Career and
Mentoring Resources for Statisticians
B.
Resources Specific to UC Berkeley
Announcement:
Mentoring by E-mail
Sigma Xi is partnering with MentorNet, the award-winning e-mentoring program for scientists and engineers. This one-on-one electronic mentoring system is efficient, convenient and proven to be effective. Mentor undergraduates or, through a new program called MentorNet ACE, mentor graduate students and post-docs, without leaving your office or home. For details and sign up instructions please visit:
http://www.sigmaxi.org/programs/education/partner.shtml
Caucus for Women and Statistics
“The Caucus helps to support women in the field. It sponsors activities at the JSM annually, with sessions, discussions and dinner groups, and publishes a newsletter four times a year. It sponsors the Gertrude Cox race (along with the ASA Committee on Women), and the funds are used for scholarships for women graduate students near the beginning of their careers. The Caucus members are very friendly and supportive, and range from beginning grad students to senior statisticians in academia, government, and industry. About 10% of the members are men.”
Seventh
North
American New Researcher’s Conference
August 4—6,
2004 at
“The purpose of the conference is to provide a comfortable setting for new researchers to share their research and make connections with their peers in an informal setting…Anyone who has received a Ph.D. since 1999 is eligible to attend, although priority will be given to first-time participants.”
http://www.ams.org/mathcal/info/2004_aug4-6_toronto.html
Sixth North American
New
Researcher’s Conference
Page from 2003 conference. Includes background on the New Researcher’s Conference, and the “Other links” page includes links to IMS, ASA, the Statistics Virtual Library at the University of Florida, a New Researcher’s Survival Guide, Collegial Advice for New Assistant Professors, and a paper on “How to get your first research grant”.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~ralevine/NRC/
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
“The purpose of the institute is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and applications of statistics and probability”
American
Statistical Association
“The nation’s leading professional association for statistics and statisticians”. Site includes job postings, information on funding opportunities, and much, much more.
http://www.amstat.org/index.html
Association
for Women in Mathematics
“A nonprofit organization dedicated to encouraging women and girls in the mathematical sciences.” See links to travel grants for women researchers.
Women
in Math (at University of Maryland)
Web pages includes general resources for women in math.
Women
in Mathematics Information Server
General resources for women in mathematics.
ISI Committee on Women
in
Statistics
A committee of the International Statistical Institute. Its goals including “promoting and strengthening the representation of women statisticians in the ISI and its Sections.”
http://kiefer.stat.cwru.edu/~mhr/isi/
ASA Committee on
Women in
Statistics
A committee of the American Statistical Association. Its goals include: “To make members of ASA more aware of the common professional interests and problems of women members of ASA. To promote the status of women who are already in the statistics profession. To encourage women to enter the field of statistics.”
http://odin.mdacc.tmc.edu/~jlp/cowis.html
Statistical Society of Canada Committee on Women in Statistics
A committee of the Statistical Society of Canada. Site includes links to information about women in statistics and in science in general.
http://www.ssc.ca/main/women_e.html
From the
Virtual Library of Statistics at the
http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/jobs.html
Job
Listings—Institute of Mathematical
Statistics
http://jobs.amstat.org/search/results/
University of
Washington -
Statistics Employment Opportunities
http://www.stat.washington.edu/www/jobs/
Positions
in
Genetic Epidemiology
http://www.biostat.wustl.edu/~genetics/iges/jobads.html
SIGMAA
–Special Interest Group on
Statistics Education, Mathematical Association of America
http://www.pasles.org/sigmaastat/
ASA
Section on Statistical Education
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/stated/
Resources on
Teaching
and Learning Statistics
http://www.stat.ncsu.edu/stated/statedlinks.html
B. Resources Specific to UC Berkeley
“This Guide is designed to introduce new faculty members to UC Berkeley by answering some of the most commonly asked questions about faculty life and work.”
http://facultyguide.berkeley.edu/
New Faculty and Staff --
Getting
started at work
Practical information on obtaining business cards, an employee ID, etc.
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/neo/work.htm
New Faculty and Staff
-- About
the Berkeley Campus
Maps, list of campus websites, etc.
http://hrweb.berkeley.edu/neo/campus.htm
Academic
Senate
Committee on the Status of Women and Ethnic Minorities
Committee goals include: “to stimulate and aid all departments in strengthening their efforts to foster and achieve equality of opportunity for women and minorities”. Site includes Faculty Pay Equity Study.
http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/swem/index.html
Academic
personnel manual for the
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/apm/welcome.html
Faculty handbook for UC Berkeley.
http://www.ucop.edu/acadadv/acadpers/handbook/welcome.html
A Guide to Balancing
Work and
Family
“This guide is designed to provide UC Berkeley
faculty and
staff with an overview of existing campus work/family policies,
programs, and
resources.”
http://workandfamily.chance.berkeley.edu/
Office
of Faculty Equity Assistance
“The Office of
Faculty Equity Assistance helps The Executive Vice Chancellor and
Provost, the
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Welfare, deans,
department
chairs, and directors implement the campus Academic Affirmative Action
Plan and
develops and oversees policies and programs dealing with faculty
recruitment,
development, and retention.”
http://fea.chance.berkeley.edu/
Junior Faculty
Mentor Grant
Program
“The Junior
Faculty Mentor Grant Program is designed to assist junior faculty in
their
professional growth and progress toward tenure.”
http://fea.chance.berkeley.edu/JrMentor.html
Career
Development Grant
Program
“Responds to
the needs of junior ladder faculty members whose heavy involvement in
University and community activities curtails their time for the
scholarship and
creative activities necessary for promotion to tenure.”
http://fea.chance.berkeley.edu/CareerDev.html
Chancellor's
Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity
“The
Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Academic Diversity was
established to increase the number of ethnic minority faculty members
at the
http://fea.chance.berkeley.edu/Postdoctoral.html
Resources for instructors at UC Berkeley.
http://www.berkeley.edu/teaching/
Contact Haiyan Huang (hhuang@stat.berkeley.edu) to suggest additions to this page.
Page created by Blythe Durbin, February, 2004.