BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260611T214706EDT-40411AhE52@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260612T014706Z DESCRIPTION:Designed for PhD’s\, Academic Career Weeks will provide a serie s of panels and presentations addressing key elements of the doctoral proc ess and the academic job search. Faculty will present on defending\, acade mic applications and the interview.   To register for all events\, worksho ps and to view job postings go to myFuture .  You have access to our servi ces for up to one year after graduation.  Use us\, we want to be useful.\n \n \n\nAcademic Career Weeks 2018 Roster:\n\n\n \n \n \n Women in Academia Pan el\n \n \n Monday\, March 19 | 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Brown 5001\n \n \n \n \n Prese nting Your Research:  Preparing for the Academic Interview\n \n \n Tuesday\, March 20 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Research Commons Room\n \n \n \n \n Strategies f or a Successful Thesis Defence  Panel  \n \n \n Tuesday\, March 20 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Brown 5001\n \n \n \n \n Networking at Academic Conferences Talk      \n \n \n Thursday\, March 22 | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Thomson House Ballroom\n \n \n \n \n Building Your Teaching Portfolio Workshop  \n \n \n Friday\, March 23 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Brown 5001\n \n \n \n \n The Academic Interview & Job T alk Panel   \n \n \n Tuesday\, March 27 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Brown 5001\n \n \n \n \n Getting the Best Out of Your Supervisor Panel    \n \n \n Wednesday\, M arch 28 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm | Brown 5001\n \n \n \n\n\n\nWomen in Academia Pa nel\n Monday\, March 19 | 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Brown 5001\n\nThis panel wil l focus on the academic career paths of 3-4 women in academia/research. Th e panelists will share their own career trajectories including challenges and successes\, and they will also speak more broadly about working in aca demia\, including tips for navigating a competitive and male-dominated fie ld\, how to respond to illegal questions during the interview process\, an d how to navigate sensitive issues in academic hiring.\n\nPANELISTS:\n\nMi ndy Carter\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Integrated Studies in Edu cation\, McGill University\n\nDr. Carter conducts research in drama and th eatre education primarily with in- and pre- service teachers with a focus on questions of indigenous pedagogy\, art processes\, and the relations of schooling. Her research projects and writing have provided international insight into teacher identity\, pedagogy\, arts based research and creativ ity.\n\n2016-2018 - President for the Art\, Research\, Teacher Special Int erest Group (SIG) at Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE)\n \n2016-2018 - Secretary for the Arts Based Educational Research Special In terest Group at American Educational Research Association (AERA)\n\nKarine Auclair\, Professor\, Department of Chemistry\, McGill University\n\nKari ne Auclair was born in Jonquiere (now Saguenay)\, QC\, Canada. As a gradua te student (1994-1999) in the lab of Prof. J. C. Vederas at the University of Alberta (Edmonton\, Canada)\, she studied the biosynthesis of the chol esterol-lowering drug lovastatin (Mevacor). Amongst her thesis achievement s\, she reported the first purified natural Diels-Alderase. Next\, she mov ed to the University of California at San Francisco (USA) to pursue post-d octoral studies with Prof. P. R. Ortiz de Montellano (1999-2001). Her rese arch results contributed to the mechanistic understanding of heme oxygenas es and P450 enzymes. In 2002\, she started her independent career as an As sistant Professor of Chemistry at McGill University (Montreal\, Canada). S he was promoted Associate Professor of Chemistry with tenure in 2006\, and Full Professor in 2016. She was a Visiting Scientist at Boehringer Ingelh eim (Laval\, Canada) in 2010. Her current research at McGill three researc h areas: 1) antibiotic resistance\; 2) enzymology (especially P450 enzymes )\; and 3) biocatalysis (including solvent-free mechanoenzymatic reactions ). Some of her key contributions include new antibiotic resistance inhibit ors\, new antibacterial agents\, new insights into enzyme allostery\, the first molecules able to resensitize bacteria to the host immune defense it aconate\, and the development of a process for solvent-free degradation of biomass. Recent awards that she has received include the McGill Leo Yaffe Award for excellence in teaching and the McGill Fessenden Professorship. \n\nScientific contributions: Karine Auclair has published more >70 peer-r eviewed scientific articles and 1 copyright. She is also a co-inventor on 6 patents. The majority of her publications are in high-impact scientific journals\, such as: Science (34.4)\, Nature Chem. Biol. (13.2)\, Nature St ruct. Mol. Biol. (11.6)\, Angew. Chem. (13.7)\, J. Am. Chem. Soc. (11.4)\, Green Chem. (6.9)\, Chem. Eur. J. (5.9)\, J. Med. Chem. (5.5)\, ACS Chem. Biol (5.4)\, etc. Her articles are also well cited\, with more than 2000 citations in total. Many of her publications were highlighted by scientifi c journals\, or selected by reviewers for cover art\, back cover art\, aut hor highlights. Two were selected as the best article of the year in her d epartment\, and one resulted in her being awarded the Fessenden Professors hip at McGill.