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|| Homework: Identify a piece of science outreach that has influenced you in some way | || Homework: Identify a piece of science outreach that has influenced you in some way |
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EEB 5100 (Planning for a career in EEB) - FALL 2021
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: TLS 371
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. 31 | Chris Elphick, |
University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies | Elizabeth's presentation-Resources Chris's presentation-Compliance |
Homework: (1) Identify, for next week's discussion, 3-5 qualities that you look for in a mentor. (2) Advance notice: build (or update) a professional web site--complete a draft website to share during class on 21st Sept. Paul Lewis's very helpful instructions will get you started . |
Sept 7 | Chris Simon, Sarah Knutie |
Mentoring | Good mentoring (from Nature) Getting mentoring (from Science) |
Homework: Identify, for next week's discussion, 3-5 characteristics of good scientific questions |
Sept 14 | Dan Bolnick, Yaowu Yuan |
Formulating good scientific questions | Alon 2009 on choosing good scientific problems Schwartz 2008 on the importance of stupidity in research |
Homework: Build (or update) a professional web site--complete a draft website to share during class on 21st Sept. Paul Lewis's very helpful instructions will get you started . |
Sept 21 | Paul Lewis | Communicating your work: web sites | Homework: identify, for next week's discussion, a person or activity that greatly influenced your learning | |
Sept 28 | Kurt Schwenk, Louise Lewis, Val Milici |
Developing as a teacher | Kurt's tips on learning Tips on engaging students |
Homework: come up with three questions for next week's alumni panel - email to Chris, before Monday morning |
Oct 5 | Sarah Bois, Erin King, Krissa Skogen, Sacha Spector |
Alumni panel: Careers outside academia | Homework: Identify at least 1 annual conference or professional society specific to your discipline | |
Oct 12 | Cindi Jones, Carlos Garcia-Robledo |
Conferences and professional societies | Homework: come up with at least three questions for next week's grad. panel - email to Chris, before Monday morning | |
Oct 19 | Grads TBA | Grad panel: TAing, research & anything else you want to talk about! | Homework: track the hours you spend on work this week (for discussion next week) | |
Oct 26 | Jill Wegrzyn, Mark Urban |
Work-life balance | Identify at least 2 journals relevant to your discipline; look up the impact factor, read the instructions to authors for each of the journals, and figure out the cost of publishing in each. Also identify at least 2 grants you could apply for.] | |
Nov 2 | Bernard Goffinet, Liz Clifton |
Writing and Publishing | Guide to Peer Review (British Ecological Society) |
Homework: Identify a piece of science outreach that has influenced you in some way |
Nov 9 | Margaret Rubega, Holly Brown (NAS Research Associate in Science Education; EEB alum) |
Outreach and communication outside academia | Lupia 2013 |
Homework: do all of the following
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Nov 16 | Pam Diggle, Gene Likens (watch the video here) |
Scientific ethics | UConn RCR training Read this blog post |
Homework: bake a pie! |
Nov 23 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | |||
Nov 30 | Kent Holsinger | What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? |
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