STEM Pathways - NYAS

Course: Pathways to Success: Effective Mentorship in STEM

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April 9, 2024 | 1:00 – 2:00 PM ET

Mentorship is a collaborative learning relationship that benefits all participants. In fact, effective mentorship is a key factor contributing to a high rate of degree attainment, increased social and self awareness, sharper communication skills, career satisfaction, and other benefits that last for many years.

The New York Academy of Sciences is thrilled to partner with the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) to provide a free online webinar highlighting the potential and importance of effective mentorship in STEM. NRMN’s mission is to provide researchers across all career stages in the biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences with the evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming that emphasizes the benefits and challenges of diversity, inclusivity and culture.

This event is tailored for individuals at all ages and professional levels looking to enrich their career through collaborating and learning from a mentor or mentee, and for anyone interested in sharing this information with their network. Join us and learn from experts in the field about how effective mentorship can benefit you and your community.

Speakers

Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, PhD, MS

Dr. Toufeeq Ahmed Syed is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Education Informatics at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics and McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Syed has over 15 years of experience developing national online platforms and portals and serves as (multiple) Principal Investigator of the NIH-funded AIM-AHEAD program (Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity) and as Co-Investigator for National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN), Dr. Syed designed and developed MyNRMN (https://my.nrmnet.net), a powerful mentoring platform to support faculty, students, mentors, and mentees in building mentoring relationships and their professional networks. MyNRMN has over 8,300 mentors and 15,600 mentees in the platform and has facilitated over 12,000 mentoring connections (one-on-one, peer, near-peer, and group mentoring) for the NRMN community of mentors and mentees across all 50 states and from more than 4,100 institutions.

Marcus Lambert, PhD, MS

Dr. Marcus Lambert is the Associate Vice President of Research and an Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University. His research group studies workforce diversity and mentorship in scientific training, with a particular interest in mentorship networks. Dr. Lambert has led and designed multiple mentor and mentee trainings for biomedical scientists, and co-leads several research training grants. Dr. Lambert received his Ph.D. in biomedical science from NYU Grossman School of Medicine, an M.S. in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research from Weill Cornell Graduate School, and a B.S. from Howard University.

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Grace Wang

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

The New York Academy of Sciences looks to the future and continues to empower the next generation of STEM professionals. As the science and technology landscape rapidly evolves, this is particularly an exciting time to be part of the Academy.

David Charbonneau

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2016 Blavatnik National Laureate and Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University

There are too few opportunities for scientists to actually come together and share the really big ideas. One of the really great things that we get out of the annual Blavatnik Symposium is that you have this community of young scientists that come together in many different fields.

Len Blavatnik

Founder
Access Industries and Blavatnik Family Foundation

Young scientists represent the future of scientific thought. By honoring these young individuals and their achievements we are helping to promote the breakthroughs in science and technology that will define how our world will look in 20, 50, 100 years.

Michal Lipson

Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, Professor of Applied Physics
Columbia University
Blavatnik National Awards Scientific Advisory Council

There are a few awards for young scientists, but almost all of them are based on proposals that you submit, and not on the actual work that you do as a young scientist. The Blavatnik Awards is true recognition of the work of young scientists; it is unique in that sense. There is no equivalent.

Ruslan Medzhitov, PhD

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Yale School of Medicine (2007 Faculty Regional Award Winner)

The Blavatnik Awards are very special because they are given at a stage of a scientific career when recognition is most meaningful and has a long-lasting impact. This was certainly the case for me. The award given at the early stage of a scientific career not only recognizes past accomplishments, but also the future promise. This provides a powerful motivation to deliver on that promise.

Shruti Naik, PhD

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New York University’s Langone Medical Center (2019 Early-Career Scientist Award Winner)

Receiving the Innovators in Science Award is really such an honor. It’s a really great way to start out my research career and also be recognized for some of the findings I’ve had thus far. In many ways it validates my approach as a scientist.

Michele De Luca, MD

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University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2019 Senior Scientist Award Winner)

Receiving this award for me is very important. Mainly because it comes from the scientific community. That your colleagues recognize your work is of particular value. And it’s going to push us hard to continue.

Jeong Ho Lee, MD, PhD

Associate Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) (2020 Early-Career Scientist Award Winner)

It is a great honor to be recognized by a jury of such globally respected scientists whom I greatly admire. More importantly, this award validates research into brain somatic mutations as an important area of exploration to help patients suffering from devastating and untreatable neurological disorders.