{"55034":{"#nid":"55034","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech and MIT Team Up for Diversity","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts\nInstitute of Technology (MIT) are co-organizing the National Science Foundation\n(NSF) Minority Faculty Development Workshop (MFDW) March 21\u003Csup\u003E \u003C\/sup\u003E- 24 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u0026nbsp; The workshop theme, \u201cEngineering Faculty\nSuccess,\u201d will offer workshop sessions designed to equip tenure track junior-\nand mid-level science and engineering faculty with tools and strategies to\nbetter navigate their careers.\u0026nbsp; Workshop\nparticipants come from four-year institutions from throughout the United States\nand represent the spectrum of engineering and science disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech President G.P. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson will join MIT\nProvost Rafael Reif in opening the workshop. Georgia Tech Willie Pearson Jr., Professor\nof History, Technology and Society will serve as Monday\u2019s luncheon keynote\nspeaker.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe NSF Minority Faculty Development Workshop is a primary\nactivity of the Minority Faculty Development Forum founded by Georgia Tech Professor\nGilda Barabino. The purpose of the forum is to provide an ongoing mechanism to\nsupport the career development and retention of faculty from underrepresented\ngroups. Barabino serves as the principal investigator on the grant that\nsupports the workshop.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHistory of the Minority\nFaculty Development Workshop (MFDW)\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EEvolving from the efforts of\na group of chemical engineering faculty to provide and sustain a network to support\ntheir career advancement, the 2010 workshop is the fifth of a series of\nworkshops that were held in 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2009. What began as informal get\u2010togethers\nat the primary professional meeting for chemical engineers led to a successful\nNSF workshop proposal and establishment of a model program for engineering and\nscience faculty development. The MFDW is sponsored by the Engineering\nDirectorate of the NSF. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMinority Faculty Development\nForum\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Minority Faculty\nDevelopment Forum is an online portal used to support the continued\nprofessional development, networking and research collaborations, mentoring and\ndissemination of resources, ideas and best practices of the growing cohort of MFDW\nparticipants. Its mission is to provide an ongoing mechanism to support the\ncareer advancement of junior and mid\u2010career faculty from underrepresented\ngroups and to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in science and\nengineering. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Universities Co-organize NSF Minority Faculty Development Workshop"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026amp;lt;p\u0026amp;gt;\u0026amp;amp;lt;p\u0026amp;amp;gt;The Georgia Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are co-organizing the NSF Minority Faculty Development Workshop March 21-24.\u0026amp;amp;lt;\/p\u0026amp;amp;gt;\u0026amp;lt;\/p\u0026amp;gt;\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech and MIT are co-organizing the NSF Minority Faculty Development Workshop"}],"uid":"27281","created_gmt":"2010-03-22 12:23:41","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:45","author":"Lisa Grovenstein","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"39912":{"id":"39912","type":"image","title":"BME Professor Gilda Barabino","body":null,"created":"1449174136","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:22:16","changed":"1475894244","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:37:24"}},"media_ids":["39912"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.minorityfaculty.bme.gatech.edu\/mission\/","title":"Minority Faculty Development Forum"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2046","name":"gilda barabino"},{"id":"8983","name":"Minority Faculty Development Workshop"},{"id":"2924","name":"MIT"},{"id":"363","name":"NSF"},{"id":"1892","name":"President G.P. (Bud) Peterson"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGeorgia Tech Media Relations\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ELaura Diamond\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:laura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elaura.diamond@comm.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-894-6016\u003Cbr \/\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:maderer@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emaderer@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E404-660-2926\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["mattnagel@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}