Leadership Alliance National Symposium July 27-29, 2007 Program At-a-Glance TIME GEN. SESSIONS UNDERGRAD SESSIONS GRADUATE SESSIONS COORDINATORS & MENTORS Day 1 - Welcome, Alumni Panel & Speaker 3:00 Registration & Photos PowerPoint Prep 4:00 3:00-6:00 pm 3:00-6:00 6:00 Dinner Served 6:30 Welcome & Orientation 7:15 Alumni Career Panel 7:15-8:15 8:30 "How to Feel as Bright and Capable as Everyone Seems to Think You Are" (Dr. Valerie Young) 8:30-9:30 9:30 PowerPoint Prep (for late arrivals) Moderators Training Orientation/Introductions 9:30-10:30 pm 9:30-10:30 pm 9:30-10:30 pm Day 2 - Presentations, Panels, Keynote & Awards 7:30 Breakfast 7:30-8:45 Photos 7:30-9:30 Set up Posters 7:30-8:45 am 9:00 Student Poster Presentations Review Poster Presentations Review Posters 9:00-10:30 am 9:00-10:30 am 9:00-10:30 am 10:30 Coffee Break Break down posters 10:30-11:00 11:00 Student Oral Presentations-Session I Moderate Oral Presentations 11:00-12:15 11:00-12:15 12:15 Transition/Break 12:30 Lunch & Panel 12:30-2:00 Lunch & Postdoc Panel 12:30-2:00 (Choice of undergrad The Graduate School Experience Life After Graduate School or grad lunch & panel) 2:00 Transition/Break 2:15 Student Oral Presentations-Session II Moderate Oral Presentations 2:15-3:30 2:15-3:30 3:30 Break/Snack Photos 3:30-6:30 4:00 Student Oral Presentations-Session III Moderate Oral Presentations 4:00-5:15 4:00-5:15 5:15 Transition/Break FREE TIME 5:15-6:30 6:30 Dinner 7:30 Keynote Speaker (Dr. Donna Nelson) 7:30-8:15 pm 8:15 Mentor Recognition Awards 9:00 Dance Party/FREE TIME 9:00-Midnight Mentors Meeting w/ coordinators Day 3 - Panels, Seminar, Recruiting Fair 8:30 Breakfast Buffet 8:30-9:30 Breakfast Buffet 8:30-9:30 Breakfast Buffet Graduate School App Process Completing Your Dissertation 8:30-9:30 9:30 9:30-10:30 (Dr. Wendy Carter) Exhibitors Setup 1) Bio Sciences & MD/PhD 9:30-10:30 9:30-10:30 2) Engineering & Physical Sciences 3) Humanities & Social Sciences Hotel Checkout by Noon 10:30 Recruiting Fair 10:30-12:30 12:30 Fill out surveys Fill out surveys Exhibitors breakdwn 1:00 Boxed Lunch & Closing Remarks 1:30 Adjourn & Departures
Leadership Alliance National Symposium Agenda 2007 Friday, July 27 th Leadership Alliance Conference Registration...3:00 6:00 p.m. Preparation for Power Point Presentation I...3:00 6:00 p.m. Photos...3:00 6:00 p.m. Dinner...6:00 p.m. Welcome & Orientation...6:30 p.m. Valerie P. Wilson, Symposium Host Executive Director, Leadership Alliance Louise Hainline, Brooklyn College Alumni Career Panel...7:15 8:15 p.m. Moderator: Valerie P. Wilson, Executive Director, The Leadership Alliance Danielle Drayton, Research Analyst, Decision Resources Stephen Garcia, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan Candice Jenkins, Assistant Professor of English, Hunter College Marcus Jones, J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) How to Feel as Bright and Capable as Everyone Seems to Think You Are...8:30 9:30 p.m. Valerie Young Orientation with Mentors and Coordinators...9:30 10:30 p.m. Power Point Prep II (for late arrivals)...9:00 10:30 p.m. Moderators Training...9:30 10:30 p.m. Nathan Hale
6 Agenda Saturday, July 28 Breakfast & Photos...7:30 8:45 a.m. State Ballroom, Ballroom and Terrace Set up Posters...7:30 8:45 a.m. Student Poster Presentations Session...9:00 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break/Break down Posters...10:30 11:00 a.m. Student Oral Presentations Session I...11:00 12:15 p.m. Transition/Break...12:15 p.m. Lunch & Panel Discussion for Undergraduates:...12:30 2:00 p.m. The Graduate School Experience East/Center Moderators: Pamela Scott-Johnson, Morgan State University George Hill, Vanderbilt University Frederick Biga, Brown University, Engineering