President Donna Shalala Chair of the National Academies report Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering re the SEEDS NSF grant: “We have to do this.”

Provost Tom LeBlanc Established a University-level SEEDS office as a focus for diversity programs in the sciences across all three UM campuses SEEDS main $upporter

RSMAS Dean Roni Avissar “…A distinguished scientist and prominent scholar who will bring strong leadership to the rich academic resources of the Rosenstiel School…” - Donna Shalala SEEDS Co-PI

College of Arts and Sciences Interim Dean Jacqueline Dixon SEEDS Co-PI As a geologist and as an administrator, Dean Dixon says “I enjoy... climbing active volcanoes.”

Miller School of Medicine Dean Pascal Goldschmidt SEEDS Co-PI “Broad based science is extraordinarily helpful in building bridges among groups.”

College of Engineering Dean James Tien SEEDS Co-PI Doubled the number of women faculty in Engineering: from four to eight !

Chair of Biology Director of SEEDS Kathryn Tosney SEEDS NSF grant PI Spent twenty years at the University of Michigan: ten years before and ten years during an NSF Advance for Women in Science Program

RSMAS Professor Rana Fine SEEDS Steering Committee Member Studies the role of oceans in climate change on time scales of decades Serves on international panels that set policy

RSMAS Professor Susan Sponaugle SEEDS Steering Committee Member Interdisciplinary studies on the dynamics of population replenishment and connectivity in marine organisms

College of Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor Barbara Whitlock SEEDS Steering Committee Member Combines classic and molecular approaches to study plant diversity and evolution from the DNA to the population levels

Miller School of Medicine Professor Sheri Keitz SEEDS Steering Committee Member Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development Chief of Medicine Miami VA Center Advisor on Diversity to President Shalala

College of Engineering Professor Helena Solo-Gabriele SEEDS Steering Committee Member Associate Dean of Research Studies microbes in water, the environmental impact of treated wood and hydrology in the everglades

Miller School of Medicine Professor Mary Lou King SEEDS Steering Committee Member Avid birder Avid developmental biologist Avid teacher of professional skills

College of Arts & Sciences Chair of Sociology Robert Johnson SEEDS Director of Assessment The SEEDS climate survey is now online and ready for you to take!

SEEDS Program Manager Natasha Jobbagy SEEDS Program Natasha organizes everything in SEEDS!

College of Arts & Sciences Theatre Arts Assistant Professor Jennifer Burke SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Interactive Theatre Director MFA from Brandies U, recent projects include performing at the Kennedy Center and building the SEEDS Interactive Theatre from the ground up!

College of Arts & Sciences Biology Professor David Wilson SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Interactive Theatre Facilitator Has been everything: Dean of Arts & Sciences, Chair of Faculty Senate, Director of Undergraduate Neuroscience Program... has won teaching awards and the McLamore Outstanding Service Award– and now he is in theatre!

College of Arts & Sciences Theatre Arts MFA candidate Marc Mocahbe SEEDS Interactive Theatre His films, web series and music videos have won many awards; he has worked for Animal Planet, Grammy Award winning Jolipop Entertainment, Speed TV and Showtime Networks and served as faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music SEEDS actor

College of Arts & Sciences Theatre Arts Lecturer Janet Allard SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Actor MFA Yale School of Drama, dramatic writing. Recent works include Vrooommm! a NASComedy, The Unknown: a Silent Musical, and Untold Crimes of Insomniacs

College of Arts & Sciences Theatre Arts Lecturer Lee Soroko SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Actor MFA U. Texas, acting, movement and combat. Multiple directing and acting credits including off-Broadway, Yale, Triad stage and Savanna Shakespeare Festival

College of Arts & Sciences Theatre Arts Assistant Professor Jennifer Vellenga SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Actor MFA in directing from Ohio U, among many acting and directing roles, directed at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis and the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego

College of Arts and Sciences Theatre Arts Lecturer Maha McCain SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Actor MFA Ohio U; acting credits include Law & Order, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Miami’s own Just the Funny

Glenn Patron SEEDS Interactive Theatre SEEDS Actor A retired businessman who has “done it all” in his second career as a performer: Amateur and professional theatre, stand-up, TV soap operas and radio in English & Spanish.

