Bill Currie is helping to design a new SEAS Dean’s Junior Faculty Mentoring Program and will lead the implementation of the new program in its first year. The program will have a few complementary elements:

1. In a regular monthly meeting for new faculty, a series of topics will be covered that combine mentoring with new faculty orientation. Topics will range widely, from running a successful research group to how admissions and fellowship decisions are made to how the faculty promotion and tenure process works.
2. Currie will organize a series of “grantsmanship dialogues” in which a senior faculty member is invited and asked a series of interview-like questions related to grantsmanship. All junior faculty in SEAS (not just new faculty) are welcome and encouraged to attend.
3. Currie will organize friendly proposal reviews by other SEAS faculty for any junior faculty member who would like to have a grant proposal looked at before submission.
4. Each new faculty member joining SEAS will be given a group of three senior faculty to meet with at least once per year to achieve consistent mentoring.