NewProfs@UW: Making Connections to Help Launch Your Academic Career

Office of Academic Personnel Overview

Presenters 

• Fred Nafukho, Vice Provost for Academic Personnel
• Marjorie Olmstead, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Personnel
• Hilaire Thompson, Associate Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

Resources

• Office of Academic Personnel Overview Presentation
• Office of Academic Personnel Website
• Office and Team Contacts
• Academic Titles and Ranks
• Promotion and Tenure Procedures
• Merit Review Procedures
• ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change
• ADVANCE Resource Library
• National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity (NCFDD)

Panel: Building a Scholarship Portfolio in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Presenters

• Chair: Chad Allen, Associate Vice Provost, Office for Faculty Advancement
• Catherine Connors, Professor, Department of Classics
• Jennifer Koski, Associate Dean, Professor of Finance, Foster School of Business

Resources 

• Faculty Advancement Informational Sheet

Panel: Building a Scholarship Portfolio in Engineering & Natural Sciences

Presenters

• Chair: Marjorie Olmstead, Associate Vice Provost, Office of Academic Personnel
• Peter Pauzauskie, Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science & Engineering
• Joel Thornton, Professor and Chair, Department of Atmospheric Sciences
• Joyce Yen, Director, UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change

Panel: Building a Scholarship Portfolio in Medicine & Health Sciences

Presenters

• Chair: Hilaire Thompson, Associate Vice Provost, Office of Academic Personnel
• David Morgenroth, Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
• Sunny Chieh Cheng, Assistant Professor, UW Tacoma School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
• Jerry Cangelosi, PhD, Professor, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, Associate Dean for Research, School of Public Health

Panel: Building a Scholarship Portfolio in Teaching & Pedagogy

Presenters

• Chair: Chris Laws, Teaching Professor, Department of Astronomy
• Matt Gliboff, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Physics
• Ann Culligan, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Psychology

Introduction to the UW Libraries

Presenters

• Lauren Pressley, Senior Associate Dean for Research and Learning Services, UW Libraries
• Diana Louden, Life Sciences Librarian, UW Libraries
• Jenny Muilenburg, Research Data Services Librarian, UW Libraries
• Verletta Kern, Head, Open Scholarship Commons; Digital Scholarship Librarian; UW Libraries

Resources

• Introduction to UW Libraries Presentation
• Support for Authors
• Course Materials – Frequently Asked Questions

Panel: Getting Ready to Publish: Book & Article Publishing at UW

Presenters

• Chair: Elliott Stevens, English Studies and Research Commons Librarian, UW Libraries
• Stephan D. Fihn, MD MPH, Professor, Depts of Medicine and of Health Systems and Population Health; Deputy Editor, JAMA Network Open
• Nicole Mitchell, Director, UW Press
• Diana Louden, Life Sciences Librarian, UW Libraries

Panel: Support for Open Scholarship: Working & Sharing Openly for Maximum Impact

• Chair: Lauren Ray, Open Education Librarian, UW Libraries
• Liz Bedford, Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian, UW Libraries
• Verletta Kern, Head, Open Scholarship Commons; Digital Scholarship Librarian; UW Libraries
• Jenny Muilenburg, Research Data Services Librarian, UW Libraries

Office of Research Overview

Presenters

• Mari Ostendorf, Vice Provost for Research
• Joe Giffels, Senior Associate Vice Provost for Research
• Jennifer Iwamoto, DVM, CPIA, Co-Director, Office of Animal Welfare
• Cecilia Giachelli, Associate Vice Provost for Research, Professor, Department of Bioengineering

Resources

• Office of Research Overview Presentation
• Office of Research
• New to UW Research
• Step-by-Step Proposal Submission Guide
• Office of Sponsored Programs
• Compliance Offices
• Office of Animal Welfare
• Limited Submissions
  • Contact Limited Submissions: limitedsubs@uw.edu
• RRF Grant Program

Panel: Collaboration Within and Outside UW

Presenters

• Chair: Mari Ostendorf, Vice Provost for Research
• David Ginger, Professor, Department of Chemistry
• Maureen Kennedy, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma
• Shwetak Patel, Professor, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
• Tivon Rice, Assistant Professor, Digital Arts and Experimental Media
• Mark Scheuerell, Associate Professor, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences

Resources

• Clean Energy Institute (CEI)
• CEII Programs & Opportunities (links from the grad fellowship program which runs every spring, to hosting visiting profs, nominating seminar speakers, hosting REUs, or getting CEI support for your proposals broader impacts section)
• Center for Integration of Modern Optoelectronic Materials on Demand (IMOD)
• IMOD Programs (refer to Seed program, integrative travel fund, and others)
• UW Office of Tribal Relations
• Research Centers
• Shared Research Facilities and Resources
• Office of Global Affairs (funding resources for faculty & researchers)
• Agreements Types for External Collaborations 
• Information on Joint Appointments with Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL)
• Corporate & Foundation Relations (CFR) Resources for Faculty

Panel: Lab & Field Research

Presenters

• Chair: Ben Fitzhugh, Professor, Anthropology
• Brandon Guthrie, Associate Professor, Global Health
• Melanie Martin, Associate Professor, Anthropology
• Sharlene Santana, Professor, Biology
• Cheryl Greengrove, Associate Professor, Science and Mathematics, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

Resources

• Resources that our panel assembled to address questions you had or might have about starting research at UW. We have wandered a bit beyond the strict limits of our unique panel to include links to information we have found useful in areas such as travel, mentoring (and seeking mentors), work-life balance.

