Glenn N. Cummings, Ph.D.
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2004-2012 - Director of Health Professions Advising, Princeton University
2000-2004 - Director of Preprofessional Advising, University of Virginia
National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NAAHP): Chair of the Letters of Evaluation Task Force; Communications Committee Member
Association of American Medical Colleges: Letters of Evaluation Working Group Member
Northeast Association of Advisors for the Health Professions (NEAAHP)
NEEAHP-NEGSA Liaison Group
Education
BA - Colby College
MA & PhD - University of Virginia
Research Interests
PhD dissertation: 'Exercising Goodness': The Antislavery Quaker in American Writing, 1774-1865
Grants & Awards
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, Department of English, University of Virginia, March 1995. Departmental nominee for all-University award.
Publications
Blog: The Launchpad / Health Professions Advising: http://www.fandm.edu/ospgd/the-launchpad/health-professions-advising
"The AAMC Letters of Evaluation Initiative: An Advisor's Perspective," The Advisor 32: 2 (June 2012).
“Placing the Impalpable: Whitman and Elias Hicks,” Modern Language Studies 28: 2 (Fall/Winter 1998): 69-86.
“Whitman’s ‘Specimen Days’ and the Theatricality of ‘Semirenewal,’” The American Transcendental Quarterly, New Series 6: 3 (September 1992): 177-87.
Presentations
"Practical Advice for Working with LGBT Applicants," NAAHP national meeting, June 2012, Baltimore, MD.
"The AAMC Letters of Evaluation Initiative: Advisors' Perspectives," NAAHP national meeting, June 2012, Baltimore, MD.
Advisor perspective on standardized letters of evaluation, AAMC webinar, February 2012.
Advisor perspective on standardized letters of evaluation, Philadelphia Local Area Network meeting of the National Association of Advisors in the Health Professions, January 2012.
“Advising LGBT Pre-health Students,” NAAHP national meeting, June 2010, Atlanta, GA.
“Religion, Politics, and LGBT Issues,” NAAHP national meeting, June 2006, Portland, OR.
Student Collaborations
Advisor for the Benjamin Rush Pre-health Honor Society
