The challenges of being a parent as well as a caregiver to an aging relative are endless. How do you set priorities, meet everyone's needs, go to work, take care of the home, and not burn out from stress and too much responsibility? This seminar answers those questions in both emotional and pragmatic terms.
Presenter: Consultant from Harris Rothenberg, International (Employee Assistance Program provider)
Is Your Scholarship Really Yours? Copyrights, Publication Agreements, & Open Access
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Calendar of Events
Date:
December 2nd, 2009
Time:
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location:
Columbia University, Medical Center Campus, ICRC 114
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Description:
Speakers: Kenneth Crews, PhD, Director, Copyright Advisory Office; Sarah Holsted, Center for Digital Research & Scholarship, Columbia University
Dr. Kenneth Crews and Sarah Holsted will lead a lively discussion on a topic of significant relevance for any author or creator of copyrightable works. Copyrightable works include the traditional products of academic activity and inquiry, including books, articles, lectures and class notes, as well as software, databases, websites, schematics, drawings, blueprints, renderings, movies, songs, lyrics, sculpture, choreography, landscape designs, and many other products of human creativity. The alternatives and the opportunities for innovation are opening rapidly, and the decisions you make today about your research and teaching materials can determine their usefulness to you and the wider community for many decades. Can you use even your own works for teaching and research? Will someone else profit from them? Can you participate in the massive Google book scanning project? The answers to these questions will depend on the decisions you make today. We hope you will join us in an engaging review of the issues and your rights as an author and creator of copyrightable works. The conversation will also include an introduction to Academic Commons, the repository system established at Columbia University to help facilitate access to your research.
A car cuts you off. Your boss gives you an emergency assignment late Friday afternoon. You find out your loved one may need surgery. Your teenager says something very hurtful to you. The temptation in each of these situations is to respond without thinking, letting your emotions take control. But that's often the worst thing to do. You need to drive safely, negotiate with your boss for a reasonable deadline or help, ask the physician about other options, and let your teenager know you're hurt without hurting him or her in return.
This workshop will help participants to understand the nature of stress, recognize both common and unique responses to stressful situations, and learn techniques for handling both their short- and long-term negative responses to stress.
Presenter: Consultant from Harris Rothenberg, International (Employee Assistance Program provider)
NYC Bio: Nuts and Bolts of Biotechnology Entrepreneurship: Crossing the Valley of Death: Guides to Transitional, Pre-Seed and Seed Funding
Category:
Calendar of Events
Date:
December 9th, 2009
Time:
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Location:
Stony Brook Manhattan, 401 Park Avenue South (between 27th and 28th Streets), 2nd Floor
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Description:
The NYC Bio Meetup is sponsored by NYC Bio - a not-for-profit organization established to facilitate collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship in the NYC community. Our goal is to build and sustain a thriving NYC biotech cluster encompassing biotech, nanotech, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, environmental technology and information technology with biological applications. Come hear presentations, ask questions, share real life experiences, and network with bio enthusiasts and entrepreneurs from NYC's business, finance, academic and medical communities.
Learn about the variety of child care options available so that you can best determine which type meets your family's needs. Two dates are offered; select one that is most convenient for you. Please feel free to bring a brown-bag lunch.
Presenters: Columbia University School and Child Care Search Service Counselors
Please feel free to bring your infants and young children if you do not have child care.
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, in an effort to acclimate new postdocs to Columbia University, would like to offer a first look at the resources at the Morningside and Medical Center campuses that directly relate to the postdoctoral experience. Discussion includes a brief run through of benefits according to the four postdoctoral titles, an initial look at an Independent Development Plan and how to plan for the future, and the services available University wide and through the OPA.
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