SPHHS Teams Receive Mutual Mentoring Team Grants

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SPHHS faculty are members of four teams that have been awarded Mutual Mentoring Team Grants by the UMass Amherst Office of Faculty Development (OFD). 

The Mutual Mentoring Grant Program aims to help faculty and librarians to develop and deepen their mentoring networks and community and to grow as researchers, teachers and leaders in their fields. This year’s cohort involves faculty from a variety of career stages and from all parts of campus, including eight colleges and schools, the Libraries and University Without Walls. The projects receiving grants confront a wide range of challenges, including equitable access to undergraduate research experiences, mentorship for late-career women faculty, Hispanic engineers and parents, departmental culture, building community within and across disciplines, inter-professional education programming and many more.

“We are thrilled to deliver this year’s grants to an impressive, passionate and dedicated group of projects,” says, Angela de Oliveira, associate provost for faculty development shares. “OFD is excited to empower these individuals and teams, both for their own professional development and for the positive impact they will make on campus.”

The four teams which include SPHHS faculty are:

Reclaiming Identity: Mentorship for Late-Career Female Faculty 

Team: Elena Carbone (nutrition), Gloria DiFulvio (health promotion and policy), Karen Helfer (speech, language, and hearing sciences), & Beth Jakob (biology) 

All Dried Up: Mutual Mentoring for Women Full Professors at UMass 

Team: Elizabeth Krause (anthropology), Aline Gubrium (health promotion and policy), Marta Calás (organization studies and international management), Sally Campbell Pirie (child and family studies), & Rebecca Spencer (psychological and brain sciences) 

Collaborative Development of Intentional and Evidence-based Interprofessional Education Programming at UMass 

Team: Lisa Sommers (speech, language, and hearing sciences), Thomas St. Laurent (kinesiology), Christy Maxwell (nutrition), Julia McDougal Ronconi (nursing), Sally Linowski (health promotion and policy), & Leonora Thomas (Undergraduate Clinical Placement Coordinator) 

Building Health Economics 

Team: Lucy Xiaolu Wang (resource economics), Debi Prasad Mohapatra (resource economics), Christopher Boone (economics), & Elizabeth Evans (health promotion and policy) 

For the complete list of awardees – including 10 Team Grant recipients and five micro grant recipients – or to learn more about the Mutual Mentoring Grant Program, visit the OFD website.

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