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Revision as of 15:47, 16 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 Paul Lewis Communicating your work: web sites Pdficon small.gif P. Lewis presentation

Homework: complete your web site.
Sept 19 Louise Lewis and Holly Brown Developing as a teacher NEEDS UPDATE Reading on teaching innovations is here

Pdficon small.gif How TA assignments work

(also discuss how TA assignments work)
Sept 26 CONFIRM Jill Wegrzyn, Andy Bush Work-life balance NEEDS UPDATEPdficon small.gif Notes and links
Oct 3 NEEDS UPDATE Grad panel: Courses, committees, getting started Panel discussion
Oct 10 CONFIRM Janine Caira and ... Formulating good scientific questions NEEDS UPDATE Alon 2009 on choosing good scientific problems
E. O. Wilson on scientific discovery
Pdficon small.gifJanine and Yaowu on good questions
Oct 17 CONFIRM Carlos Garcia-Robledo and .... How does research funding work NEEDS UPDATE? Carlos's funding presentation

Eric's funding summary

NSF fellowships
Oct 24 MOVE Morgan Tingley, Bagchi Communicating your work: conferences and publishing NEEDS UPDATE 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 TBD Mentoring Science Careers: Getting mentoring

Nature: Good mentoring
Why mentor undergraduates?
Managing your advisor
Mentoring Discussion

Nov 7 NEEDS UPDATE Grad/postdoc panel: Lessons I learned the hard way Panel discussion
Nov 14 NEEDS UPDATE
Nov 21 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov 28 NEEDS UPDATE Pam Diggle, .... 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


Dec 5 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

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