\n\nSpecific Expertise: Karine Auclair is a chemist by train ing\, with expertise at the interface of chemistry\, biochemistry and micr obiology. In particular\, she has experience in organic synthesis\, biocat alysis\, enzymology\, enzyme inhibition\, medicinal chemistry\, cloning\, protein expression and engineering (via mutagenesis or regioselective chem ical reactions)\, and various antibacterial activity studies.\n\nJulie Cum ming\, Professor\, Schulich School of Music\n\nJulie Cumming has taught mu sic history at McGill University since 1992. Her work focuses on early mod ern polyphonic music\, with a focus on the motet\, historical improvisatio n\, compositional process\, and digital humanities. She was the Interim De an of the Schulich School of Music in 2016-2017\, Director of Graduate Stu dies (2001-2003 and 2009-2010)\, and Associate Dean of Research and Admini stration (2011-2016). She is the winner of several teaching awards\, inclu ding the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Teaching Award\, doc toral level (2017).  She has been a co-investigator on two major grants le d by McGill English professor Paul Yachnin (“Making Publics” and “Early Mo dern Conversions”)\, she was the PI of a Digging into Data Challenge Grant (2012-14)\, and is co-leader (with Ichiro Fujinaga\, Music Technology) on a SSHRC Partnership Grant\, “Single Interface for Music Score Searching a nd Analysis” (SIMSSA).\n\n\nPresenting Your Research:  Preparing for the A cademic Interview         \n Tuesday\, March 20 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Resea rch Commons Space\n\nThis joint workshop from CaPS and Graphos is intended for graduate students who are entering the academic job market and whose first language is not English.  We will focus specifically on preparing fo r a brief research talk as part of the interviewing process.  By attending this workshop\, students will be able to: 1) Learn how to prepare for the talk\, manage nerves\, and communicate effectively\, 2) Gain tips and str ategies on how to manage the speed\, clarity and pronunciation of your res earch talk.\n\nPRESENTERS: \n\nJillian Aucoin\, CaPS Career Advisor\n\nSus an Jackson\, McGill Graphos\n\n\nStrategies for a Successful Thesis Defenc e Panel             \n Tuesday\, March 20 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Brown 5001 \n\nYou managed to write that thesis and now it boils down to your oral de fense. Find out how to impress your committee\, avoid common pitfalls and enjoy your moment of glory!\n\nPANELISTS:\n\nFrance Bouthillier\, Associat e Dean\, Graduate and Postdoctural Studies\, McGill University\n\nProfesso r France Bouthillier is Associate Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studie s at McGill University since 2015 and Associate Professor at the School of Information Studies (SIS) since 1992.  She has been for 12 years the Dire ctor of the SIS and the Graduate Program Director of the Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS).  Under her leadership\, the MLIS was reva mped as the Master of Information Studies\,  and a new PhD program in Info rmation Studies was introduced in addition to three graduate certificates in Information and Knowledge Management\, Information Architecture and Dig ital Archives Management. Her research areas include competitive intellige nce\, knowledge management\, business information services\, and the manag ement of library/information services. \n\nLydia White\, Professor\, Depar tment of Linguistics\, McGill University\n\nLydia White is James McGill Pr ofessor of Linguistics and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She ha s a BA in Philosophy and Psychology from Cambridge University (1969) and a PhD in Linguistics from McGill (1980). She is Co-Editor of a book series and she is on the Editorial Boards of several international journals. Lydi a White is internationally recognized as a leading scholar in the field of generative second language acquisition. For many years\, her research has been funded by major grants from SSHRCC and FRQSC. She has published more than 130 scholarly articles and is the author of two acclaimed textbooks that have influenced the training of researchers world-wide. She has super vised more than 25 PhD students working on topics relating to second langu age acquisition and she has participated in numerous PhD oral defences!\n \nShawn Robbins\, Assistant Professor\, School of Physical & Occupational Therapy\, McGill University\n\nDr. Shawn Robbins is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill Un iversity. He completed his BScPT and PhD at the University of Western Onta rio in 2001 and 2010 respectively and did a post-doctoral fellowship at Da lhousie University. Dr. Robbins' research utilizes biomechanical and clini cal measures to assess orthopaedic health conditions and the interventions used to treat these conditions in both clinical and laboratory settings. \n\n\nNetworking at Academic Conferences Talk \n Thursday\, March 22 | 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Thomson House Ballroom\n\nProf Karl Moore will share his i nsights about networking as an academic.  