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Revision as of 16:12, 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)? Kent's presentation on career outcomes

EEB graduate employment
Inside Higher Ed Career Advice
The Versatile PhD
UConn Career Services for grads
UConn National Fellowships Office

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, Holly Brown Developing as a teacher NEEDS UPDATE

Reading on teaching innovations
Pdficon small.gif How TA assignments work

Sept 26 CONFIRM Jill Wegrzyn, Andy Bush Work-life balance NEEDS UPDATE

Pdficon small.gif Notes and links

Oct 3 Grad panel: TBD Courses, committees, getting started Panel discussion: come with questions
Oct 10 CONFIRM Janine Caira, ... 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, .... How does research funding work NEEDS UPDATE? Carlos's funding presentation

Eric's funding summary

NSF fellowships
Oct 24 MOVE Morgan Tingley, Robi 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 Grad panel: TBD Getting started in research Panel discussion: come with questions
Nov 14 Alumni panel: TBD Careers outside academia Panel discussion: come with questions
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