Week of January 5, 2016

GradConnections Weekly

Tips for Grads

Happy 2016, Badgers! 
Everyone starts every new year with at least one resolution but it is often very hard to keep it throughtout the year. In her article 9 Apps That'll Help You Reach Your New Year's Resolutions (Because You're No January Quitter), Kelli Orrela suggests nine free apps that will help you accomplish your goals whether you want to learn more, save more or move more!
We picked three for you:
  • If you want to realx more, Headspace offers guided and unguided meditation.
  • If you want to learn more, Curiosity delivers five new topics to you daily.
  • If you want to move more, Stand Up! The Work Break Timer helps you get up from your desk.
Check out the article on themuse to find out about the other apps.
Academic Deadlines 
Monday, January 18: Last day to cancel enrollment without transcript record
Tuesday, January 19: Instruction begins
Friday, January 22: Last day to enroll without $25 late initial enrollment fee (except Specials and Guests)
See all other Spring deadlines here.
UHS Graduate Student Groups

UHS offers several group opportunities for graduate students in Spring 2016 (advance screening and registration is required):

Graduate Students' Group: Mondays 3:15-4:45pm
Graduate Women's Group: Fridays 3:00-4:30pm
Dissertators' Group: Tuesdays 10:00-11:30am or Wednesdays 12:00-1:30p (please contact Jo Hoese with questions).
General information about these and other UHS group wellness experiences is available here.
Peace Corps Survey

Are you a RPCV and a UW Graduate Student? The Peace Corps recruiting office on the UW-Madison campus wants to hear from you! There are many opportunities to get involved here on campus, to connect with other RPCVs, to share your Peace Corps story, and to inspire the next generation of UW students to become volunteers. 

Please follow this link to a survey they’ve crafted. It only takes a few minutes to complete and will help create a strong UW Madison Peace Corps network.


Professional Development
Need to streamline your workflow this semester? Learn about all the best tools and skills to increase your productivity and decrease your stress. Cool Tools covers a multitude of programs, from file organizers to annotation software, from note-taking tools to tools-on-the-go, and more! The workshop will include both tablet and desktop applications.
Both sessions will have the same content and are co-sponsored with STS.
Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here
Technology
Get to Know Your New Mac: a Mac 101 Workshop
Wednesday, January 6  |  10:00-11:00 am  or  3:00-4:00 pm
DoIT Tech Store, Computer Sciences and Statistics

Special Events 

During Winter Break you can get fit for free at the SERF and the NAT. Check the Group Fitness classes schedule and the facilities' hours during break.
Remember to bring your Wiscard with you!
Please note: Some graduate students may be ineligible to hold graduate assistantship appointments. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator about your eligibility before applying.

Employment

Fellowships & Grants

BloodCenter of Wisconsin is the recipient of a long-standing, highly successful institutional training grant that supports postdoctoral research training in transfusion medicine and benign hematology. Research opportunities available to trainees cover a broad range of clinical and basic research subjects relevant to transfusion medicine and hematology; including Immunology, Vascular Biology/Hemostasis, Transfusion Medicine, Stem Cell Biology, and Clinical Research. 

Associated Colleges of the Midwest-Committee on International Cooperation (ACM-CIC) Faculty Fellow Program

With support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, this program will place 30 new and/or recent PhD and terminal Master’s degree recipients  in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, and the arts into tenure-track positions at ACM member colleges over a period of 5-6 years. The Faculty Fellows Program aims to recruit candidates interested in pursuing a career in undergraduate teaching and scholarship at a liberal arts institution. Faculty Fellows will be hired into a tenure-track position at an ACM college, and will have a reduced teaching load for the first year and second year of their tenure track (or an extended fourth-year leave, at the discretion of the college). 


NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00)
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eadline for Internal Review: January 15
The objective of the NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award (F99/K00) is to encourage outstanding, late-stage graduate students with a demonstrated potential and interest in pursuing careers as independent researchers by facilitating the successful transition to their postdoctoral positions. The F99/K00 award is intended for individuals who require 1-2 years to complete their Ph.D. dissertation research training (F99 phase) before transitioning to mentored postdoctoral research training (K00 phase). Consequently, applicants are expected to propose an individualized research training plan for the next 1-2 years of dissertation research training and a plan for 3-4 years of mentored postdoctoral research and career development activities that will prepare them for independent cancer-focused research careers.

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