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Betty Vetter Research Seminar Series
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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Speakers: Dennis Faber, TIME Director, Community College of Baltimore County and
Vera Zdravkovich, Ph.D., Director, CyberWATCH Center, Prince Georges Community College
CyberWATCH - Advanced Technology Education in the Nation, Maryland, and the DC Region
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CyberWATCH -- an Advanced Technological Education (ATE) Regional Center for
security established in October 2005 with a grant from the National Science
Foundation -- has as its overarching goal improving quality and quantity of
security workforce in the region. As a consortium of nineteen higher education
institutions (eleven community colleges and eight four-year colleges/universities,
government agencies and businesses). CyberWATCH's mission is to improve the
quality and quantity of the security workforce in the Washington, DC-Maryland-Virginia Region.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Speaker: Claude Desjardins, Professor of Physiology & Biophysics,
and Director of the Clinical Scholars Project, University of Illinois College of
Medicine, Clinical Scholars Project: A Progress Report on the Workforce for
Internal Medicine
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This talk examined the persistent decline in the physician-scientist workforce
for clinical research and the implications of this decline for future advances in
medical progress. New findings were presented to address the scale and scope of
clinical research accomplished by physician-scientists, early in their careers, in
the United States and Canada. The analysis included an evaluation of workforce
demographics, where physician-scientists are employed, their training for investigative
careers, employer expectations for clinical scholarship, and the quality for intra-
and extra-mural funding for clinical research.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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Speakers: Brian H. Wells, Raytheon Chief Systems Engineer, Raytheon Corporate Engineering,
and Alex Sanchez, Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Mission Innovation Cross Business Team,
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Modeling Student Interest in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
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For the past year and a half Raytheon, working with the Business Higher Education Forum (BHEF), has
been applying Systems Engineering and Modeling and Simulation to the challenge of increasing
student interest in STEM. This activity created a System Dynamics model of the U.S. education
system that is being used to predict how policy changes impact student interest and performance
in STEM over time. To date, modeling has focused on teacher capabilities and how teachers affect
student interest. Preliminary findings will be presented, along with a summary of in-progress
activities and plans for the future.
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
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Speaker: Dr. Ruth Fassinger, Department of Counseling and
Personnel Services at the University of Maryland, Fostering Success for Women in Science:
Results from Project ENHANCE
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Project ENHANCE is a study of the experiences of 1,725 women scientists and 264
managers from 25 Fortune-1000 chemical companies. The goal of the study was to identify
factors that impede or facilitate women’s careers, and to highlight effective corporate
practices aimed at recruiting, retaining, and promoting women scientists.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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Speaker: Michael Gibbons, American Society for Engineering Education,
U.S. Engineering Trends: A Longitudinal and National Overview
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Engineering degrees increased steadily for the past seven years after a decade of
underproduction in the 1990's. The enrollment and degree data are now pointing in
different directions for the various degree levels. This has generated a lot of
discussion regarding America's ability to maintain a leading role in technological
innovation.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Speakers: Daniel Denecke, Ken Redd and Ting Zhang, Council of Graduate Schools, CGS Ph.D. Completion Project.
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The Ph.D. Completion Project is a seven-year, grant-funded project that addresses the issues surrounding Ph.D.
completion and attrition. The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS), with generous support from Pfizer, Inc. and
the Ford Foundation, has provided funding in two phases to 29 major U.S. and Canadian research universities
to create intervention strategies and pilot projects, and to evaluate the impact of these projects on doctoral
completion rates and attrition patterns. An additional 15 partner universities are currently participating
in various aspects of this project. In this section, CGS's Completion Project staff will provide an overview
of the project and give a summary of the results of the baseline program data, which includes the 10-year
completion rates by broad field and program at the participating institutions.
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Friday, June 22, 2007
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Speaker: Michaela Platzer, President, Content First, LLC, Leveraging the Power of Data.
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Good data, well presented has enormous power. This talk focused on
how to compile powerful facts and figures based on publicly available
workforce, education, and economic data and how to use these statistics
as a proven communications tool to educate policy makers, the press,
and the public. Practical examples of what has worked was highlighted
during the presentation.
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Friday, May 25, 2007
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Speaker: Lisa Frehill, Commission on Professionals in Science and
Technology (CPST), Minorities and Non-Minorities in Academia: Preliminary
Results from a Science and Engineering Career Path Comparison Study.
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Dr. Frehill presented preliminary findings from an 18-month Sloan
Foundation-funded project to examine minority representation in
the postdoctorate population and among faculty members in the natural
sciences, mathematics and engineering. The project specifically looks
at the representation of minorities in the relevant pools at various
academic career junctures, the distribution of minority postdoctorates
and minority faculty members across institutions and departments of
varying types, and the loss rates at critical transitions on the
pathway to and within the faculty.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
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Speaker: Jennifer Hobin, Federation of American Societies for
Experimental Biology (FASEB), The (Not So) Secret Lives of Scientists:
Exploring the Career Outcomes of Biomedical Doctorate Recipients.
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Many biomedical doctoral degree programs are designed to prepare trainees
for careers as faculty members at research universities. Yet, only
slightly more than half of biomedical scientists work in academia,
and even fewer are primarily engaged in research. Drawing on data
from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients, this talk examined the career
outcomes of biomedical Ph.D. recipients working within and outside of
academia with a focus on the relationship between work activities,
sector of employment, and job satisfaction.
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Friday, March 23, 2007
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Speaker: Daryl Chubin, American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), AAAS Capacity Center: Data in Service of Institutional Change.
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The AAAS Center for Advancing Science & Engineering Capacity was founded in
2004 as a research-based technical assistance consulting service with a
three-year grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This seminar
reviewed a series of academic client cases that have employed local and
national data on programs aimed at increasing the diversity and quality of
STEM education. A menu of convergent findings and nagging issues were highlighted.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
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Speaker: Michael Neuschatz, American Institute of Physics (AIP),
Making Sense of the Rise in Physics Enrollments: New Findings from AIP
Surveys.
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Physics enrollments are rising rapidly at both the secondary and
undergraduate levels. This talk looked at findings from recent AIP
surveys and other sources to try to discern some of the factors
accounting for the increase and gauge how durable the trend might be.
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Friday, January 26, 2007
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Speaker: Roberta Spalter-Roth, American Sociological Association
(ASA), Measuring Professionalism in Science Occupations in an Era of
Transformation.
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This presentation featured findings from Dr. Spalter-Roth's study,
Redefining Professions Outside and Inside the Academy.
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