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|| Homework: come up with three questions for next week's panel - email to Elizabeth, before Monday morning | || Homework: come up with three questions for next week's panel - email to Elizabeth, before Monday morning | ||
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Revision as of 14:32, 24 August 2019
EEB 5100 (Planning for a career in EEB) - FALL 2019
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 75 min, once a week, to discuss topics related to professional development with a rotating cast of faculty, grad. students, or other EEB-connected people.
Meeting time: Tuesdays 3:45-5
Location: Bamford Room (Torrey 171B)
Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick
Grading: Officially, letter grades are assigned in this course; in our minds, it's graded on an S/U basis (but there are significant paperwork hurdles to doing that officially). Regular attendance and participation constitutes satisfactory performance, for which students will earn an 'A'.
Tentative syllabus (subject to change)
| Date | Presenters | Topic | Resources | Notes |
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| Aug 27 | Kent Holsinger | What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? |
University of Michigan PhD outcomes website |
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| Sept 3 | Carl Schlichting, Elizabeth Jockusch | University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies | Homework: web site assignment will be distributed; send a link to Chris in advance of class | |
| Sept 10 | Chris Elphick | Communicating your work: web sites | Homework: Identify, for next week's discussion, 3-5 characteristics of good scientific questions | |
| Sept 17 | Dan Bolnick, Janine Caira |
Formulating good scientific questions | Homework: identify, for next week's discussion, a person or activity that greatly influenced your learning | |
| Sept 24 | Kurt Schwenk, Annette Evans | Developing as a teacher | Homework: Identify, for next week's discussion, 3-5 qualities that you look for in a mentor | |
| Oct 1 | Chris Simon |
Mentoring | Graduate Certificate in College Instruction |
Homework: track the hours you spend on work this week (for discussion next week) |
| Oct 8 | Jill Wegrzyn, |
Work-life balance | ||
| Oct 15 | Eliza Grames, Andrew Stillman, TBA | Grad panel: TAing, research & anything else you want to talk about! | Homework: Conduct a Pivot search (click here) related to your research interests; identify at least 3 grant programs (excluding NSF) where you can apply for funding | |
| Oct 22 | Jeff Seeman |
How does research funding work | Homework: come up with three questions for next week's alumni panel - email to Elizabeth, before Monday morning | |
| Oct 29 | Alumni panel: Sacha Spector, |
Careers outside academia | Andrew Stillman | Homework: come up with three questions for next week's panel - email to Elizabeth, before Monday morning |
| Nov 5 | Grad panel: Becca Colby, Eliza Grames, Diler Haji, Andrew Stillman | Getting started in research | Homework: Identify 3 journals and 1 annual conference specific to your discipline; look up the impact factor and read the instructions to authors for each of the journals. | |
| Nov 12 | Pam Diggle, Gene Likens |
Research ethics and regulations | UConn's code of conduct-see especially Research section Misconduct example |
Homework: Identify a piece of science outreach that has influenced you in some way |
| Nov 19 | Morgan Tingley, |
Communicating your work: conferences and publishing |
Robi's publishing advice |
Homework: do all of the following
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| Nov 26 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
| Dec 3 | Margaret Rubega, Dave Wagner, Tanisha Williams |
Broader impacts, social media, and communication outside academia | NSF letter on broader impacts NSF web site on broader impacts |
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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
