Difference between revisions of "EEB graduate student orientation seminar"
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− | | | + | | Aug || || University/department structure; Degree ontogenies || |
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− | | | + | | Sept || || Strategies for different career paths || |
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− | | | + | | Sept || || What is a dissertation/thesis || |
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− | | | + | | Sept || || Formulating good scientific questions || |
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− | | | + | | Sept || || Research ethics and compliance || |
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| || || How does research funding work || | | || || How does research funding work || | ||
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− | | | + | | Oct || || How to fund your graduate work || |
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− | | | + | | Oct || || Communicating your work: how does publishing work || |
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− | | | + | | Oct || || Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking|| |
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− | | | + | | Oct || || Communicating your work: web sites & social media || |
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− | | | + | | Nov || || Broader impacts and communication outside academia || |
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− | | | + | | Nov || || Teaching (how TA assignments work, etc.)|| |
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− | | | + | | Nov || || Work-life balance || |
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− | | | + | | Nov || || THANKSGIVING BREAK || || |
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− | | | + | | Dec || Senior grads/postdocs || What I wish I’d done differently || Panel discussion |
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Revision as of 20:53, 12 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; we strongly advise new students to take it. The course will meet for about an hour a week, with different faculty talking about different
Meeting time: TBD, possibly Tuesdays 4-5
Location: TBD
Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick
Tentative syllabus (subject to change)
Date | Presenters | Topic | Notes | |
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Aug | University/department structure; Degree ontogenies | |||
Sept | Strategies for different career paths | |||
Sept | What is a dissertation/thesis | |||
Sept | Formulating good scientific questions | |||
Sept | Research ethics and compliance | |||
How does research funding work | ||||
Oct | How to fund your graduate work | |||
Oct | Communicating your work: how does publishing work | |||
Oct | Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking | |||
Oct | Communicating your work: web sites & social media | |||
Nov | Broader impacts and communication outside academia | |||
Nov | Teaching (how TA assignments work, etc.) | |||
Nov | Work-life balance | |||
Nov | THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
Dec | Senior grads/postdocs | What I wish I’d done differently | Panel discussion | |