition/Break12:30 Lunch & Panel 12:30-2:00 Lunch & Postdoc Panel 12:30-2:00 (Choice of undergrad

The Graduate School Experience Life After Graduate School or grad lunch & panel)2:00 Transition/Break2:15 Student Oral Presentations-Session II Moderate Oral Presentations

2:15-3:30 2:15-3:303:30 Break/Snack Photos 3:30-6:304:00 Student Oral Presentations-Session III Moderate Oral Presentations

4:00-5:15 4:00-5:155:15 Transition/Break FREE TIME

5:15-6:306:30 Dinner7:30 Keynote Speaker (Dr. Donna Nelson) 7:30-8:15 pm8:15 Mentor Recognition Awards9:00 Dance Party/FREE TIME 9:00-Midnight Mentors Meeting

w/ coordinators

Day 3 - Panels, Seminar, Recruiting Fair8:30 Breakfast Buffet 8:30-9:30 Breakfast Buffet 8:30-9:30 Breakfast Buffet

Graduate School App Process Completing Your Dissertation 8:30-9:309:30 9:30-10:30 (Dr. Wendy Carter) Exhibitors Setup

1) Bio Sciences & MD/PhD 9:30-10:30 9:30-10:302) Engineering & Physical Sciences3) Humanities & Social Sciences

Hotel Checkout by Noon10:30 Recruiting Fair

10:30-12:3012:30 Fill out surveys Fill out surveys Exhibitors breakdwn1:00 Boxed Lunch & Closing Remarks1:30 Adjourn & Departures

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Leadership Alliance National Symposium Agenda 2007

Friday, July 27th

LeadershipAllianceConferenceRegistration...................................................3:00–6:00p.m.

InternationalPrefunction

PreparationforPowerPointPresentationI......................................................3:00–6:00p.m.

Hartford

Photos..................................................................................................................3:00–6:00p.m.


Dinner...........................................................................................................................6:00p.m.

InternationalBallroom

Welcome&Orientation...............................................................................................6:30p.m.


• ValerieP.Wilson,SymposiumHost ExecutiveDirector,LeadershipAlliance• LouiseHainline,BrooklynCollege

AlumniCareerPanel...........................................................................................7:1�–8:1�p.m.


Moderator:ValerieP.Wilson,ExecutiveDirector,TheLeadershipAlliance• DanielleDrayton,ResearchAnalyst,DecisionResources• StephenGarcia,AssistantProfessorofPublicPolicy,UniversityofMichigan• CandiceJenkins,AssistantProfessorofEnglish,HunterCollege• MarcusJones,J.CraigVenterInstitute(JCVI)

“HowtoFeelasBrightandCapableasEveryoneSeemstoThinkYouAre”....................................................................................8:30–9:30p.m.

• ValerieYoungInternationalBallroom

OrientationwithMentorsandCoordinators...................................................9:30–10:30p.m.

Summer

PowerPointPrepII(forlatearrivals)..............................................................9:00–10:30p.m.

Hartford

ModeratorsTraining.........................................................................................9:30–10:30p.m.

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Saturday, July 28

Breakfast&Photos..............................................................................................7:30–8:4�a.m.

StateBallroom,HartfordBallroomandTerrace

SetupPosters......................................................................................................7:30–8:4�a.m.


StudentPosterPresentationsSession.............................................................9:00–10:30a.m.


CoffeeBreak/BreakdownPosters.................................................................10:30–11:00a.m.


StudentOralPresentations–SessionI.........................................................11:00–12:1�p.m.

Transition/Break........................................................................................................12:1�p.m.

Lunch&PanelDiscussionforUndergraduates:............................................12:30–2:00p.m.

TheGraduateSchoolExperience

InternationalBallroomEast/Center

Moderators:PamelaScott-Johnson,MorganStateUniversityGeorgeHill,VanderbiltUniversity• FrederickBiga,BrownUniversity,Engineering• KarissaMcCall-Culbreath,VanderbiltUniversity,MicrobiologyandImmunology• KedrickPerry,UniversityofVirginia,CurrySchoolofEducation• GahoderyRodriguez,YaleUniversity,PoliticalScience• PalomaVargas,NewYorkUniversity,MolecularOncology

Lunch&PanelDiscussionforGraduateStudents.........................................12:30–2:00p.m.

