Office of Faculty Development

The Office of Faculty Development strives to create a thriving and diverse department with professionally happy and healthy faculty who are productive, well recognized, and respected within Washington University School of Medicine and the academic Pathology and Immunology community worldwide.

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P & I Career Development Seminars

The Office of Faculty Development hosts seminars on the second Wednesday of every month from 12:05 PM – 12:50 PM via Zoom. Join us for our next event.

May 2024

Surveillance and Mitigation of Plagiarism in Academic Publishing

May 8, 12:05 – 12:50 pm via Zoom

Presented:
Tristan McIntosh, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
WUSTL Bioethics Research Center

Zoom Meeting Link: https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/93987677697
Meeting ID: 939 8767 7697
One tap mobile: +13126266799,,93987677697# US

June 2024

Faculty Lounge: Peer Check-in
Wednesday, June 12:00PM CDT
West Building Library, 3rd floor

An informal “work-in-progress”-update, where the “work” is your academic self! This gathering is intended to provide a friendly, safe space for faculty at all levels to reflect on successes, share obstacles or challenges, and visualize future goals and ideals. Catered lunch; Please RSVP to Janet Braun by Wednesday June 5 at 5 PM.

Diversity Book Discussion
Book Selection: The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Tuesday, June 18 4:05-4:50 PM
Zoom

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https://wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/j/93316481894?pwd=ZEMzMnNLNE9UTkVOdmlYZWZVa05lUT09&from=addon

Meeting ID: 933 1648 1894
Passcode: 529762

About the book:
Writer Karla Cornejo Villavicencio was on DACA when she decided to write about being undocumented for the first time using her own name. It was right after the election of 2016, the day she realized the story she’d tried to steer clear of was the only one she wanted to tell. So she wrote her immigration lawyer’s phone number on her hand in Sharpie and embarked on a trip across the country to tell the stories of her fellow undocumented immigrants—and to find the hidden key to her own. 
 
Looking beyond the flashpoints of the border or the activism of the DREAMers, Cornejo Villavicencio explores the lives of the undocumented—and the mysteries of her own life. She finds the singular, effervescent characters across the nation often reduced in the media to political pawns or nameless laborers. The stories she tells are not deferential or naively inspirational but show the love, magic, heartbreak, insanity, and vulgarity that infuse the day-to-day lives of her subjects. 
 
In New York, we meet the undocumented workers who were recruited into the federally funded Ground Zero cleanup after 9/11. In Miami, we enter the ubiquitous botanicas, which offer medicinal herbs and potions to those whose status blocks them from any other healthcare options. In Flint, Michigan, we learn of demands for state ID in order to receive life-saving clean water. In Connecticut, Cornejo Villavicencio, childless by choice, finds family in two teenage girls whose father is in sanctuary. And through it all we see the author grappling with the biggest questions of love, duty, family, and survival. 
 
In her incandescent, relentlessly probing voice, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio combines sensitive reporting and powerful personal narratives to bring to light remarkable stories of resilience, madness, and death. Through these stories we come to understand what it truly means to be a stray. An expendable. A hero. An American.

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