October 12, 2006: "Ins and Outs of an Academic Job Search"

Thursday Oct. 12 from 12-1PM

Mattin Center, Room 160

If you are interested in becoming a professor, you don't want to miss this! The Women of Whiting (WoW) invites you to our first panel of the semester where you can learn about all prospects of an academic job search. From the panel, you will have the chance to hear about the application process from both the applicant and the interviewer perspectives. So mark this down on your calendar!

Panelists:

Dr. Stebe's Biography:

Dr. Kathleen Stebe is a professor and chair of the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the Johns Hopkins University. She graduated a magna cum laude with a bachelor degree in Economics and a master and a doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1984 and 1989, respectively. Her research interests include engineering of fluid interfaces, nanomaterials, and microfluidics. Dr. Stebe received several prestigious awards including the Francois N. Frenkiel Award for Significant Contributions in Fluid Mechanics by Young Investigators from the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in 1992 and the Robert S. Pond, Sr., Excellence in Teaching Award in 1993. She has served numerous university and professional committees such as the JHU academic council and the Executive Board Programming Committee of AIChE. She was the Graduate Program Director for the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department until 2006 when she became the chair of the department.

Dr. Kuchenbecker's Biography:

Katherine J. Kuchenbecker works with Dr. Allison Okamura as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Johns Hopkins University, focusing on haptic interaction and teleoperation. Previously supported by NSF and ARCS fellowships, she was the first doctoral student of Dr. Gunter Niemeyer at Stanford University, graduating in June of 2006. She completed a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford in June of 2002, focusing on mechatronics, robotics, and design. She also did her undergraduate work in M.E. at Stanford, graduating as the Henry Ford scholar, the top engineering student in her class, in June of 2000. After completing her postdoc, she will become an assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

 

 

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