– February 14, 2020 –
Upcoming Graduate School Deadlines:
- Feb. 21– PhD students: IRB/IACUC submissions due to the Office of Research Integrity for Dec. 2020 graduation
- Mar. 6 – Dissertation proposals due for Dec. 2020 graduation
Grad School Professional Development Events
- Salary Negotiation Seminar, Tues., Feb. 25
- Strategies for Effective Teaching, Wed., Feb. 26
- Improve Your Productivity-Time Management Strategies,Wed., Feb. 26
- URI CCEE Professional Development Week Programs, Feb. 25-27
- Strengths Personality Inventory Assessment, Mar. 3
- Believing In Yourself: Positive Strategies to Counter “Imposter Syndrome”, Mar. 18, @GSO
FREE Data Science Workshops & Trainings:
- Intro to Natural Language Processing Workshop, Feb. 20
- R Basics Part I, Feb. 24 & R Basics Part II, Feb. 26
- SAS Basics, Mar. 2 & SPSS Basics, Mar. 4
- Hands-On Natural Language Processing – Intro to Text Mining,Mar. 5
- Topic Modeling – Hands-On Natural Language Processing, Mar. 19
On & Off CampusProfessional Development Opportunities:
- SWMS Spring Symposium, “We’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat: Staying Afloat in a Sea of Opportunities”, Mar. 28 – Exciting Day of workshops and talks about pursuing a career in marine science
- Data Science 8 Week Fellowship – In Person or Virtual
- ComSciCon2020– Communicating Science Workshop in Boston
- Laura Bassi Scholarship for Editorial Assistance for Theses, Dissertation, Articles
- US DOE – Office of Science Grad Student Research Program – supplemental awards
GSO Campus: Grad School Director of Professional Development will host Spring semester office hours on the GSO campus:
- 2-4 p.m., 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, Pell Library, Quiet Room. Next session is Tues., Feb. 18!
- Review of your CV, resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, discuss job search strategy. Email Cara Mitnick to reserve a time, or stop in.
Congratulations to these Grad Students on their New Jobs:
- Danielle Perry, BES PhD Candidate, and an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship awardee on her new position as Climate Adaptation Ecologist at Mass Audubon. We will miss Danielle as a SciWrite trained tutor in our Graduate Writing Center.
- Dara LoBuono, NFS PhD Candidate, on her tenure track Assistant Professor of Nutrition position at Rowan University. Thank you Dara for your great presentation with fellow NFS PhD Candidate Amy Moore to graduate students on Time & Stress Management.
