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Are you looking for a simple and effective way to build community around teaching and learning? Steenbock Library can help. Common reading groups are an effective means to engage with others and foster discussion centered around a topic of mutual interest. Steenbock Library has three collections of books, relevant to all disciplines and fields, that can be checked out for use in a common reading group:
- How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (Ambrose, et al). This book discusses seven general principles of learning in higher education, as supported by the research literature, and connects them with suggested practices for the classroom.
- Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning (Brown, et al). This book looks to cognitive science to provide techniques for becoming a productive, successful learner and achieving mastery in a variety of skills.
- Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Claude M. Steele). This book is a study of stereotype threat, its influence on academic performance, and practices educators can use to counteract the messages that trigger stereotype threat.
The group convener can check out the collection (usually about 10 copies of the title) with their Wiscard, and distribute the books to the group participants. When the group has finished with the book, the convener takes them back, and returns the collection to Steenbock Library--it’s as simple as that. Let the discussion of the book rather than logistics of procuring the book be what occupies your mind.
If you would like to form a common reading group around one of these titles, please contact Steenbock Library to reserve a set (first come, first served):
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The Graduate School wishes to welcome back current graduate students as well as welcome newly admitted graduate students with a series of Welcome Week events the week before classes begin:
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| Join guest speaker Anne Krook for this three-hour session where you will learn how non-academic employers think about graduate students and postdocs as potential employees, how to get ready for the non-academic job market while you are still in graduate school, and how to conduct a job search. We will also review a tool (provided after the session) that assesses all your skills – not just academic ones – and review a resume and discuss how to write yours.
Reception to follow from 5:00 – 6:00 pm in the Sterling lobby.
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| 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! Workshop will include both tablet and desktop applications.
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| Get your semester off to a fast start! Walkers and runners alike are invited to join fellow graduate students, faculty, and staff for the first annual Degree Dash Run/Walk hosted by the Graduate School. Set your goal for 5.7 miles for the Doctoral Derby (no, you don’t have to be in a Ph.D. program to participate), or for 1.75 miles for the Master's Mile (for those who need to “graduate” early). You will meet fellow students, faculty and staff, tour campus, walk away with a t-shirt, and gather information that will help you to start your semester off quickly. And the best part is, whether you come in first or last place, you’ll get a diploma. All are welcome. Please sign up individually. Participants have the option to form a race team on-site. You do not need to indicate whether you intend to do this when you register. Signed waiver forms are required for participation in the event. You may either print this form, sign it, and bring it with you to the race OR sign a waiver form provided at the race check-in table.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| Python
Monday, August 1 | 6:00 – 8:00pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building
InDesign
Tuesday, August 2 | 6:00 – 8:00pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building
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For more technology courses from Software Training for Students (STS) click here.
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Special Events & Conferences
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You are invited to register for the last qualifying event, a coffee and donuts networking mixer, for the WARF Discovery Challenge, a two-part research competition open to UW-Madison graduate students and postdocs from all departments. Teams of scientists submit original, collaborative research ideas, and the winning proposals receive a research award of up to $7,500. At least one team member must have attended a qualifying event.
Push the boundaries of design by enjoying one full day of expert presenters and inspiring case studies on design thinking, user experience (UX), product design and more.
Mandatory Training for Teaching Communication-B Courses, Fall 2016
Monday, August 29 | 9:00am - 12:15pm AND
Tuesday, August 30 | 9:00am - 12:15pm
6191 Helen C. White
All *new* Communication-B TAs are required (and experienced Comm-B TAs are welcome) to attend a sequence of three training workshops. The first two parts of the workshop are scheduled for Welcome Week in August (you must attend both Monday and Tuesday). The final part of this training, which will focus on responding to and evaluating student assignments, will be scheduled for the third or fourth week of classes during the fall semester. Registration is required. If you have question, a scheduling conflict, substantial previous experience teaching writing or have completed a comparable training, contact Brad Hughes, Director of Writing Across the Curriculum (bthughes@wisc.edu).
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Child Care Tuition Assistance Program (CCTAP) The UW's Office of Child Care and Family Resources has opened the Fall Child Care Tuition Assistance Program. This program provides financial assistance to income eligible UW-Madison student parents for their child care expenses. You are encouraged to apply early, since funds are limited and applications are approved on a first come, first served basis.
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| Participate in a Survey on the Job Market and Mentoring
If you were on the job market in the 2015-16 academic year and had an official faculty advisor for the duration of your doctoral training, consider participating in a 15-20-minute online survey about your experiences on the job market or sharing this survey with someone who fits these criteria. Your responses will be anonymous, and the information you provide will inform research-based interventions to promote the well-being of individuals going through this experience.
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Dance Your Ph.D. Contest
The ninth annual Science/AAAS Dance Your Ph.D. contest invites applicants to explain what their Ph.D. thesis is about through any style of dance, from ballet to breakdancing to abstract interpretive dance. The contest is now open and accepting submissions until September 30. A $500 cash prize will be awarded to the best dance in each of the following categories: biology, chemistry, physics, and social sciences.
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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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Fellowships & Grants
The McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research is now accepting applications for a $1,500 Travel Award from graduate students at the UW-Madison traveling to present on cancer-related research at a conference. Johnson & Johnson and Janssen Pharmaceuticals invite persons or teams to submit the best idea, technology or solution that will address a critical health need for the world's population, in particular in the areas of pharmaceuticals, medical devices or consumer products. Winning person(s) or team(s) will be awarded $500,000. The PhRMA Foundation is accepting applications for pre-doctoral fellowships in Adherence Improvement, Informatics, Pharmaceutics, and Pharmacology/Toxicology. The program offers up to two years of stipend support for f ull-time, in-residence Ph.D. students who will have completed most of their pre-thesis requirements; the expectation is that students complete their Ph.D. requirements in two years or less from the time the fellowship begins. All doctoral students and those in terminal Master's degrees who are planning a career in higher education are eligible to be nominated by a faculty member for this award. The awards provides financial support for graduate students to attend AAC&U's Annual Meeting, which will be January 25-28, 2017, in San Francisco.
Dr. Jose Cancelas' lab at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital is looking to hire a research fellow who holds an MD or Ph.D. in a related discipline and has an interest in one or more of the following: signal transduction, hematopoietic stem cells, pluripotent stem call based disease modeling in hematopoiesis, mouse cancer genetic models, inflammation in hematopoiesis and hierarchical organization of hematopoiesis in health and disease.
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