College of Engineering Assistant Professor Eunji Lim SEEDS You Choose Winner Won a SEEDS award to host three distinguished scholars who work in industrial engineering areas complementary to her research

Georgia Institute of technology Associate Professor Hayriye Ayhan SEEDS You Choose Winner First speaker in Eunji Lim’s Industrial Engineering Speaker Series, supported by a You Choose Award. Her seminar Queuing Networks with Cross-Trained Servers was followed by a mentoring event

College of Arts & Sciences Anthropology Associate Professor Traci Ardren SEEDS You Choose Winner Won a SEEDS award to foster a collaboration with Dr. Vera Tiesler, a physical anthropologist in Mexico

Miller School of Medicine Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology Assistant Professor Joy Lincoln SEEDS You Choose Winner Won a SEEDS award with cost share from Bookman’s office to host five forums on navigating the NIH system

NIH/NINDS National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Program Director Ramona Hicks, M. D. SEEDS You Choose Winner First speaker in Dr. Joy Lincoln’s series of forums on navigating the NIH system, funded by her You Choose Award, will be speaking on November 11

RSMAS Meteorology & Physical Oceanography Assistant Professor Paquita Zuidema SEEDS You Choose Winner Won a SEEDS award to host a day-long career skills course on writing by Dr. Judith Swan, Ph.D. in biochemistry from MIT, co-author of The Science of Science Writing

RSMAS Meteorology and Physical Oceanography Assistant Professor Lisa Beal SEEDS You Choose Winner Won a SEEDS award to organize an international workshop in Kiel, Germany that forms the basis of a large-scale proposal on climate change

Biostatistics, Epidemiology Assistant Professor Tulay Koru-Sengul SEEDS You Choose Winner Won a SEEDS award to attend a career development workshop for Junior Faculty Health Researchers in Biostatics

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Women of RSMAS

Speed Mentoring, MED

Speed Mentoring, Med

Speed Mentoring, RSMAS

Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer, RSMAS Shown with some SEEDS Steering Committee members

Distinguished lecturer Dr. Maria Assunção F. Silva Dias SEEDS Distinguished Lecturer, RSMAS

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Dr. Lúcia Lohmann Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil Gifford Arboretum Lecturer Led discussion on Building Leadership in Plant Conservation. Attendees were faculty, graduate students and community leaders in plant conservation

SEEDS Luncheon 2008 President Donna Shalala Addressing the first SEEDS networking meeting

SEEDS Luncheon 2008

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Susan Lindquist, MIT, member of the National Academy of Sciences Mary Bartlett Bunge Distinguished Women in Cell Biology Lecturer SEEDS cosponsored her formal mentoring talk Yes We Can! A Woman’s Perspective on a Life in Science

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Susan Lindquist at reception before the SEEDS Q & A mentoring session

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Susan Lindquist Participants at her SEEDS Q & A mentoring session

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Susan Lindquist Mary Lou King, introducing the SEEDS mentoring session

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Prof. Meg Lowman Pioneer of tree canopy ecology Author of Life in the Treetops and It's a Jungle Up There Led a discussion of gender and mentoring in academic science with a diverse group ranging from high school to tenured faculty

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Professor Kate Barald University of Michigan SEEDS sponsored talk at the Miller School of Medicine: Tips to Mentors for Writing NIH Postdoc Applications

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Barbara Liskov Member of the National Academy of Engineering Associate Provost for Faculty Equity Ford Professor of Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker, Monday Nov 9, 2009 Security of Internet Storage SEEDS is sponsoring a mentoring “high tea” event after her seminar

SEEDS Sponsored Mentor Linda Sanford Member of the National Academy of Engineering Senior Vice President, IBM College of Engineering Distinguished Speaker, Monday Jan 25, 2010 Building a Smarter Planet: Strategies for Meaningful Change SEEDS is sponsoring a mentoring “high tea” event before her seminar

SEEDS Interactive Theatre The Mid-Term Review Presentation at RSMAS The department chair meets with the junior faculty member

SEEDS Interactive Theatre The Mid-Term Review Flashback to the faculty meeting

SEEDS Interactive Theatre The Mid-Term Review Varied audience responses

SEEDS Interactive Theatre The Mid-Term Review More audience responses

SEEDS Interactive Theatre The Mid-Term Review A “faculty member” answers an audience query while David Wilson facilitates

SEEDS Interactive Theatre The Mid-Term Review A “time out” for faculty while the audience queries the junior faculty member

SEEDS resources Recommended resources See

SEEDS resources Recommended resources See

SEEDS resources Recommended resource See Project Implicit: Harvard online assessment An opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences in topics ranging from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to sports teams, and gender to styles of music

SEEDS Programs Speed Mentoring Networking Focus Groups Career Workshops Distinguished Scholar Lecturers Sponsored Mentors Climate survey You Choose Leadership Awards Interactive Theatre