For this Faculty Feature, we spoke with Rongbin Ge, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Anatomic and Molecular Pathology.

Click on any of the links below for information & registration details. We encourage you to participate.

The Interfolio How-to Site now includes more videos and resources to support your program or department in completing the annual review, appointment, promotion, tenure, or transfer of tracks processes in Interfolio. 

Bookmark this page to stay abreast of additional resources as they come available.

Rights and Responsibilities Relevant to Balancing Professional and Family Obligations
January 8, 2025, 12:05 - 12:50 pm via Zoom
Panel:
Michelle Duke, FMLA Representative
Amy Dunnegan, WashU Medicine Family Care Facilitator
Bethany Miller, Director, Graduate Medical Education

February 23, 2025 from 1-4 pm

Faculty, Fellows & Residents Gather your Teams!
Tables of 8-plus ones are welcome
Don't have 8? No problem. We will help fill your table. .

Location: Blueberry Hill Duck Room, 6504 Delmar Blvd in The Loop

Have you gathered your trivia team together? Before registering, try to have your team firmed up. When you are ready:

*If you have a full or partial table, have 1 team member register your entire group.
*If you want to be added to a team that has open slots, register yourself only.

Registration Link If you need to make changes to your registration or have questions, please contact Janet Braun, Justavian Tillman or Ron Jackups.

Please register by February 14th.

Sponsored by The Office of Faculty Development and the Office of Education.

Empathetic Leadership in a Collaborative Environment
March 12, 12:05 - 12:50 via Zoom
Presented by Jennifer Heemstra, PhD
Chair and Professor of Chemistry

As we do each year, the Department of Pathology and Immunology, Office of Faculty Development (OFD) is seeking to renew and/or recruit new representatives for the 2025 calendar year to work with OFD in supporting the goals and core values of the office. OFD Representatives will continue to work on specific programming initiatives or content areas and will enhance representation and diversity of the OFD across the divisions and career pathways of the department.  

Faculty at all ranks and in all tracks are eligible to serve as OFD Representatives.  Existing representatives are invited to reapply and faculty who have not previously participated in this important effort, which does not involve an extensive time commitment, are especially encouraged.  Representative participation involves a 45 min., monthly meeting of all representatives, in addition to other organizational and development efforts that are prioritized by OFD representatives.  This is an excellent opportunity for leadership experience and to be more involved in your department.  

This year, we are looking for a faculty member who will champion initiatives in one of these specific areas:

Onboarding/New Faculty- Support OFD initiatives to welcome and orient new faculty members to our department.

Junior Faculty - Focus on issues and initiatives relevant to junior faculty career development, promotion, and well-being.

Mid-Career Faculty- Focus on unique issues and initiatives particularly relevant to faculty at their mid-career development, including needs for on-going mentoring and developing leadership skills.

Diversity and Inclusion- Work with the department’s and university’s office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as it specifically pertains to recruiting and promoting faculty and faculty initiatives.

Faculty Engagement & Events - Develop and organize career-focused and social faculty events sponsored by OFD to promote intradepartmental collegiality.

Collaborative Endeavors- Identify and develop opportunities for new, inter- and intra-departmental research and other academic ventures that specifically promote faculty career development.

Clinical Affairs- Develop guidelines and support structures to help department faculty simultaneously deliver exceptional clinical care while promoting their own academic advancement.

If you are interested in participating, please notify Mark Watson by January 13, 2025 using the submission form on our webpage which includes the request for a brief statement describing your interest in and goals for OFD.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Book Discussion
January 22, 4:05 - 4:50 pm via Zoom
10 copies of the book are available to those who will attend the discusion. Contact Janet Braun to request a copy.

About the Book:
For Glory Edim, that “friend of my mind” is books. Edim, who grew up in Virginia to Nigerian immigrant parents, started the popular Well-Read Black Girl book club at age thirty, eventually reaching a community of half a million readers. But her own love of books stretches far back.
 
Edim’s father moved back to Nigeria while she was still a child, marking the beginning of a series of traumatic changes and losses for her family. What became an escape, a safe space, and a second home for her and her brother was their local library. Books were where Edim found community, and as she grew older she discovered authors and ideas that she wasn’t being taught about in class. Reading wherever and whenever she could, be it in her dorm room or when traveling by subway or plane, she found the Black writers whose words would forever change her life: Nikki Giovanni, through children’s poetry cassettes; Maya Angelou, through a critical high school English teacher; Toni Morrison, while attending Morrison’s alma mater, Howard University; Audre Lorde, on a flight to Nigeria. In prose full of both joy and heartbreak, Edim recounts how these writers and so many others taught her how to value herself by helping her to find her own voice when her mother lost hers, to trust her feelings when her father remarried, and to create bonds with other Black women and uplift their stories.
 
Gather Me is a glowing testament to how the power of representation in literature can gather the disparate parts that make us who we are and assemble them into a portrait of discovery.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Week
January 21 - 24, 2025

Join the celebration with a series of events honoring the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

This year’s program features opportunities to engage with impactful discussions, thought-provoking exhibits, and inspiring speakers, all centered around themes of equity, inclusion, and social justice. From the kickoff of our book and film club to the commemoration of the Desegregation Wall exhibit and updates on our DEI initiatives, there’s something for everyone. Highlighting the week, Dr. Kemi Doll will deliver a keynote as part of the Inclusive Excellence Speaker Series. We invite all members of our community to participate and reflect on ways to further Dr. King’s vision of justice and equality in our daily lives.

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WashU Night with the Blues!

Save the date: 2025 WashU Night with the Blues
Jan. 27 and Feb. 23, 2025, at the Enterprise Center

Purchase tickets for one of the two 2025 WashU Night with the Blues! All WashU ticket holders will receive a St. Louis Blues and WashU cobranded hat. View event details online here. 

•    Jan. 27, 2025, against the Vancouver Canucks | 6:30 p.m.
•    Feb. 23, 2025, against the Colorado Avalanche | 5 p.m.