Fall working groups foster collaboration

The Fall semester is well underway, and faculty working groups have begun to sketch out their goals for the year. These meetings are lively events that include a lot of conversation on a wide variety of topics.

The Immigration Working Group met on September 17. This is a robust group but attendence was limited to just seven Faculty Associates due to the presence on campus of one Barak Obama, speaking to a packed house at the Comcast arena on the importance of health care reform.

The group agreed to share their research but also to explore immigration related presentations being made on campus in the coming months, including talks by Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins, Kyle Crowder, University of North Carolina, and Jennifer Glick, Arizona State University.

The group also set up suggested presentations for Spring and identified potential products that might be delivered by the end of the academic year.

For information about the Immigration Working Group contact Judith Freidenberg or Joan Kahn.

On September 24, the Gender, Work, and Family Working Group held its organizational meeting. Thirteen Faculty Associates drew up a plan for sharing research and developing ideas during the coming year.

For information about the Gender, Work, and Family Working Group contact Sandra Hofferth.

And the Mentored Grantwriting Workshop got under way on October 12 with a different group of about 14 Faculty Associates and students. The focus of this meeting was to go over changes in the regulations for grant proposal submissions to the National Insitututes of Health (NIH) and setting up goals for the coming year. Last year's MGW resulted in a record number of submissions for the summer NIH deadline.

For information about the Mentored Grantwriting Workshop contact Sandra Hofferth.