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| Tips for Grads: Personal Effectiveness
The demands of graduate student life are intense, and often we try to just keep our heads down and attend to our work, neglecting self-care and wellness. Needless to say, this can have a negative effect on our ability to focus on our emotional and mental wellbeing, and may lead to trouble down the road if not addressed. Your best campus resource for dealing with mental health issues is University Health Services (UHS), which offers a safe and confidential environment, and a variety of free-of-charge support services for graduate students. Additionally, beginning this semester, you can expedite your consultation with UHS by using Access Consultation instead of drop-in triage. Students can log in to MyUHS or call 608-265-5600 for an appointment. Remember that your mental and emotional health is important to your long-term success, so make time in your schedule to take care of yourself.
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DiscoverPD is an innovative tool for UW-Madison graduate students to advance their academic and professional goals. Reviewing 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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Communicating your research to a non-specialist audience is an essential career skill, whether you’re preparing for job interviews, networking at a conference, or just trying to explain to family and friends what you do with your time. This workshop, sponsored by the Writing Center and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development, will help graduate students from all disciplines to prepare an accessible, intriguing three-minute talk about their research. If you’re interested in learning how to craft a concise, general explanation of your research, or if you plan to participate in the 3MT® Three-Minute Thesis competition, this workshop is for you.
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As you progress toward finishing your dissertation, learn about the Graduate School's requirements for completing your PhD and depositing your dissertation. The Graduate School will offer a brief introduction to the electronic process for submitting your dissertation, and present information to help you make decisions about your thesis publishing options. This workshop is intended for PhD candidates preparing to graduate in Fall 2017 or Spring 2018.
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As graduate students, how can we reconcile the promises and pitfalls associated with studying populations in which we identify? Join the Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education (WISCAPE) for a small-group conversation to address this question. The session allows graduate students from across UW-Madison to discuss their research interests, and address questions and feedback from their peers. Co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development.
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A survey by U.C. Berkeley found that 95% of all graduate students feel overwhelmed, and over 67% have felt seriously depressed at some point in their careers. In this talk, Jorge Cham recounts his experiences bringing humor into the lives of stressed out academics, examines the source of their anxieties and explores the guilt, the myth, and the power of procrastination. Do you love freebies? Have you viewed DiscoverPD? Log in, take a self-assessment, review your report, and favorite recommendations. And when you attend the November 1 talk, you'll get a free coffee mug (while supplies last) with a PhD Comic about DiscoverPD, by Jorge Cham.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| FAFSA Frenzy
Wednesday, October 18 | 12:00 - 2:00 pm
Main Lounge, Chadbourne Residence Hall | Personal Effectiveness
FAFSA Frenzy
Friday, October 20 | 9:00 - 11:00 am
Caucus Room, Student Activity Center (SAC) | Personal Effectiveness
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| Women in STEM Careers Panel
Wednesday, October 18 | 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Online | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Personal Effectiveness
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| Preparing for success on the job market and beyond. Full list of events here.
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| Improving Style
Wednesday, October 18 | 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Room 6176, Helen C. White Hall | Communication
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| STS: MATLAB 2
Wednesday, October 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People STS: Access 1
Thursday, October 19 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Stata Programming
Friday, October 20 | 2:00 - 3:15 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation STS: Illustrator 1
Monday, October 23 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People STS: Access 2
Tuesday, October 24 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room 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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Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp Winter 2018 Application Now OpenThe UW-Madison Writing Center and the UW-Madison Graduate School are pleased to sponsor a Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp during the 2018 Winter intersession. The camp will run from January 8 - January 12, 2018. Acceptance in the program is competitive, and participation is limited to 20 dissertators. Facilitated by senior staff from the Writing Center, this camp offers a structured opportunity for dissertators to make significant progress on their dissertations by drafting a substantial amount of writing. The deadline for application is Friday, October 27 at 12:00 pm (noon). Camp information and application instructions can be found here.
Self-Nominations Now Open for Schmidt Science FellowsUW-Madison has been invited to submit names for this high-impact, highly competitive, new post-doc opportunity, funded by Eric and Wendy Schmidt. This initiative is intended to provide the next generations of leaders and innovators with the tools and opportunities to drive world-changing advances across the sciences and society. The program is open to students in the physical and life sciences who are interested in exploring multidisciplinary work, and who have recently received or will receive their Ph.D. in the next six months. Students can self-nominate through UW-Madison before October 31, and selected nominees will proceed with the full application from there.
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First Steps to Building a Personal BrandEveryone knows what a brand is. Nike, Pepsi, Disney, Apple. It’s a buzzword thrown around a lot in career and job search conversations. Why should you care? Your potential employers are googling you and making decisions with the content they receive before you sit in the interview chair. You have the ability to manage your reputation both online and offline. In this video, First Steps to Building a Personal Brand, presenter Kristina Vack leads individual and small group exercises to help you develop a five-word personal brand. She also covers ways to start establishing your brand online.
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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 Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship Program is a distinguished transatlantic initiative that offers a select cohort of accomplished Americans the opportunity to compete a comprehensive intercultural professional program in Germany. The program is comprised of three main components: individual professional assignments, professional seminars, and German language training. Fellows are from the fields of public policy and administration, foreign and security policy, urban and regional planning, business, journalism and communications, law, or cultural and arts management (museum, theater, orchestra). To connect with program staff, please contact bosch@culturalvistas.org. These dissertation fellowships are for Ph.D. students in the social sciences whose work is of high quality and that has the potential to contribute to making U.S. society less unequal, more democratic, and more environmentally sustainable. Five fellowships will be awarded to students actively engaged in writing their dissertations during the fellowship year. Eligible students must have completed all departmental and institutional requirements, including approval of the dissertation proposal. Students in public health, education, and social work are not eligible. There is no citizenship requirement.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) believes that the biggest challenges in science call for diverse perspectives and original thinking. The Hanna H. Gray Fellows Program recruits individuals from groups underrepresented in the life sciences to support early career scientists. Fellows receive $80,000 annually for up to four years of postdoctoral training, and opportunities for career development. The program is open to individuals from gender, racial, ethnic, and other groups underrepresented in the life sciences who are basic science researchers and/or physician-scientists in the biomedical and life science disciplines. There is no citizenship requirement for this program. The BD2K-LINCS Data Coordination and Integration Center is currently accepting applications for the 2018 Summer Research Training Program, a research-intensive ten-week program open to graduate students. The Data Coordination and Integration Center supports data science research focused on developing methods for knowledge extraction from data and integrating data with other relevant resources. Summer fellows conduct faculty-mentored independent research projects within laboratories in the following areas: dynamic data visualization, machine learning, data harmonization, computational drug discovery, metadata and APIs, knowledge modeling, Bayesian networks, and statistical mining.
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