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Competency: Communication

BGS Professional Skills Series: “Mentoring 101”

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BGS presents the next installment in the Professional Skills Series, “Mentoring 101: Think Globally, Act Locally.”

Each of us at every point in our professional development is both mentor and mentee; it’s the balance between the two that can change with time. Case in point: many PhD students, while identified as mentees within the context of training, already serve as incredibly important mentors to undergraduate or new graduate students and are in fact critical to the career decisions those students make.

Please join us as our own Dr. Michael Nusbaum discusses the dynamics of mentorship from all its perspectives, both within and beyond academia. Please register by November 30, 2018. To register, click here or copy and paste the URL below into your internet browser:

https://goo.gl/forms/hM32Z3OX0LHoJUNX2

If you have any questions, please contact Rebecca Lopez.

“Science Reporting and Fake News”

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At the Fifth Annual Microbiome Symposium, scientist and The New York Times columnist Carl Zimmer discusses changing standards in journalism as it pertains to science reporting. The talk is sponsored by the Penn Vet Center for Host-Microbial Interactions and the PennCHOP Microbiome Program.

For more information, visit vet.upenn.edu. (Via Penn Today)

When: Wednesday, November 7, 2018. 6:00 – 7:30 PM.

Where: Hill Pavilion, 380 S. University Ave.

“Learn How to Negotiate, When, and for What!”

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This Career Services workshop is open to all graduate students and postdocs. The workshop will address:

  • The basic principles of successful negotiation
  • What can be negotiated
  • How should you respond when offered a position
  • This workshop will focus on opportunities in the business, non-profit, and government sectors. (Via Handshake)

When: Thursday, November 15th 2018, 12:15 pm

Where: McNeil Building, Conference Room 97, 3718 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

IHE: “Uncovering the Secrets of the Cover Letter”

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Penn Career Services’ Associate Director, Joseph Barber, provides insights for job seekers looking for positions beyond faculty roles, specifically when writing a cover letter. Since it is less structured than a resume, the cover letter can easily become a source of confusion. In this Inside Higher Ed article, Barber provides a narrative format that can highlight one’s resume in an engaging way.

Read more here.

Open Labs at Penn: Sips of Science

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Interested in working on your science communication skills? Visit Open Labs at Penn on October 24th and 25th! Pitch your idea for a TED-style talk and get a chance to present your science to high school students in December. See the flier below for details–for more information, email pennopenlabs@gmail.com.

When: October 24th and 25th, 2018. 5:30-6:30 PM

Where: ARCH 107

2019 Competition for the iBiology Young Scientist Seminars (YSS)

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The Young Scientist Seminars (YSS) is a video series produced by iBiology that features early-career scientists giving talks about their research and discoveries. As with all iBiology videos, the YSS videos are freely available online and widely viewed by an international audience of students, scientists, educators, and the public. Speakers in the YSS series must apply by December 17, 2018 (11:59pm PT) to be selected.

Benefits

  • Winners will receive an all-expenses paid trip to the University of California, San Francisco (late Spring 2019, exact date TBD), where they will attend a multi-day science communication workshop led by the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, in collaboration with iBiology. During the workshop, they will make improvements to their 30-minute research talks.
  • At the end of the workshop week, winners will record their improved 30-minute research talks in iBiology’s green screen studio. Studio-recorded talks will be posted on the iBiology website as part of a the Young Scientist Seminars.
  • Receive a $500 honorarium.

This is a unique opportunity for young scientists to develop their communication skills and showcase their work! (Via iBiology.)

Click HERE to apply for the 2019 Young Scientist Seminars! You can access a PDF version of the application HERE.