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The CoS Research Faculty Advisory Council (RFAC) will be hosting a Town Hall Q&A Meeting to discuss current issues and obstacles specific to the CoS research faculty communities at Georgia Tech.

We will be joined by:

• CoS Associate Dean for Research Laura Cadonati

• Vice Provost for International Initiatives Bernard Kippelen

• Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education Bonnie Ferris

• Assistant Vice Provost for Research Faulty Maribeth Coleman

The Town Hall will take place on Friday, May 23rd, 12:00PM – 1:00PM in the Suddath Seminar Room 1128 (IBB building, 315 Ferst Drive NW).

Free lunch will be provided if you RSVP by May 19th. Please use the QR code on this flyer or this link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/y9ojF6v1RgvmAdBT8

This Town Hall is open to all CoS Research Faculty. Come and make your voices heard!

We have extended the deadline for receiving nominations for the CoS Research Faculty Awards!

The new deadline is Monday, February 17!

Please visit the application portal here to nominate yourself or your postdoc and research scientist colleagues!

For more information and a link to the nomination form, please click here.

Note that the due date is Friday, Feb. 14th!

The RFAC is honored to recognize the 2024 RF Awardees for their achievements to research and RF community:

CoS Outstanding Junior Research Faculty:
Yinghao Wen, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

CoS Outstanding Senior Research Faculty Award:
Anna Österholm, Chemistry and Biochemistry

CoS Research Faculty Community Trailblazer Award:
Jessica Bowman, Chemistry and Biochemistry

To help identify issues affecting postdocs and research scientists and guide CoS leadership in supporting us, we are asking you to complete our Spring 2024 Climate Survey.

It will only take 10 minutes to complete, and all questions are optional and anonymous. We understand that you are likely to receive many requests to complete surveys, so let us emphasize that the initiatives undertaken by the Research Faculty Advisory Council are very much guided by the feedback we receive from you! Your responses will be used to develop recommendations for CoS administration (deans, chairs…), as well as to determine our activity as a council.

Thank you for your time!

Check out the results we found from our climate survey 2023. Thank you for everybody that participated. Problematic topics revolve on:

• • • Onboarding issues (specially for international RF)
    • Conflict resolution and RF vulnerability
    • Salary increases
    • Lack of awareness of resources/miscomunication
    • Sense of community within the CoS

Congratulations to the three RF 2023 awardees!

Junior Research Faculty: Claudia Alvarez-Carreño, postdoctoral fellow in Loren Dean Williams’ research group, Chemistry and Biochemistry.

Senior Research Faculty: Mu Gao, senior research scientist in the school of Biological Sciences

The CoS Research Faculty Community Trailblazer Award: Eric Shen, research scientist in John Reynolds’ group, Chemistry and Biochemistry

To see pics of the event: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gtsciences/albums/72177720307634559

Please, go to https://rfac.cos.gatech.edu/rf-community-and-support/climate-surveys/

Climate Survey main results: lack of sense of community, RF vulnerabilities and lack of awareness of resources. June 02 Town Hall Notes: Meet-and-greet with Dean Lozier