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Tips for Grads: Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation
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While you might not think of yourselves as creative type, success in graduate school requires creative thinking to overcome challenges, find answers to complex questions, and produce new and innovative concepts or products. Taking time to pursue creative projects outside of the classroom can be more beneficial than you might think. Florianne Jimenez at Inside Higher Ed’s Gradhacker blog encourages graduate students to take up a creative hobby because that hobby can expand your professional network or improve your ability to connect with future employers during interviews and campus visits. In the last few weeks of the semester, consider partaking in one of the creative opportunities offered at Wheelhouse Studios in the Memorial Union:
Any creative endeavor, no matter the quality of the finished product, is time well spent.
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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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| Whether we realize it or not, we negotiate all of the time: with our advisors, bosses, co-workers and even significant others and friends. The reality is, negotiation occurs whenever two or more people want different things and hope to come to agreement. This workshop, facilitated by Joanne Lipo Zovic, UW-Milwaukee Lecturer and Marquette Law School Adjunct Professor, is designed to demystify negotiation and help participants incorporate a structured preparation process to foster better communication and ultimately better outcomes.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| MATLAB 2
Wednesday, April 12 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
3218 Sewell Social Sciences | Managing Projects and People Python
Thursday, April 13 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Access 1
Monday, April 17 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Illustrator 1
Tuesday, April 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
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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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Register for the annual Teaching and Learning Symposium
The annual Teaching and Learning Symposium provides an opportunity for the UW-Madison teaching and learning community to share best practices, celebrate accomplishments, and discuss new learning and teaching practices and theories in a forum dedicated to enriching the student learning experience. This year it will take place on Wednesday, May 17th, between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm in Union South. Attendance is free, but participants should register to attend.
Resource that compiles Professional development opportunities for grad students at FASEB societies
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has made available an interactive spreadsheet that highlights the career and professional development opportunities available to graduate students and postdocs from the FASEB member societies. Icons on the spreadsheet indicate whether a society offers a particular benefit/activity, such as fellowships, webinars, online mentoring, jobs board, and more.
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Presenter Donna Beestman shares tips on crafting your resume and other marketing documents, developing your verbal talking points, creating an effective online presence, expanding your professional network, and preparing for interviewing. Beestman draws from over 20 years of experience helping thousands of professionals and executives with job searches.
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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 Wenner-Gren Foundation's Dissertation Fieldwork Grants are awarded to aid doctoral or thesis research that demonstrates a clear link to anthropological theory and debates, and promises to make a solid contribution to advancing these ideas. The maximum amount of the Grant is $20,000 and is non-renewable.
Tuition grants are offered each term to support adults who have experienced a significant break in their formal education and do not qualify for federal financial aid or scholarships due to their enrollment status. These grants cover only in-state tuition for UW-Madison courses. The minimum grant is $500, and an individual may receive the grant a maximum of two times. Full-time degree students or dissertators are not eligible for the grant.
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