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The Postdoc Offices at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Methodist, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, and UTHealth Houston invite you to attend Postdoc Houston. Postdoc Houston is a free virtual event for prospective postdocs on May 18, 2023, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Central Time. 

·       Discover the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world.  

·       Learn why Houston is a great place to live and work.  

·       Explore postdoctoral opportunities at our institutions. 

·       Meet current postdocs and institutional representatives. 

Learn more and register to attend HERE.

Penn Career Services is excited to announce the launch of the 2023 Career Exploration Fellowship (CEF) for PhD students.

This program provides doctoral students the opportunity to explore careers beyond the professoriate through one-on-one mentoring with an advance degree holding professional. Hosts this year include Amazon, Merck, Janssen, and many other organizations internal and external to Penn. The list of hosts for 2023can be downloaded here. The application is open until till January 20, 2023. 

This unpaid fellowship runs from February to May and typically entails approximately 8-10 hours oftime commitment. In 2023, the program will allow for both virtual and hybrid fellowships. Detailed information about the fellowship, including our list of hosts can be found on the program webpage. You can also see this blog post about the CEF program.

Eligibility: PhD students in any department or school within the University may apply. Those who participated in the CEF program or the PhD Externship program between 2017-2022 are not eligible.

Please apply here.

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Tithi Basu Mallik, PhD at tithibm@upenn.edu.

Become a PCI Fellow

Gain experience in Technology Commercialization

The Penn Center for Innovation (PCI) seeks highly talented candidates to join the PCI Fellows Program. Fellows receive training in technology transfer, communications, and entrepreneurship. Typical work projects include analyzing new inventions, writing market communication materials, conducting prior art searches, and supporting startups. Fellows receive pay.

Selection based:

• Penn Affiliation as Graduate student, Post-doctoral fellow, or Research Staff
• Can commit for ~10 hours a week
• Ability to explain complex issues succinctly and clearly
• Support from advisor/supervisor to engage in the program
• U.S. employment eligibility for part-time on-campus work

Apply by November 30: https://pci.upenn.edu/about/pci-fellows/

Please join recent IGG grad Patrick Lundgren for a virtual recruitment event at Penn on November 30th, to raise awareness, provide information, and answer questions on the Flagship Pioneering Fellowship to eligible people in the Penn community.

Flagship Pioneering is a life science venture creation company in Cambridge, MA that has founded companies including Moderna, Indigo, and Seres Therapeutics. More details below!

When: Wed Nov 30^th 2022, 4-5PM

Where: https://flagshippioneering.zoom.us/j/6758555859?pwd=bGpqT3VCdjJ5clFGYkJLa0JPV0pFQT09

Meeting ID: 675 855 5859

Password: 338463

Link to fellowship details and application: https://www.flagshippioneering.com/join/fellows#chapter-5

West Philly-based non-profit Science Education Academy (www.scienceeducationacademy.com) is looking for graduate students and postdoc volunteers to lead students in grades 2-5 in hands-on STEM activities in March and April.

• Saturday, March 12th (virtual)
• Saturday, March 19th (hybrid virtual + in-person) * Volunteers needed
• Saturday, March 26th (hybrid virtual + in-person) * Volunteers needed
• Saturday, April 1st (hybrid virtual + in-person) * Volunteers needed
• Saturday, April 9th (virtual) * Volunteer needed

All programs will start at 9:00am EST. Virtual programs will be 1-hour long. Hybrid sessions will be 2.5 hours total. Further details will be given closer to event date, including whether on-going COVID health precautions will change in-person program plans.

If you are interested in being a classroom facilitator on 3/19, 3/26 and/or 4/1, please email sea.philly2008@gmail.com with the subject line: “Spring 2022 Volunteer” with the date(s) you are able to participate.

If you are interested in giving a Science Pop Talk about your research on 4/9, please email sea.philly2008@gmail.com with the subject line “Spring 2022 Pop Talk”.

This spring, Correlation One is inviting you to compete in the East Coast Terminal and the East Coast Regional Datathon. This is a great learning opportunity for those who are interested in coding/data science and want to showcase their skills in a team based setting. 

Apply NOW to either of these competitions or both, and win a chance at $15k & recruiting opportunities at Citadel! 

Find more event details below, and feel free to email yusra@correlationone.com if you have any questions.

• February 28 – March 7: East Coast Regional Terminal
  • Terminal Live is an online game where software engineers and computer scientists (or anyone else interested in coding!) build an algorithm to play a tower defense game in a team-based setting.

• March 21 – 28: East Coast Regional Datathon
  • Datathons are data science competitions that challenge students from the world’s best universities to tackle real-world social challenges in topics such as urban traffic, renewable energy, and education.