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Kathleen Flint
Kathleen Flint, Ph.D. is Project Manager at the National Postdoctoral Association, where she manages both the Postdoc Leadership Mentoring Project and the “Bring RCR Home” project. Dr. Flint comes to the NPA from Stony Brook University where she was Assistant Director of the Reinvention Center, a national center focused on enhancing undergraduate education at research universities. She has also served as an adjunct professor in Stony Brook’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, teaching at both Stony Brook’s main and new Southampton campuses. In 2004, she spent a year in residence at the National Science Foundation (NSF) where she was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. There she specialized in issues concerning early-career scientists and helped manage one of NSF’s newest postdoctoral fellowship programs. Previous to that, Dr. Flint was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Gemini Observatory North and a Carnegie Fellow at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. Her research interests focused on understanding the lowest mass galaxies in the nearby Universe. She has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2001, 1997) from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a B.S. in Math and Astronomy (1995) from the University of Arizona. While at UC Santa Cruz, she was also very active in graduate student issues and spearheaded the establishment of a new graduate student center at UCSC, the Graduate Student Commons, which opened in 2001.
New Project Manager Joins NPA Staff Spring 2007 POSTDOCket, pg. 1
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