EEB graduate student orientation seminar

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EEB 5894 Section 003 (Planning for a career in EEB) - FALL 2017

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 or a small panel of other EEB-connected people discussing a given topic each week.

Meeting time: Tuesdays 3:45-5

Location: Bamford Room (Torrey 171B)

Course coordinators: Elizabeth Jockusch, Chris Elphick

Grading: This course is graded on an S/U basis. Regular attendance and participation will result in a grade of S.

INFORMATION BELOW STILL REQUIRES UPDATING FOR THE UPCOMING SEMESTER

Tentative syllabus (subject to change)

Date Presenters Topic Resources Notes
Aug 29 Kent Holsinger, Chris Elphick What do you aim to accomplish in grad school (and beyond)? Kent's presentation on career outcomes

EEB graduate employment
Inside Higher Ed Career Advice
The Versatile PhD
UConn Career Services for grads
UConn National Fellowships Office

NSF fellowships
Sept 5 Carl Schlichting, Elizabeth Jockusch University/department structure and resources; Degree ontogenies NEED UPDATE?

Pdficon small.gif Departmental and University Resources
Pdficon small.gif University Resources II

Sept 12 Paul Lewis Communicating your work: web sites Pdficon small.gif P. Lewis presentation

Homework: complete your web site.
Sept 19 Louise Lewis, Holly Brown Developing as a teacher Reading on teaching innovations

Graduate Certificate in College Instruction
UPDATE? Louise and Brigette's presentation on teaching
Pdficon small.gif How TA assignments work

Sept 26 CONFIRM Jill Wegrzyn, Andy Bush Work-life balance In defense of downtime

Greedy institutions, overwork, and work-life balance (Sullivan 2013)

Oct 3 Grad panel: TBD Courses, committees, getting started Panel discussion: come with questions
Oct 10 CONFIRM Janine Caira, ... Formulating good scientific questions NEED UPDATE?

Kurt and Yaowu's handout on choosing research questions
Alon 2009 on choosing good scientific problems
E. O. Wilson on scientific discovery
Founding of the NSF: text pdf
Good and less good reasons for choosing a question

Oct 17 CONFIRM Carlos Garcia-Robledo, .... How does research funding work NEEDS UPDATE? Carlos's funding presentation

Eric's funding summary

Oct 24 NEED TO MOVE
Morgan Tingley,

Robi Bagchi

Communicating your work: conferences and publishing Getting a speaker award

How to network
How to give a good talk
Guide to Peer Review (British Ecological Society)
Joy of Peer Review
Robi's publishing advice

Oct 31 TBD Mentoring Science Careers: Getting mentoring

Nature: Good mentoring
Why mentor undergraduates?
Managing your advisor
Mentoring Discussion

Nov 7 Grad panel: TBD Getting started in research Panel discussion: come with questions
Nov 14 Alumni panel: Sacha Spector

Christine Buckley, ... TBD

Careers outside academia Panel discussion: come with questions
Nov 21 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov 28 CONFIRM Pam Diggle, .... Research ethics and regulations NEEDS UPDATE

Nature Editorial on research misconduct
Biological Conservation Editorial on coauthorship
Pdficon small.gifPam on research ethics
Pdficon small.gifChris on compliance & regulations
UConn RCR training

NSF ethics training/IACUC/IRB/EH&S/BAUR/other lab safety/etc
Dec 5 CONFIRM Margaret Rubega, Dave Wagner Broader impacts, social media, and communication outside academia How Broad Are Our Broader Impacts? An Analysis

How The Culture of Science Engagement is Evolving (Read Exec Summary and 1st four pages of Intro)
Pdficon small.gif D Wagner presentation

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

Advice for new graduate students

Advice on a range of topics from Science magazine