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Postdoc Appreciation Month 2020

The National Postdoctoral Association designated September 21-25, 2020 as National Postdoc Appreciation Week. The University of Maryland Baltimore honored our postdocs for the entire month of September by hosting numerous events.

Highlighted Events

2020 Postdoc Appreciation Month events included:

  • A Where's Waldo? themed trivia game
  • Workshops on implicit bias, using art and design to present science, and bioinformatics
  • Career panels about academia, industry, and government
  • A virtual social hour
  • Postdoc Retreat with Keynote Speaker, Dr. Syra Madad
5th Annual (Virtual) Postdoc Retreat, Sept. 21-25, 2020. Photo of Dr. Syra Madad, Keynote Address, Dr. Syra Madad, Sr. Director, Special Pathogens Program, NY. Circle with Interactive Workshops inside: Implicit bias, art illustration, applied bioinformatics, lab management. Circle with

Postdocs are a driving force of research at UMB and are amazing in general, on our humble opinion. Therefore, we want to celebrate National Postdoc Appreciation Month with an event on September 30th at 12 p.m. We will have a trivia quiz, a contest to see which team can find Waldo fastest, see which postdoc is from farthest away, and announce the winner of the more correct guesses for where Waldo h

Flyer for Syra Madad Keynote. On December 27, 2019, Dr. Syra Madad published an op-ed in the Washington Post, co-written with Ronald A. Klain, former United States Ebola response coordinator for President Obama. The piece warned lawmakers that this vital program is set to expire in May of 2020, urging Congress to renew funding for the system that helps keep Americans safe from a sudden epidemic.