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| Tips for Grads: Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
It’s never too early to start thinking about your next source of funding. If that sentiment sends a cold chill down your spine, you’re not alone. Fortunately, you have a wealth of resources online and on campus to help you obtain funding for research, projects, and/or a roof over your head. Not sure where to start? GradConnections Weekly is a great clearinghouse for grants, fellowships, and assistantships. The Graduate School also maintains a set of resources to help you navigate the world of funding at UW-Madison. What about preparing your application? This NEH document gives some great advice. The UW-Libraries Research Guides also makes the materials from its Introduction to Proposal Writing workshop available online. When it comes to seeking funding, remember to apply early and often. Good luck!
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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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You decided to enter the non-academic job market and landed an interview. Congratulations! Now you have one chance to impress. In this workshop, led by Kristina Vack, career advisor and consultant, you will learn what to expect outside of academia, review a structure for crafting interview responses that illustrate your experiences, receive tips on how to prepare a job talk, and discuss effective nonverbal communication.
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Versatile PhD: Ask Me Anything with Peter Fiske
Wednesday, October 11 - Friday, October 13
Online | Career Development
Versatile PhD’s 2017-2018 event schedule will consist of four extended Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions with PhD career experts. Rather than the more common rapid-fire AMAs, each of these events will be active for three days, plenty of time for a wide range of questions, answers, and follow-up.
Peter Fiske (Ph.D., Geochemistry and Materials Science, 1993) is a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience founding startups and commercializing new technologies. He also wrote the science careers classic, “Put Your Science to WORK!” and regularly speaks to early-career scientists at universities across the country.
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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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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| STS: CSS 1
Wednesday, October 4 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Stata for Researchers
Thursday, October 5 | 2:30 - 3:45 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation STS: Python
Thursday, October 5 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Stata for Researchers (Full)
Friday, October 6 | 2:00 - 4:00 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation R for Researchers - Condensed
Monday, October 9 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation Introduction to NVivo
Tuesday, October 10 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Managing Projects and People
R for Researchers - Condensed
Tuesday, October 10 | 5:00 - 6:30 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Inquiry, Discovery, and Creation STS: Photoshop 1
Tuesday, October 10 | 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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| BIG Dream Gathering
Wednesday, October 4 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Varsity Hall, Union South | Career Development
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| Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp Winter 2018 Application The 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 12:00pm (noon). Camp information and application instructions can be found here.
Access Open to ImaginePhD: A Career Planning and Exploration ToolUW-Madison has been given early access to ImaginePhD beginning on October 9 (username: sponsor, password: early access). ImaginePhD is a free, online career exploration and planning tool designed specifically for postdocs and PhD students in humanities and social sciences. It offers a unique platform that teaches PhDs about popular job sectors, search strategies, and how to transfer skills across settings.
Registration Open for 2017 Wellness SymposiumThe Third Annual Wellness Symposium will take place on Wednesday, November 1, from 8:30 am - 2:00 pm at Union South. This year's focus is "Wellness Now: Being Our Best Selves in the Current Moment." This is a great opportunity for students looking to take care of themselves in the midst of their everyday busy lives. Students can attend for free, and only need to register in advance if they plan to attend the lunch.
Support for Undocumented StudentsThe information and resources on this page have been compiled by the Undocumented Student Taskforce, led by the Multicultural Student Center. The Undocumented Student Taskforce consists of campus partners, faculty, staff, and community liaisons. The taskforce focuses on awareness and advocacy, student services, research, policy and procedures, and community partnerships in order to better serve DACA/undocumented students at UW-Madison.
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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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| Harvard University is seeking life and physical scientists with an interest in imaging to develop innovative imaging technologies, lead biological investigations using these technologies, or both, for an exciting position as a John Harvard Distinguished Science Fellow (JHDSF). Fellows will work as independent researchers; receive funding to run a small research group; and will be appointed for a three-year term (two year extension after review). Candidates should have recently completed a PhD in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Engineering or related areas, or should complete a PhD by the time their appointment begins. Humanities Without Walls, a consortium of humanities centers and institutes at major research universities, invites applications for fellowships for pre-doctoral students to participate in a three-week intensive, residential summer workshop in Chicago. For individuals who are working towards but have not yet received a PhD in a humanities discipline, and who plan to continue their degree programs while also considering careers outside the academy and/or the tenure-track university system.The summer workshop will instruct students in the various ways they can leverage their pre-existing and developing skill sets towards the pursuit of careers in the public humanities and the private sector. For over a century, the American Academy in Rome has awarded the Rome Prize to support innovative and cross-disciplinary work in the arts and humanities. Rome Prize Fellowships include a stipend, room and board, and an individual work space at AAR’s eleven-acre campus in Rome. Applicants must be US citizens at the time of the application. Full-term and half-term fellowships are awarded in disciplines such as ancient studies, architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, medieval studies, modern Italian studies, musical composition, Renaissance and Early Modern studies, and visual arts. The Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) offers nine to twelve months of support to graduate students in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who are enrolled in PhD programs in the United States and conducting dissertation research on non-US topics. Sixty-eight fellowships are awarded annually. Fellowship amounts vary depending on the research plan, with a per-fellowship average of $21,000. The fellowship includes participation in an SSRC-funded interdisciplinary workshop upon the completion of IDRF-funded research. Mellon Faculty Fellowships offer tenure-track appointments at one of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) colleges to new Ph.D. or terminal master's degree graduates whose backgrounds and life experiences will enhance diversity on the ACM campuses and who have recently earned their graduate degree, preferably from a Big Ten Academic Alliance institution or the University of Chicago. The fellowships provide two years of funding for salary and benefits, the opportunity to teach while advancing a research agenda, and mentoring by other faculty. Fellowships are open for faculty positions in the humanities, humanistic social sciences, or the arts.
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