We are pleased to announce our training module schedule for the 2024-2025 academic year. Check back for updates as we confirm module topics, facilitators, and dates!
Demystifying the PhD: 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 early year students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences who are preparing for the preliminary examination, thesis-writing process and dissertation defense.
Dates: Thursday, August 22 and Friday, August 23, 2024
Time: 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
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Applying for and Winning STEM Fellowships
This 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.
TBD
Defending Your Research Proposal & Critiquing Those of Others
Learn strategies for selecting a strong thesis topic, defending your research project, evaluating your progress, handling mistakes and results that do not support your hypothesis, giving and receiving advice and criticism.
TBD