Help with life’s bottleneck
For junior faculty members struggling in life’s bottleneck — those sometimes magical, often harried years when the demands of a budding career and a young family contribute to a feeling that sometimes there just isn’t enough of you — help is on the way. The Eleanor and Miles Shore 50th Anniversary Fellowship Program for Scholars in Medicine was created with such junior faculty members in mind. Begun in 1996, the program was established to commemorate the half-century anniversary of the admission of women to Harvard Medical School (HMS). The program recognizes that in today’s society, where both partners in a relationship usually work, the pressures of proving oneself professionally often come at the same time that junior faculty members are juggling the needs of small children. The program’s awards provide support for academic activities and can be used to hire additional laboratory assistance or to create protected time to write grant applications,...