Panel: Human Subjects & Clinical Research

Presenters

• Chair:  Jason Malone, Director, Human Subjects Division
• Allison R. Webel, PhD, RN, FAAN, Professor and Interim Robert G. and Jean A Reid Executive Dean, UW School of Nursing
• Joan Casey, PhD, Assistant Professor, Environmental & Occupational Health
• Wadiya Udell, PhD, Professor of Psychology, Interim Assistant Vice Chancellor of Faculty Success, UW Bothell
• Rachel E. Scherr, PhD, Assistant Professor, Physics, UW Bothell

Resources

• Determining When the UW is ‘Engaged’ in Human Subjects Research
• Relying on a Non-UW IRB 
• Conducting Cancer-Related Research: Which IRB to Use?
• Conducting Research Involving Seattle Children’s
• MTA and DUA Agreements
• Study Participant Payments
• UWFT & Study Participant Payment Issues

Panel: Computational Research

Presenters

• Co-Chair: Xiaosong Li, Associate Vice Provost for Research Cyberinfrastructure; Professor, Chemistry, College of Arts & Science
• Co-Chair: Andrew J. Connolly, Associate Vice Provost for Data Science; Professor, Department of Astronomy, College of Arts & Sciences; Director, eScience Institute
• Patrick Boyle, Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Director of the Cardiac Systems Simulation Lab, College of Engineering and School of Medicine
• Ting Cao, Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering
• Ben Marwick, Professor of Archeology and Director of the Interdisciplinary Minor in Data Science, College of Arts & Sciences & eScience Institute
• Kelley Harris, Associate Professor, Genome Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences and College of Engineering

Resources

Panel: Community-Engaged Research

Presenters

• Chair:  Sara Curran, Associate Vice Provost for Research; Professor, International Studies, Evans School of Public Policy, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences
• Branden Born, Chair, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments
• Elizabeth (Beth) Dawson, Assistant Professor, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
• Linda K. Ko, Professor and Associate Chair for Research, Health Systems and Population Health, Co-Director of the Community Engagement Program at ITHS
• Jennifer J. Otten, Associate Professor, Department of Nutritional Sciences, School of Public Health
• Carolyn West, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UW Tacoma

Resources

• UW Community Engagement
• UW Livable City Year
• UW Tacoma Community Partnerships
• How to Conduct A Rapid Community Assessment
• Yuen, T., Park, A. N., Seifer, S. D. & Payne-Sturges, D. A Systematic Review of Community Engagement in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s Extramural Research Solicitations: Implications for Research Funders. Am. J. Public Health 105, e44–52 (2015).
• Boursaw, B. et al. Scales of Practices and Outcomes for Community-Engaged Research. Am. J. Community Psychol. 67, 256–270 (2021).
• Cunningham-Erves, J. et al. Engagement of community stakeholders to develop a framework to guide research dissemination to communities. Health Expect. 23, 958–968 (2020).
• Bodison, S. C. et al. Engaging the Community in the Dissemination, Implementation, and Improvement of Health-Related Research. Clin. Transl. Sci. 8, 814–819 (2015).
• Indiana University Community-Engagement Resources 
• Dr. Linda Ko’s Resources
  • Ko LK, Tingey L, Ramirez M, Pablo E, Grass R, Larzelere F, Cisneros O, Chu HY, D’Agostino EM. Mobilizing Established School Partnerships to Reach Underserved Children During a Global Pandemic. Pediatrics. 2022 Feb 1;149(12 Suppl 2):e2021054268F. doi: 10.1
  • Ko LK, Jimenez E, Cisneros O, Brown EVR, Ibarra G, Bishop S, Escareño M, Serrano-Rubio L, Rillamas-Sun E, Mendoza JA, Sutton S. Participation and engagement of a rural community in Ciclovía: progressing from research intervention to community adoption. BM
• Dr. Carolyn West’s Resources
  •  Example of my UW website
  • Example of my personal website
• Trigger Warning: This Facebook video includes discussions of people’s experience with domestic violence and may be triggering to some viewers. | Example of how to talk about research with the general public
• Dr. Bonnie Duran, Professor Emerita, UW School of Social Work
• Book Manuscript: Wallerstein, Nina, Bonnie Duran, John Oetzel, Meredith Minkler. 2018. Community-Based Participatory Research for Health: Advancing Social and Health Equity. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

Panel: Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Humanistic Social Sciences

Presenters

• Chair:  Kathleen Woodward, Director, Simpson Center for the Humanities, Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and Professor, English
• Jordanna Bailkin, Jere L. Bacharach Endowed Professor in International Studies, Professor, History
• Jesse Oak Taylor, Associate Professor, English
• Bonnie Whiting, Ruth Sutton Waters Endowed Associate Professor, Music

Plenary Panel: Training Mentoring

Presenters

• Chair:  Cecilia M. Giachelli, Associate Vice Provost for Research, Professor, Bioengineering
• Bill Mahoney, Associate Dean of Student and Postdoctoral Affairs, UW Graduate School; Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, UW School of Medicine; Director, Molecular Medicine & Mechanisms of Disease PhD program
• Ralina Joseph, Presidential Term Professor; Director, Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity (CCDE); Associate Dean, Equity & Justice in the Graduate School; Professor of Communication
• Sophie Pierszalowski, Director, Office of Undergraduate Research, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, Center for Experiential Learning and Diversity
• Joey Shapiro Key, Associate Professor, School of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathmetics, Physical Sciences Division, UW Bothell

Resources

• UW Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity (CERSE)
• NASEM Mentoring report: The Science of Effective Mentoring
• Top 10 Tips for Mentors (Science)
• UW Graduate School Mentoring Resources
• Individual Development Plans – IDPs: myIDP, ImaginePhD
• Mentor compacts: AAMC, Wisconsin/ICTR
• Office of Undergraduate Research Mentoring Resources