#Alt-ac – Why You Need to Know About It
Want to teach? Want tenured-track position? Want to do your research at a top tier university? Post-docs are applying by the droves (900 applications per position is apparently not uncommon) to get...
View ArticleWisconson Anyone?
I heard they have good cheese and an open Assistant Director position.
View ArticleUh, yeah I know all about Halloween.
Just kidding. But if I wanted, I could know everything about Halloween. Digital Humanities is the most awesome, excellent, all encompassing thing to ever happen to earth. I can learn the common...
View ArticlePaid Summer Research Experiences
Join our free webinar: Tips on Finding and Applying to Programs When: Wednesday November 28th at 7 p.m. Eastern time (6 p.m. central for UT Arlington peeps) What: Short presentation + Q&A Why:...
View ArticleGet on Board with NASA
NASA wants you! Log on to the “One Stop Shop” to apply for fellowships that include 12 months of funding and 10 weeks of research at one of NASA’s HQ locations. Get a proposal together and have a...
View ArticleHandling Rejection When It Hurts the Most
Graduate students typically spend vast amounts of time focusing on a single aspect in their chosen field, researching and writing for professors, writing a thesis, and then completing a dissertation....
View ArticleCareer Research – How & Why
The “why” portion of this post: Warning! Blanket statement to follow: Research is important because knowledge is power. If you are considering a job outside of academia, research is essential. Tips...
View ArticleI-Engage
Info meeting Tuesday March 19th - Graduate students interested in the I-Engage Mentoring program should attend this workshop. The information session provides graduate and undergraduate students an...
View ArticleRCR Workshop – Last One of the Academic Year!
Monday, May 13th 2013: RCR Workshop – Moral Dilemmas in Research 12:00 pm–1:30 pm Room 303 Chem & Physics Bldg. Find out more about the conceptual frameworks used to examine moral dilemmas in the...
View ArticlePh.D. Graduation Policies that Make or Break!!
Are you ABD about to morph into PhD? Now there is a 3 hour dissertation course available for you to take your last semester! This course number was created to keep students from needing to register...
View ArticleA Foolproof Grant Template
In Dr. Karen Kelsky’s Foolproof Grant Template from The Professor Is In (a great blog so check it out!), the outline is as straight forward as you are going to get. I have read several of the...
View ArticleFaculty Focus: A Teaching Resource
If you are a Graduate Student 1.) teaching classes 2.) planning on a future professorship 3.) Mentoring other students 4.) Wanting to know more about teaching in general – Faculty Focus should be on...
View ArticleON-TRAC Prepares Grads to Teach
In a recent commentary in The Chronicle (Nov. 2013), Derek Bok opines that a “most glaring defect of our graduate programs…is how little they do to prepare their students to teach.” Bok throws out...
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