President

Donna Shalala

Chair of the National

Academies report

Beyond Bias and

Barriers: Fulfilling the

Potential of Women in

Academic Science

and Engineering

re the SEEDS NSF grant: “We have to do

this.”

Provost

Tom

LeBlanc

Established a

University-level

SEEDS office as a

focus for diversity

programs in the

sciences across all

three UM campuses

SEEDS main $upporter

RSMAS

Dean

Roni Avissar

“…A distinguished scientist

and prominent scholar who

will bring strong leadership

to the rich academic

resources of the

Rosenstiel School…”

- Donna Shalala

SEEDS Co-PI

College of

Arts and Sciences

Interim Dean

Jacqueline Dixon

SEEDS Co-PI

As a geologist and as

an administrator, Dean

Dixon says “I enjoy...

climbing active

volcanoes.”

Miller School of

Medicine

Dean

Pascal

Goldschmidt

SEEDS Co-PI

“Broad based science

is extraordinarily helpful

in building bridges

among groups.”

College of Engineering

Dean

James Tien

SEEDS Co-PI

Doubled the number

of women faculty

in Engineering:

from four to eight !

Chair of Biology

Director of SEEDS

Kathryn

Tosney

SEEDS NSF grant PI

Spent twenty years at

the University of

Michigan:

ten years before and

ten years during an NSF

Advance for Women in

Science Program

RSMAS

Professor

Rana Fine

SEEDS Steering Committee

Member

Studies the role of oceans in

climate change on time

scales

of decades

Serves on international

panels that set policy

RSMAS

Professor

Susan Sponaugle

SEEDS Steering Committee

Member

Interdisciplinary

studies on the

dynamics of

population

replenishment and

connectivity in marine

organisms

College of

Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor

Barbara Whitlock

SEEDS Steering Committee

Member

Combines classic and molecular

approaches to study plant

diversity and evolution from the

DNA

to the population levels

Miller School of

Medicine

Professor

Sheri Keitz

SEEDS Steering Committee

Member

Associate Dean for

Faculty Diversity and

Development

Chief of Medicine

Miami VA Center

Advisor on Diversity to

President Shalala

College of

Engineering

Professor

Helena Solo-

Gabriele

SEEDS Steering Committee

Member

Associate Dean of Research

Studies microbes in water, the

environmental impact of

treated wood and hydrology in

the everglades

Miller School of

Medicine

Professor

Mary Lou King

SEEDS Steering Committee

Member

Avid birder

Avid developmental biologist

Avid teacher of professional

skills

College of Arts &

Sciences

Chair of Sociology

Robert Johnson

SEEDS Director of

Assessment

The SEEDS climate

survey is now online and

ready for you to take!

SEEDS Program

Manager

Natasha Jobbagy

SEEDS Program

Natasha organizes

everything in

SEEDS!

College of Arts &

Sciences Theatre Arts

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Burke

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

DirectorMFA from Brandies U, recent

projects include performing at the

Kennedy Center and building the

SEEDS Interactive Theatre from the

ground up!

College of Arts &

Sciences Biology

Professor

David Wilson

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

FacilitatorHas been everything: Dean of Arts &

Sciences, Chair of Faculty Senate,

Director

of Undergraduate Neuroscience

Program...

has won teaching awards and the

McLamore Outstanding Service Award–

and now he is in theatre!

College of Arts &

Sciences Theatre Arts

MFA candidate

Marc Mocahbe

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

His films, web series and music videos have won

many awards; he has worked for Animal Planet,

Grammy Award winning Jolipop Entertainment,

Speed TV and Showtime Networks and served as

faculty at the University of Cincinnati College-

Conservatory of Music

SEEDS

actor

College of Arts &

Sciences Theatre Arts

Lecturer

Janet Allard

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Actor

MFA Yale School of Drama,

dramatic writing. Recent works

include Vrooommm! a

NASComedy, The Unknown: a

Silent Musical, and Untold

Crimes of Insomniacs

College of Arts &

Sciences Theatre Arts

Lecturer

Lee Soroko

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Actor

MFA U. Texas, acting, movement and

combat. Multiple directing and acting

credits including off-Broadway, Yale,

Triad stage and Savanna

Shakespeare Festival

College of Arts &

Sciences Theatre Arts

Assistant Professor

Jennifer Vellenga

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Actor

MFA in directing from Ohio U,

among many acting and directing

roles, directed at the Guthrie

Theatre in Minneapolis and the Old

Globe Theatre in San Diego

College of Arts and

Sciences Theatre Arts

Lecturer

Maha McCain

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Actor

MFA Ohio U; acting credits

include Law & Order,

Cincinnati Playhouse in the

Park, and Miami’s own Just

the Funny

Glenn Patron

SEEDS Interactive Theatre

SEEDS Actor

A retired businessman who

has “done it all” in his second

career as a performer:

Amateur and professional

theatre, stand-up, TV soap

operas and radio in English

& Spanish.

