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March 17, 2020In this issue: DiscoverPD, stay up to date on campus operations, and more.
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| Tips for Grads: DiscoverPDBy Lydia Gandy-Fastovich, PhD student
You can access professional development resources online anytime to start planning and preparing to build professional skills! DiscoverPD is a robust database, compiled by the Graduate School, with resources for professional development activities on campus and beyond.
- Explore the 9 professional development facets: inquiry, discovery, and creation; disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections; leadership; career development; managing projects and people; communication; diversity and inclusion; personal effectiveness; interpersonal effectiveness. Understanding these aspects of professional development can help you get more out of opportunities like those included in GradConnections.
- Take the 5-minure self-assessment to evaluate your skillset, uncovering skills you may want to focus on strengthening while in graduate school.
- Search DiscoverPD by selecting one of the 9 facets or using the teaching filter! Find online resources, webinars and workshops to build skills you’ve identified as important.
GradConnections Weekly is looking for fresh perspectives on the graduate student experience.
If you have advice, counsel, or tips for UW grad students, you’re invited to write a guest column for “Tips for Grads.”
If you’re interested, check out our infographic for details and email gspd@grad.wisc.edu to let us know.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW–Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the nine facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.
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| | Upcoming Professional Development Events
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Studies consistently show that student evaluations are biased against women faculty and faculty of color. Yet, higher education institutions continue to lean heavily on students’ evaluations of teaching for hiring and promotion decisions. This webinar is designed for faculty and administrators to better understand how student biases become transformed into institutional inequalities based on race and gender. The webinar provides administrators and faculty in leadership positions with a range of potential solutions for eliminating or minimizing the negative impacts of biased student evaluations. Recognizing that institutional change takes time, however, the webinar also provides strategies for empowering women faculty and faculty of color on how to advocate for themselves, particularly in situations where they are not being fully supported. To sign up, first activate your National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity account through the UW–Madison institutional membership.
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Stay up to date on campus operations
UW–Madison is working to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 on our campus population, in consultation with local, state, and federal partners. Information about plans and the response for COVID-19 (coronavirus) are available at covid19.wisc.edu. Last week, graduate students also received specific guidance from Graduate School Dean William J. Karpus. Please continue to check your email regularly for important updates.
Update on Graduate School services: In-person visits suspended
The Graduate School front desk is closed to in-person service now through at least April 10. Graduate School services, including academic services and funding or travel grant processing, are still available by email (preferred) and phone. If you need to drop off paper forms (course change requests, withdrawals, etc.), envelopes and a drop basket are located outside of the Graduate School double doors on the 2nd floor, north wing of Bascom Hall. If you are concerned about the security of documents you may slide documents under the locked double doors or scan and email your forms to gsacserv@grad.wisc.edu.
Notice for University Apartments residents
Residents of University Apartments (Eagle Heights, University Houses, and Harvey Street Apartments) are not being asked to leave their residences at this time. Last week’s message to graduate students from Dean Karpus mentioned only Eagle Heights.
Guidance on dissertation/thesis defenses and similar milestones
Dissertation and thesis defenses, preliminary exams, qualifying exams, and similar milestone activities are essential events, directly related to the academic mission of the university, and should continue if at all possible using information technology solutions (e.g. WebEx, Skype, etc.). Questions should be referred to the graduate program’s Director of Graduate Study or to the Graduate School’s Office of Academic Services.
Campus offices reduce hours, offer virtual services
The Office of Student Financial Aid, the Bursar’s Office, and the Office of the Registrar are closed to in-person visits effective Mon., March 16 until further notice. Offices will instead offer virtual services from 10 am – 2 pm. If you need assistance, email is the best way to contact these offices.
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Mental Health Resources for Grad StudentsAccording to the 2019 Healthy Minds Survey, 93% of UW–Madison graduate students do not think any less of a peer who seeks mental health care, and 89% of UW–Madison graduate students who used mental health care found it helpful.
YOU@WISC. This portal has tools and information to help you be well, with modules on stress management, self-care, social support, suicidal thoughts, mindfulness, academic wellness, and more.
SilverCloud. This online, self-guided resource provides treatment options 24 hours a day through evidence-based modules on anxiety, depression, body image, and stress. SilverCloud is designed to help students manage day-to-day stresses and improve resilience.
24-hour Crisis Services. On-call crisis counselors can help address your most pressing concerns, address your safety, and help you connect with follow-up service needs. It’s available every day, including weekends, holidays, and semester breaks. If you are concerned for your own well-being or the well-being of someone you know, call the UHS crisis line at 608-265-5600. For situations that are immediately life-threatening, call 911.
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The Dean of Students Office provides resources to students struggling with a variety of issues, and can be your go-to spot for assistance as a graduate student. To contact the Graduate and Professional Student Assistance Specialist Elaine Goetz-Berman directly, email egoetz2@wisc.edu.
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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.
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The Kohler Fellows Program pairs science fellows and art fellows to develop and maintain mechanisms for ensuring meaningful, intellectual discussions, and work together to arrange activities (seminars, exhibitions, performances) for the campus community. Graduate and professional students are invited to apply, with applicants selected on the strength of their commitment and abilities to contribute to interdisciplinary thought. Fellows receive an annual stipend and a budget to support events.
The Data Science Fellowship Program from The Data Incubator is designed to create the data scientists of tomorrow from qualified STEM academics. It is a full-time, eight-week program. Apply today to learn the most in-demand tools and programs from leading data scientists with years of experience at some of the world’s most innovative companies and universities. Become an expert in Python, Spark and TensorFlow while refining your coding and deployment abilities. By the end of the program, you’ll have the skills and tools you need to become one of the leading data scientists of the future.
This trial program has been drafted by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) in order to strengthen Taiwan's research capabilities. Funding will be provided to attract high-achieving postdoctoral scholars from premier universities in the United States to come to Taiwan to participate in scientific and technological research projects at four leading universities. Scholars will be given the title of “MOST Postdoctoral Scholar” and will receive $US 60,000 per year, including tax.
The goal of the Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories. Applications are strongly encourage in four new transdisciplinary research areas for encouraging graduate training activities at the convergence of multiple disciplines and communities, including: Microelectronics, Data Science, Fundamental Symmetries, and Accelerator Science.
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