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Eva Michaels is a Senior Fellow at IBEI and an Assistant Professor at Leiden University’s Institute of Security and Global Affairs. Prior experience included working as a Beatriu de Pinós Research Fellow at IBEI, a Research Associate at King’s College London and with think tanks in London, Berlin, Vienna, Paris, Brussels and Johannesburg.

Her research is situated at the intersection of European security, Intelligence Studies and International Relations. It explores how Europeans anticipate and respond to crises due to the escalation of violent conflict. Focusing on recent cases (e.g. Russia’s war on Ukraine and the fall of Kabul), Eva is interested in discussions about strategic surprise, the performance of knowledge producers and decision-makers, and experiences of failure in the intelligence-policy interface. Another research stream investigates how EU rhetoric on security and defence meets domestic realities in EU member states.

Eva is a co-editor of Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking (Edinburgh University Press, 2022). Further research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, European Security, Intelligence and National Security and Media, War & Conflict. Eva is also committed to knowledge exchange beyond academia by regularly providing media commentary and engaging in practitioner-academic dialogues and public seminars.

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1960s

Margo Sorenson ’68 (Secondary Education, pictured at right), 2003 Minnesota Book Award finalist and Milken National Educator Award winner, had her picture book for young readers, “Calvin Gets the Last Word” (Tilbury House, 2020), featured in The New York Times Book Review children’s books section in November 2021 as one of the best “Picture Books about Books.” The book is in its second printing. Her most recent picture book, “Little Calabash” (Island Heritage), was selected for the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ recommended reading list for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

1970s

Cathryn L. Roberts’72 (Speech – Communicative Disorders), M.A. ’74 (Communication Disorders/Teaching Credential) published her memoir, “Only in Alaska: A California Girl Pioneers Speech Therapy Under the Northern Lights,” on Kindle.

Leonard H. Friedman ’77 (Biology/Teaching Credential), M.P.H. ’82 (Public Health) received the Gary L. Filerman Prize for Educational Leadership from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA). Friedman is professor and director of Executive Master of Health Administration (MHA) programs in the Department of Health Policy and Management at George Washington University. Prior to joining George Washington, he was a faculty member at Oregon State University. He earned his Ph.D. at the USC School of Public Administration. AUPHA is a global network of colleges, universities, faculty, individuals and organizations dedicated to the improvement of healthcare delivery through excellence in healthcare management and policy education.

Gordon Goodwin ’77 (Music) released a five-song EP, “The Reset.” Born in Wichita, Kan., Goodwin’s parents moved to Southern California when he was four. After completing his formal music education at CSUN, Goodwin began working at Disneyland in the theme park’s ba

This paper will focus on key aspects of the T&P process at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) designated by the Carnegie Classifications system [1], including liberal arts colleges. An article by Boyce and Aguilera in this issue of BMC proceedings describes the process of applying for tenure at research-intensive R1/R2 institutions [2]. Foremost, a tenure at a PUI requires excellence in teaching, mentoring and a significant research component that engages undergraduates in meaningful ways leading to scholarly works and documented student success. PUI’s generally have higher teaching loads, advising loads, and service expectations combined with fewer financial resources available to fund undergraduate research programs than R1/R2 institutions [3, 4]. These hurdles present a unique challenge for faculty during the T&P process. The article by Dahlberg, King-Smith and Riggs in this issue gives important help on how to setup and build a productive research lab at a PUI [5].

Obtaining a PhD in the Biomedical or Biological Sciences requires one to learn how to conduct original research, communicate findings in the form of presentations or publications, and when mentored and supported appropriately, to apply to federal or private granting agencies. Success in these areas makes one a candidate for a career as a researcher in industry or in an academic setting. Indeed, many academic institutions require that an applicant demonstrate success in all these areas before taking the risk to invest in a new junior faculty because, even when successful, the indirect grant revenues generated by the faculty may not be enough to recover the start-up and research support spending by the university for many years [6]. However, excellence in research and grant writing does not guarantee that the individual will be successful through the faculty search and evaluation process that ultimately leads to the highly sough

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