Archive for the 'News' Category
Seeking Input on “Engaged Scholarship”
December 1st, 2008Our good friend Girl w/Pen wants to hear from you! From her blog today:
At the gracious invitation of the wonderful and savvy Renee Cramer (see her prescient GWP post, “This Bridge Called Barack”, from February), I am giving a workshop at Drake University on Friday on the topic of being an engaged scholar. Engaged, as [...]
Calling Arkansas and Montreal Mothers in Academe
November 4th, 2008Dear ARM Members and Friends,
Andrea O’Reilly will be in Little Rock, AK for a conference Nov 4-8 and Montreal, QC for a Fellowship Nov 11- Dec 10.
While there, she should like to do some interviews for her research on being a mother in academe.
For more information on this study, please visit www.yorku.ca/arm
If you are interested [...]
Calling all Ohio Parents at Home with PhDs
October 7th, 2008Calling all Stay-At-Home Doctorates!
We are exploring opportunities for stay-at-home Parents Holding Doctorates (PHD) to use their training and expertise in creative ways.
JOIN US!
Monday October 13, 2008 7:00-8:00 pm
OR
Wednesday October 15, 2008 1:00-2:00 pm
Museum of Biological Diversity
1315 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43215
For more information, please contact
Joan Herbers herbers.4 AT osu DOT edu
Donna Wenzel dwwenzel AT msn DOT [...]
Survey of PhDs in the Nonacademic Workforce
June 23rd, 2008 Listen up! Paula Chambers, of WRK4US, is conducting a survey of PhDs and ABDs who have left the academy and entered the nonacademic workforce.
“The purpose of the study is to provide a credible, research-based description of what those individuals feel, do and experience while transitioning into
post-academic careers. This information will be very [...]
Lovely Lady Lumps
December 15th, 2007Read Elrena Evans’ column, “Lovely Lady Lumps” in the “Nutshell” section of the Winter 2008 issue of Brain, Child magazine. Elrena writes about the new trend in postpartum plastic surgery, with an insight into the issue from Mama, PhD contributor Jessica Smartt Gullion.
Mary Ann Mason at the Huffington Post
October 18th, 2007Former UC Berkeley graduate dean, Mary Ann Mason, is now an occasional blogger over at the Huffington Post; check out her report on what young women want from their president:
*A Federal initiative for pre-school and after-school childcare for all families: a fact in many European countries
*A flexible work place that allows both mothers and fathers [...]
Shortening the Road to the PhD
October 10th, 2007Princeton’s work on shortening the amount of time it takes to earn a PhD merited an article in the New York Times recently. Readers, what do you think of this? While I don’t think it’s useful for people to languish in graduate school, one drawback of this plan (and similar ones at other universities) is [...]
Time for Breastfeeding
September 28th, 2007From “Inside Higher Ed:”
“An appeals court in Massachusetts ruled Wednesday that a breast-feeding mother who is a student at Harvard Medical School is entitled to extra time during a licensing exam so she can pump milk for her child, The Boston Globe reported.”
This story marks the first time I’ve been grateful for the format of [...]
Good News from Rutgers
August 21st, 2007We’re proud to note today that the university associated with our publisher, Rutgers, is making family life easier for their faculty:
Eight weeks paid leave from teaching and service obligations for both faculty and TA/GAs of any gender who become parents (biological or adoptive). For birth mothers, these eight weeks are in addition to the previous [...]
MomsRising and the New York Times
February 23rd, 2007Academic mothers aren’t the only working mothers with needs.
The second-most e-mailed article on the New York Times online today is about MomsRising, an advocacy group for mothers. If you stop by the blog on the MomsRising website, you’ll also see an article written by Caroline about screening the MomsRising documentary (her review of the [...]
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