Stephanie Halmo

Assistant Professor

Job Role
Tenure-track Faculty
Rank
Assistant
Department
Department of Biology
Mentorship Contact Email
Mentor/Mentee Status
I am looking for a mentor.
I am interested in joining a peer mentoring/coaching group.
Strengths
Professional Strengths
  • Cultivating community
  • Developing soft skills
  • Financial literacy
  • Organizational skills
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Providing emotional support
Research and Scholarship Strengths
  • Authoring articles
  • Recruiting and Promoting Undergraduates for Research
  • Research design- qualitative
  • Writing skills
Service Strengths
  • Advising students
  • Equity and Inclusion skills
  • Hiring research assistants and setting a fair workload
  • Reviewing manuscripts for publication
  • Supporting job search for students
Teaching Strengths
  • General teaching and pedagogical skills
  • Engaging students in the classroom
  • Feedback, grading, and evaluation
  • Framing teaching statements
Strengths to Improve
Professional Strengths to Improve
  • Advocating for self and others
  • Change management
  • Navigating caretaking in academia
  • Navigating hierarchies in academia
  • Navigating organization/ department norms and culture
  • Networking
  • Prioritizing mental health and work/life balance
  • Providing honest feedback
  • Strategic thinking
  • Time management/setting reasonable goals
  • Tools for balancing competing priorities
  • Tools for managing stress and avoiding burnout
Research Strengths to Improve
  • Authoring books
  • Equity focus in research
  • Finding on-campus resources
  • Forming collaborations locally and globally
  • Framing tenure and promotion statements
  • Grant proposals
  • Grant writing
  • Hiring and Managing Postdocs and Research Staff
  • Public speaking
  • Recruiting Graduate Students 
  • Research design- quantitative
  • Tips for co-authorship
  • Translating research to public scholarship
  • Working in and across multiple languages
Service Strengths to Improve
  • Conflict resolution skills
  • Leadership skills
  • Pathways to leadership roles
  • Personnel management skills
  • Securing funding for students
  • Serving as an editor
Teaching Strengths to Improve
  • Accessibility and supporting students with disabilities
  • Equity focus in teaching
  • Integrating technology into teaching
  • Navigating challenging situations with students
  • Online teaching
  • Syllabus design and curricular development
  • Teaching and AI
  • Teaching while caregiving
  • Working in and across multiple languages