A DetermiNation Info Night
presented by the American Cancer Society and Running Room

The American Cancer Society’s DetermiNation team can help you set and achieve your goal to complete a half marathon or marathon. We’ll help you thrive as a first timer or as an experienced runner with professional training and a community of support that will make every step not only possible, but meaningful!

Join us for our Rochester spring kick-off on Wednesday, February 1st from 6:30pm-7:30pm at the Running Room – for an official DetermiNation info session! Hear from some DetermiNation teammates, have some food and a chance to win some fun prizes!

Let us know if you’ll be there by going to the Community Events Calendar or contacting Adam Layne at adam.layne@cancer.org

Featured events for 2012:
Grandma’s Marathon and Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon – Duluth, MN
Med City Marathon and Half Marathon – Rochester, MN **Inaugural Year**
Twin Cities Marathon and 10 Mile Race – St. Paul, MN
Cellcom Green Bay Marathon and Half Marathon – Green Bay, WI
Madison Marathon and Half Marathon – Madison, WI
Chicago Rock n Roll Half Marathon – Chicago, IL… and many more!

Thanks! Hope to see you there!

written by Allie Greenberg and Beth Cloud

Advice for the students would be to be themselves, be open to learning about different types of research projects, and to be honest with what they would like to get out of their graduate school training.

Click this link to pull up the schedule.

MGS_Symposium_2011

TEMPE                                                       MAYO
8:00 am first pick-up                             9:00 a.m.
9:45 a.m.                                                  10:30 a.m.
11:15 a.m.                                                 12:00p.m.
12:45 p.m.                                                 1:30 p.m.
2:15 p.m.                                                   3:00 p.m.
3:45 p.m.                                                   6:00 p.m. last pick-up

TO TRACK YOUR SHUTTLE GO TO www.asustarthere.com
In the upper left corner click on the bus icon to see what time it will be at your stop

SCHEDULE INFORMATION:

Tempe Campus Stop:                         The Mayo stop is located at:
College just north of University        Bus Stop in front of Mayo Clinic
                                                 13212 East Shea Boulevard

The ride time is approximately 30 – 40 minutes given traffic. Please plan accordingly.

The shuttle runs Monday through Friday from August 16, – December 14, 2011

There is no service during university holidays, semester & spring breaks.
If you need any additional information regarding the shuttle, please access our website at transit@asu.edu or call the Commuter Options office at 480-965-1072 and if it is after 5 p.m. you can direct any questions regarding shuttle departure or arrival to Coach Dispatch at 602-437-3484

Jenny Ho was born in Illinois and moved with her family to Northern California’s Bay Area at a young age. She went to UCLA, graduated with a double major in Psychology and Anthropology, and worked at the UCLA Medical Center doing clinical research in orthopaedic surgery. She then enrolled in the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health and completed internships with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with Kaiser Permanente.

Jenny earned her Master of Public Health and Master of Health Service Administration and was accepted into Mayo Clinic’s two-year Administrative Fellowship Program. After spending one winter in Rochester, she transferred to Arizona, completed the fellowship, and worked in Patient Financial Services and Public Affairs. She left Mayo in 2008 to go to Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, where she supported human resources and communications for the greenfield project. She feels fortunate to have been able to return to Mayo this fall, and is excited to be serving Mayo’s Education shield and supporting Mayo Graduate School and the Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development as an Operations Manager.

She lives in Scottsdale and spends her free time with her husband, Jeff, and their Cornish Rex cat, Zoe. She enjoys hiking, jogging, traveling and playing with yarn.

This photo was taken at the Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital.

 

Joseph was originally from the beautiful country of Colombia. He received his bachelors of science degree in Bacteriology from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. Moving across the world he continued his training at The Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, where he received his MSci in Immunology and then his PhD in Immunology. He then worked at San Diego before coming to Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. His lab works on aging and cancer along with other projects such as obesity and inflammation.

Joseph Lustgarten was an intelligent, funny, cheerful, and charming person. He never goes unnoticed when he entered a room because of the positive energy that flows from him. He has always been committed to his family, fellow researchers, and students. MCA graduate student Soraya Zorro Manrique said, “Seeing the best of everything was his philosophy. Even getting “no results” from our experiments was good since it could be used as a teaching experience to do better the the next time.” Joseph was the Graduate Program Director at Mayo Clinic Arizona. “He immediately opened up his lab and resources so that I could learn and get the best training,” says Danielle Miranda. He always made sure to set aside time for students.  “Most importantly, be happy at what you are doing,” Patrick Blackburn recalls Joseph advising.

