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September 6, 2022In this issue: The most important email in your inbox, Pet of the Week submissions now open, and more.
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Tips for Grads: Why this is the most important email in your inbox
At a school as large as UW–Madison, and one where there are a larger number of undergrads than graduate students, it can feel like I’m not a key part of life here on campus. But GradConnections is my weekly reminder that this is simply not true – graduate students are a vital part of the everyday workings of this university. By keeping us connected to opportunities and keeping us informed, GradConnections is just another way to remember that we are not alone.
This is GradConnections, a weekly newsletter specifically curated for graduate students. Every Tuesday throughout the academic year, you will see it pop up. You will want to take the couple of minutes of time it’ll take to read all about the different events, resources, information, and cute animals specifically curated for graduate students. Here are just some of the things you can look forward to every Tuesday:
- Staying in the know: Our Announcements and Events categories are the best way to find out what graduate students should know about what’s happening on campus. Whether you want to know when you can play laser tag with your friends, where to punch up your public speaking skills, or how much time you have left to add or drop a course, these are the categories you’ll want to brush up on every week if you’re looking to attend campus events or just know whether the construction is going to affect your commute to school.
- Curated content: Have you ever found what looks like the perfect part-time job, but then realized it’s meant for undergrads? Or found a really great scholarship opportunity but found out it’s only meant for rising juniors? No more! Our Fellowships and Job Opportunities sections are specifically curated for graduate students. Let us do all the work of sifting through the mountains of postings for you!
- Opportunities to join in the fun from beginning to end: Not to be biased, but as the resident Tips for Grads writer, I think this section is a fun read. But most of the time, my favorite weeks are the ones where YOU contribute! If you think you have a great idea for a column, or have a piece of advice or a tip you wish you had known earlier in your graduate career, consider lending your voice to Tips for Grads. We are always looking for Tips for Grads guest writers, so if you’re interested, let us know! On the other end of the newsletter, Pet of the Week is the best way to ensure your Tuesday gets a dose of cute animal energy, plus you can submit a photo of your own critter for consideration!
We here at the Office of Professional Development wish you the very best for a productive, enjoyable, and GradConnections-filled fall 2022 semester!
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.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW–Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Review the eight facets of professional development, complete a self-assessment, and get a customized report and recommendations.
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Upcoming Office of Professional Development EventsAll event times and deadlines are listed in Central Time.
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Creating an individual development plan (IDP) encourages you to think about what you need to do next -- and over the next few years -- so that you achieve your goals. We will discuss how to define achievable goals, identify resources, and develop strategies for implementing and sustaining your plans. Participants will begin to create a personalized plan that takes into account career interests and addresses the development of knowledge and skills for professional growth. This event is co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and the Delta Program.
The UW–Madison Public History Project is a multi-year effort to uncover and give voice to those who experienced and challenged exclusion on campus. We invite you to join us for a reception where you can connect with others in the graduate student community and learn about our collective past. Meet Public History Project director Kacie Lucchini Butcher, who will share insights on how the project and new exhibit at the Chazen Museum, “Sifting & Reckoning: UW–Madison’s History of Exclusion and Resistance,” were developed.
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Additional Upcoming Professional Development Events
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You’re graduating this year and considering going on the academic job market AND applying for nonacademic jobs. But you’re not sure about what a nonacademic job search will take, and you don’t know where to begin. Join the Beyond the Professoriate team in this webinar where you’ll learn how to plan and prepare well in advance so that you can make a successful career transition. Because here’s the thing: a successful career transition into a nonacademic job takes planning and preparation. Start now and you’ll be confident in your decision and knowledgeable about the steps you need to take.
Do you struggle to share your writing at the early stages because it’s not perfect? Do you find yourself devastated by criticism of your work? Do you beat yourself up every time the tiniest thing goes wrong? Is it difficult for you to celebrate other people’s success because it reminds you of your own shortcomings? If any of these things sound familiar, CONGRATULATIONS! You’re a perfectly normal perfectionist! The only problem is that the nature of the Academy is likely to exacerbate your perfectionist tendencies, as opposed to minimizing them. In this webinar, perfectionists will unite to get clear about:
- The causes and consequences of excessive perfectionism
- The features of academic life that intensify perfectionism
- Strategies to identify when your perfectionism is at work, assess whether it is useful or debilitating, and adjust your standards and behavior accordingly
- The secret to finding real satisfaction in every step of the writing process
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Teaching & Mentoring
Explore more teaching-related professional development events from the Delta Program.
