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2009 Women in Physiology Committee Report
Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished Mentor and Scientist Award: Fourteen
nominations were received for the sixth Bodil Schmidt-Nielsen Distinguished
Mentor and Scientist award. The Women in Physiology Committee reviewed the
nominations and selected Brian R. Duling, University of Virginia Health
Sciences Center as the 2009 awardee. Duling received an honorarium of
$1,000, a plaque, and reimbursement of expenses to attend the EB 2009
meeting. Duling gave a talk on mentoring entitled: “Mentoring: A Fun,
Collaborative Activity,” and an article based on the lecture was published
in August 2009 issue of The Physiologist.
Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Profes-sional Opportunity Awards:
The Women in Physiology Committee received 90 applications for the 2009
Caroline tum Suden/Frances Hellebrandt Professional Opportunity Awards. The
Committee was able to fund 34 tum Suden Awards and two Steven M. Horvath
Awards, given to the top two underrepresented minority tum Suden Awardees.
EB Mentoring Workshop: The EB 2009 workshop was entitled, “Pathways
to Leadership: Developing Critical Skills,” chaired by Holly H. Brevig,
Andrea L. del Tredici, and Barbara T. Alexander. The workshop was poorly
attended, perhaps because it was not close to any other APS or ASPET
programming sites and also due to an ASPET named lecture that was going on
at the same time.
For EB 2010, the workshop organizers and chairs will be Francisco Andrade,
Univ. of Kentucky, and Angela Grippo, Northern Illinois University. It will
be entitled: “A Primer for the New PI: How to Herd Cats AND Keep Your Boss
Happy.” The participants will be made up of young investigators and more
senior scientists: Jennifer L. Gooch, Emory Univ. (“Fresh Out Of The Box:
Defining Who You Are”); Kristin Gosselink, Univ. of Texas, El Paso
(“Managing Your Allowance: Startup, Release Time, Space”); A. Kim Johnson,
Univ. of Iowa (“Running A Tight But Happy Ship”); and Stephanie W. Watts,
Michigan State Univ. (“The Other Things You Do: Teaching And Service”).
Women Serving on Committees/Sections: In reviewing the membership of
the APS section advisory committees (SACs) and other Society committees, we
found that the representation of women on the general Society committees was
very good. However, in looking at the SACs, we found that the representation
of women was poor in most. For example, in the largest section,
Cardiovascular, there was one woman (8%) of 12 total members; in the Renal
Section one woman (8%) of 12 members (however, the previous chair of the
section was a woman); Environmental and Exercise Physiology Section had two
women (12%) out of 17 members. On Council itself, there are only three women
(25%) out of 12 representatives. These numbers may have changed after the
recent section meetings at EB.
FASEB Excellence in Science Award: For the 2010 award, 40
applications were received, down from 52 in previous year. Susan Taylor,
Univ. of California, San Diego, was selected as the 2010 award recipient.
Since its inception, there have been 21 winners, only one was a primary APS
member. Primary ASBMB winners number 14 of the 21. The Committee will
continue to work with APS members to enhance their nomination packets. In
addition, the Committee is discussing strategies to increase the number of
APS women who are National Academy of Science members, as that is a critical
element for successful candidates for this prestigious award.
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