Your relationship with your faculty advisor is an essential part of your graduate school experience. Learn practical skills and discover resources to help you communicate effectively and resolve issues with your faculty advisor.
Helen J. Doyle, PhD, associate vice provost for graduate education, VPGE
Your relationship with your faculty advisor is an essential part of your graduate school experience. Learn practical skills and discover resources to help you communicate effectively and resolve issues with your faculty advisor.
Helen J. Doyle, PhD, associate vice provost for graduate education, VPGE
How do you identify the research resources you will need if you are still uncertain about your specific research agenda? How do you distinguish between must-have items and items you could live without? Learn how to get what you need once you have a job offer without creating tension.
Wondering if a faculty career might be in your future?
Academic Chats offer an opportunity to explore the skills and experience you need to launch your faculty career through informal, lunch-time discussions in a supportive environment.
What can you do now as a graduate student to implement some aspects of your interview strategy? What difficulties do you see? Come discuss important tips to help get you ready for your academic job interview!
Wondering if a faculty career might be in your future?
Academic Chats offer an opportunity to explore the skills and experience you need to launch your faculty career through informal, lunch-time discussions in a supportive environment.
What can you do now as a graduate student to implement some aspects of a preparation strategy? What difficulties do you see? Join the discussion of strategies for acheiving your career goals.
Wondering if a faculty career might be in your future?
Academic Chats offer an opportunity to explore the skills and experience you need to launch your faculty career through informal, lunch-time discussions in a supportive environment.
VPTL will hold a Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation Friday, Sept. 22, 2017, for all students who will be leading class sections and labs in the new academic year. Experienced TAs are welcome, too! VPTL will also offer winter and spring TA orientations during week 1 of those quarters, with day and time to be announced.
7:45-8:30: Continental Breakfast8:30-9:40
9:50-10:50: Concurrent Session 1
The WISE Inspirations Network at Stanford (WINS) aims to create an engaged Stanford network linking women graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, faculty, and alumnae in STEM fields, and their allies and advocates, through regular meetings and communications. WINS seeks to provide all with opportunities to learn from a diverse array of stand-out women in science and engineering about the realities of their lives and work, successes and lessons learned, and to connect individuals with a network of potential mentors, protégés, and other colleagues.
Are you looking to expand your digital teaching toolbox? Curious to see some neat digital strategies in action to engage your students inside and outside the classroom? Do you already use Canvas, online discussion forums, or polling and want to expand your ideas? Have a specific digital challenge and need solutions, or simply looking for great ideas and fun conversations about teaching with technology?
Stanford students, despite their high achievement in many areas, experience varying degrees of “math anxiety.” New research has found that the highest-achieving students have the most striking negative relationship between math anxiety and performance. Jo Boaler, Professor of Mathematics Education in the Graduate School of Education, investigates causes and remedies of students’ negative experiences with mathematics at all levels.
Need a chocolate fix? Close out the year with a dessert celebration of student-alumni mentoring! Join students and local alumni mentors to celebrate your mentoring network and the connections you've made this year. Even if you don't have a mentor yet, you'll have a chance to talk with alumni eager to help and support you so come ready to make new connections! If you do have a mentor, make sure to invite them.
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