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February 9, 2021In this issue: New wellness offerings, fellowships, and more.
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Tips for Grads: Project Management – Scope Evolution vs. Scope Creep
Project management takes a lot of planning and adjusting. It is likely you’ve been involved in a project, whether it be your dissertation or class assignment, and you’ve witnessed the project scope change. According to Jeff Russell and Susan Ottmann, presenters of the Project Management workshop, project scope change is normal! However, you want to make sure you are staying within scope evolution rather than venturing into scope creep.
Scope creep is project scope change that is unmanaged and keeps you from getting your project done. For example, after meeting with your advisor or a professor you begin working on their suggestions for additional directions for the project (i.e. another experiment or another research question). And, suddenly, you’re following a lot of different paths that aren’t leading you to finishing your project, but are keeping you busy with new projects.
Scope evolution is project scope change that is managed and adaptive to the situations and challenges that arise. For example, your advisor suggests many directions for your project, but instead of taking all of the suggestions and running in multiple directions, you ask yourself: What are my objectives? Will following this suggestion get me to my objectives?
To avoid scope creep and maintain scope evolution while completing your projects, remember to focus on the WHAT of the project. This will keep you on track to achieving your goals and completing your projects. Check out the Project Management workshop recordings to learn more about how to manage your projects.
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.”
If you’re interested, check out our infographic for details and email gspd@grad.wisc.edu to let us know.
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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 EventsAll event times and deadlines are listed in Central Standard Time (CST).
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Online
Note that the first meetings have already taken place, but new participants are welcome anytime.
Racial trauma has many academics oscillating between fight, flight, and freeze responses. We are fighting on committees and in our classrooms, debating how or if we should stay in harmful environments, and finding ourselves stuck as we hold our own and our community's pain. In this two-part workshop series, Dr. Della will describe the connection between trauma, healing, compassion, and collectivism. She will also introduce and guide participants through practices that help cultivate compassion and collectivism as a means to help facilitate healing from racial trauma. Click here to activate your NCFDD account through the UW–Madison institutional membership.
Grab your strategic plan and learn the secret to making it work day-to-day and week-to-week! How to Align Your Time with Your Priorities is a step-by-step guide to holding a weekly planning meeting (aka The Sunday Meeting). In this webinar you'll learn:
- Why weekly planning is the bridge between your strategic plan and getting control of your workday
- The 30-minute technique that will help you make sure that the most important things get done each day
- And much more.
Join L. Maren Wood, PhD in this webinar and learn how you can find a non-academic career where you will thrive, engage in meaningful work, and be connected to people and projects that matter to you. After attending this webinar, you will be able to:
- Describe how non-academic careers provide intellectual and rewarding work for PhDs
- Illustrate how values and motivators can be career hooks
- Recognize the importance of identifying your Optimal Career Pathway
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- Feb 10 - 11: Communications, Business & Customer Relations Fair
- Feb 15: Public Service Fair
- Feb 16: Computer Sciences, Data & Analytics Career Fair
- Feb 25: Science, Health & Research Fair
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- Excel 2: Functions
- HTML
- CSS 1
- Python Intermediate
- Data Wrangling with Stata (Independent Study)
- Data Wrangling in R (Independent Study)
- Python Office Hours
- R Loops and Writing Functions
- Stata Workshop: Loops and Macros
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Special Events & Symposia
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- Data Science for Racial Equity – Interactive Discussions
Wednesday, Feb 10 | 1 - 2:30 pm - Workshops
Wednesday, Feb 10 | 2:45 - 4:45 pm
2021 Global Health Symposium: Fostering Resilience Through Indigenous Wisdom & Scientific Knowledge
Wednesday, April 14 | Virtual event
Submit abstracts for virtual poster presentation by Monday, Feb 15
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University Bicycle Resource Center offering online programming and video resources
The University Bicycle Resource Center is closed due to the current public health situation, so monthly in-person programming has moved online. Spring semester class options cover topics like how to find the best bike for you, bike traffic skills, annual maintenance, and specific part repair. Registration is required (no attendance cap) and programming will be hosted in Zoom. All experience levels are welcome! Fall classes – like winter biking tips and other maintenance and repair classes – were recorded and videos are available on YouTube.
View upcoming class information and past class recordings on the Transportation Services website.
Payroll schedule and benefits deductions changes coming in 2021Graduate student employees at UW–Madison will see some changes to the way they are paid in 2021. Beginning in April, those currently paid biweekly will have most deductions for benefits split evenly over the first two biweekly paychecks each month. In July, graduate students who are paid monthly will be moved to a biweekly pay schedule.
