Past Events

This event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty and staff! **This event will be offered via Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided the day before the event. REGISTER HERE Intentional Inclusion: Minimizing Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions focuses on ways to productively confront our own participation in the structures shaped by bias and microaggressions. The training presents various approaches for thinking about accountability, allyship, and how to move toward more meaningful and equity-based inclusion in…

*This event is rescheduled for March 28th, from 10:00am-12:00pm. If you previously registered for this event, you do not need to re-register for this new date and time*   This event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for faculty and staff **This event is offered via Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided the day before the event. REGISTER HERE Writing a dissertation or thesis is a long, slow slog, and it’s very easy to stray…

*This event is rescheduled for April 4th, from 11:00am-1:00pm. If you previously registered for this event, you do not need to re-register for this new date and time*   This event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for faculty and staff **This event is offered via Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided the day before the event. REGISTER HERE Make the most of your research by annotating your work and practicing effective note taking. In…

This Zoom event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty and staff! A Zoom link will be provided a day before the event REGISTER HERE In this generative workshop, you’ll learn the what, why, and how of a teaching philosophy and teaching statement. Through self-reflection and discussion with other workshop participants, you’ll begin to draft a statement that shares your values and experiences of teaching in a compelling way. You’ll articulate what is important to you…

This event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty and staff! **This event will be offered via Zoom. A Zoom link will be provided the day before the event. REGISTER HERE Learn about the process of applying for major prestigious fellowships. This workshop will discuss valuable approaches and skills needed to draft and then edit your work into competitive applications. The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship program (NSF GRFP) will be used as a model,…

This Zoom event is free for graduate, undergraduate students, faculty and staff! A Zoom link will be provided the day before the event. REGISTER HERE Why are diversity, equity, and inclusion important in higher education? A job application’s DEI Statement is an opportunity for you to answer that question from your unique perspective, as someone who is informed of relevant issues, engaged in concrete actions, and aspires to leverage a faculty position to make change. Not an autobiography nor an…

This Zoom event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as faculty and staff! A Zoom link will be sent via email one day before the event. REGISTER HERE Teaching and managing a class is always a challenge, even for seasoned veterans of the classroom. This workshop provides strategies to help with the everyday challenges of presenting information to students, classroom management, and fostering student engagement, retention, and success. Discussions and scenarios will focus on common situations teaching…

This event is free for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as for faculty and staff! Event offered via Zoom-only. A Zoom link will be provided the day before the event. REGISTER HERE It’s time to transform years of research and effort into a single written document: the dissertation. It can sometimes feel like eating a stress sandwich with a side of panic! That is why the Graduate School’s formatting experts – Daniel Vickoren, Maria Kobets, and Megan Konkel –…