Leadership Academy
Employers are looking to hire people with tangible and transferable leadership experience. The Leadership Academy professional development series will help you understand and develop who you are as a leader, show you different leadership perspectives, and give you exposure to leadership in practice.
Workshop Series Dates: February 14, February 21, February 28, March 21
Please click on the date link for registration and time/location information.
Write-In at The Graduate School
Friday, February 15, 2019 – 9:00am to 1:00pm
Chittenden Hall, Room 110
Are you working on a thesis or dissertation chapter, a proposal, or an article? Do you need a quiet place to write, or a space to collaborate with your peers on a piece of writing? Come to the Graduate School in Chittenden Hall for a Friday dedicated to writing.
Participants must come with a specific writing goal and be prepared to write until noon! Graduate writing consultants from the Writing Center will be on hand to help with goal setting and accountability after you leave the session, and to help facilitate the formation of writing groups that can keep you moving toward your goal.
Click here to register for this workshop.
Electronic Thesis/Dissertation Walk-In Help
Friday, February 15, 2019, 2:30pm to 3:30pm
110 Chittenden Hall
Students should come to the session with specific formatting questions regarding their documents. We will not be reviewing entire documents at these sessions. (Entire documents get reviewed by the Graduate School when the student submits to ProQuest.) We hope that these sessions will assist in reducing the number of corrections that we need to send to students when they submit their documents to ProQuest. Registration and addition information at https://grad.msu.edu/events/electronic-thesis-and-dissertation-formatting-workshop-6.
PhD Career Parade: Working in the Biotech Industry
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 – 11:30am to 1:30pm
110 Chittenden Hall
Come to hear from a team of Ph.D.-trained scientists and engineers who want to share what they wish they had known when they made the transition from their grad program or post doc to working in industry. C4 Therapeutics is a biotech firm in Watertown, MA whose mission is to harness “the innate power of the body to control the quality of proteins within cells. Our approach uses drugs to target disease-causing proteins for destruction. This breakthrough technology offers many advantages for the treatment of cancer and other diseases, while avoiding traditional drug resistance.” Registration and addition information at https://grad.msu.edu/events/phd-career-parade-working-biotech-industry
Global Engagement Speaker Series: Pauline Mujawamariya Koelbl
Wednesday, February 20, 2019 – 12:00pm to 1:00pm
110 Chittenden Hall
Please join the Graduate School for an informal conversation and lunch with Pauline Mujawamariya Koelbl, Managing Director, African Innovation Foundation, after her talk at the Kellogg Center on February 19.
PhD Career Parade: Science Education and Publishing
Thursday, February 28, 2019 – 11:30am to 1:00pm
110 Chittenden Hall
As Education Director for the American Physiological Society (APS), Dr. Marsha Matyas got to experience many dimensions of working for a professional society. The APS is a non-profit organization that publishes journals which cover the entire spectrum of physiology, ranging from cellular, molecular, and organ to system levels. This is a chance to ask questions about the field of science publishing, science advocacy and policy, and professional development for scientists. Lunch is included.
Special Topics in Research Ethics Course: Overlapping Publications
Thursday, February 28, 2019 – 3:30pm to 5:00pm
110 Chittenden Hall
In this session, Dr. Marsha Matyas will share best practices in publication ethics for life scientists and biomedical engineers who publish research papers. This will help students and faculty to recognize what constitutes overlapping publication and when it is appropriate, and create a plan for training future students about overlapping publications.
Write a winning NIH NRSA fellowship: The do’s and don’ts
Friday, March 15, 2019 – 4:00pm to 5:30pm
110 Chittenden Hall
Dr. Wayne Pratt will share his experiences, knowledge and perspective as current Chair of an NIH study section that reviews fellowships for pre- and postdoctoral National Research Service Awards. He plans to discuss 1) goals of the NRSA, 2) how NRSA applications are reviewed, 3) the “do’s” and “don’ts” for each review criterion, emphasizing common mistakes made that can easily sink an application, and 4) will offer tips to sponsors on the professional training plan and other critical components of a successful application. No registration is required.
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RCR: Use of Animal Subjects (Rescheduled from 1/31/19)
Thursday, March 21, 2019 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Erickson Hall Kiva
In conducting your research, you may propose to use animals or humans. These sessions will help you understand the requirements – both at the level of MSU and federal government – that you must fulfill to be able to use either human or animal subjects in your research, and how to fulfill these requirements practically. The primary principles covered within this session are use of animals in research, and use of humans in research.
Registration is required. Registration and additional information available at https://grad.msu.edu/rcr.