Transcript Defining the Mentoring Relationship: Your Responsibilities

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New Students: Kelly Ness, Morgan Jackson, Rui Jiang
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Missing today: Dylan, Paige, Jenny (can we start at 4 pm next
time?)
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Experimental Biology Abstract Deadline:
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November 6th! Don’t forget about section awards, Caroline Tum Suden
awards (more in October).
Annual Program Retreat: Partnering with CRBH
Friday Nov 7 (4 to 7 pm) and Saturday Nov 8 (8 am to 1 pm)
All students expected to present a poster (except 1st years)
All students expected to participate in set up and planning
New Initiative: Lab Portolios (more to follow)
All students would be foolish not to attend dinner with Keynote Lecturers
Sturek and Bagnell
› Accommodations for COM students
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Committee meeting form has changed
 Please form your committees (if 2nd year)
 Please schedule your meetings (all 2nd
years and beyond) !!!!
 Conflict Resolution:
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Dr. Korzick
Paula Brown – HUCK
Dr. Mitchell – HUCK
Dr. Adair’s office – Graduate School
 http://www.gradsch.psu.edu/current-students/
Upcoming Finishes: David Moore and
Darshan Trivedi
 Training Grant has been funded!
Opportunities for all!
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› 1st Class: Billie Alba, James Hester, Paul Hsu, Zhi Chai
› PHSIO 510: Spring 2015, T/R 1 to 2:15
 Physiological Adaptations to Stress
 127 Noll Lab/COM room TBA
› January 15/16 2015 required completion of
IDPs
October 2, 2014
“Managing and Organizing Data – Career Opportunities in Clinical Research, Drug Information, & Medical Affairs”
Dion Zappe, Ph.D., Senior Clinical Research Scientist, Astra Zeneca / Novartis Pharmaceuticals
4:15 – 5:30 pm, 108 Wartik Building C4702 COM
October 3, 2014
“Challenges in Clinical Research – Mechanism Based Research as an Integral Part of Overall Clinical Evidence”
Dion Zappe, Ph.D., Senior Clinical Research Scientist , Astra Zeneca Novartis Pharmaceuticals
11 – 12:15 am, 127 Noll Laboratory C4702 COM
October 9, 2014
Screening of PBS Documentary: “Declining by Degrees: Higher Education at Risk”
4:15 – 5:30 pm, 127 Noll Laboratory
October 16, 2014
Panel Discussion: “Problems Facing Universities: Follow up to Declining By Degrees”,
Kathy Drager, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research, CHHD; Dennis Shea, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Outreach, CHHD; Donna Korzick,
Ph.D., Chair, Physiology IGDP
4:15 – 5:30 pm, 127 Noll Laboratory
October/November 2014
Title, TBA
Eileen Kane, Ph.D., J.D., Professor of Law, Dickenson School of Law, Penn State University. Dr. Kane teaches a range of courses that blend the latest scientific
advancements and fast-paced legal developments in biotechnology, the Internet, patent law, and evidence. Scholarship is focused on biotechnology,
including such issues as gene patenting and DNA evidence.
Wednesday, 1 to 2 pm, location TBA
November 2014
HemoShear, LLC: A Story of Translational Science, from Academia to Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery”
Brian R. Wamhoff, Ph.D., Vice President of Research & Development and Co-founder, HemoShear, LLC
Location and time TBA
January 15/16 2015
“IDPs: It’s Time to Get Serious About Career Planning”
Faciliated by Philip S. Clifford, Ph.D., CoAuthor of myIDP Science Careers, Associate Dean for Research, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at
Chicago
Registration Required; Time TBA (Mandatory for PHSIO students year 2 and beyond)
January 23, 2015, Trisha Agrawal, PhD “Intellectual Property: An Unexpected Career Choice”
Scientific Advisor, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, New York, NY
11 – 12:15 am, 127 Noll Laboratory
Physiology PHUN Week: Nov 3-7, 2014
 www.PhUnWeek.org
 Easterly Parkway Elementary School
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› 1st grade (17 to 50 students)
› Exercise & Health Theme
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GOALS of PHUN week:
Increase student interest in and understanding of physiology in their lives
Increase teacher recognition of physiology in their standards-based
science curriculum
› Introduce students to physiology as a possible career
› Involve more physiologists in outreach to the students and teachers in
their communities
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Is there a problem?
› NPR reports
Nature, Vol 472, 276-279; 280-282, 2012
 Do students with PHSIO degrees have an
advantage?
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› Data