Leadership Alliance Symposium At-A-Glance July 28-30, 2006 Time General Sessions Undergrad Sessions Graduate Sessions Day 1 - Plenary & Workshops 1:00 Registration 1:00-5:00 2:00 PowerPoint Prep 1 3:00 2:00-5:00 4:00 5:00 Conference Orientation Training for Moderators Dinner Buffet 5:00-5:30 5:00-6:00 6:00 5:30-7:00 7:00 Welcome & Keynote Speaker (Dr. Lana Skirboll, Director, NIH Office of Science Policy) 8:00 Workshop/Panel: Funding Your Education 8:00-9:30 9:00 PowerPoint Prep II 9:00-10:30 10:00 Day 2 - Presentations & Panels 7:30 Breakfast Buffet 7:30-9:45 Breakfast & Photo session 7:30-8:30 8:30 Concurrent Panels (Choose 1): 8:30-9:45 Postdoc Panel 8:30-9:45 The Graduate School Application Process Life Beyond Graduate School 1) Bio Sciences and MD/PhD 2) Engineering & Physical Sciences 3) Humanities & Social Sciences 9:45 Transition/Break 10:00 Student Oral Presentations - Session 1 Moderators for Oral Pres - 1 10:00-11:00 10:00-11:00 11:00 Transition/Break 11:15 Student Oral Presentations - Session II Moderators for Oral Pres - II 11:15-12:15 11:15-12:15 12:15 Transition/Break Lunch Buffet 12:00-1:30 Panel for Undergraduates Workshop for Graduate Students The Graduate School Experience Negotiation Skills 1:30-2:45 1:15-2:45 (Robert Thomas) 2:15 Transition/Break 2:30 Student Oral Presentations - Session III Moderators for Oral Pres - III 3:00-3:45 3:00-3:45 3:30 Transition/Break 3:45 Student Oral Presentations - Session IV Moderators for Oral Pres - IV 4:00-4:45 4:00-4:45 4:45 Transition/Break 5:00 Coordinators Meeting FREE TIME FREE TIME 6:00 Dinner Buffet 5:30-7:00 7:00 Alumni Career Panel: What You Can Be With a Ph.D. 8:30 Dance Party 8:30-Midnite Day 3 - Posters & Resources 7:30 Breakfast Buffet 7:30-9:00 Set Up Posters 7:30-8:30 Set up Exhibitors 7:30-9:00 8:30 Preparing for the GRE Completing Your Dissertation 8:30-9:30 (Gayle Slaughter) 8:30-9:30 (Wendy Carter) 9:30 Poster Session 9:30-10:30 Career Fair 10:30 Poster Session 10:30-11:30 9:30-11:45 11:30 Collect symposium evals Break down posters Break down Exhibitors 12:00 Lunch and closing remarks by Valerie Wilson 1:30 Adjourn
Friday, July 28 th Symposium 2006 Leadership Alliance Conference Registration...1:00-5:00pm Lower Rotunda Preparation for Power Point Presentations 1...2:00-5:00pm Constant Bissahoyo, Caterpillar Edward Kim, Brown University Tal Kramer, Emory University Conference Orientation for Undergraduates...5:00-5:30pm Valerie Wilson, Symposium Host Executive Director, Leadership Alliance Training Session for Graduate Students...5:00-6:00pm How to Moderate a Session Roosevelt Ratliff, Claflin University Laurel Southard, Cornell University Dinner Buffet...5:00-10:00pm Dining Room Welcome and Opening Remarks...7:00-7:15pm John Fitzgerald Gates, Symposium Moderator Associate Dean of Administration and Finance, Harvard University Valerie P. Wilson, Symposium Host Executive Director, Leadership Alliance Keynote Address...7:15-8:00pm Science Policy: A Great Career Option! Lana Skirboll, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director of the Office of Science Policy Funding Your Education...8:00-9:30pm Alfred Johnson, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Kay Johnson-Graham, National Institutes of Health (NIH/OD) DiOnetta Jones, Cornell University Christine O Brien, National Academies Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowship Programs Susie Valaitis, IGERT National Recruitment Program
