Meet with your Department Administrator to obtain and/or discuss information regarding:
- Your WUSTLKey
- Benefits
- Building access
- Campus card/Bear Bucks (Note: Bear Bucks may not work during the summer for those with nine-month appointments)
- Telephone service
- Parking & Transportation/ MetroLink U-Pass
- Faculty Financial Reporting
- Research Management System (RMS)
- Electronic Personnel Activity Reporting System (ePARS) access
- Internal controls certification
- Time & Labor Reporting approval
- Training and education programs (log-in via Learn@Work)
- Human and animal protocols
- Environmental Health & Safety
- Meeting with your faculty mentor. Learn more about McKelvey faculty development and mentoring here.
- Setting up your laboratory and managing your start-up funds
- Building your research team
- Students
- Postdocs and other research staff
- McKelvey support offices
- Contacting McKelvey Research Development & Administration to be added to mailing lists for funding opportunities and support
- Contacting the Institute for School Partnership to incorporate outreach activities/broader impacts into your research
- Preparing for tenure
- Planning for Sabbaticals and Leaves of Absence
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This list of suggestions is drawn from fellow faculty members and other University websites.
- How to Start Your Own Lab: Eight Principal Investigators Share What They Wish They Knew
- Survive and Thrive: A Guide for Untenured Faculty
By Wendy Crone - Reviewers rule: Strategies for faculty advancement
By Alaina G. Levine - You Have the Keys to Your First Lab. Now What?
By Margaret Foster - Guide to Effective Grant Writing: How to Write a Successful NIH Grant Application
By Otto Yang - Becoming an Academic Writer: 50 Exercises for Paced, Productive, and Powerful Writing
by Patricia Goodson - Tomorrow’s Professor: Preparing for Careers in Science and Engineering
By Richard M. Reis - At the Helm: A Laboratory Navigator
By Kathy Barker - Making the Right Moves
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research
The National Academies Press