2013 Mentoring Symposium: The Changing Face of Tenure
Session discussing how the definition of tenure differs across higher education institutions.
2012 Mentoring Symposium: Conflict Resolution: How to Keep Everyone Happy!
Session discussing conflict resolution with superiors, colleagues, laboratory employees, students and postdocs, and lab mates.
2011 Mentoring Symposium: Work/Life Balance: Every Choice Matters
Session addressing how someone can pursue other interests and be a successful scientist as well.
2010 Mentoring Symposium: A Primer for the New PI: How to Herd Cats AND Keep Your Boss Happy
Session for new faculty addressing how to kick-start a research program and become active members of a new institution.
2009 Mentoring Symposium: Pathways to Leadership: Developing Critical Skills
Session on how women at senior levels used life experiences to help them develop important leadership skills.
2008 Mentoring Symposium: Gainfully Employed: From Launching a Job Search to Navigating Negotiations
Session for early career scientists who will soon transition into ‘new’ professional appointment.
2007 Mentoring Symposium: Being Heard: The Microinequities That Tilt the Playing Field
This session covers being heard as students and postdocs, being respected as junior faculty, and being recognized as senior faculty.
2006 Mentoring Symposium: Mastering the Juggling Act: Laboratory, Life, and Leadership Roles
Session on juggling research-related duties, research with service and teaching, as a two-career couple, and job and family.
2005 Mentoring Symposium: Managing a Laboratory
Session on various skills needed to manage a laboratory.
2004 Mentoring Symposium: Life After the Ph.D.: Finding a Postdoctoral Fellowship
Session for graduate students on looking for and selecting a postdoctoral fellowship.
2003 Mentoring Symposium: Presentation Skills
Session on oral and poster presentations, how to share science with the public and media, and interviewing skills.
2002 Mentoring Symposium: How to be a Good Mentor/How to be a Good Mentee
Session to provide mentors and mentees advice on the importance of good mentoring to promote development from undergraduate through advanced stages of a scientific career.
2001 Mentoring Symposium: How to Write and Publish in APS/ASPET Journals
Session to mentor young scientists writing, reviewing and publishing manuscripts in APS and ASPET Journals.