We are pleased to announce our training module schedule for the 2024-2025 academic year. Check back for updates!
Demystifying the PhD Experience: Strategies for Academic & Personal Success in Grad School
In this two-part training module, participants will a) become aware of and develop strategies to recognize, implement and fully integrate the academic and non- academic skills required to succeed in Graduate School and b) cultivate traits and skills that will demonstrate flexibility, the capacity to work with others and to change and adapt to work environments in an academic hierarchy. Content is geared towards beginning and or early in their graduate training.
Dates & Times: Thursday, August 22, 2024 (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM) and Friday, August 23, 2024 (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
Location: Rhode Island Hall, Room 108
Faculty Trainers: Sarah Delaney, PhD & Alycia Mosley Austin, PhD
Senior Scholar: Dominique Pablito
Registration is now closed
Applying for STEM Fellowships
This two-part module aims to prepare graduate students to submit successful STEM graduate fellowship applications to support their PhD studies by: 1) Familiarizing them with available STEM graduate fellowships and the practical benefits of receiving such fellowships; 2) Acquainting them with the typical components of graduate fellowship applications, including research and personal statements, and how they are evaluated according to Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts criteria; 3) Teaching them how to draft effective research statements and engaging personal statements; and 4) Showing them how to critically evaluate fellowship applications.
Dates & Time: Thursday, September 26, 2024 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM) and Thursday, October 3, 2024 (2:00 PM – 4:00 PM)
Location: Petteruti Lounge, Stephen Roberts Campus Center
Faculty Trainer: Brenda Rubenstein, PhD
Senior Scholar: Anna Nixon
Register here by September 19th!
New IMSD@Brown Module! Leveraging the Library to Advance and Disseminate Your Research
While students may already be familiar with the library’s spaces and online catalog, this module aims to teach how to leverage the library for advanced research skills. In this module, students will be able to 1) identify and evaluate scholarly journals and citation impacts; 2) use citation management software for creating personal PDF libraries and automatically creating in-text and works cited for their publications, including theses and dissertations; 3) apply open science practices for managing and sharing their research data and writing data management and sharing plans for grants; and 4) manage their online and public researcher profiles and electronic CVs, including ORCID, Web of Science, Scopus, and My Bibliography/SciENcv
Session #1, Thursday 10/10: Stay Ahead, Stay Organized: Managing your references, staying on top of the literature, and evaluating journals
This session will cover reference management from cradle to grave - from navigating networks of research and identifying seminal articles, to managing those references in an efficient way, and identifying appropriate journals for publication of your own research.
Session #2, Thursday 10/17: Open Science: Taking Control of Your Data, Permissions, and Profiles
This session will plug us into the world of open science! We’ll use the FAIR principles to learn how to make your research Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable - allowing others to find, credit, and collaborate with your research.
Dates & Time: Thursday, October 10, 2024 (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM) and Thursday, October 17, 2024 (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM)
Location: TBD
Faculty Trainers: Andrew Creamer (he/him), Open Science Librarian, Brown University Library and Kelsey Sawyer (she/her), Health Sciences Librarian for Biomedical Research Support
Senior Scholar: TBD
Target Audience: This aim of this module is to provide library skills that can be applied throughout one’s research career and would be relevant for new graduate students and junior scholars as well as advanced scholars interested in new library services and resources.
Registration coming soon!
Registration note: Please email [email protected] if you can no longer attend a module. Students who repeatedly miss modules may be denied registration in future offerings.