EEB graduate student orientation seminar

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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, 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 present each week to discuss a given topic. This is a new course and we seek input on what topics we should include.

Meeting time: TBD, possibly Tuesdays 4-5

Location: TBD

Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick

Tentative syllabus (subject to change)

Date Presenters Topic Notes
Aug Elizabeth Jockusch 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 NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/other lab safety/etc
How does research funding work need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources
Oct How to fund your graduate work maybe a panel of grads??
Oct Communicating your work: how does publishing work need faculty who have been editors
Oct Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking
Oct Communicating your work: web sites & social media students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up
Nov Broader impacts and communication outside academia
Nov Teaching (how TA assignments work, etc.) move earlier, broaden to include all grad funding stuff??
Nov Work-life balance
Nov THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec Senior grads/postdocs What I wish I’d done differently Panel discussion