Succeeding with Your K Award

“Succeeding with Your K Award” is a highly interactive and mutually supportive peer-mentoring seminar series. It is designed for early-career faculty or post-doctoral fellows who are supported on National Institutes of Health K awards and meant to help them develop the ability to look at their own work and that of others in a critical but supportive manner. 

Faculty directors and staff include Laura J. Rasmussen-Torvik, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of Preventive Medicine-Epidemiology; William Schnaper, MD, associate director of Faculty Development,Department of Pediatrics; and Lauren Daniels, NUCATS Center for Education and Career Development (CECD) Senior Program Coordinator.“Succeeding with Your K Award” is offered on the third Monday of the month, September-June, with the exception of January when we meet on the second Monday (January 14th, 2019). The program runs from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Preventive Medicine Suite - Stamler Conference Room (680 N. Lake Shore Drive, 14th Floor). 

The 2018-2019 series is underway, with the next session being held on Monday, February 18th, 2019. 

If you are an early-career faculty member or post-doctoral fellow supported on a National Institutes of Health K award and would like to be added to the invitation list, please email nucats-ed@northwestern.edu. For more information, contact our CECD navigator.