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Lamont Weekly Report – October
8, 2004
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OF THE DIRECTOR
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– Letter from the Director –
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<> LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
Two days spent in DC at meetings of the JOI Board of Governors
made this a short week (again). (And is the reason why I missed
Robin Bell's great talk on Monday evening at the Explorer's
Club downtown.)
Jim Yoder is no longer leading the Ocean Sciences Division
at NSF - he has returned to his permanent position at Rhode
Island - Larry Clark is acting Division Director. The search
for the permanent replacement is underway - interviews will
not be completed until the end of the month so I doubt a decision
will be made before the end of the calendar year.
Next week involves more time in DC, the high point being
the LDEO event at the NAS scheduled for Wednesday evening.
But before all this excitement comes Open House, and with
the promise of temperatures in the 70's and only modest probabilities
of precipitation I look forward to another grand and very
well attended event. As always thanks are due to all who have
worked so hard on setting this up.
Tonight we have the inaugural dinner at which two new entities
will be established that will, I am sure, prove to be of great
importance to the development of the Observatory. Thanks to
the hard work of Development Director Tim Harwood we have
a growing number of substantial donors to our unrestricted
funds and we will be recognizing a small group of these folks
this evening by welcoming them as founding members of FOLD
(Friends of Lamont Doherty). Secondly we have established
the Torrey Cliff Society, members of which are those who have
made a provision for Lamont-Doherty in their wills. The centerpiece
of this evening’s celebratory dinner will be a presentation
by Doherty Research Scientist Maya Tolstoy.
And by the way - if you feel you do not see me wandering
the paths of the Campus at Open House tomorrow, it is not
that I am not here - but most of the afternoon is consumed
by meetings with the Alumni Association and their Board -
I will certainly see everyone at the celebratory reception
at 430pm in the Monell Lobby.
I am pleased to report (formally at last) that the National
Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Earth Institute at
Columbia University a five-year $4.2 million ADVANCE Program
grant to test methods to help women overcome barriers to advancing
their careers in earth sciences and engineering and making
it into the ranks of tenured professors and senior research
scientists. The program will be led by Robin Bell working
closely with the co-PI's Roberta Miller, Mark Cane, Stephanie
Pfirman and John Mutter. The Earth Institute ADVANCE Program's
approach is five-fold: to change hiring practices, to provide
support to women scientists during difficult life transitions
such as elder care and birth or adoption of a child, to enhance
mentoring and networking opportunities, to implement transparent
promotion procedures and policies and to conduct a self-study.
Jenn Laird will be the program coordinator with offices both
at Lamont and on the Morningside Campus. Announcement of ADVANCE
programs and internal funding opportunities will be forthcoming
in the next few weeks.
Have a great weekend,
– Mike
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