BGS Career Development

Making It Count!

Rebecca Lopez

New E-Resource: Aurora by Beyond the Professoriate

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Aurora by Beyond the Professoriate, Penn’s newest digital resource for PhD career exploration, is an eLearning Platform with on-demand, self-paced learning modules that allow PhDs and Postdocs to explore career options and discover ways to apply the skills acquired through their education.

Aurora benefits graduate students by:

  • supporting career exploration.
  • providing accessible, well-curated resources for busy graduate students.
  • promoting engaged learning through reflective activities that encourage students to apply what they’ve learned.
  • complementing existing on-campus graduate student career supports.
  • offering recorded seminars, reflective prompts, and assessments that guide the student experience and foster user engagement.

You can access Aurora now by selecting the University of Pennsylvania from the dropdown menu here and log in using your PennKey.

Fellowship Opportunity Abroad for PhD Graduates

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Science Corps, a non-profit organization, provides recent STEM PhDs with paid fellowships to improve science education in under-resourced areas. We are currently seeking late-stage PhD students and postdoc applicants for our fellowships.

Are you a recent or soon-to-be PhD graduate? Would you like to spend up to six months making a difference by developing and teaching science curriculum abroad? Science Corps offers fully paid fellowships to upcoming and recent PhD graduates (up to four years after graduation) to help build science capacity at one of our host locations in the Philippines, Morocco, Bangladesh, and India. We are also currently developing new site partnerships, and are open to a fellow interested in working on site development.  Fellows travel to partner institutions to develop science curriculum, teach in secondary school classrooms, train teachers, and build community-based research projects. In addition to building science capacity at these host locations, we also aim to offer fellows a life-changing experience. They are given the opportunity to spend time in beautiful locations, immerse themselves in different cultures, and learn from their host educators–all while making positive contributions to these communities. Should travel continue to be restricted, fellows will have the opportunity to visit the host site they work with once it is safe to do so.  We are presently interested in recruiting immediately for fellowships starting within the next year. The deadline for this application round is June 30th, but we still encourage you to contact us if you would like to be considered for a later appointment. To find out more about us and apply, please go to https://science-corps.org 

New collections at Penn Libraries

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The following items have been added to the Penn Libraries collections for your use.

Databases:

  • Gideon (Global Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Online Network)-“GIDEON is a one-stop resource for anyone with a professional interest in Infectious Diseases. It is ideally suited for saving time in Point-of-Care settings while empowering clinicians to consider all possible scenarios. Additionally, it is an excellent teaching tool for Biology, Microbiology, Public Health, and Medical students and Residents…The GIDEON application contains 4 modules, which are continually updated: Explore, Lab, Diagnose, and Quantify. Data sources include essentially the entire world’s literature and adhere to the standards of Evidence-Based Medicine. The database is updated every day by a team of highly regarded medical scientists.”-
  • Jove Unlimited-we now have access to all things JoVE!! This includes their entire suite of journals, Science Education modules, Lab manuals, JoVE Core textbooks, and the Encyclopedia of Experiments.

New Journals:

e-book collections

  • Elsevier subject frontfiles: Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology, Biomedical Science and Medicine, Clinical Medicine & Surgery, Immunology & Microbiology, Environmental Science
  • Springer Medicine 2021 frontfile
  • LWW Critical Care (32 titles)
  • LWW Pediatrics (14 titles)
  • Edward Elgar subject packages: Environmental Handbooks, Environmental Politics, Sustainable Development Goals (Biddle) (372 titles)
  • CABI ebooks- Veterinary medicine and environmental/climate change selected titles
  • Oxford Scholarship Online-Clinical Medicine
  • Oxford Scholarship Online-Environmental Science
  • Oxford Scholarship Online-Earth Sciences and Geography
  • Cambridge Core-2021-2023 frontlist
  • American Nurses Association ebooks on OVID
  • World Scientific Encyclopedia of Climate Change
  • Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems

If you have any questions, please reach me out at dmanuel@upenn.edu

—

Manuel de la Cruz Gutiérrez, PhD, MLS
Director of Data & Innovation Services at the Biomedical Library

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARIES 

Philadelphia, PA – Lenapehoking
215-746-2459
@MDelaCG
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Citation Management Workshops scheduled with Grad Center

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Penn Libraries and the Grad Center will co-host citation management workshops throughout June:

  • June 8, 9:00 a.m. and June 9, 4:00 p.m. — Endnote given by Judith Currano 
  • June 15, 9:00 a.m. and June 16, 4:00 p.m. — Zotero with Shannon Robinson 
  • June 22, 9:00 a.m. and June 23, 4:00 p.m. — Mendeley with Rebecca S. 

Here is the link to all of the workshops: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/calendar/wicshops?cid=654&t=d&d=0000-00-00&cal=654&ct=28695&inc=0 

Save the Date: Virtual Cores Day – September 30th, 2021

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We are pleased to announce that we will again be hosting a virtual version of the annual Cores Day event! New this year, the event will be held via the PheedLoop event management platform, with an aim to enrich and enhance the Cores Day experience for participants and attendees.

The annual Cores Day event is a joint venture with CHOP, PSOM and Wistar, in an effort to showcase the many outstanding biomedical research resources and services available throughout our campus. This event is an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to interface with a multitude of research core facilities via informational presentations provided by core facility personnel.  

Stay tuned for more details, and we hope to see you on Thursday, September 30th! 

Please send any questions to April Weakley (aweakley@pennmedicine.upenn.edu).

PENN GENETICS AWARDS | Kadesch Prize & Kaushal Awards | Applications Due 6/25/21

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The Department of Genetics is now accepting applications for the Penn Genetics Awards of Excellence.

The Kadesch prize recognizes excellence in research and citizenship by a graduate student from any BGS program. The Kaushal prize is awarded to one graduate student and one postdoctoral fellow for an outstanding research publication. 

Applications are due Friday, June 25th to Kimberly Runyan, krunyan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.