The efforts of faculty parents to balance work and childcare has recently been brought back into the spotlight given the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need for strong institutional responses to alleviate the additional burdens of limited childcare facilities. Retention of faculty and staff parents is highly dependent upon our community supporting all members . . .
ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Valoree Gagnon (GLRC) for their new funding! See the story which was published by Sponsored Programs in the August 27 edition of Tech Today below.******Valorie Gagnon (GLRC) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a $749,801 research and development grant from . . .
ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Kristin Brzeski (CFRES), and Zhiying Shan (KIP) for their new funding! See the story which was published by Sponsored Programs in the August 25 edition of Tech Today below. ****** Kristin Brzeski (CFRES) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a . . .
The focus of today’s ADVANCE Weekly Roundup article highlights that requesting pay history in job applications can increase bias and offer discrepancies. By simply ceasing to ask applicants about pay history, we can make significant strides toward a more equitable and inclusive hiring process. In fourteen states, this is ingrained into hiring laws; however Michigan . . .
ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Todd Ontl (CFRES/ESC), and Andrew Burton (CFRES/ESC) for their new funding! See the story which was published by Sponsored Programs in the August 14 edition of Tech Today below. ****** Todd Ontl ( CFRES/ESC) is the principal investigator on a project that received a . . .
Repeatedly tapping minority ethnic and gender groups for additional service responsibilities can disproportionately burden these academicians. As these burdens accumulate and begin to impact their scholarly activities, they experience what is known as “cultural taxation.” This week’s edition of the ADVANCE Weekly Roundup features an article from Nature in which five researchers from minority ethnic . . .
ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Amlan Mukherjee (CEE/MTTI), and Issei Nakamura (Physics/CQP) for their new funding! See the story which was published by Sponsored Programs in the August 11 edition of Tech Today below. ***** Amlan Mukherjee (CEE/MTTI) is the principal investigator on a project that has received a . . .
Candidates’ “fit” with the job, the hiring unit, and the campus is deemed critical yet this is a determination that can be quite subjective. Empirically, such determinations account for only 20-25% of the decision to hire or not. This week’s edition of the ADVANCE Weekly Roundup features a 2020 article from The Journal of Higher . . .
ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Trista Vick-Majors (BioSci), for being named to the National Academies of Sciences Committee on Planetary Protection and the U.S. Ice Drilling Program Science Advisory Board. See the story which was published by in the August 6 edition of Tech Today below.***** Trista Vick-Majors (BioSci) . . .
ADVANCE at Michigan Tech would like to extend their congratulations to Pengfei Xue (CEE/GLRC), Michelle Jarvie-Eggard (EF/RISE) and Bruce Lee (BioMed/HRI) for their new funding! See the story which was published by Sponsored Programs in the August 5 edition of Tech Today below. ***** Pengfei Xue (CEE/GLRC) is the principal investigator on a project that . . .