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| Week of February 28, 2017
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Tips for Grads: Managing Projects and People
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| One of the central transferable skills graduate students develop is the ability to manage a complex project. Writing a thesis or dissertation is a multi-year process that requires you to set goals, monitor results, and employ systems and approaches to enhance productivity. If you want to learn how to manage and make substantial progress on your dissertation, consider applying to a Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp, organized by the Writing Center and sponsored by the Graduate School. At these camps you will, - Write intensively for five hours each day
- Discuss your work with peers and Writing Center instructors
- Learn strategies for goal setting, project organization, and obtaining useful feedback
Applications for the Mellon-Wisconsin Dissertation Writing Camp are due this Friday, March 3rd.
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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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History Department PhD graduates as well as PhDs in many disciplines are very competitive for positions at independent college-preparatory schools. Compared with the tenure-track job market, applicants can be more geographically selective and relocate from one high school to another more easily. These institutions allow teachers a great deal of curricular and pedagogical autonomy, the opportunity to build close relationships with students and pursue extracurricular interests (such as, coaching and the performing arts), and unrestricted summer breaks to use to continue academic research or augment one’s income. Come hear from Wisconsin History PhD alums who have followed this path describe their work and offer tips for successful applications.
Guest Speakers: Ellen Baker, PhD, Upper School History and Integrated Liberal Studies Teacher, Riverdale Country School; Robert Gross, PhD, Upper School History Teacher, Sidwell Friends School; John Hogue, PhD, Faculty in Social Sciences, Bard High School Early College; Stephen Kolman, PhD, Head of Upper School, Trinity School; Eric O'Connor, PhD, Interim History Teacher, Sidwell Friends School. Moderated by: Professor Charles Kim, UW-Madison Department of History.
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, Office of Postdoctoral Studies and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development.
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| Humanities and Social Science PhDs can positively impact society by working in think tanks, non-academic research organizations that influence public policy around an important issue or cluster of issues. Think tanks hire PhDs to conduct and evaluate studies and help develop policy recommendations. Our PhD Career Panel discussions are like a combination of an AMA and an informational interview. They take place in our discussion forums, so it all happens online and in writing. Panelists include a Political Science PhD focused on government as senior fellow and director at a think tank; an Economics PhD who is a fellow in health and technology at a university-affiliated public policy research center; a History PhD who is a senior research fellow in global politics at a think tank; a Communications PhD serving as senior director of creative and publications at a nonprofit advocacy organization.
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This panel discussion will feature professionals with advanced degrees from the sciences, social studies, and the humanities who enjoy satisfying careers in higher education beyond the tenure track. Panelists will describe their career paths and also address how they draw on the skills and experiences acquired in graduate school. This year’s panelists are: Torsheika Maddox (PhD, Sociology) – Office of the Vice Provost and Chief Diversity Officer
LaRuth McAfee (PhD, Chemical Engineering) – Graduate School Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Funding
Sarah Perdue (PhD, Microbiology/Molecular Biology) – Communications Specialist, UW Carbone Cancer Center
Chad Shorter (PhD, Italian) – Evaluation and Learning Technology Consultant, DoIT
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| Find more Graduate School Professional Development events here.
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A Writer's Retreat
Friday, March 3 | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
6191 Helen C. White | Managing Projects and People Managing Your Rights as an Author
Tuesday, March 7 | 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Biocommons/110A Steenbock Library | Disciplinary Expertise and Interdisciplinary Connections | Managing Projects and People
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| LaTeX
Wednesday, March 1 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People
Access 2
Thursday, March 2 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
B1144A DeLuca Biochemistry Building | Managing Projects and People Matlab 1
Monday, March 6 | 6:00 - 8:00 pm
3218 Social Sciences Building | Managing Projects and People Javascript 1
Wednesday, March 8 | 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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Graduate Student Support Group for survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking is underway
This support group is tailored to address the needs of creating community and working toward healing for survivors of domestic and dating violence, sexual assault and stalking. The group will be meeting Fridays from 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm, starting on February 24th until April 21st in the 8th Floor Lobby Conference Room at 333 East Campus Mall.
Apply to the Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip by Mar. 3
The Wisconsin Experience Bus Trip brings UW-Madison student leaders together to expand on the Wisconsin Idea while traveling and serving throughout the state. This annual, weeklong trip for emerging UW-Madison student leaders on campus builds bridges between campus organizations by fostering leadership, cultural understanding, and community. This year's trip will take place between May 15 and 19. Thirty-six student leaders will be selected to participate in this free trip. Learn more and apply before 11:59 pm on Friday, March 3.
Proposals for Sawyer Seminars Program due Mar. 10
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Sawyer Seminars program provides support for collaborative research on historical and contemporary topics of major scholarly significance. The program emphasizes mainly, but not exclusively, scholars from the fields of the arts, humanities and interpretive social sciences. The program aims to engage productive scholars in multi-disciplinary and comparative inquiry. Each seminar normally meets for one year, and provides support for one postdoctoral fellow and for the dissertation research of two graduate students. The maximum grant award for each seminar is $225,000. Learn more and apply by noon on Friday, March 10.
Are you planning to graduate this semester?
If you are planning to graduate this semester, make sure that you complete all items on this graduation checklist. This is a reminder that commencement for doctoral, MFA and medical professional degree candidates will be held on Friday, May 12 in the Kohl Center. Commencement for master's degree candidates will be held on Saturday, May 13 at Camp Randall Stadium.
Career resources from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has numerous career resources (webinars, workshops, videos, etc.) for life scientists at all career stages, most of which are free to members and non-members. They also have a quarterly career-development newsletter that lists specific resources and upcoming events. To subscribe, email Erica Siebrasse at esiebrasse@asbmb.org.
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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 March 13, 2017
The 2017 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (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. For 2017 there are two areas identified as competitive preference priorities: projects that use any of 78 priority languages selected from a list of Less Commonly Taught Languages; and projects conducted in the fields of economics, engineering, international development, mathematics, political science, public health, science, comparative or international education, or technology.
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