Dear faculty colleagues,
This newsletter starts below by sharing faculty-related Stories and News. The Updates section includes information and important reminders for faculty about the following:
- Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion Candidates: Dossier Prep
- Call for Professional-Track Peer Networking Facilitators and Themes
- 2024 Aspiring Leaders Academy – Call for Applications
- CTL Updates: May 2024
- IC2/Dell Med Designing Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Health Disparities
- Harrington Symposium on Optical Methods in Quantitative Bio-Imaging
Please share what might be relevant with fellow colleagues and those you mentor. If you have any faculty-related questions, concerns, and solutions please feel free to contact the Faculty Affairs team. We’re here to support you in any way we can.
Wishing you time to refresh and re-energize over the upcoming summer months.
Stay well,
Tasha Beretvas
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Featured News & Stories
Pulitzer Prize Awarded to History Professor Emerita
Jacqueline Jones, professor emerita in the College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin, has been awarded the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for history for her book “No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston’s Black Workers in the Civil War Era,” published by Basic Books.
Four Graduate Students Win at 2024 Empower Your Pitch Competition
Four graduate students took home awards at UT Austin’s inaugural Empower Your Pitch competition. This campus-wide research communication competition is sponsored by The Graduate School, the Graduate Coordinators Network and Texas Career Engagement.
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Names Classics Professor as 2024 Fellow
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named University of Texas at Austin classicist Andrew M. Riggsby a 2024 fellow. Riggsby is one of 188 fellows chosen from a pool of almost 3,000 applicants on the basis of prior career achievement and exceptional promise.
4 UT Scholars Join American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Four faculty members from UT Austin will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest learned societies for independent policy research.
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Faculty Updates
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Promotion Candidates: Dossier Prep
The provost’s Faculty Affairs team will be holding an information session focused on the creation of promotion dossiers for tenured and tenure-track faculty candidates up for promotion and tenure review this coming fall, 2024. Please share this information with any tenured and tenure-track faculty promotion candidates and encourage them to attend. Staff involved in the promotion process for tenured and tenure-track faculty are also welcome to attend. This particular faculty session is not intended for Dell Medical School promotion and tenure candidates.
This session will be held over Zoom on Wednesday, May 22 from 2:00-3:30pm. Join us!
Meeting Link
Call for Professional Track Peer Networking Facilitators and Themes
The Professional Track Peer Networking Circle Program seeks new discussion facilitators and themes for the upcoming 2024–25 academic year. Professional-track faculty interested in gaining leadership experience are encouraged to apply. Those interested in serving as facilitators must apply by 5 p.m. CST on Tuesday, May 21. Selected facilitators will receive a $1,500 stipend for each semester they moderate a circle discussion. Selected facilitators will be notified in June 2024 and will work with Faculty Development to launch their circle at the beginning of the fall term.
Learn More & Apply
2024 Aspiring Leaders Academy – Call for Applications
The Aspiring Leaders Academy is now accepting applications for the upcoming academic year. Professional track faculty, and tenured associate and full professors interested in pursuing future leadership roles are encouraged to apply. Interested faculty must submit an application by 5 p.m. CST on Monday, June 10, 2024. Those selected will be notified in July 2024.
Learn More & Apply
CTL Updates: May 2024
The CTL May newsletter includes Teaching Innovation Grant award recipients, spring semester programming recaps, and the link to a Developing Learning Outcomes guide for summer and fall course planning.
IC2/Dell Med Designing Artificial Intelligence to Mitigate Health Disparities
The IC2 Institute, in partnership with Dell Med, offers one-year awards of up to $75,000 for selected projects with a single Principal Investigator (PI) from any UT College or School, or up to $150,000 for selected projects with two (2) or more PIs/Co-PIs. In multi-PI projects, at least one PI must be a Dell Med researcher. The IC2 will primarily manage the application process, provide funds for these proposals, and oversee the execution of projects. Projects that include a Dell Medical School faculty member, resident, or fellow as a PI will be co-funded by Dell Med.
Learn More & Apply
Harrington Symposium on Optical Methods in Quantitative Bio-Imaging
This one-and-a-half-day symposium has a theme of applications in bio-imaging that include a significant portion of optical innovation. The single-track meeting will consist of 17 distinguished invited speakers, as well as students, postdocs, and researchers. Additionally, there will be an engaging poster session, to enable young scientists to present their work and add further depth to the exchange of ideas and insights. The symposium will be on June 27-28 in the Gary L. Thomas Energy Engineering Building. If interested in attending, please register by June 13. There is a registration fee of $75 for all attendees.
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