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Postdoc Appreciation Month

Every September we celebrate our Postdoctoral Fellows by holding special events throughout the month and hosting a Postdoc Retreat and Keynote Speaker. 

The National Postdoctoral Association designated September 20-24, 2021 as National Postdoc Appreciation Week.  This is a time to recognize and appreciate our postdoctoral trainees who are a major driving force of research at our institution. Here at UMB we honored our postdocs for the entire month of September by hosting a large number of activities to acknowledge and honor the postdocs.  

Roopa Dhatt, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Women in Global Health, was the keynote speaker with a talk entitled "Breaking From the Past: Redefining Leadership". 

Check out what we did in 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017!

Highlighted Events

2021 Postdoc Appreciation Month events included:

  • Virtual screening of the documentary, Picture a Scientist
  • Lab olympics
  • A keynote address by Dr. Roopa Dhatt, "Breaking From the Past: Redefining Leadership"
  • Career Blitz Workshops covering resiliency, exit strategies, building your EQ, networking, and power mapping
  • Panel discussions about climate change and diversity in science

September is Postdoc Appreciation Month. To show how much we appreciate you, come and have some fun and show off your lab skills like pipetting, weighing, and lab chair racing. Leave with a medal or at least some international snacks.

Dr. Roopa Dhatt is a passionate advocate for gender equality in global health and a leading voice in the movement to correct the gender imbalance in global health leadership. She is also a practicing Internal Medicine physician in Washington, D.C. Dr. Dhatt is particularly committed to addressing issues of power, privilege, and intersectionality that keep many women from global health leadership r

Featuring geologist Jane Willenbring, chemist Raychelle Burks, and biologist Nancy Hopkins, as well as key social scientists working to understand and reduce gender bias in the sciences, Picture a Scientist brings diversity in science into sharp view at a critical time.