Joseph’s most important contribution to this world are his three sons together with his wife Flory. He also was an active participant in the Jewish community. I want to leave you with one of my favorite quotes that I know Joseph is an example.  “To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To known even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Indeed Joseph has succeeded. Thank you Joseph for all you have done. You will always be remembered.

written by Danielle Miranda

Click here for the symposium’s program

      “Bethany’s efforts to bring the lessons from the exhibit into Mayo’s culture and create a lasting effect cannot be overstated.  She engaged with Mayo leadership, supervisors, and staff at all levels to encourage participation in the exhibit and related activities. She was part of a core team that developed The Department of Education sponsored Talking Circles, which are facilitated discussions based on Native American traditions.   She facilitated the development of the pool of facilitators, established a system for Mayo employees to register for the Talking Circles, and provided a forum for making talking sticks and for keeping the conversations about race alive.”

Bethany continues to be a cultural advocate not only within Mayo but also in the community. She plays a pivotal role in the largest non-profit source of paid internships for undergraduate, minority youths, INROADS, where she incessantly provides members of our future generation with opportunities that they may not otherwise have. It’s no wonder Mayo has such a vibrant cultural atmosphere when we have rockstars like Bethany Krom working with us. So if you happen to see Bethany in the College of Medicine, stop by to congratulate her on her award and to say thanks for all she does to help make Mayo feel like home.   

Written by Amanda Butler, Mayo Clinic Florida blog manager.

The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2011 FASEB Postdoctoral Professional Development and Enrichment Award.  A total of six (6) individual awards are available to provide resources to support the development and enrichment of leadership skills and training of postdoctoral fellows or new (within one-year) assistant professors. 

The FASEB Postdoctoral Professional Development and Enrichment Award (sponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health) was established to recognize outstanding achievement by six early stage life scientists from underrepresented minority groups. Applications are requested from highly promising postdoctoral scientists or new assistant professors who have demonstrated research productivity including having published first-author papers in scientific publications, mentoring of URM undergraduate and graduate students, and service leading to improving and expanding opportunities for minorities in the scientific workforce and academia.

Award Presentation:  The six awardees will be publicized and announced on the FASEB and FASEB MARC Program websites, and will also be included on the awardees’ member society’s website.   Each of the six awards will include a $3,000 unrestricted career development award, a certificate in recognition of the award, plus an additional $2,500 travel award to support his/her participation in a national scientific meeting.

Application and Submission Procedures:Applicants must be members of a FASEB Society.  Membership status will be subject to verification by the member society identified in the application.  Access to the site is located at: http://www1.faseb.org/PostdocProfDevAward/.  ~ Application DEADLINE: May 31, 2011 ~

 For questions, please contact: Cordelia D. Adams, Email: postdocaward@faseb.org

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Hi everyone!

Having just now caught my breath from chasing down interviewees, push pins, poster boards, and tour schedules, a few statements about this year’s interview weekends are in order.

Over two weeks, Mayo Graduate School hosted nearly a hundred aspiring students vying for the 35 or so openings that will be the 2011 matriculating class. While this year’s weekends were an unmitigated success, this comes with its own set of issues. How does one tell a Floridian unused to the difference between 20° and -20° that they arrived during the warmest weekend this winter? What happens when student participation in the poster session is so great that General Services runs out of poster boards? When Rochester puts on SocialICE on the same weekend, how do we make the city not look stir-crazy from months of winter? These were problems, to be sure, but problems I was ultimately glad to have.

To those who came to consider MGS, it was a blast meeting all of you, and we hope to see you again! Whether as fellow students, or as future colleagues in the conferences and post-docs to come, best of luck!

To the students who assisted the interviews, thanks so much. Whether you were a member of the GSA organizing shuttle runs and interview chaperones, or talked shop for a few minutes with an applicant at the poster session, it is your continued help that puts students at our rightful place as the focal point of MGS.

~written by Michael Oneal, President of MGS Graduate Student Association

I agree with our fearless GSA leader, who did a wonderful job with tremendous efforts, that the interview weekends were a great success! With interviewing students coming in from near and far, Rochester’s own as well as those spanning from California to New York and Canada to Puerto Rico, we were able to show them all what Mayo and Minnesota is all about: great research and Ice Bars, of course.

Graduate student participation was great as per usual in the social scene – with great presence at the Saturday activities and reception, and arm wrestling tournaments to determine who will attend the illustrious Foundation House dinner. But equally impressive was the turnout of students at the poster session at the (not so ripe) time of 8:45am – a feat that is not normally possible for most graduate students, but alas when provided with nourishment and caffeine anything is possible.

Also, a huge thanks to the Deans, Rose Marie, and all the administrative assistants who made the whole operation run smoothly with the perfect amount of grandeur.

~written by Mallory Turner, Virology and Gene Therapy GSA Representative