LifeAfterGraduateSchool

InternationalBallroomWest

Moderator:MedevaGhee,TheLeadershipAlliance• MarcelAgüeros,ColumbiaUniversityAstronomy&Astrophysics• PaulArdayfio,Post-doctoralFellowinNeuroscienceDiscoveryResearchDivisionof

EliLillyandCo.• MaloAndreHutson,RobertWoodJohnsonHealthandSocietyScholar2006–2008 UniversityofMichiganSchoolofPublicHealth,CenterforSocialEpidemologyand

PopulationHealth• MónicaPeláez,AssistantProfessorofLiterature,RampanoCollegeofNewJersey• RachelleSalomon,St.Jude’sChildren’sResearchHospital• LatashaWright,ThePhilipsLab,NewYorkUniversitySchoolofMedicine

StudentOralPresentations–SessionII...........................................................2:1�–3:30p.m.

Break/Snack.................................................................................................................3:30p.m.

InternationalPrefunctionandsecondfloorbreakouts

StudentOralPresentations–SessionIII..........................................................4:00–�:1�p.m.

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Photos/FreeTime................................................................................................�:1�–6:30p.m.


Dinner...........................................................................................................................6:30p.m.


KeynoteSpeaker..................................................................................................7:30–8:1�p.m.

DonnaNelson,UniversityofOklahoma


MentorRecognitionAwards........................................................................................8:1�p.m.


MentorsMeetingw/Coordinators.............................................................................9:00p.m.

Summer

DanceParty/FreeTime.....................................................................................9:00–12:00a.m.

StateBallroom

Sunday, July 29

BreakfastPanels

(Breakfastserved8:30–9:30a.m.,Panelsbegin9:30a.m.)

TheGraduateSchoolAplicationProcess.........................................................8:30–10:30a.m.BioSciences&MD/PhDStateBallroom

Moderator:JoelOppenheim,NewYorkUniversitySchoolofMedicine• MichaelGaines,AssistantProvost,UniversityofMiami• AnikaGreen,AssistantDeanforGraduateEducation&DirectorofBiosciencesDiversityProgram, StanfordUniversity• LaurelSouthard,DirectorofUndergraduateResearch,CornellUniversity

Engineering&PhysicalSciencesNathanHale

Moderator:MarkHernandez,UniversityofColoradoatBoulder• BeverlyHartline,DeanoftheCollegeofMathematics,NaturalSciences,andTechnology, DelawareStateUniversity• NoeLozano,AssociateDean,StudentAffairs,StanfordUniversity• EdwardMarshall,CoordinatorofRecruitmentandSpecialPrograms,BiomedicalGraduateStudies UniversityofPennsylvania

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PreSentation CategorieS Key

AB AppliedBiosciences(HumanBiology&Disease,PublicHealth,BiomedicalEngineering)

BB BasicBiosciences(MolecularprocessesandGenetics,Biochemistry)

ES EarthSciences(EnvironmentSciences,Geosciences,MarineSciences)

EN Engineering(Mechanical,Electrical&MaterialsEngineering)

HU Humanities(Literature,LanguageArts,History,Media)

PS PhysicalSciences(Chemistry,Math,Physics,ComputerSciences,ComputerEngineering)

PE Policy&Ethics(Politics,Policy&Legislation,Ethics,Philosophy&Reasoning)

SS SocialSciences(Sociology,Economics,Psychology,andBehavioralSciences)

Humanities&SocialSciencesHartford

Moderator:CynthiaNealSpence,SpelmanCollege• TerryPlater,AssociateDean,AcademicAffairs,CornellUniversity• DavidRedman,AssociateDean,AcademicAffairs,PrincetonUniversity• LizaCariaga-Lo,AssistantProvostforFacultyDevelopment&Diversity,GraduateSchool,

HarvardUniversity• SharonGamble,DirectorMinorityAffairsandSpecialPrograms,ColumbiaUniversity

GraduateStudentBreakfast&Seminar..........................................................8:30–10:30a.m.

CompletingyourDissertation

Summer

WendyCarter,UniversityofMaryland,BaltimoreCounty

ExhibitorsSetUp..............................................................................................9:30–10:30a.m.


RecruitingFair/Exhibitors.............................................................................10:30–12:30p.m.


FillOutSurveys..........................................................................................................12:30p.m.


BoxLunchandClosingRemarks................................................................................1:00p.m.


Adjourn&Departures.................................................................................................1:30p.m.

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