Past Events

Demystifying the Promotion and Tenure Process

Nearly 300 faculty members addended the 2012 Promotion and Tenure Symposium, held Wednesday, September 19, and featuring Dr. Peter Igarashi. View the presentation and other related materials:

2012 Fall Female Faculty Reception

OWC collaborated with WISMAC to host a reception to welcome new female faculty to UT Southwestern Medical Center and for networking of current faculty and postdoctoral fellows. The reception and presentation took place October 11 in the A.W. Harris Faculty Alumni Center (Faculty Club). 

2012 New Faculty Research Forum

The 2012 new Faculty Research Forum was held in the T. Boone Pickens Auditorium on Wednesday, September 12, and featured the work of 14 faculty members who are new to UT Southwestern. Read about the featured speakers and their presentations.

Summer 2012 Focus Group Discussions

OWC held eight focus group discussions with women faculty in all academic tracks and ranks to brainstorm about ideas for promoting career advancement and improving work-life balance. Most frequently discussed topics include career development, leadership and negotiation workshops, mentoring programs, child care and work life balance.

Dr. Yin has also met with medical students, MSTP students in groups, and with faculty individually. Based on these discussions, OWC has already developed strategic approaches to address some of these issues, in collaboration with FDD and other groups.

Mentoring Series for Female Graduate Students and Postdocs

Since 2011, FDD and WISMAC have co-sponsored a monthly lunch series featuring female faculty role models. The speakers shared personal stories about their career paths, and provided insight on a broad range of topics, such as transitioning from postdoc to independent investigator and balancing family and career. Past participants included Carole Mendelson, Ph.D., Melanie Cobb, Ph.D., Beth Levine, M.D., and Sandra Schmid, Ph.D. This series will be offered jointly again by OWC and WISMAC in 2012-2013. UT Southwestern faculty can read more at MyUTSouthwestern.

2012 Teaching Back Symposium

This was the kickoff event for the newly formed OWC. Three faculty women, who were sponsored by FDD to attend the AAMC Career Development Seminars in 2011, highlighted what they learned in short presentations and answered questions from the audience. Helen Yin, Ph.D., moderated the panel discussion. The panelists were: Alice Chang, M.D., M.Sc., Margaret Schwarz, M.D., and Shawna Nesbitt, M.D., M.Sc.

2011 Fall Female Faculty and Postdoc Reception

FDD collaborated with WISMAC to host a reception and panel discussion on “The Leaky Pipeline” in health sciences and medicine nationally and at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The panel discussion was moderated by Alice Chang, M.D., Department of Internal Medicine. Panelists included: Byron Cryer, M.D., Alison Dobbie, M.D., Joan Schiller, M.D., Robin Jarrett, Ph.D., Carol Tamminga, M.D., and Helen Yin, Ph.D.