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Office of Postdoctoral Affairs Update: June 26, 2015
Professional Development Events
Membership
Funding
Professional Development Events
The Center for Inclusive Education invites you to a four-day writing retreat to be
held at Stony Brook’s Southampton campus on July 20-24, 2015. This retreat will be
an opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to get away for focused writing
time to work on a dissertation, manuscript, proposals or fellowship applications.
Registration Cost: $300
Registration Includes:
2 Writing Workshops
Single Dorm Unit with Kitchen (Linens Included)
One-On-One and Group Writing Sessions
WiFi and Printer Access
Student Center Access
Space is Extremely Limited. Please Register Online Today
Questions: Karian.Wright@stonybrook.edu
See attached flyer.
2. Postdoc Speaker registration now open for SBU Postdoc Spotlight on Sept 17, 2015
Registration is now open for postdocs to sign up to present their research at this
year’s SBU Postdoc Spotlight. The Spotlight features eight-minute TED-like talks from our postdocs on their research
designed for audience of non-specialists.
Selected speakers will receive individualized coaching on their presentation from
the nationally-recognized Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. Speakers must commit to two coaching sessions:
Session 1: August 26, 2015, 10:00 am - 11:30 am;
Session 2: One of four times:
Sept 9, 10:00 am-12:00 pm; OR
Sept 9, 2:00 - 4:00 pm; OR
Sept 10, 9:00 - 11:00 am; OR
Sept 10, 1:00 - 3:00 pm.
Speaker slots are limited, so sign up now. Once selected, speakers will be asked to submit a talk title and short abstract
designed with a lay audience in mind.
Speaker Sign up Deadine: July 31, 2015
Spotlight Date: September 17, 2015, from 9:00am to 12:30pm
Spotlight Location: Wang Center
The CEWIT2015 Conference program is pleased to again offer Big Data and Data Science
Tutorials for conference attendees on day two, Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at the Melville
Marriott Long Island.
Each tutorial is a 3-hour, for-pay, beginner-intermediate level workshop on Python Data Analytics and R Data Mining, instructed by experts from the NYC Data Science Academy Team and certified by The
Center for Corporate Education at Stony Brook University.
For more information on the conference and to register, visit
Membership
We have a very limited number of free, one-year memberships to the New York Academy
of Sciences exclusively for our postdocs at Stony Brook. These memberships have been
generously donated by NYAS Corporate Member Infosys (www.infosys.com).
If you would like one of these free memberships and to have member access to programs
and resources from NYAS and the NYAS Science Alliance, its professional development
program for early-career scientists, e-mailpostdocs@stonybrook.edu. First come, first served.
Funding
The new Long Island Bioscience Hub (LIBH) is offering three specific funding programs have been designed to help faculty and
postdoctoral associates develop their academic innovations toward commercial goals.
The awards can support feasibility, proof of concept, and commercialization activities.
A collaboration between the Center for Biotechnology, Stony Brook University, Cold
Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Long Island Bioscience
Hub will foster the development of therapeutics, preventatives, diagnostics, devices
and research tools emerging from partner institutions that address diseases within
the NIH's mission.
For info on LIBH, the awards, and how to apply, visit:
Deadline for submission: July 8th.
Questions: Faculty and postdoctoral associates who are interested in applying are encouraged
to contact the Center for Biotechnology (Dr. Li Liu, Li.Liu.1@stonybrook.edu).
The LIBH is supported by the National Institutes of Health REACH initiative (Research
Evaluation and Commercialization Hub), our three partner institutions, The Research
Foundation for SUNY, and Empire State Development.
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