College of Engineering

Assistant Professor

Eunji Lim

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

Won a SEEDS award to host three

distinguished scholars who work in

industrial engineering areas

complementary to her research

Georgia Institute

of technology

Associate Professor

Hayriye Ayhan

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

First speaker in Eunji Lim’s

Industrial Engineering Speaker

Series, supported by a You

Choose Award. Her seminar

Queuing Networks with Cross-

Trained Servers was followed by

a mentoring event

College of Arts & Sciences

Anthropology

Associate Professor

Traci Ardren

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

Won a SEEDS award to foster a

collaboration with Dr. Vera Tiesler,

a physical anthropologist in

Mexico

Miller School of Medicine

Molecular & Cellular

Pharmacology

Assistant Professor

Joy Lincoln

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

Won a SEEDS award with cost

share from Bookman’s office to

host five forums on navigating the

NIH system

NIH/NINDS

National Institute of Neurological

Disorders and Stroke

Program Director

Ramona Hicks, M. D.

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

First speaker in Dr. Joy Lincoln’s series of

forums on navigating the NIH system, funded

by her You Choose Award, will be speaking

on November 11

RSMAS

Meteorology &

Physical

Oceanography

Assistant Professor

Paquita Zuidema

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

Won a SEEDS award to host a day-long career skills course

on writing by Dr. Judith Swan, Ph.D. in biochemistry from

MIT, co-author of The Science of Science Writing

RSMAS

Meteorology and Physical

Oceanography

Assistant Professor

Lisa Beal

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

Won a SEEDS award to organize an

international workshop in Kiel, Germany

that forms the basis of a large-scale

proposal on climate change

Biostatistics,

Epidemiology

Assistant Professor

Tulay Koru-Sengul

SEEDS You Choose

Winner

Won a SEEDS award to

attend a career development

workshop for Junior Faculty

Health Researchers in

Biostatics

Apply for an award!

Women of RSMAS

Speed Mentoring, MED

Speed Mentoring, Med

Speed Mentoring,

RSMAS

Speed Mentoring,

RSMAS

Speed Mentoring,

RSMAS

Distinguished Lecturer

Dr. Maria

Assunção F. Silva

Dias

Universidade de

São Paulo, Brasil

SEEDS

Distinguished

Lecturer, RSMAS

Shown with some

SEEDS Steering

Committee

members

Distinguished lecturer

Dr. Maria

Assunção F. Silva

Dias

SEEDS

Distinguished

Lecturer, RSMAS

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Dr. Lúcia

Lohmann

Universidade de

São Paulo, Brasil

Gifford Arboretum

Lecturer

Led discussion on Building Leadership in Plant

Conservation. Attendees were faculty, graduate students

and community leaders in plant conservation

SEEDS Luncheon 2008

Preside

nt

Donna

Shalala

Addressing

the first

SEEDS

networking

meeting

SEEDS Luncheon 2008

SEEDS Luncheon 2008

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Susan Lindquist, MIT,

member of the National

Academy of Sciences

Mary Bartlett Bunge

Distinguished Women in Cell

Biology Lecturer

SEEDS cosponsored her

formal mentoring talk

Yes We Can! A Woman’s

Perspective on a Life in

Science

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Susan Lindquist

at reception before

the SEEDS Q & A

mentoring session

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Susan Lindquist

Participants at her

SEEDS Q & A

mentoring session

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Susan Lindquist

Mary Lou King,

introducing the

SEEDS mentoring

session

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Prof. Meg

Lowman

Pioneer of tree

canopy ecology

Author of

Life in the

Treetops and

It's a Jungle Up

ThereLed a discussion of gender and mentoring in academic

science with a diverse group ranging from high school to

tenured faculty

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Professor Kate Barald

University of Michigan

SEEDS sponsored talk

at the Miller School of

Medicine:

Tips to Mentors for

Writing NIH Postdoc

Applications

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Barbara Liskov

Member of the National

Academy

of Engineering

Associate Provost for Faculty

Equity

Ford Professor of Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

College of Engineering

Distinguished Speaker, Monday

Nov 9, 2009

Security of Internet Storage

SEEDS is sponsoring a mentoring

“high tea” event after her seminar

SEEDS Sponsored

Mentor

Linda Sanford

Member of the National

Academy of Engineering

Senior Vice President, IBM

College of Engineering

Distinguished Speaker, Monday

Jan 25, 2010

Building a Smarter Planet:

Strategies for Meaningful

Change

SEEDS is sponsoring a

mentoring “high tea” event

before her seminar

SEEDS Interactive

Theatre

The Mid-Term

Review

Presentation at

RSMAS

The department

chair meets

with the junior

faculty member

SEEDS Interactive

Theatre

The Mid-Term

Review

Flashback to

the faculty

meeting

SEEDS Interactive

Theatre

The Mid-

Term Review

Varied

audience

responses

SEEDS Interactive

Theatre

The Mid-Term

Review

More audience

responses

SEEDS Interactive

Theatre

The Mid-Term

Review

A “faculty

member”

answers an

audience query

while David

Wilson facilitates

SEEDS Interactive

Theatre

The Mid-Term

Review

A “time out” for

faculty while the

audience

queries the

junior faculty

member

SEEDS resources

Recommended

resources

See http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/resources

SEEDS resources

Recommended

resources

See http://www.as.miami.edu/seeds/resources

SEEDS resources

Recommended

resource

See https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/

Project Implicit: Harvard online

assessment

An opportunity to assess your conscious and

unconscious preferences in topics ranging

from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to

sports teams, and gender to styles of music

SEEDS Programs

Speed Mentoring

Networking

Focus Groups

Career Workshops

Distinguished Scholar

Lecturers

Sponsored Mentors

Climate survey

You Choose Leadership

Awards

Interactive Theatre