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| What you Need to Know to Vote on Election Day Voting begins TODAY, Tuesday, November 8th, at 7am and closes at 8pm--but as long as you're in line at your correct polling place by 8pm, you must be allowed to vote. The UW's Morgridge Center for Public Service has put together this short list of what all students should know before voting: - There's a specific place you have to vote. Find your polling location here.
- You can register to vote on Election Day right at your polling place. Just make sure to bring a proof of residence (see here for examples). UW students can show their current address on Student Center using their phone.
- You need to show an acceptable ID to vote. The most common forms of accepted IDs are a Wisconsin driver's license or a US passport. But if you don't have either, you can get a free Voter ID issued by the university. A driver's license from a state not named Wisconsin will not be accepted as a form of ID. A Wiscard will not be accepted either.
- Take a look at a sample ballot before you go into the voting booth so you know who and what you are voting for.
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A robust LinkedIn presence is key to positioning yourself to secure your ideal job (or having it find you!). In this presentation, Career Consultant Gina Jenkins will share proven strategies and best practices to help you optimize your LinkedIn profile and grow your professional network strategically. We will spend the last 25 minutes of the workshop getting and giving feedback on our profiles from peers, so please bring five hard copies of your LinkedIn profile with you. Come prepared to have professional headshots taken. Food will be served.
Gina Jenkins is the Associate Director of Career & Leadership Development at the Wisconsin School of Business and the Owner of CareerLight, LLC, an independent career coaching business in the Madison area. She has over a decade of career development experience, including in the areas of human resources and alumni career services.
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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 mom and dad 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 of all disciplines to prepare an accessible, intriguing three-minute talk. If you're interested in learning how to craft a concise, general explanation of your research, or if you plan to participate in the Three-Minute Thesis competition, this workshop is for you.
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Humanities and Social Science PhDs can find interesting careers in Cultural Resource Management, or CRM -- the identification and preservation of culturally important sites and resources. PhDs in history, archeology, anthropology, art history and more have made marks in this field. To participate, join the Versatile PhD (for free), then visit the forum any time between November 14 and 18.
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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MATLAB 2
Tuesday, November 8 | 6:00 - 8:00pm
3 218 Sewell Social Sciences Python
Wednesday, November 9 | 6:00 - 8:00pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building
Excel1
Thursday, November 10 | 6:00 - 8:00pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building
Excel 2: Functions
Monday, November 14 | 6:00 - 8:00pm
B207 Computer Sciences and Statistics
WordPress 1
Tuesday, November 15 | 6:00 - 8:00pm
B207 Computer Sciences and Statistics
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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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| As part of the public lecture series, "Forward? The Wisconsin Idea, Past and Present," Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab will speak about "The Future of Wisconsin Public Higher Education." The Bias Response Team/Division of Student Life is hosting an open, interactive and informative workshop about interrupting bias and hate on campus. Enjoy international food, live music and dance while learning about international opportunities on campus, within the community and around the world. At 5:15pm, Keynote Speaker Wajahat Ali, a journalist, writer, lawyer, award-winning playwright, TV host, and consultant for the US State Department will speak about "Millennial Swagger: Promoting Social Entrepreneurship Through Storytelling and Social Media." Join Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel, UW-Madison faculty members Kathy Cramer and Mike Wagner, and Milwaukee talk-radio host Charlie Sykes for a moderated panel discussion and question-and-answer session on the impacts of the 2016 Election. Join the Association of Graduate Engaged Scholars (AGES) for their fall semester kick-off/social hour/listening event/meet-up. Get to know other graduate students who are interested in engaging with the community through their research and teaching. They will provide food.
Join the UW-Madison women Deans for coffee and conversation about women and leadership. You will have the opportunity to network with other UW-Madison women, enjoy coffee, light refreshments and topical conversation with one or more of the female Deans on campus.
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| Nominations for Faculty Distinguished Teaching Awards Due Dec. 5
Student organizations, faculty members, or departments are invited to nominate faculty of any specialty or rank for the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Award, Class of 1955 Excellence Award, William H. Kiekhofer Teaching Award, Emil Steiger Teaching Award, and Van Hise Outreach Teaching Award, which recognize outstanding and exceptional teaching by faculty. Nominations are due Monday, December 5. More information on the nominating procedure can be found here.
Spring 2017 Course: Women and Leadership in Medicine, Science and Engineering
The Center for Women's Health Research is offering a 1-3 credit course in Spring 2017 on gender and leadership, effective strategies for women leaders, approaches to counteracting gender biases in oneself and others, and the intersection of race and gender in leadership. For more information, see here.
Professional Development Grant for Graduate Student Organizations
The Graduate School Office of Professional Development encourages graduate student organizations to apply for grants of up to $1,000 to be used toward professional development programming that directly benefits graduate students. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with a final deadline for application of December 8, 2016. Read more and apply here.
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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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4W Engagement Grants for Emerging Scholars are intended to flexibly support graduate students in any relevant discipline, who are engaged in research related to women and wellbeing in Wisconsin and/or around the world. They particularly seek proposals that are interdisciplinary, and that have a research-to-action focus aimed at enhancing gender equity locally or globally. The grants may be used for project expenses or travel related to community-based research or practice, including internships, independent study projects, pre-dissertation or pre-thesis groundwork.
The Leakey Foundation exclusively funds research related specifically to human origins. Advanced doctoral students (advanced to candidacy − all but dissertation) and established scientists are eligible to apply for Leakey Foundation Research Grants. Doctoral students tend to receive awards in the range of $3,000-$15,000.
Each year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School sponsors a limited number of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to become members of the national Bouchet Society. All PhD students who reach dissertator status by Spring 2017 and postdoctoral researchers will be eligible to nominate themselves for consideration as 2017 inductees as long as they exemplify the five Bouchet qualities. Inductees are expected to attend the UW-Madison Induction Ceremony and present at the Annual Conference at Yale (travel will be covered by the Graduate School).
One award is made annually to a currently enrolled doctoral student in social studies who has demonstrated outstanding research and scholarly writing accomplishments while a graduate student at UW-Madison. Nominations are accepted from social studies faculty and multiple nominations are accepted.
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