Insights and Experiences in Academic Mentoring and Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 142 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth R. Diller
Keyword(s):  
Academic Career ◽  
Great Honor ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Academic Mentoring ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Abstract It is a great honor to be named the awardee of the 2019 ASME Robert M. Nerem Education and Mentorship Medal. Bob Nerem has been a mentor to me since the beginning of my faculty career and has been a model to me for effectively dealing with the many dimensions of the interpersonal side of an academic career. This brief paper presents a summary of some of my personal insights and practices in this arena as gained during 46 years on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin.

scholarly journals Paso del Norte

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Morton
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Political Theatre ◽  
Santa Barbara ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Latino People ◽  
Paso Del Norte ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

 Carlos Morton is a leading Chicano dramatist, who has been writing and producing  plays for more than four decades. Among his best-known plays are The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales (1983) and Johnny Tenorio (1992). In addition to his work for the stage, which has been widely produced, he has written for television and radio, and taught at universities in Texas, California, and Mexico (he holds a PhD from the University of Texas, Austin). When he started his career, at the end of the 1960s and the start of the 1970s, his enthusiasm was sparked by the political theatre produced by Teatro Campesino and the San Francisco Mime Troupe.  His work has since adopted a wider variety of styles and themes:  evoking historical events, myths, biblical stories, and contemporary political issues, such as racism and machismo, interweaving realism with fantasy. But he always addresses a Chicano audience, and exposes the oppression of Chicano and Latino people.  He is currently Professor of Theater at the University of California at Santa Barbara. 

In Search of Our Fathers’ Workshops

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Sánchez González
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Gender Stereotyping ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Freedom Of Information Act ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Feminist Scholar ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Latina Girls

Lisa Sánchez González explores the highlights and lowlights in her journey from kindergarten to tenure as a Boricua feminist scholar deemed "radical" in U.S. academia. Her essay charts the challenges that the she (and many other Latina girls identified early in their education as "gifted") overcame in public schools and the pattern of racial, class and gender stereotyping that perpetually repeated itself in her academic career, as well as how it uniquely deformed the shape of her first tenure review. Sánchez González, who was denied tenure at the University of Texas-Austin, discusses how the Freedom Of Information Act made it possible for her to review her tenure case.

scholarly journals Cluster Preface: Radicals – by Young Chinese Organic Chemists

Synlett ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 354-355
Author(s):  
Chen Zhu ◽  
Xin-Yuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Organic Chemistry ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Full Professor ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Shanghai Institute ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University ◽  
Southern University

(left) received his B.S. degree from Xiamen University in 2003 under the supervision of Prof. Pei-Qiang Huang, and his Ph.D. degree from the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Guo-Qiang Lin. After postdoctoral research at ­Gakushuin University, Japan with Prof. Takahiko Akiyama, he moved to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, working as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. John R. Falck and Prof. Chuo Chen. He was appointed as a professor at Soochow University, China in December 2013. He is currently the Head of the Organic Chemistry Department at Soochow University. His current research interests include radical-mediated transformations, in particular radical ­rearrangements, and their applications in the construction of natural products and biologically active compounds. Xin-Yuan Liu (right) obtained his B.S. degree from Anhui Normal University (AHNU) in 2001. He continued his research studies at both the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS and AHNU under the joint supervision of Prof. Dr. Shizheng Zhu and Prof. Dr. Shaowu Wang, obtaining his master’s degree in 2004. After a one-year stint in Prof. Gang Zhao’s laboratory at SIOC, he joined Prof. Dr. Chi-Ming Che’s group at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and earned his Ph.D. degree in 2010. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral studies in Prof. Che’s group at HKU and in Prof. Carlos F. Barbas III’s group at The Scripps Research Institute. At the end of 2012, he began his independent academic career at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and was promoted to a tenured Full Professor of SUSTech in 2018. His research interests are directed towards the design of novel chiral anionic ligands to solve radical-involved asymmetric reactions.

A Sophomore-to-Junior Mentoring Program That Works: The Sam Program at the University of Texas Pan American

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Elena Reyes
Keyword(s):  
South Texas ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Hispanic Serving Institution ◽  
Academic Mentoring ◽  
Hispanic Serving ◽  
The University ◽  
Junior Students

In an effort to increase the retention rates of college sophomores in a Hispanic Serving Institution in south Texas, university administrators created and implemented a successful peer mentoring model, the Sophomore Academic Mentoring (SAM) Program. Results suggest that the program has contributed to an increase in retention for second year, sophomore-to-junior students at the university.

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