Based on over +350 interviews he will reveal how successful introverted and extroverted leaders network an d how you can too!\n \n SPEAKER: \n\nKarl Moore\, Ph.D.\n\nAssociate Profess or\, Desautels Faculty of Management\, McGill University\n Associate Profes sor\, Dept. of Neurology & Neurosurgery\, McGill University\n Associate Fel low\, Green Templeton College\, Oxford University\n\nAfter completing his MBA at the University of Southern California and Ph.D. at the Schulich Sch ool\, York University\, Karl worked for eleven years in sales and marketin g management positions in the high technology industry with IBM\, and Hita chi.   Before McGill he taught at Oxford University for five years.  He ca me to McGill to work with Henry Mintzberg\, they co-direct McGill’s Advanc ed Leadership Program.      \n\nHe has taught extensively in executive edu cation programs including at Oxford\, Cambridge\, Duke\, LBS\, RSM\, Queen s\, McGill\, IIM Bangalore\, Renmin (Beijing)\, and Darden. An active cons ultant Dr. Moore has worked with Air Canada\, BA\, Nokia\, IBM\, Volvo\, H P\, Motorola\, Accenture\, Morgan Stanley and other firms.\n\nDr. Moore's publications include over a hundred and fifty articles\, books\, chapters in books\, and papers with over 2\,300 Google Scholar citations. His resea rch has been published in a number of leading journals including: Strategy Management Journal\, Business History\, MIR\, Canadian Journal of Public Health\, Journal of Applied Behavioral Science\, Chief Executive\, Human R elations\, Leader to Leader\, and Strategy + Business.  He just finished a book on Leading\, Managing\, Working Effectively With Millennials and is working on his next book\, Introverted/Ambiverted/Extroverted Leaders\, is research on Quiet Leaders was recently highlighted in the world renowned Schumpeter Column of The Economist (http://econ.st/2cuabZd).\n\nHe has rec ognized as a world expert on strategy and leadership.  For three years he has blogged for Forbes and for eight he had done a weekly interview for th e Globe and Mail where he interviews leading CEOs one week and the other w eek the top business professors in leadership and strategy and the world’s best universities.  In January 2015 he started a weekly program\, the CEO Series for CJAD in Montreal where does CEO interviews one-on-one for an h our\, some of the people interviewed have included:  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\, Nobel Prize Winner Muhammed Yunus\, former Google CFO\, Patrick Pichette\, and Geoff Molson.\n\nKarl was recently nominated for the 2017 Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Awards in the Leadership Category as a top thinker in the area for his work on introverts/extroverts in the C-S uite & Millennials. Seven others were nominated including faculty from Har vard\, MIT\, Columbia\, Penn and Dartmouth.\n\n\nBuilding Your Teaching Po rtfolio Workshop   \n Friday\, March 23 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | Brown 3001\n \nThis workshop will provide an introduction to the design and preparation of a teaching portfolio. In particular\, we will address how to document the diverse elements of your teaching and effectively communicate your ped agogical skills to academic hiring committees.  By the end of this worksho p\, you will be able to:  Identify content appropriate for inclusion in a teaching portfolio • Select content for your teaching portfolio that demon strates the breadth and depth of your teaching experience for a specific a udience\n\nPANELISTS:\n\nCarolyn Samuel\, Academic Associate\, Teaching an d Learning Services\, McGill University\n\nArmin Yazdan\, PhD candidate (C o Facilitator)\n\n\nThe Academic Interview & Job Talk Panel    \n Tuesday\, March 27 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Brown 5001    \n\nHear what faculty have t o say about the academic job market\, get tips on the application process\ , how to best position yourself to get interviews and job offers\, and wha t to do if your luck is running out. The format will be brief presentation s followed by a Q & A\n\nPANELISTS:\n\nBernard Robaire\, Professor\, Depar tment of Pharmacology & Therapeutics\, McGill University\n\nBernard Robair e received his B.A from UCLA and his Ph.D. from McGill University. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University\, he returned to McGi ll to take up a joint appointment in the Departments of Pharmacology & The rapeutics and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology where he has remained and is cur rently a James  McGill Professor.  Dr. Robaire’s research interests focus on aging of the male reproductive system\, male-mediated reproductive toxi cology\, mechanisms of androgen actions\, and the structure\, function\, a nd regulation of the epididymis. This research activity has resulted in ov er 200 journal articles\, 70 book chapters\, and editing/co-editing of 10 books. He conceived and has been co-Editor of both editions of the Handboo k of Andrology. He has mentored many graduate students (275 PhDs\, 10 MSc) and over 20 Postdoctoral Fellows\, most of whom have gone on to have succ essful careers in academia\, industry and government. His team’s work has been funded by the CIHR/MRC continuously since he opened his lab as well a s by the NIH\, March of Dimes\, FRQNT\, FRQS\, and the private sector. Hon ors awarded to Dr. Robaire during his career include the Award for Excelle nce in Reproduction from the Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society (CFA S) and the Distinguished Academic Award of the CAUT.  