6 Preparation for Power Point Presentations II... 9:00-10:30pm Vernorris Kelly, Brown University Edward Kim, Brown University Tal Kramer, Emory University Sam McNeal, Brown University Saturday, July 29 th Breakfast Buffet...7:30-9:45am Panel Discussions for Undergraduates: The Graduate School Application Process: (Choose one of 3 panels) BioSciences & MD/PhD... 8:30-9:45am II-III Moderator: Joel Oppenheim, New York University Danielle Gray, Princeton University Susan Ross, University of Pennsylvania Robert Siliciano, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute Rod Ulane, New York University Engineering and Physical Sciences Panel...8:30-9:45am Madison Moderator: Beverly Karplus Hartline, Delaware State University Mark Hernandez, University of Colorado at Boulder Edward Marshall, University of Pennsylvania Angela Walton-Raji, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Margaret Daniels Tyler, Bill & Melinda Gates Millennium Scholars Program Humanities and Social Sciences Panel...8:30-9:45am Moderator: Cynthia Neal Spence, Spelman College Liza Cariaga-Lo, Yale University Robert Harris, Cornell University David Slocum, New York University David Redman, Princeton University Panel Discussion for Graduate Students: Life After Graduate School...8:30-9:45am Moderators: Jocelyn Spragg, Harvard University Louise Hainline, Brooklyn College Letise Houser, NOAA Marine Policy Legislative Fellow Rachelle Salomon, St. Jude Children s Hospital Sophia Suarez, Naval Research Lab, Physics Peter Velazquez, Skirball Institute of BioMolecular Medicine Jude Onyi, Eli Lilly and Company
7 Student Oral Presentations I... 10:00-11:00am Student Oral Presentations II... 11:15am-12:15pm Buffet Lunch...12:00-1:30pm Workshop for Graduate Students: Negotiation Skills...1:15-2:45pm Presenter: Robert Thomas, University of Florida Panel Discussion for Undergraduates: The Graduate School Experience...1:30-2:45pm Moderator: Sandra Spiegel, Dartmouth College Cynthia Duarte, Columbia University, Social Sciences Kim Green, Emory University, English Jermaine McCalpin, Brown University, Political Science Edgardo Sanabria-Valentín, New York University Sackler, Biomedical Sciences Wilton Virgo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Student Oral Presentations III...3:00-3:45pm Student Oral Presentations IV...4:00-4:45pm Coordinators Meeting...5:00-6:00pm Dinner Buffet...5:30-7:00pm Alumni Career Panel: What You Can Be With a PhD...7:00-8:30pm Moderators: Valerie Wilson, Executive Director, The Leadership Alliance John Gates, Associate Dean for Administration and Finance, Harvard College Stephen Garcia, University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy Medeva Ghee, Assistant Director, The Leadership Alliance (starting September 2006) UnJa Hayes, Associate Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience, University of Massaschusetts, Amherst Marquea King, Toxicologist, Environmental Protection Agency Derek Musgrove, Policy Affairs Manager, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Dance Party... 8:30-12:00 midnight Jeffersonian
8 Sunday, July 30 th Undergraduate Poster Presentation Setup...7:00-8:30am Breakfast Buffet...7:30-9:45am Undergraduate Student Workshop: Preparing for the GRE...8:30-9:30am Gayle Slaughter, Baylor College of Medicine Graduate Student Workshop: Completing Your Dissertation...8:30-9:30am Wendy Carter, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Student Poster Presentations Session I...9:30-10:30am Student Poster Presentations Session II...10:30-11:30am Recruiting/Career Fair...9:30-11:45am Jeffersonian Box Lunch and Closing Remarks...12:00-1:30pm John Fitzgerald Gates, Harvard University Valerie Wilson, Leadership Alliance Collection of Symposium Evaluations/Adjourn...1:30pm