Office of Faculty Development

Rights and Responsibilities Relevant to Balancing Professional and Family Obligations
January 8, 2025, 12:05 – 12:50 pm via Zoom
Panel:
FMLA: Michelle Duke
Amy Dunnegan, WashU Medicine Family Care Facilitator
Bethany Miller, Director, Graduate Medical Education

Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me by Glory Edim
January 21, 4:05 – 4:50 pm via Zoom
10 copies of the book are available to those who will attend the discusion. Contact Janet Braun to request a copy.

About the Book:
For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back.

Edim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison’s alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.

Gather Me is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.

Empathetic Leadership in a Collaborative Environment
Presenter: Jennifer Heemstra, PhD, Chair and Professor of Chemistry
March 12, 2025 | 12:05 – 12:50 pm via Zoom

• Leading for Trust & Psychological Safety December 6, 2024 | 2:00 – 4:00 pm
  In-Person
• ASK Outrageously: A Negotiation Workshop January 9, | 9:30- 11:00- am
• Radical Respect Book Discussion
  Session 1: Tuesday, January 14, 2025 | 12 – 1:30 p.m.
  Session 2: Wednesday, January 15, 2025 | 8:30 – 10 a.m.
  Discussions are in-person. Participants may register for one session.
• National Women Physicians Day 2025: Keynote Address & Women in Leadership Story Panel February 3 | 1:30 – 5:00 pm
• Ask Outrageously! Book Discussion
  Session 1: Thursday, February 6 | 3 – 4:30 p.m.
  Session 2: Friday, February 7 | 9:30 – 11 a.m.
  Discussions are in-person. Participants may register for one session.
• The Coaching Mindset for Change
  Sign up for one of two sessions offered for Spring 2025:
  February 25, 2025 | 2 to 4 p.m. CT
  April 8, 2025 | 2 to 4 p.m. CT
• Listening & Questioning for Change
  Sign up for one of two sessions offered for Spring 2025:
  February 26, 2025 | 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. CT
  April 9, 2025 | 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. CT
• Leading for Trust & Psychological Safety – Spring 2025
  February Session: Feb. 20, 2025 | 2 – 4 p.m. | In-Person
  March Session: Monday, March 3, 2025 | 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | In-Person
  April Session: Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2025 | 2 – 4 p.m. | In-Person
• Negotiating the Change You Didn’t Want Workshop: A Negotiation Workshop
  Tuesday, April 1, 2025 | 1 – 2:30 p.m. CT, Virtual Workshop

• January 15, 2025 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm: Early Career Check-In Series: Managing Laboratory Finances

• December 11 | 3-5 pm Stay Interviews Workshop (In-Person)