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| Week of September 12, 2017
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| Tips for Grads: Personal Effectiveness
Your time is a precious commodity, and the demands on your time as a graduate student can seem overwhelming. Writing papers or grant applications, attending seminars, leading discussion sections, grading, reading, reading, reading, getting a bite to eat, socializing, and maybe sleep – there are only so many hours in a day. Learning how to effectively manage your time can reduce stress and help you get more done. Recently, Jenny Faust, Associate Vice Provost for Strategic Initiatives and Director of the Office of Quality Improvement, presented a workshop for UW-Madison grad students in which she shared some of her best tips for managing your time. - Set realistic goals. After a good night’s sleep and time for personal hygiene and basic metabolism, you probably have a 12-hour day. Create a time budget as you reflect on what you can reasonably accomplish in a day (or week).
- Use a planner. This can be digital or analog, but if you’ve decided something is a priority, you need to set aside time to do it. Try to give your most important work the best hours of your day, whether you are an early riser or like to burn the midnight oil.
- Minimize distractions. Once you have your work in front of you, set aside phones, web pages, or anything else that will distract you. Multitasking is a myth that you buy into to your detriment.
- Focus. The Pomodoro Technique alternates work periods with short breaks. There are apps that can help, and you might even plant a tree. Keep a “distraction sheet” nearby while you work to write down any less important tasks that pop into your mind.
- Stop doing some things. Recognize that you are not always going to be perfectly efficient. Identify your biggest time-waster and get rid of it. Learn how to say “no” before you over-commit yourself.
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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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Writing Fellowship/Grant Applications
Thursday, September 14 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Room 6191 Helen C. White Hall | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Managing Projects and People
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| STS: Access 1
Tuesday, September 12 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People STS: Excel 2: Functions
Wednesday, September 13 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People STS: LaTeX
Thursday, September 14 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People Introduction to R
Friday, September 15 | 1:30 - 5:00 pm
Room 3218, Sewell Social Sciences Buillding | Managing Projects and People STS: HTML/CSS in a Day
Sunday, September 17 | 1:00 - 5:30 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
SAS for Researchers
Monday, September 18 | 9:00 - 11:00 am
Room 2470, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation STS: Python
Monday, September 18 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Room B1144A, DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People SAS for Researchers
Tuesday, September 19 | 9:00 - 11:00 am
Room 2470, Sewell Social Sciences Building | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections Inquiry, discovery, and creation
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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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| U.S. Department of State Student Internship Program The U.S. Department of State is the lead U.S. foreign affairs agency responsible for advancing freedom for the benefit of the American people and the international community. This Student Internship is an unpaid, intensive internship offering U.S. students a chance to participate in the formulation and implementation of U.S. foreign policy, working closely with representatives of the U.S. Department of State's Foreign and Civil Services. The program is professionally and academically beneficial, providing participants with hands-on experiene and insight into the substance and daily operations of U.S. foreign policy. Learn more about this opportunity here.
Badger Volunteers Registration Now Open!
Badger Volunteers is a semester-long program that pairs teams of students with community organizations (schools, nonprofits, municipalities) to volunteer 1-4 hours each week at the same organization. The program is designed to foster meaningful and consistent connections between community partners and students over the course of an entire semester. Badger Volunteers provides logistical support, transportation, training and education sessions for student volunteers in the program. For more information, visit the Badger Volunteers website or contact badgervol@morgridge.wisc.edu.
Arts Institute Call for JurorsThe Arts Institute seeks students from a variety of disciplines to volunteer as potential jurors for the 2017-2018 academic year with the goal of bringing a collaborative, fair, and diverse voice to curating new exhibition spaces on campus. This represents a profound career-building opportunity for those with an interest in curation, archives, and visual arts, although it is open to students of all disciplines. To be considered for the juror pool, students are asked to submit their contact information, area of study, and a brief (300 words max) statement of their interest in the juried selection process and art, in any form, at UW–Madison to info.galleryguide@arts.wisc.edu by September 25, 2017. More information can be found here.
