Overview
The Vice Provost - Academic Personnel provides a Brown Bag lecture series for newly hired faculty as a way to assist and orient them to the UC Davis life and culture as well as assist in their professional development. (New faculty are defined as those hired within the last three years.) These lectures are generally offered from 12:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M., and presented by a variety of speakers including the Vice Provost, department chairs, resource directors as well as various campus administrators.
New Faculty Brown Bags for 2009-2010
Listed below is a sample of the topics to be presented in the this academic year:
- Research Compliance and Effort Reporting
- Teaching and Student Issues
- Managing Labs and Mentoring Graduate Students
- Grantsmanship
- Work Life Policies and Programs
- Preparing your Dossier
New Faculty Brown Bag Schedule
for 2009-2010
View the current schedule as (.pdf) or (.doc). Updates to the New Faculty Brown Bag Schedule occur on an ongoing basis, so please check the schedule regularly.
Presentations from Prior New Faculty Brown Bag Sessions (select Department or Unit name to view PowerPoint presentation)
- Teaching and Student Issues - PowerPoint Presentations from 11/18/08 Brown Bag Session - Presenters: Maureen Stanton, Professor and Chair - Department of Evolution and Ecology - “The 10 Most Important Things about Teaching” (PDF); Mikael Villalobos, Administrator for Diversity Education - Office of Campus Community Relations; Maureen Brodie, Interim Director – Student Disability Center; Don Dudley, Associate Director –Student Judicial Affairs (Code of Conduct (PDF), When to Report Misconduct (PDF), Avoiding Academic Misconduct (PDF), Report of Suspected Academic Misconduct (PDF) and Leslie Madsen-Brooks, Assistant to the Director and Andy Jones, Faculty Liaison – Teaching Resources Center.
- Orientation to the Office of Research and International Opportunities in Research - PowerPoint Presentations from 12/3/08 Brown Bag Session - Presenters: William Lacy, Vice Provost – University Outreach and International Programs; Ahmad Hakim-Elahi, Executive Director – Office of Research.
- Managing Labs and Mentoring Graduate Students- PowerPoint Presentations from 03/20/09 Brown Bag Session - Presenters: Professor Judy Callis - Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Distinguished Professor Subash Risbud - Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Sciences.
- Preparing Your Dossier for Merits/Promotions- PowerPoint Presentations from 05/27/09 Brown Bag Session - Presenter: Vice Provost Barbara Horwitz - Academic Personnel
Contact for More Information:
Binnie
Singh
Director of Faculty Relations and Development
University of California, Davis
Academic Personnel
Office of the Provost
(530) 752-0963
binsingh@ucdavis.edu