GSBS Dean’s Report
– Faculty Senate 1/14/13
- The GSBS continues to
develop new certificate coursework and other initiatives in order to
enhance training for UTMB postdoctoral research fellows and to provide
them with career counseling. Two
recently developed examples are just getting underway:
a)
A cooperative agreement with Galveston College will
allow postdocs who want some formal teaching experience to do this and get
credit for it as part of a GSBS certificate course. A description of the course and listing of the
instructors is attached.
b)
A number of postdocs have come to Ms. Jo Bremer to seek
career counseling particularly about job opportunities. In order to help meet this need Ms. Bremer
has worked with HR to create a formal counseling opportunity and job search
assistance to help serve this need for postdocs or graduate students. A description of the plan being implemented
is attached.
- For a number of years
now, the GSBS has developed a Fellowship Incentive Program designed to
encourage advance graduate students to seek external funding to support
their stipend. Winning such an
award helps the student but also the faculty mentor whose grant typically
bears the cost of the student’s stipend.
This program takes on even more importance in the current climate
of tight federal budgets and intense competition for faculty grant awards. A description of this GSBS program is attached.