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 Thanks to Shravanthi Seshasayee and Kerri Barton for the original creation of this infographic! This week in our Lean-In Circle, Shravanthi Seshasayee and Kerri Barton led a session on  Navigating feelings of competition and comparison and recognizing your self-worth. Shravanthi and Kerri developed this toolkit as a guide when we find ourselves in the "not enough" trap, comparing ourselves to others in an unproductive way. Stop, drop, and roll - love it! The link to self-evaluation phrases for a performance evaluation are here: Self-evaluation phrases

You are invited to attend - Kathy performed their PhD research with Christine Lary, in collaboration with Katie Motyl's lab.     Good morning all,   Program in Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology Dissertation seminar :     Tuesday, September 1, 2020 -  2:00 PM  -  via Zoom ZOOM:   https://tufts.zoom.us/j/92658513127 Meeting ID: 926 5851 3127   Kathy Nevola Graduate Program in Cell, Molecular & Developmental Biology

  Have you ever been in a conversation when someone said something biased that made you uncomfortable, but you were not sure how to respond? Most of us struggle to address these all too common situations, whether in the classroom, the workplace, the doctor’s office, etc. Biased comments can emerge while spending time with friends, family, or strangers and may target either our own identities or the identities of others. Register here   9/2/2020 When: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 1:00 p.m. E.T. Where: Webinar United States Contact: NPA staff contact@nationalpostdoc.org 301-984-4800 MMCRI is a sustaining member of the National Postdoctoral Association.  To join, start an account and affiliate yourself with MMCRI.

Read interviews from selected award winners here The Maine Literary Awards is an annual competition by the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance open to all Maine residents. 

 Thanks to Katie Stieber for this contribution! This project is geared towards K-12 students to give them an idea of STEM careers and women who are in diverse STEM positions. Great for students to browse, and also open for any STEM women to make/post a video! 1000 STEM women link

 Thanks to Leisa Collins for this contribution! IT’S ENVIRONMENTAL LIT DAY! Community   Aug 25, 2020 Whether you call it enviro-lit or cli-fi, whether it’s nonfiction or fiction, whether they make weather puns (heh!) or take a more serious tone, there are so many amazing books out there about or featuring the world around us. We humans are just one small piece of a great big world, one that we’re fighting to save, so today we’re celebrating environmental lit across genres. Find out if ecopoetry is the thing you’re missing in your life; get the best picture books to introduce your little ones to the environment and our impact on it; learn to cook sustainably; get some ecologically inclined manga recommendations. Today’s posts include all these and then some, and we wish you and your TBR joy while you explore! (And don’t forget to hug a tree—or your houseplant—when you’re done.) 1 DAY AGO 8 OF THE BEST NOVELS ABOUT ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTERS Kiran Josen Aug 25, 2020 While not exact...

 

Join us for our second casual “learn and connect” Virtual Coffee hour on September 16 from 10-11AM. Hear from Maine life science entrepreneurs, scientists, researchers and faculty to learn about the impressive work that’s being done in Maine. Each mini-presentation will be followed by Q&A and the audience will have a chance to connect with the speakers and each other. This month we are excited to announce a special project we have been working on in collaboration with the speakers in this series! Why Maine? Tune in to see why we think Maine provides entrepreneurs and life science professionals with the most enriching community to live and work. Registration opens soon! Speakers:  John Konsin, Co-Founder & CEO, Prapela, Inc. Dr. Deborah Bronk, President & CEO, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Toby Ahrens, Program Director, FocusMaine

  QUESTION OF THE WEEK: “Diversity, equity and inclusion are not the same thing as being explicitly anti – racist. Discuss your thoughts about this”    Shay Stewart Bouley Read more of her work at  www.blackgirlinmaine.com   DIALOGUE SESSION 9/4/2020 @ 10am: Anti-Racism 101: Common Vocabulary.  Black Lives Matter v. All Lives Matter Guest Speaker: PENDING RESPONSE   IMMEDIATE ACTION ITEMS: DIALOGUE SESSIONS:  Please Share Ideas:    HERE    RESOURCE REPOSITORY:  REMEMBER TO CHECK OUT OUR   RESOURCE REPOSITORY DEI CHALLENGE (kick off 7/24):   Syllabus: 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge ABA JOIN A TEAM:  If you’re interested in more hands on work, email  EScharnetz@mmc.org REMEMBER TO CHECK SLACK – need membership? Email   COLE FERM    MOMENT OF INSPIRATION:  Good Humor and the RZA – The Good Humor Ice Cream Truck has a new not racist jingle.  Hear it here!...

Help our neighbors in need by donating non-perishable food during the MaineHealth - United Way Food Drive. Drop off your donation at the Bramhall Café  or any of these locations , or at your unit collection box. Donating made easy: Purchase canned food for donation at the Bramhall Impressions Cafe and Westbrook Riverfront Cafe, then just place it in the box near the registers.   Collecting donations on your unit or department? ·           Print a sign for your collection box. ·           Send this list  of most-needed food items  to your team. Take a photo of your team and donations (mask and social distance, please), and send it to  mmcnews@mmc.org . Deliver your collected items to the Bramhall Cafe by Friday, Sept. 7. For off-site (not Bramhall) pickup, please contact  Joe East . Thank you for Caring for our Community!        ...

Register here Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series: Ijeoma Oluo September 22, 2020 | 5:30 PM ET | Virtual Event  Join Tisch College for a conversation with author, journalist, and activist Ijeoma Oluo. She is the author of New York Times Best-Seller  So You Want to Talk about Race , this year’s Common Book selection for the Tufts University School of Medicine. Named one of the The Root’s 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2017, Oluo was also the winner of the of the 2018 Feminist Humanist Award by the American Humanist Society. Oluo’s work focuses primarily on issues of race and identity, feminism, social and mental health, social justice, the arts, and personal essays. Her writing has been featured in The Washington Post, NBC News, Elle Magazine, TIME, The Stranger, and the Guardian, among other outlets.  This event is in collaboration with the Tufts University School of Medicine in celebration of the 10th anniversary of its Common Book Program and Tisch Col...

  More information here UNDERSTANDING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (FALL 2020) This webinar series will help you gain a stronger understanding of the Covid-19 pandemic, its local and global impact, and recovery from it. The series consists of a series of lectures delivered by University of Maine System experts and other guests in the fields of public health, policy, law, social work, and business. Each lecturer will present an aspect of the Covid-19 pandemic through their disciplinary lens, highlighting how we understand, track, mitigate, and recover from its impacts. These lectures are being presented as part of a fall semester course at the University of Southern Maine’s  Muskie School of Public Service .   You can participate in any and all of the webinars – whatever your schedule allows. All webinars will be recorded and the recordings and transcripts will made available on this webpage. CEUs are available for a fee and require attendance at 10 of the 12 webinars. Closed cap...