EEB graduate student orientation seminar
EEB 5894 Section 003 (Planning for a career in EEB) 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: Tuesdays 3:45-5
Location: Bamford Room (Torrey 171B)
Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick
Tentative syllabus (subject to change)
Date | Presenters | Topic | Notes |
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Aug 26 | Kent Holsinger + ?? | What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? | Relate to strategies for different career paths; aim to have at least one person who has placed grad students in EEB positions outside academia |
Sept 2 | Bernard Goffinet + ?? | What is a dissertation/thesis | |
Sept 9 | Yaowu Yuan and Janine Caira | Formulating good scientific questions | |
Sept 16 | Carl Schlichting | University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies | |
Sept 23 | Pam Diggle and Chris Elphick | Research ethics and regulations | NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc |
Sept 30 | Eric Schultz and Mike Willig | How does research funding work | need to address both NSF/NIH and other agency/foundation sources, cover OSP etc. |
Oct 7 | Grad panel | How to fund your graduate work | |
Oct 14 | Mark Urban, Louise Lewis | Communicating your work: how does publishing work | need faculty who have been editors, maybe a couple |
Oct 21 | Morgan Tingley + ?? | Communicating your work: talks, conferences, and networking | Homework: get set up to edit in eebedia or Aurora |
Oct 28 | Paul Lewis | Communicating your work: web sites | students should leave with an eebedia or Aurora page set up |
Nov 4 | Margaret Rubega + ?? | Broader impacts, social media, and communication outside academia | |
Nov 11 | Eldridge Adams + ?? | Developing as a teacher | (also discuss how TA assignments work) |
Nov 18 | Work-life balance | ||
Nov 25 | THANKSGIVING BREAK | ||
Dec 2 | Senior grads/postdocs | Lessons I learned the hard way | Panel discussion |
Useful readings:
Stephen Sterns: http://stearnslab.yale.edu/some-modest-advice-graduate-students
A less cynical rebuttal by Ray Huey: http://faculty.washington.edu/hueyrb/prospective.php
More Stephen Sterns: http://stearnslab.yale.edu/designs-learning