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Revision as of 15:42, 15 August 2017

EEB 5894 Section 003 (Planning for a career in EEB) - FALL 2017

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 or a small panel of other EEB-connected people discussing a given topic each week.

Meeting time: Tuesdays 3:45-5

Location: Bamford Room (Torrey 171B)

Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick

Grading: This course is graded on an S/U basis. Regular attendance and participation will result in a grade of S.

INFORMATION BELOW STILL REQUIRES UPDATING FOR THE UPCOMING SEMESTER

Tentative syllabus (subject to change)

Date Presenters Topic Resources Notes
Aug 29 Kent Holsinger, Chris Elphick What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? NEEDS UPDATEGraduate Certificate in College Instruction
Employment Data
GradHacker - A blog with advice on graduate school and beyond
Grad Traps: Traps to avoid in graduate school, written by a philosopher, but the advice is good for everyone
Sept 5 Carl Schlichting, Elizabeth Jockusch University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies NEEDS UPDATE Pdficon small.gif Departmental and University Resources
Pdficon small.gif University Resources II
Sept 12 CONFIRM Paul Lewis Communicating your work: web sites Pdficon small.gif P. Lewis presentation

You should leave with a website set up.
Sept 19 NEEDS UPDATE Bernard Goffinet, Kurt Schwenk What is a dissertation/thesis? NSF fellowships


Sept 26 NEEDS UPDATE Pam Diggle, Chris Elphick Research ethics and regulations

Nature Editorial on research misconduct
Biological Conservation Editorial on coauthorship
Pdficon small.gifPam on research ethics
Pdficon small.gifChris on compliance & regulations
UConn RCR training

NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc
Oct 3 NEEDS UPDATE Eric Schultz, Mike Willig How does research funding work Pdficon small.gifSchultz funding presentation

Pdficon small.gif Willig funding presentation

need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources, cover OSP etc.
Oct 10 NEEDS UPDATE Grad panel-Jessie Rack, Lily Lewis, Geert Goemans, Manette Sandor How to fund your graduate work Panel discussion
Oct 17 NEEDS UPDATE Mark Urban, Louise Lewis Communicating your work: how does publishing work Pdficon small.gif Louise and Mark on publishing

Guide to Peer Review (British Ecological Society)
How to Publish in Science
Joy of Peer Review
Fantasy cover letter

Oct 24 NEEDS UPDATE Morgan Tingley Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking Getting a speaker award

How to network
How to give a good talk

Homework: get set up to edit in eebedia or Aurora
Oct 31 NEEDS UPDATE Yaowu Yuan, Janine Caira Formulating good scientific questions Alon 2009 on choosing good scientific problems
E. O. Wilson on scientific discovery
Pdficon small.gifJanine and Yaowu on good questions


Nov 7 NEEDS UPDATE Margaret Rubega, Dave Wagner Broader impacts, social media, and communication outside academia How Broad Are Our Broader Impacts? An Analysis

How The Culture of Science Engagement is Evolving
Read Exec Summary and 1st four pages of Introduction
Pdficon small.gif D Wagner presentation

Nov 14 NEEDS UPDATE Eldridge Adams Developing as a teacher Reading on teaching innovations is here

Pdficon small.gif How TA assignments work

(also discuss how TA assignments work)
Nov 21 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov 28 NEEDS UPDATECindi Jones, Andy Bush Work-life balance Pdficon small.gif Notes and links
Dec 5 NEEDS UPDATE Grad/postdoc panel: Kerri Mocko, Matthew Aiello-Lammens, Diego Sustaita, Laura Cisneros Lessons I learned the hard way Panel discussion

Useful readings: Some modest advice for graduate students: Steve Stearns and Ray Huey
The full exchange is on Ray Huey's page: http://faculty.washington.edu/hueyrb/prospective.php

Stephen Stearns's later reflections: http://stearnslab.yale.edu/designs-learning

Nature editorial on life outside of academia
Nature perspective on choosing alternative careers

Advice for new graduate students