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Lydia Jennings, a postdoc at UArizona, completed a 50-mile honor run in March of this year dedicated to Indigenous scientists past, present and future. She has since been featured in a short documentary by Patagonia. Congratulations, Dr. Jennings!

Postdoctoral Affairs would like to congratulate Dr. Li Zheng on the publication of her co-authored article that explores spatial cognition, specifically using fMRIs to understand the brain’s contributions to temporal and spatial representation. 

Dr. Karen Olsen is an astrophysicist and Computer Vision scientist. As a postdoc at the UArizona, her research focused on galaxy evolution and on the generation of synthetic observations of simulated galaxies.

Dr. Matthew Dodson was a postdoc at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

This workshop will focus on NIH Postdoctoral Grant Awards, specifically the F32, K99/R00, and LRP. Participants will learn about the mechanisms of those grants, strategies for writing a successful proposal, tips and tricks, and how to understand the review process.

The third Arizona Postdoctoral Research Conference took place on September 24th at the Virginia G. Piper Auditorium in Phoenix during National Postdoc Appreciation Week. This collaborative event between the University of Arizona and Arizona State University brought together talented postdoctoral scholars from the two universities as well as the Mayo Clinic to showcase their exciting research projects in the areas of Life Sciences, Medicine and Healthcare, Engineering, Technology, among others. 

We invite you to submit your nominations for Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award and Excellence in Postdoctoral Mentoring Award. These awards are important to the postdoc community as they highlight the incredible work done by postdocs and their mentors. 

Dr. Christina Duron is a postdoc at the Department of Mathematics.

See here the events organized by the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs to celebrate our wildcat postdocs this week!

We are pleased to announce this new series of online panels for postdocs, graduate students, faculty, and the whole community! The panels in this series will focus on discussing mentoring as a crucial activity for the development of postdocs as mentors and mentees. Panelists will provide insights about their experiences building successful mentoring relationships and will share the best strategies on how to make mentoring a powerful tool for professional development and collaborative growth. Check the full schedule!