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Currently on leave with the Division of Graduate Education at NSF

Please contact [email protected] with any questions related to professional development and postdoctoral affairs.

Kathleen Flint Ehm, PhD, joined the Graduate School in 2013 and currently serves as Assistant Dean for Professional Development and Postdoctoral Affairs in the Graduate School at Stony Brook University. In this role, she leads Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development, overseeing professional and educational initiatives for graduate students and postdocs, and directs the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. She is also a Research Assistant Professor with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, where she teaches science communication. Dr. Ehm has almost twenty years’ experience in postdoctoral policy and professional development for PhDs. She spent six years at the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA), serving as project manager for grant-funded initiatives. She was lead author on the NPA’s Responsible Conduct of Research Toolkit and From Ph.D. to Professoriate: The Role of the Institution in Fostering the Advancement of Postdoc Women. In 2004, she spent a year in residence at the National Science Foundation where she was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). There she helped manage NSF’s first competition of the Office of Polar Programs Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Ehm is an active member of the National Postdoctoral Association, the Graduate Career Consortium, and the AAAS. An astronomer by training, Dr. Ehm did her postdoctoral training at Gemini Observatory North and the Carnegie Institution of Science’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. She holds a Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a B.S. in Math and Astronomy from the University of Arizona.`, `/commcms/grad/_images/headshots/lotz-molly.JPG`, `Molly Lotz`, `Director, Research Training Initiatives`, `

Dr. Molly Lotz (she/her) has nearly a decade’s worth of experience supporting graduate student professional development and research mentorship. She comes to Stony Brook University from St. Francis College, where she was the founding director of the Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence (CAFE). Previously, she was Assistant Dean in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at St. John’s University. Dr. Lotz is passionate about improving equity, access, and support in graduate education and postdoctoral research training.

Dr. Lotz holds a Ph.D. in English and a Master of Library and Information Science (M.L.I.S.) degree from St. John’s University. Her research interests focus on the intersections between domestic labor and technological progress at the turn of the twentieth century, particularly in relationship to race, gender, and class, as well as critical archival studies and digital humanities scholarship. She has taught undergraduate literature and writing courses at St. John’s University, St. Francis College, and SUNY Farmingdale State College.`, ]; console.log(ctaArray)