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This massive open online course (MOOC) is designed to provide graduate students and aspiring STEM faculty with an overview of effective college teaching strategies and the research that supports them.
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Graduate students and postdocs from around Wisconsin are invited to compete for cash prizes by sharing their biohealth research with a non-science audience. The first round of the competition is via video submission, and final competitions are performed live at the Overture Center in Madison during the 2022 Annual Wisconsin Biohealth Summit.
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- Cool Tools
- Drop-in Session at DesignLab
- Introduction to Python for Data Analysis
- Introduction to Stata
- Introduction to R
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Special Events & Symposia
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Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations (schools, nonprofits, municipalities) to volunteer one to four hours each week at the same organization. The program is designed to foster meaningful and consistent connections between community partners and students over the course of an entire semester. Volunteer opportunities are organized within three focus areas: education, sustainability, and public health, though there is an opportunity for anyone with any major and interest.
- Coffee Connections: Thursdays, Sept 8 & 22, Oct 6 & 20, Nov 3 & 17 | 8:30 - 10 am, Eagle Heights, Brown Shelter (no registration necessary)
- Infant Development Play Group: Mondays, Sept 12 - Nov 14 | 10 - 11 am
- Respectful Parenting 101, A 4-Part Series: Wednesdays, Oct 12, 19, 26, and Nov 2 | noon - 1:15 pm
- One-on-One Consultations with Dr. Laura Froyen: Dates and times variable
- Raising Conscious Consumers: Wednesday, Nov 16 | noon - 1:15 pm
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Fall 2022 Tuition and Fee Due Dates- Friday, Sept 16: Student tuition and fee* account payments due for fall 2022/BadgerPay first installment due
- Friday, Oct 14: BadgerPay second installment due
- Friday, Nov 11: BadgerPay third/final installment due
- *Friday, Dec 2: Graduate student segregated fees deferred due date
Benefits Enrollment Deadlines- Graduate assistants must enroll for benefits such as health insurance within the first 30 days of their appointment
Fall 2022 Enrollment Deadlines- Friday, Sept 9: Deadline for students (except Special and Guest) to begin initial fall term enrollment without $50 late fee
- Wednesday, Sept 14: Deadline for students to drop a course or withdraw from the university without having the course(s) appear on the transcript (after: will show as a DR grade for individual courses)
- Friday, Sept 16: Deadline for students to drop a fall term course and receive 100% tuition adjustment
- Friday, Sept 16: Deadline for students to add, swap, or change sections in a fall term course (after: need department permission)
- Friday, Sept 16: Deadline for students to begin initial fall enrollment (after: $50 late fee, need dept. & academic dean permission)
How to update contact info, privacy settings
You are encouraged to periodically check that your contact info is up-to-date, and that the university’s public directory displays the appropriate information. The university is obligated by state law to make certain information about its students accessible to the public and informs students about opting out or changing that information through the pre-enrollment checklist. If needed you can make changes to your contact information through your MyUW Student Center, and the Office of the Registrar provides instructions: Editing Your Privacy (FERPA) Settings, Updating Your Contact Information, and Updating Your Legal Name, Birthdate, or Gender. For any information that you do not want to show in the university’s public directory, such as cell phone number, you will need to set your Privacy Restrictions (FERPA flag) to restrict phone and not set a directory exception.
Access the “Hidden Curriculum” of graduate school
The Office of Professional Development recently hosted Dr. Jessica Calarco for a Welcome Week talk on “Uncovering Grad School’s Hidden Curriculum”, based on Dr. Calarco’s book, A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum. For those who could not attend or who would like an electronic copy of Dr. Calarco’s book, the UW–Madison Libraries offer free access to an eBook copy:
- Access the eBook for A Field Guide to Grad School: Uncovering the Hidden Curriculum
- Click View Online
- Login with your NetID, if necessary.
- Follow a link to choose an access option. The Project Muse eBooks option provides access to all chapters as downloadable PDFs.