He received both of the highest recognitions from the American Society of Andrology (ASA): the Distinguished Service Award and the Distinguished Andrologist Award. Over the last few years\, he was awarded the R. Howard Webster Foundation Awar d in Reproductive Medicine\, the Prix du Mentor Scientifique (CRCQ)\, the Prix Guy Rochon (FQPPU)\, the Gabriel Plaa Award of Distinction of the Can adian Society of Toxicology\, and in 2013 he was elected as a Fellow of th e Royal Society of Canada. He has served as President of CFAS\, North Amer ican  Testis Workshop\, ASA\, ACFAS\, MAUT and served as both Associate Ed itor and then Editor-in-Chief of Biology of Reproduction\, and is currentl y Consulting Editor for this Journal.\n\nBrian Lewis\, Professor\, Departm ent of History & Classical Studies\, McGill University\n\nEric Lewis\, Dir ector\, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) Associate Professor\, Department of Philosophy\n\nProf. Eric Lewis is Director of IP LAI.  He served as the department of Philosophy's placement officer for ap proximately 20 years\, and spends much more time than is healthy thinking about placement strategies for academics! \n\nJin Guo\, Assistant Professo r\, School of Computer Science\, McGill University  \n\nJin L.C. Guo recei ved her PhD from the University of Notre Dame. She is interested in utiliz ing Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to solve Software Engineering (SE) problems. Her recent research focuses on mining domain knowledge from software artifacts and utilizing such knowledge to facilitate automated S E tasks such as trace retrieval and project Q&A.\n\nElizabeth Patitsas\, A ssistant Professor\, Department of Integrated Studies in Education and the School of Computer Science\, McGill University\n\nElizabeth Patitsas is a n assistant professor of computer science education\, and is jointly appoi nted to the Department of Integrated Studies in Education and the School o f Computer Science. She studies equity issues in computer science\, educat or practices\, and policy issues surrounding broadening participation in c omputing.\n\nMODERATOR:\n\nSaima Ahmed\n\nSaima Ahmed\, a graduate student in Experimental Medicine at McGill\, editor-in-chief of GradLife McGill. Her research aims to examine the impact of eHealth and mobile health tools from the perspective of both health care providers and patients.\n\n\nGet ting the Best Out of Your Supervisor Panel   \n Wednesday\, March 28\, | 4: 00 pm - 5:00 pm | Brown 5001    \n\nLearn ways to manage one of your most significant relationships in graduate school and beyond. Learn how to clar ify your own responsibilities and those of your supervisor – have a constr uctive interaction with your mentor and minimize conflicts –present your i deas to an individual or a team for the best outcome –manage the interacti on as it matures over the course of graduate studies and carries forward a s you become colleagues. This format will be brief presentations by paneli sts followed by Q & A.\n\nPANELISTS:\n\nSrikar Vengallatore\, Associate Ch air\, Department of Mechanical Engineering\, McGill University\n\nLisa Tra vis\, Professor\, Department of Linguistics\, McGill University\n\nProfess or Travis has been in the Linguistics Department at McGill since 1984\, th e year she finished her PhD at MIT.  Since she has been at McGill she has been sole supervisor on 19 PhD theses\, and co-supervisor on 11\, sole-sup ervisor on five Master’s theses\, and co-supervisor on 3\, sole-supervisor on 9 Master’s research papers\, and co-supervisor on 2.   On the administ rative side\, at the departmental level\, she was Graduate Program Directo r for 9 years and Graduate Admissions and Funding Officer for 7 years.  At the university level\, she Associate Dean\, Graduate and Postdoctoral Stu dies for 4 years\, and has been the Academic Lead for the Graduate Supervi sion Workshops in Teaching and Learning Services since 2013.\n\nRobin Beec h\, Associate Professor\, Associate Dean\, Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies \, Department of Parasitology\, McGill University\n\nJoined McGill in 1992 in Parasitology. Member and Chair of the Undergrad Academic Standing Comm ittee for the Mac Campus\, GPD for Parasitology and now Associate Dean in GPS since September 2015\n\n\nRSVP required through myFuture.  From your h omepage\, click on events followed by Workshop and keyword search ACW 2018 \n DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180319 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180328 LOCATION:5001\, Brown Student Services\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G3\, 360 0 rue McTavish SUMMARY:Academic Career Weeks 2018 URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/caps/channels/event/academic-career-weeks-2018-28 5121 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR