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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.   
 
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:''' TBD, possibly Tuesdays 4-5   
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'''Meeting time:''' Tuesdays 3:45-5   
  
 
'''Location:''' TBD  
 
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!width="400"|Notes
 
!width="400"|Notes
 
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| Aug || Elizabeth Jockusch || University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies    ||  
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| Aug 26|| Elizabeth Jockusch || University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies    ||  
 
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| Sept ||  || Strategies for different career paths ||
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| Sept 2||  ||What do you aim to accomplish in grad school? || relates to strategies for different career paths
 
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| Sept ||  || What is a dissertation/thesis ||
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| Sept 9||  || What is a dissertation/thesis ||
 
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| Sept ||  || Formulating good scientific questions ||
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| Sept 16||  || Formulating good scientific questions ||
 
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| Sept ||  || Research ethics and compliance  || NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/other lab safety/etc
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| Sept 23||  || Research ethics and compliance  || NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc
 
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| ||  || How does research funding work || need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources
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| Sept 30 ||  || How does research funding work || need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources
 
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| Oct ||  || How to fund your graduate work || maybe a panel of grads??
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| Oct 7 ||  || How to fund your graduate work || maybe a panel of grads??
 
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| Oct ||  || Communicating your work: how does publishing work || need faculty who have been editors
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| Oct 14||  || Communicating your work: how does publishing work || need faculty who have been editors
 
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| Oct ||  || Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking||
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| Oct 21||  || Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking||
 
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| Oct ||  || Communicating your work: web sites & social media || students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up
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| Oct 28||  || Communicating your work: web sites & social media || students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up
 
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| Nov ||  || Broader impacts and communication outside academia ||
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| Nov 4||  || Broader impacts and communication outside academia ||
 
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| Nov ||  || Teaching (how TA assignments work, etc.)|| move earlier, broaden to include all grad funding stuff??
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| Nov 11 ||  || Developing as a teacher|| (also discuss how TA assignments work)
 
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| Nov ||  || Work-life balance ||
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| Nov 18||  || Work-life balance ||
 
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| Nov || || THANKSGIVING BREAK  ||  ||  
 
| Nov || || THANKSGIVING BREAK  ||  ||  
 
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| Dec || Senior grads/postdocs  || What I wish I’d known earlier/done differently || Panel discussion
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| Dec 2|| Senior grads/postdocs  || What I wish I’d known earlier/done differently || Panel discussion
 
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Revision as of 20:44, 17 July 2014

EEB XXX: [Course number TBD] 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: TBD

Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick

Tentative syllabus (subject to change)

Date Presenters Topic Notes
Aug 26 Elizabeth Jockusch University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies
Sept 2 What do you aim to accomplish in grad school? relates to strategies for different career paths
Sept 9 What is a dissertation/thesis
Sept 16 Formulating good scientific questions
Sept 23 Research ethics and compliance NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc
Sept 30 How does research funding work need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources
Oct 7 How to fund your graduate work maybe a panel of grads??
Oct 14 Communicating your work: how does publishing work need faculty who have been editors
Oct 21 Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking
Oct 28 Communicating your work: web sites & social media students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up
Nov 4 Broader impacts and communication outside academia
Nov 11 Developing as a teacher (also discuss how TA assignments work)
Nov 18 Work-life balance
Nov THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 2 Senior grads/postdocs What I wish I’d known earlier/done differently Panel discussion