Advancing Women into Faculty Careers
Preparing Future Faculty
2004-05 PhD Fellowship
Recipients
AdvanceVT has awarded PhD and Post-doctoral Fellowships in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 to outstanding graduate students and recent PhD recipients preparing for faculty careers.
AdvanceVT also sponsors lunch seminars for graduate students and postdocs on a variety of topics related to careers in academe. Fall 2005 topics included balancing career and family as well as tips on professional presentations, while spring 2006 addressed preparing grant proposals and surviving academic job interviews.
Transforming the Professoriate Conference
Transforming the Professoriate
conference attendees
AdvanceVT hosted the Transforming the Professoriate conference for 68 graduate students and post-doctoral researchers from across the U.S. preparing for faculty careers July 20-22, 2006. Participants attended workshops on interviewing, negotiating, networking, proposal writing, pedagogy, and work/life balance.