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− | | Aug 26|| Kent Holsinger + Elizabeth Jockusch || What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? || || Relate to strategies for different career paths | + | | Aug 26|| [http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/holsinger.html Kent Holsinger] + [http://jockusch.eeb.uconn.edu Elizabeth Jockusch] || What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? || || Relate to strategies for different career paths |
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− | | Sept 2||Bernard Goffinet + Kurt Schwenk || What is a dissertation/thesis || || | + | | Sept 2||[http://bryology.uconn.edu Bernard Goffinet] + [http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebedia/index.php/Kurt_Schwenk Kurt Schwenk] || What is a dissertation/thesis || || |
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− | | Sept 9||Yaowu Yuan and Janine Caira || Formulating good scientific questions || || | + | | Sept 9||[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/people/yuan/index.html Yaowu Yuan] and [http://www.tapeworms.uconn.edu Janine Caira] || Formulating good scientific questions || || |
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− | | Sept 16|| Carl Schlichting || University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies || || | + | | Sept 16|| [http://plasticity.uconn.edu Carl Schlichting] || University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies || || |
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− | | Sept 23||Pam Diggle and Chris Elphick || Research ethics and regulations || || NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc | + | | Sept 23||[http://hydrodictyon.eeb.uconn.edu/eebwww/people/pamela-diggle/ Pam Diggle] and [http://elphick.lab.uconn.edu Chris Elphick] || Research ethics and regulations || || NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc |
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| Sept 30 || Eric Schultz and Mike Willig || How does research funding work || || need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources, cover OSP etc. | | Sept 30 || Eric Schultz and Mike Willig || How does research funding work || || need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources, cover OSP etc. |
Revision as of 00:41, 20 August 2014
EEB 5894 Section 003 (Planning for a career in EEB) NEW COURSE - IN DEVELOPMENT FOR FALL 2014
This 1 credit seminar course is intended to provide orientation information to incoming EEB graduate students, although it is open to other students; we strongly advise new students to take it. The course will meet for about an hour a week, with 2-3 faculty present each week to discuss a given topic. This is a new course and we seek input on what topics we should include.
Meeting time: Tuesdays 3:45-5
Location: Bamford Room (Torrey 171B)
Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick
Tentative syllabus (subject to change)
Date | Presenters | Topic | Resources | Notes |
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Aug 26 | Kent Holsinger + Elizabeth Jockusch | What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? | Relate to strategies for different career paths | |
Sept 2 | Bernard Goffinet + Kurt Schwenk | What is a dissertation/thesis | ||
Sept 9 | Yaowu Yuan and Janine Caira | Formulating good scientific questions | ||
Sept 16 | Carl Schlichting | University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies | ||
Sept 23 | Pam Diggle and Chris Elphick | Research ethics and regulations | NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc | |
Sept 30 | Eric Schultz and Mike Willig | How does research funding work | need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources, cover OSP etc. | |
Oct 7 | Grad panel | How to fund your graduate work | Panel discussion (Jessie, NEED MORE VOLUNTEERS .....) | |
Oct 14 | Mark Urban, Louise Lewis | Communicating your work: how does publishing work | ||
Oct 21 | Morgan Tingley + ?? | Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking | Homework: get set up to edit in eebedia or Aurora | |
Oct 28 | Paul Lewis | Communicating your work: web sites | students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up | |
Nov 4 | Margaret Rubega + ?? | Broader impacts, social media, and communication outside academia | ||
Nov 11 | Eldridge Adams + ?? | Developing as a teacher | (also discuss how TA assignments work) | |
Nov 18 | Cindi Jones and Andy Bush | Work-life balance | ||
Nov 25 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
Dec 2 | Senior grads/postdocs | Lessons I learned the hard way | Panel discussion (Geert, Kerri, NEED VOLUNTEERS .....) | |
Useful readings:
Stephen Sterns: http://stearnslab.yale.edu/some-modest-advice-graduate-students
A less cynical rebuttal by Ray Huey: http://faculty.washington.edu/hueyrb/prospective.php
More Stephen Sterns: http://stearnslab.yale.edu/designs-learning