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Summer is a great time to take a step back and take stock of your plans for the future. Even if you’re not quite ready to dive into the job search, preparing for the job market can be a time-consuming and ongoing process. The Graduate School subscribes to a resource that demystifies non-academic careers and reveals many professions that can utilize the skills you are developing in graduate school: Versatile PhD.
- Real examples of resumes and cover letters that got real PhDs their first jobs away from the faculty track, with detailed analysis that describes how they made the non-academic pivot and shows the application and hiring process step by step.
- Inspiring first‐person stories by experienced non-academic PhDs describing how their careers evolved over several years after moving out of the academy, including promotions, advancement, and signature accomplishments.
- Detailed inside information on a wide range of specific PhD‐friendly careers provided by PhDs in those careers, along with their answers to questions from members like you.
Keep an eye on GradConnections through the academic year for more Versatile PhD-sponsored events, including week-long discussion forums with PhDs who have work in a variety of fields and positions.
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Don't Click That! Workshop
Tuesday, May 24 and Thursday, May 26 | 11:00am or 2:00pm
DoIt Tech Store, Computer Sciences and Statistics Building
Excel 1
Monday, May 30 | 6:00 - 8:00pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building
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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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Brownbag: Interested in a career in science policy?
Monday, May 23 | 12:00pm
Weeks Hall, Room 235
Dr. Susan Hamm, has spent 16 years “inside the Beltway.” With experience at four different Federal agencies, on Capitol Hill as a AAAS Science Policy fellow, and as a non-profit advocate (aka “lobbyist”) for a professional science society, she brings a breadth of S&T policy knowledge to this lunchtime conversation. Dr. Hamm holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Amherst College, and a master's degree in geophysics and a Ph.D. in material sciences from the University of Minnesota.
Wisconsin Technology Conference Entrepreneurs' Conference
Tuesday, June 7 - Wednesday, June 8
Alliant Energy Center
The two-day conference is one of the Midwest’s premiere “how-to,” hands-on events for entrepreneurs of all ages and experience levels.
UW-Madison Teaching Academy Learning Environment and Pedagogics (TA-LEaP) Workshop
Tuesday, August 23 - Wednesday, August 24 | 9:00am - 3:00pm
Madison, WI (exact location TBD)
Are you currently teaching, or might you have plans to teach in the future? The UW-Madison Teaching Academy invites all interested graduate students and teaching assistants to join this workshop where you'll have the opportunity to explore: - How learning works
- Active learning
- Backwards design
- Syllabus design, rubrics, and the first day of class
- The art of teaching
Participants will have an opportunity for community building and dedicated time for discussions and questions about teaching and learning with others from across campus at the workshop, and throughout the semester. Register here.
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| Registration is Now Open for CIRTL's Summer Courses
- Advancing Learing Through Evidence-Based STEM Teaching
- Basics of Online Learning and Teaching
- Disabling Difference in the STEM Classroom
- Integrating Creativity, Innovation, and Design Thinking in STEM Courses
These courses fill up quickly so register now!
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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 Neuroscience Scholars Program is a two-year training program open to underrepresented graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The program strives to build the capacity of underrepresented graduate and postdoctoral researchers to cultivate long-term success through mentoring and networking, professional skill development, and educational programming.
This program provides funds to departments, centers, or student groups wishing to enhance their own seminar schedules or to create new workshops, symposia, lecture series, or similar events in line with the goals of WISELI: to promote the participation and advancement of women in science and engineering.
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