Faculty Retreats

Faculty retreat 2022

Lab productivity

Date: Friday, July 8, 2022

Venue: Seaside House & Zoom

Time: 10:00 -13:00 

Goals:  

• To share, examine, and provide feedback on challenges, ideas, and strategies related to Lab Productivity
• To collaborate with colleagues to formulate best practices on effective lab management, productive team development, communication, leadership styles, inclusive mentorship, and other important aspects of cultivating a productive, vibrant research team
• To strengthen our sense of community and collegiality as OIST faculty

Schedule: 

10:00 – 10:05     Welcome (Peter Gruss)

10:05 – 10:15     Presentation of Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Award and Honorable

                           Mention  Certificates

10:15 – 10:20     Overview of retreat

10:20 – 10:25     Picasso in a bag

10:25 – 11:10     Collaborative groups: Best practices; drawing on research on lab

                           productivity/lab climate; data from students

11:10 – 12:00     World café: distilling ideas, strategies, addressing roadblocks/challenges

                            Breakout sessions on prioritization, resources, and next steps

12:00 – 13:00      Lunch and community

Please register HERE.

 

Faculty retreat 2021

Running a productive and reputable lab

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Venue: B250 & Zoom

Time: 10:30 -14:00 

Goals:  

• To highlight effective strategies of hiring new lab members
• To emphasize the importance of the responsible conduct of research
• To understand current challenges of OIST faculty members by providing a safe space for the idea and knowledge exchange

Schedule: 

10:30 – 10:50 Welcome speech by Dr. Gruss
10:50 – 11:00 FAO updates
11:00 – 12:00 Dr. Baughman’s talk: “Hiring the right people” followed by Q&A
12:00 – 13:00 lunch break (No lunch – mainly by Zoom)
13:00 – 13:10 Short speech & Mentoring Award presentation by Dr. Collins
13:10 – 14:00 Dr. Purohit’s talk “Research Misconduct Investigations".

Faculty retreat 2020

Creating nurturing environment for high performing research teams

Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 

Venue: President’s house

Time: 12:00 -16:00 

Goals:  

• To provide practical suggestions for how to be effective as a leader 
• To highlight the characteristics of productive group dynamics and the ways that faculty members can encourage these dynamics  
• To emphasize the importance of supportive environment to build highly successful research teams 

Schedule: 

• 12:00-12:15 Welcome speech by Dr. Gruss
• 12:15-12:45 Dr. Collins’s talk: “How to manage and not to manage academics” Case studies and Q&A  
• 12:45-13:00 Coffee Break 
• 13:00-14:00 Session 1 “How to Lead Better part I” by Dr. Patricia Rankin, Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder 
• 14:00-14:30 Coffee Break 
• 14:30-16:00 Session 2 “How to Lead Better part II” by Dr. Patricia Rankin, Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder 

 

Faculty retreat 2019

Building positive research culture with the focus on teaching and mentoring

Date: Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Venue: President’s house

Time: 9:00-16:00

Goals:

• To provide practical suggestions for improving mentoring and teaching skills 
• To highlight the elements of a positive and engaged unit and strategies to achieve such a research environment (based on new FAO guidelines
• To emphasize the importance of faculty career development and long-term planning

Schedule:

• 12:00 – 13:00  Lunch discussion and presentation of the Faculty Exellence in Mentoring Award 
  • Drs. Marylka Yoe Uusisaari and Tom Busch 
• 13:00 – 14:00  Talk by Dr. Tim Hunt
• 14:00 – 14:30  Break & Announcements
• 14:30 - 16:00    “Cultural assumptions, Miscommunications and Pitfalls” by Vicki Bayes