UW-Libraries Interdisciplinary Graduate Reading GroupWant to form connections with grad students outside your department? The Libraries’ Interdisciplinary Graduate Reading Group uses the Go Big Read book as a starting point to foster interdisciplinary connections across campus. Graduate students in all departments are welcome and encouraged to participate. All participants will receive a free copy of this year’s book, Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance. Learn more and register here.
UHS-Mental Health Services and GroupsLooking for support and ideas to navigate the graduate school experience? UHS-Mental Health Services is offering more than 40 groups for Fall 2017, with everything from single session wellness workshops to weekly support and skill development programs. Programs typically of interest to graduate students include the Dissertators' Group, Graduate Students' Group, and Graduate Womens' Group. Check out the wide variety of options here.
Volunteer Opportunities at Wisconsin Science FestivalAs part of this year's Wisconsin Science Festival on November 3 (from 6:00 - 9:00 pm), the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSELI) is looking for volunteers to facilitate various stations and echo their presence throughout the event. WiSELI has two broad roles for volunteers: 1) volunteers who are engineers, scientists, or STEM professionals who will help facilitate stations and audience interactions, or 2) volunteers whose research or research lab is a good match for the topic and are interested in having a station at the festival. If you or your group is interested in volunteering, please contact Sam Mulrooney at SMulrooney@warf.org.
Fall Deadlines at a GlanceWith fall semester underway, the Graduate School has some approaching deadlines to remind you of at UW-Madison. The mandatory Sexual Violence Prevention Training, found in your Learn@UW portal, must be completed by Friday, October 13. At the end of the second week of classes, Friday, September 15, the Graduate School will place enrollment holds on any graduate students not yet registered for classes in the fall semester. Additionally, the deadline to drop a course or submit a withdrawal request and receive 100% tuition adjustment is Friday, September 15. For a complete listing of deadlines for the fall semester, please see the Office of the Registrar's Fall Deadlines at a Glance.
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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 Scoville Peace Fellowship is a highly competitive national fellowship program that provides recent college and graduate student alumni with the funding and opportunity to work with one or more than two dozen participating institutions in Washington, D.C., including leading think tanks and advocacy groups focusing on international security and diplomacy issues. These six to nine month fellowships focus on arms control, peace, and international security issues. For more information, view the Scoville information document or Scoville flyer, or contact info@scoville.org.
The goal of the DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program is to prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers critically important to the DOE Office of Science mission, by providing graduate thesis research opportunities at DOE laboratories. The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE laboratory/facility in areas that address scientific challenges central to the Office of Science mission. The research opportunity is expected to advance the graduate students’ overall doctoral thesis while providing access to the expertise, resources, and capabilities available at the DOE laboratories/facilities. Collaborating DOE Laboratory Scientists may be from any of the participating DOE national laboratories/facilities. The award period for the proposed research project at DOE laboratories/facilities may range from 3 to 12 consecutive months. Please see here to apply. The National Physical Science Consortium is a partnership between government agencies and laboratories, industry, and higher education. NPSC's goal is to increase the number of American citizens with graduate degrees in the physical sciences and related engineering fields, emphasizing recruitment of a diverse applicant pool. The NPSC Graduate Fellowship is unique in being: open to all American citizens; lasting for up to six years; providing a $20,000 annual stipend; covering tuition; allowing a fellow also to hold a research or teaching assistantship; including one or two paid summer internships with a government agency; providing a mentor and the opportunity for a lasting relationship with the sponsor. If you have interned, have been employed or are employed by a government agency or laboratory, ask your mentor or research supervisor to nominate you directly for an NPSC fellowship. Please see the application here.
The Dan David Prize recognizes and encourages innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. It aims to foster universal values of excellence, creativity, justice, democracy and progress and to promote the scientific, technological and humanistic achievements that advance and improve our world. The Prize covers three time dimensions - Past, Present and Future - that represent realms of human achievement. Each year the International Board chooses one field within each time dimension. Following a review process of individuals nominated for the Prize, by independent Review Committees comprised of renowned scholars and professionals, the International Board then chooses the laureates for each field.
Three prizes of one million US dollars each are granted annually in the fields chosen for the three time dimensions. The prizes are granted to individuals or institutions with proven, exceptional, distinct excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service and business, that have made and continue to make an outstanding contribution to humanity on the basis of merit. To view application materials, please see here.
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