Reduced cost parking options available to most graduate students
A limited number of reduced and low-cost parking options are available to eligible UW–Madison graduate students. A number of permit options are available, including semester and annual permits, though product availability may be limited. Most UW–Madison graduate and professional students with a gross biweekly pay rate of less than $1,468 from campus employment qualify for the reduced cost permit price. Learn more about reduced and low-cost parking options and how to apply on the Transportation Services website. Permit applications are reviewed roughly every two weeks during the semester.
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COVID-19 Response and Testing Information
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Mental Health Resources for Grad Students
According 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.
- UHS 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. Call the UHS crisis line at 608-265-5600. For situations that are immediately life-threatening, call 911.
- Group Counseling for Graduate Students. University Health Services offers support/theme groups for graduate students, including groups for all graduate students, dissertators, graduate women, and graduate students of color. Support groups are a great way to share experiences around the challenges of grad school with other grad students.
- Individual Counseling. University Health Services offers individual counseling conducted remotely over phone or video, with bilingual mental health providers available in Mandarin or Spanish. Counseling topics can be any issue that causes distress – emotional, psychological, interpersonal, or academic.
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UHS services available remotely
University Health Services is committed to supporting you. Many medical, counseling, and wellness services are available by phone and accessible online. Find out more on the UHS Remote Health and Connection webpage.
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| Graduate Student Support and Assistance
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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| Hostile and Intimidating Behavior
The University of Wisconsin–Madison is committed to preventing hostile and intimidating behavior (HIB) and will take prompt and appropriate corrective action whenever it learns that it has occurred. If you have experienced HIB, there are resources to help and staff available to talk.
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Please note: Graduate students enrolled in service-based pricing programs, such as online and accelerated programs, are ineligible to receive tuition remission. Be sure to check with your graduate program coordinator and read your admission and appointment letters carefully to understand your benefits eligibility.
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Klarman Fellowships
Applications, including letters of recommendation, due by Oct 14 at 11:59 pm
The Klarman Fellowships at the Cornell College of Arts & Sciences provide postdoctoral opportunities to early-career scholars of outstanding talent, initiative, and promise. The program offers independence from the constraints of particular grants, enabling recipients to devote themselves to frontline, innovative research without being tied to specific outcomes or teaching responsibilities. Recipients must have earned their doctoral degree no earlier than May 1, 2021, and must receive their PhD before beginning the fellowship (fellowship start date is negotiable between July 1 and September 1, 2023).
The National Science foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP) provides three years of financial support to applicants pursuing full-time, research-based master’s and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) or in STEM education. Recipients receive a $34,000 annual stipend and $12,000 education allowance from NSF, plus the UW–Madison Graduate School contributes toward fringe benefits. Students who have completed no more than one academic year of full-time graduate study may apply, though graduate students are limited to only one GRFP application, submitted either in the first year or second year of graduate school.
The Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) prepares graduate students for STEM careers critically important to the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) mission by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities. An application assistance workshop will take place virtually on Thursday, September 15 at 2 pm, with a follow up workshop in October.
The Ford Foundation seeks to increase the diversity of the nation’s college and university faculties by increasing their ethnic and racial diversity, maximize the educational benefits of diversity, and increase the number of professors who can and will use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. Three types of awards are available in this application cycle: predoctoral awards, dissertation awards, and postdoctoral awards. Awards are made for study in research-based PhD programs. Eligibility is limited to U.S. citizens, nationals, permanent residents, and those with DACA status or who continue to meet guidelines for DACA. Applicants should demonstrate superior academic achievement and be committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level in the U.S.
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Do you have a canine companion, feline friend, avian amigo, rodent roommate, bovine buddy, or other animal accompanying you on your journey through grad school? We'd love to see them! If you are interested in having your pet featured in GradConnections, complete the submission form (linked here) and your pet may appear in a future issue this semester.
Pet of the Week debuted in January 2022. If you have previously submitted a picture of your pet and they have not yet been featured, you are welcome to submit a new picture. If your pet has already been featured, please do not submit them again.
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The school year may be starting for the humans, but Clarkson is unbothered. This cool cat belongs to Kendahl Ott, graduate student in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology. May we all be as chill as Clarkson this semester.
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