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Mind Mapping Workshop – Friday, June 12, 11:00am – 12:00pm

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Start your summer off by getting organized with mind mapping! The Mind Mapping Workshop demonstrates how the use of visual concept maps can help creatively organize:

  • Meeting minutes
  • Classification / hierarchies  
  • Brainstorming projects
  • Rewriting notes
  • Thesis focus
  • Research processes
  • Vacation planning
  • Time management
  • And many, many more ideas

This workshop will be fun, informative, and hands-on. Please register to learn more about how mind mapping can change your chaos to composed designs.

Register: https://libcal.library.upenn.edu/event/6777244

Webinar: Tips and Tricks on How to Build Your Personal Branding

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Drexel Postdoctoral Association is Pleased to Present: Tips and Tricks on How to Build Your Personal Branding

Date: June 11th, 2020
Time: 12pm-1pm
Speaker: Francesca Contardi https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-contardi-606982/
Audience: Postdocs/Graduate students from Drexel, Jefferson, UPenn, Chop, and Temple

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScybWALjt87ESocRIIHaS2DhH364mzXLmUtH7YvhIwI-bKWuw/viewform

About the speaker: “I’m an  Experienced Director with more than 20 years in the human resources, organizational, people & business development within a professional services environment. CEO of Page Personnel Italy part of Page Group for more than ten years, in 2015, Staffing Industry Analysts, the most authoritative source of information for all those who work in the staffing sector, inserted me, as the only Italian, in the ranking of the 100 women who revolutionized the job market. In June 2016, together with some partners, I founded EasyHunters, the first No Frills Recruitment Company in the world.”

NYAS Webinar: Science Beyond Borders 2020

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To receive a discounted registration fee for this upcoming NYAS webinar featuring Penn alum Dr. Mahlet Mesfin, sign up for a complimentary 1-year membership to NYAS through PSOM: NYAS.ORG/PERELMAN

Webinar Details: Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EDT
Register here.

Science Beyond Borders 2020: The Urgent Need for International Collaboration

As we come to grips with the COVID-19 pandemic that is currently dominating our lives, the conversation must shift to the imperative role of science diplomacy—the essential need for scientists to work together to solve global problems in spite of differences in our own political ideology or that of the nations from which we hail.

Join us for a one-on-one conversation with Mahlet Mesfin, PhD, Visiting Scholar at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement and author of the recently published article in Foreign Affairs magazine, “It Takes a World to End a Pandemic.” Mesfin will discuss the importance of international science engagement, scientific collaborations, and partnerships in finding solutions to global issue and how she navigated a career in Science Diplomacy after receiving a PhD in bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

via NYAS Website

Virtual Career Session for Scientific Leadership at GSK by Penn Alum

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Join Penn Bioengineering for a virtual Q&A session with Jamie Ifkovitz, PhD on Tuesday, May 26th at 2-3PM EST.

Link here: https://bluejeans.com/7968127300/

Dr. Ifkovitz earned her PhD in BE at Penn with Professor Jason Burdick. Following this, she conducted a Postdoc at Penn with Professor John Gearhart before starting a Research Scientist position at GSK, where she now serves as a Scientific Leader. Come to learn about how Dr. Ifkovitz found success in the transition from academia to industry!

Upcoming NIGMS Webinar

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Office of Science Education

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has announced a new webinar series for students, postdocs, and faculty. Each hour-long webinar will include a 10- to 15-minute presentation by the speaker followed by a moderated question and answer session. Upcoming sessions include:

Behavioral Research in Biomedicine
Tuesday, May 19, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET

See the full schedule and webinar login information here.

Preparing for your First-Year as a Faculty Member (Online Q&A)

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Career Services | University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, May 21st, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm

This virtual program is intended to help those beginning their new faculty position and to better understand ways to succeed in their first year on the job.  Current faculty members will address aspects of starting a new faculty position that they feel are most important, such as how to stay engaged in research, handle the time demands related to teaching, and navigate the different types of “service” that come with joining a new department and institution. Please register for this online event to receive the online video link.  The panel session will be interactive with questions. If you have questions to ask the faculty panelists, please email them to Marianne Lipa (mlipa@upenn.edu) in Career Services. 

The panelists will be:

  • Dr. Yun Ding, Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Dr. Anna Schapiro, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
  • Dr. Xi Song, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania 

To register, click here: https://upenn.joinhandshake.com/events/431743