[iris-bulk] Early Career Geoscience Faculty Workshop

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Please forward this email to early career geoscience faculty.

Workshop for Early Career Faculty in the Geosciences: Teaching,  
Research,
and Managing Your Career
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
June 15-19,  2008, optional trip to NSF on June 20

Application Deadline: March 14, 2008

Information and on-line application form:
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer08/index.html

Join us for a multi-day workshop in a stimulating and resource-rich
environment where you will participate in sessions on topics including
effective teaching strategies, course design, establishing a research
program in a new setting, working with research students, balancing
professional and personal responsibilities, time-management, and other
topics of interest to the participants.

Participants in this workshop must hold a teaching position at a  
university
or college (including two-year colleges) for the following academic year
and must be in their first four years of full-time teaching at the  
time of
application (or be starting their first year of full-time teaching in  
the
fall).

These workshops are offered through On the Cutting Edge, a professional
development program for current and future geoscience faculty. Some of  
the
workshop expenses are covered through a CCLI grant from the Division of
Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation.  
Participants or
their home institutions must provide transportation to and from the
workshop and a workshop registration fee.  The grant covers the some  
of the
operational costs of the workshop plus room, board, and workshop  
materials
for the participants. Participants or their home institutions must also
provide transportation to and from the workshop and pay the registration
fee of $250. We have funds for a workshop stipend which you can apply  
for
after being accepted to the workshop.

Application form: DEADLINE - FRIDAY MARCH 14
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/earlycareer08/application.html

Cutting Edge website
http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops

Please forward to others who might be interested in this workshop.   
Also, I
apologize in advance for duplicate messages.

Thanks,

Heather


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Heather Macdonald
Chancellor Professor of Geology
College of William and Mary
757-221-2443
fax: 757-221-2093
rhmacd at wm.edu
http://www.wm.edu/geology/

P.O. Box 8795
Williamsburg, VA  23187-8795


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