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Tips for Grads: Diversity and Inclusion
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Each week “Tips for Grads” focuses on an area of the professional development framework. For the next few weeks, we’ll dive into the facet on Diversity and Inclusion, which prompts graduate students to develop equitable and inclusive leadership skills, promote respectful workplaces and classrooms, cultivate relationships with people from different backgrounds, and more.
More broadly, be sure to visit the Campus Climate website, which tracks various efforts to make our campus more inclusive, such as regular progress reports and opportunities to get involved.
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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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| STEM PhDs can make a positive impact on the planet by working in Conservation - the protection and preservation of biodiversity, the environment, and natural resources toward sustainable use for future generations. Versatile PhD will host a free AMA-style panel discussion on PhD Careers in Conservation. All panelists are PhDs or ABD in STEM disciplines and all are currently working in conservation in a variety of settings.
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Searching for a professional position needs to be approached like undertaking a very challenging project. Learn about the process, tools, steps that can lead to success with this critical project. It should be focused, organized, and disciplined - with weekly plans and accountability on your progress. Drawing from over 20 years helping thousands of professionals and executives with job searches, Donna Beestman will share 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.
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Teaching is central to the professional development of many graduate students at UW-Madison. When you teach, you build skills that will be valuable whether you stay in academia or pursue careers beyond the tenure track. In this roundtable event, you'll learn about a new professional development framework that can help you identify and describe your transferable skills, hear various perspectives and examples of how teaching skills transfer to various career paths, and start to discover the many benefits of teaching.
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You've worked hard to craft an impressive CV, only to realize that it is particular to the academic job market. If you want a job outside of academia, you will need to convert your CV to a résumé. Learn how in this workshop, co-sponsored by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and the Writing Center.
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"The Professor Is In" Karen Kelsky visits our campus to demystify the confusing and peculiar job market process for graduate students. Kelsky illuminates the conditions of the American tenure track job market, and offers advice about how to strategize a career plan and tailor your record and application materials to maximize your chances of success, with an eye to both academic and non-academic jobs.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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| Preparing for Your Campus Visit
Wednesday, February 8 | 2:00 - 3:00 pm (3:00 - 4:00 EST)
Online (you will receive the link upon registering) | Career Development Graduate Student Funding Fair
Tuesday, February 14 | 1:00 - 3:00 pm
BioCommons / 110a Steenbock | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections
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Tuesday, February 7 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People Access 1
Thursday, February 9 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People Linux in a Day
Sunday, February 12 | 1:00 - 5:30 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People Excel 2: Functions
Wednesday, February 15 | 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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Preventing Sexual Violence at UW-Madison online training
Attention NEW spring semester graduate students: Please remember to complete the online training Preventing Sexual Violence at UW-Madison in Learn@UW by March 17. Additional information and instructions are available here.
Graduate Students of Color Support Group
UHS and the Multicultural Graduate Network will be offering a support group for graduate students who identify as persons of color (African American, African, Caribbean-American, Latino/a, Indian, Asian, Asian American Indian-American, Native American, etc.). The group will explore ways in which their identity as a student of color affects their academic, personal, and social experience, through the lens of the unique identity as a graduate student. The group aims to provide a safe and supportive environment for students of color to explore feelings around racially oppressive experiences, strengthen self-concept through activities and discussion, and to help one another navigate academic and social experiences on campus. Wednesdays 12-1pm (beginning 1/25/17); EcoWell Studio (Room 1107), School of Human Ecology. Please feel free to bring your lunch.
Submit poster to Education Research Poster Fair by Feb. 8 Graduate students and researchers are invited to submit and present a poster at WCER's Third Annual UW-Madison Education Research Poster Fair. Submissions are due by February 8; the Fair itself will take place on February 23, from 11 am to 2 pm in the Town Center of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery. Applications for funding to attend National Humanities Alliance Meeting in Washington, DC due Feb. 12 The Graduate School will fund two UW-Madison graduate students to attend the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day in Washington, DC, March 13-14, 2017. The NHA is an advocacy coalition dedicated to the advancement of humanities education, research, preservation, and public programs. The event gives participants the opportunity to learn about national humanities policy and develop advocacy and communication skills. This is a competitive selection process, with applications due Sunday, February 12. Application instructions are available here. Apply to the Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp by March 9, 2017 The Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp is a free immersion program for graduate students in scientific and engineering disciplines seeking to learn more about entrepreneurship and innovation. It is a full-time immersion program with evening assignment and events, which takes place from June 12-16, 2017. Interested applicants should apply by March 9, 2017.
Listserv with writing tips and strategies for academic writing projects Sponsored by the Cornell Graduate School, the Productive Writer listserv < http://gradschool.cornell.edu/announcement/productive-writer-listserv> is designed for graduate students who are writing their proposal, thesis, dissertation, fellowship applications, or other manuscripts. Subscribers receive email messages every other week with writing tips, strategies and encouragement to help you start, persist (and endure), and complete your academic writing projects. Writing tips focus on managing your time for greater writing productivity, reducing distractions, staying motivated, revising and editing, binge writing, communicating with your advisor, dealing with writer's block, and managing procrastination and perfectionistic tendencies. Subscribe here. Tutor Students in Math Through the Boys and Girls Club If you like math and want to help kids improve their skills, become a volunteer at the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County. Only two hours per week of tutoring is required, and all volunteers receive training before starting.
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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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Application Due February 15, 2017
The UW-Madison Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence will grant a small number of travel awards of up to $2,000 to University of Wisconsin graduate students conducting research on the European Union, European integration, and/or transatlantic relations.
Application Due February 22, 2017
The Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowships provides three months of summer fellowship support to allow graduate students om the humanities and humanistic social sciences to work full-time on their dissertations. Fellowship recipients are expected to complete their dissertations by the end of Summer 2018. The stipend total is $6,768 ($2,256/month) covering the period June 1, through August 31, 2017. Additional campus employment during the fellowship period is not permitted.
In memory of Scott Kloeck-Jenson, a Global Studies Scholar dedicated to global peace and justice, the Institute for Regional and International Studies at the UW-Madison annually offers these awards: the Pre-Dissertation Travel Fellowships to support overseas travel to potential field research sites for doctoral students and the SKJ International Internship Fellowships to support graduate students (working towards a doctorate) interested in undertaking practitioner internships.
IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award
Application Due March 3, 2017
Continuing graduate students at the UW-Madison are invited to apply for the IRIS Graduate Student Summer Fieldwork Award, which awards $3,000 to graduate students planning to conduct a minimum of 6 weeks of summer fieldwork outside of the United States.
Application Due March 13, 2017
The Fulbright-Hays DDRA funds doctoral candidates (US citizens, nationals, or permanent residents) to conduct research in other countries, in modern foreign languages and area studies for periods of six to 12 months. The grant does not fund research whose focus is on Western European countries. The USED International and Foreign Language Education office will provide a pre-application technical assistance webinar for the 2017 DDRA program on Wednesday, February 8 at 1:00 pm (2:00 pm EST).
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