Karissa McCall-Culbreath, Vanderbilt University, Microbiology and Immunology Kedrick Perry, University of Virginia, Curry School of Education Gahodery Rodriguez, Yale University, Political Science Paloma Vargas, New York University, Molecular Oncology Lunch & Panel Discussion for Graduate Students...12:30 2:00 p.m. Life After Graduate School West Moderator: Medeva Ghee, The Leadership Alliance Marcel Agüeros, Columbia University Astronomy & Astrophysics Paul Ardayfio, Post-doctoral Fellow in Neuroscience Discovery Research Division of Eli Lilly and Co. Malo Andre Hutson, Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar 2006 2008 University of Michigan School of Public Health, Center for Social Epidemology and Population Health Mónica Peláez, Assistant Professor of Literature, Rampano College of New Jersey Rachelle Salomon, St. Jude s Children s Research Hospital Latasha Wright, The Philips Lab, New York University School of Medicine Student Oral Presentations Session II...2:15 3:30 p.m. Break/Snack...3:30 p.m. and second floor breakouts Student Oral Presentations Session III...4:00 5:15 p.m.
Agenda 7 Photos/Free Time...5:15 6:30 p.m. Dinner...6:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker...7:30 8:15 p.m. Donna Nelson, University of Oklahoma Mentor Recognition Awards...8:15 p.m. Mentors Meeting w/ Coordinators...9:00 p.m. Dance Party/Free Time...9:00 12:00 a.m. State Ballroom Sunday, July 29 Breakfast Panels (Breakfast served 8:30 9:30 a.m., Panels begin 9:30 a.m.) The Graduate School Aplication Process...8:30 10:30 a.m. Bio Sciences & MD/PhD State Ballroom Moderator: Joel Oppenheim, New York University School of Medicine Michael Gaines, Assistant Provost, University of Miami Anika Green, Assistant Dean for Graduate Education & Director of Biosciences Diversity Program, Stanford University Laurel Southard, Director of Undergraduate Research, Cornell University Engineering & Physical Sciences Nathan Hale Moderator: Mark Hernandez, University of Colorado at Boulder Beverly Hartline, Dean of the College of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology, Delaware State University Noe Lozano, Associate Dean, Student Affairs, Stanford University Edward Marshall, Coordinator of Recruitment and Special Programs, Biomedical Graduate Studies University of Pennsylvania
8 Agenda Humanities & Social Sciences Moderator: Cynthia Neal Spence, Spelman College Terry Plater, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Cornell University David Redman, Associate Dean, Academic Affairs, Princeton University Liza Cariaga-Lo, Assistant Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity, Graduate School, Harvard University Sharon Gamble, Director Minority Affairs and Special Programs, Columbia University Graduate Student Breakfast & Seminar...8:30 10:30 a.m. Completing your Dissertation Wendy Carter, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Exhibitors Set Up...9:30 10:30 a.m. Recruiting Fair/Exhibitors...10:30 12:30 p.m. Fill Out Surveys...12:30 p.m. Box Lunch and Closing Remarks...1:00 p.m. Adjourn & Departures...1:30 p.m. Presentation Categories Key AB BB ES EN HU PS PE SS Applied Biosciences (Human Biology & Disease, Public Health, Biomedical Engineering) Basic Biosciences (Molecular processes and Genetics, Biochemistry) Earth Sciences (Environment Sciences, Geosciences, Marine Sciences) Engineering (Mechanical, Electrical & Materials Engineering) Humanities (Literature, Language Arts, History, Media) Physical Sciences (Chemistry, Math, Physics, Computer Sciences, Computer Engineering) Policy & Ethics (Politics, Policy & Legislation, Ethics, Philosophy & Reasoning) Social Sciences (Sociology, Economics, Psychology, and Behavioral Sciences)