General information, opportunities, queries, i.e. things that don’t fit in more specific categories.
Join SACNAS for an Adobe Illustrator workshop to learn basic tools that you can apply when making figures for posters and articles. Don’t miss this great professional development opportunity! Lunch will be provided.
When: Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019 at 12 PM
Where: Blockley 701
BGS students are invited to attend, “Inclusion and Diversity: Perspectives from Business,” the next installment in the BGS Professional Skills Series. The workshop will take place February 27, 2019 from 4 – 5:30 PM in Smilow 12-146AB. It is co-hosted by SACNAS and EE Just.
Light refreshments will be served.
Dr. Laura Roberts, Teaching Professor of Management (McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University) will present an interactive lecture that includes illustrative cases and large group discussion. Dr. Roberts will tackle the question, “How can leaders facilitate generative dialogue that harnesses the power of inquiry, encourages learning from diverse experiences and fuels positive organizing?” Specific strategies for building an asset-based (potential-focused) perspective and an action plan for inclusive leadership will be addressed.
Key topics of discussion will include:
Please register by February 22, 2019. To register, click here or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:
https://goo.gl/forms/pwDUqSqM2ChOsfaj1
If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Lopez. .
Exploring Pharmacology with Upward Bound:”Introduction to Cancer: The Hijacked Cell Cycle”
Pharm4GOOD has partnered with Upward Bound at Penn to teach a pharmacology-themed curriculum as part of their “College Prep Saturday” program. Upward Bound is a national organization that provides educational resources and support for low income students.
You will have the opportunity to work with small groups of high school students as they learn about the cell cycle and discover how cancer is the loss cell cycle regulation. Students will learn how to use microscopes and examine stained slides to assess cancer cell morphology.
When: Saturday, Feb. 23, 12-1 PM
Interested? Sign Up: https://goo.gl/forms/al3dW627R8YBRb5s1
Questions? Contact Jessica Murray (murrayj@pennmedicine.upenn.edu)
Clarion, a Boston-based life sciences strategy consulting firm, will hold its 2019 leadership training program for current advanced degree candidates on Wednesday, June 12th – Friday, June 14th, 2019.
PROPEL is a 3-day summer program to give an insight into life science strategy consulting with Clarion.
It is open to the following candidates:
Candidates must have expertise in disciplines related to life sciences, medicine, or other areas of quantitative research. To apply for the program and for more information, please see the attached flyer or visit the PROPEL website.
The application deadline is Sunday, March 31st, 2019 at 11:59 PM ET
iBiology is offering a free, 6-week online course that teaches how to think through the design and execution of experiments.
Scientists from a variety of backgrounds give concrete steps and advice to help you build a framework for how to design experiments in biological research. Case studies make the abstract more tangible. In science, there is often no simple right answer. However, with this course, you can develop a general approach to experimental design and understand what you are getting into before you begin.
By the end of this course, you will have:
The course is built with a busy schedule in mind and is designed to take 1.5 to 3 hours per week. It begins Tuesday, February 19, 2019. Content will be released week-by-week each Tuesday.
For more details and to register, click here.
Please join Penn Graduate Women in Science & Engineering (PGWISE), Wharton Healthcare Club, and Wharton Women in Business (WWIB) at a panel discussion exploring leadership and careers in healthcare and biomedical sciences. Students from PGWISE and the Wharton Healthcare Club will moderate a discussion with:
HEATHER STEINMAN, PHD, MBA
The Executive Director of Technology Transfer and the VP of
Business Development at the Wistar Institute
DORA MITCHELL, PHD
The Vice President of Operations at Carisma Therapeutics
LINDA MILLER, PHD
Senior Director of Strategic Planning at CHOP; former Engagement
Manager at McKinsey
When: February 19th, 2019 at 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Where: The Wistar Institute Caplan Auditorium
Please RSVP here!
Age 21+ Reception Prior to Panel Discussion (starting at 4:00 PM in the Wistar atrium)!
Interested in gaining real life consulting experience? Want to learn more about consulting and the healthcare industry?
When: Thursday, February 7th at 5:30 pm
Where: The Wharton School, Jon M. Huntsman Hall, (Room TBA)
Join Penn Biotech Group Healthcare Consulting at the Spring Kickoff for:
–An overview of PBG, including what we do and how to apply for projects!
–Come grab food and then drinks at our kickoff happy hour at Landmark Americana (3333 Market St).
–Come network with fellow PBG members and learn about opportunities at Herspiegel Consulting (Pharmaceutical & Biotech Consulting firm). The info session will be about what they do and the type of applicants they are looking for.
–For more information about PBG, visit our website at pbgconsulting.org
–No business/consulting experience necessary! We hope to see you there. Spread the word.
If you cannot make it to the kickoff, please sign up for our email list at
tinyurl.com/PBGnews and we’ll be sure to include you in communications going forward about signing up for project teams.
Become a PBG member: tinyurl.com/PBGmember.
Interested in working on your science communication skills? Visit Open Labs at Penn on February 6th or 7th! Come prepared with your idea for a TED-style talk and get a chance to present your science to high school students in April. Pizza and soft drinks will be provided. See our flier for detail. For more information, email pennopenlabs@gmail.com.
When: Feb. 6th or 7th, 5:30 PM
Where: IRG7, Irvine Auditorium
“Whether it’s your first-time publishing or you are a publishing veteran, deciding where to publish can be a daunting task that will impact you for years to come. Not only is finding the right “fit” for your scholarship extremely important, but your publication venue also determines other important factors, like where and how you can share your scholarship after it’s published (your personal website, academia.edu or ResearchGate, etc.) or whether or not you can reuse your work elsewhere (conferences, subsequent publications, etc.).
This presentation will help get you started in establishing your publishing criteria, developing a list of journals/publishers, and evaluating those publication venues based on the criteria you develop. The session will also briefly cover some best practices for submitting, reading/negotiating publishing contracts, and sharing your work after it’s published.” (Via the Graduate Student Center)
When: Tuesday, February 5, 2019, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Where: Room 305 (3rd Fl), Grad Center, 3615 Locust Walk
Please find below an updated schedule for the 2018-2019 BGS Professional Skills Series. BGS will publish additional details for later workshops in the near future.