Enrollment dates and deadlines
- Feb. 19 , 2021 – Deadline for students to drop a spring term course and receive 50% tuition adjustment
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Help prevent the spread of COVID-19
With your help, we can limit the spread of COVID-19 by following health protocols, such as maintaining at least six feet of distance from people you don’t live with and wearing face coverings. In addition, take advantage of no-cost campus testing to get tested for the virus if you have symptoms, have been in close contact with someone with COVID-19, or plan to come to campus.
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Support Groups
University Health Services Mental Health Services offers the following group counseling groups this semester. Those that are graduate student-specific include:
- Graduate Students Group
- Graduate Women's Group
- Graduate Students of Color Group
- Dissertators Group
Other groups:
- Grief Support Group
- LGBTQ Support Group
- Latinx Support & Process Group
Resilience through Connection for Graduate Students
Each section will explore strategies and resources to navigate the grad experience from unique perspectives and include the opportunity to provide and receive social and emotional support. Includes brief structured presentations and facilitated discussions.
Managing Workloads: This workshop will focus on the essentials of getting the work done (e.g. organization, motivation, prioritizing, & procrastination).
Thursdays | Feb 11, March 11, April 8 | 1 - 2:30 pm
Grad-ification: This workshop will focus on the importance of personally thriving with topics around impostor phenomena, work/life balance, and supports networks.
Thursdays | Feb 18, March 18, April 15 | 1 - 2:30 pm
Life in the Grad Lane: This workshop will focus on resilience & the art of managing the uncertainty of the grad school process (COVID, job market, advisor relationships, etc.).
Thursdays | Feb 25, March 25, April 22 | 1 - 2:30 pm
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Mental Health Resources for Grad StudentsAccording 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.
- SilverCloud. This online, self-guided resource provides treatment options 24 hours a day through evidence-based modules on anxiety, depression, body image, and stress. SilverCloud is designed to help students manage day-to-day stresses and improve resilience.
- YOU@WISC. This portal has tools and information to help you be well, with modules on stress management, self-care, social support, suicidal thoughts, mindfulness, academic wellness, and more.
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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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Mellon Public Humanities Graduate Fellowships provide students in the humanities with professional experience outside academia by placing fellows in partner organizations around Madison. PhD students in the humanities and related fields who will be dissertators at the start of fall semester are eligible. Three fellowships are available to dissertators to be paired with the following organizations from August 2021 through May 2022: The Foundation for black Women’s Wellness (Communications Fellow), Odyssey Beyond Bars (Prison Education Communications Fellow), and The STEM Collective/Maydm (Publications Fellow).
These $3,000 awards support continuing graduate students who plan to conduct at least 6 weeks of summer fieldwork outside of the United States. In collaboration with the Black Languages Arts and Culture Foundation (BLAC Foundation), IRIS also offers a $1,000 supplemental grant to students pursuing international field research in the global south on topics related to art, language, or culture.
Scott Kloeck-Jenson (SKJ) Pre-Dissertation Travel Fellowships are available to students who are enrolled in a doctoral program and are planning to conduct preliminary dissertation field research abroad. SKJ International Internship Fellowships are available to students in any graduate program working toward a doctorate who are planning to spend a summer working as an intern with an organization abroad. Students of any nationality may apply. Those enrolled in terminal master’s programs are not eligible for either award.
The Planetary Health Graduate Scholarship program brings together graduate and professional students and their faculty advisors from across disciplines to study how the health of the planet and the health of humans are interdependent. All currently enrolled MS/MA/MPH and PhD students are eligible to apply.
The Jerome A. and Mary Jane Straka Fellowship supports a middle-class, middle-income dissertator pursuing a course of study in engineering, physical sciences, biological sciences, mathematics, or economics (concentrating on the advantages of the free-enterprise system). One dissertator will be selected for a 12-month fellowship with a $28,000 stipend, full tuition and segregated fees, and access to health insurance.
The Dickie Fellowships supports a UW-Madison graduate student enrolled in science, mathematics, or engineering studies who lived in Sauk County, WI at the time of matriculation at the UW-Madison. One graduate student will be selected for a 9-month fellowship with a $22,909 stipend, full tuition and segregated fees, and access to health insurance.
Biogen’s 2-year Worldwide Medical Fellowship provides PhD graduates a hands-on opportunity to learn the ins and outs of Medical Affairs and the pharmaceutical industry within the walls of a cutting-edge biotech. First-year fellows will explore different functional areas within Worldwide Medical through a series of rotational experiences. Fellows will also have the opportunity to select one rotation outside of Medical. Second-year fellows will pick an area of concentration within Worldwide Medical to prepare them for a continued career in the biopharmaceutical industry.
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