SACNAS is co-hosting an industry career panel with Penn BGSA this Friday, Feb 19th at 5 PM!
Submit your questions to the panel in advance: https://t.co/zBQijqbiuA?amp=1
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Public Speaking Seminar Finale: PowerPoint Roulette Happy Hour!
Please join SACNAS this Friday, December 6th for a fun evening of food, drinks, and improvised non-scientific presentations!
Show off your public speaking skills in a fun way! There will be prizes for the best presenters!
If you are interested in either presenting, making powerpoint slides, or both, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/f8QLmevX9wVMRLnj9
Date: Friday December 6th
Location: Barchi Library, John Morgan Building
Time: 5:30pm
Food and drinks provided!
Join SACNAS for the second part of their seminar series. They will share advice on how to prepare scientific posters, as led by Lindsay Roth, PGG PhD candidate and 2019-2020 Chair of BGSA, and a PhD student panel. Lunch will be provided! Co-organized with BGSA and PGWISE.
Join Penn SACNAS for the first part of a 3-part series to improve your public speaking skills!
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Location: Gaulton Auditorium, BRB
Time: 12:00 – 1:30 PM
On Monday, June 10th 2019, the Penn SACNAS Chapter will host a day-long event of professional development workshops, as well as talks, poster presentations, and community building open to STEM undergraduate student, graduate student, postdoctoral, and faculty members. Their goal is to celebrate the power of diversity in STEM.
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Prizes will be given to top three Best Poster winners: 1st place: $250 gift card, 2nd place: $150 gift card, 3rd place: $75 gift card, sponsored by Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS).
Registration Deadline: April 22nd!
Register at: https://forms.gle/6UgN8mokCX3zZMUA7 and more details at: https://www.med.upenn.edu/sacnas/regionalmeeting.html
40 young science leaders began their year as fellows of the Yale Ciencia Academy for Career Development by attending the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC (February 14-18, 2019). The University of Pennsylvania and BGS were represented through the participation of Kevin Alicea-Torres (CAMB).
“The Yale Ciencia Academy (YCA) for Career Development provides graduate students with opportunities for mentoring, networking, and skills development, and for making contributions to their communities through science outreach. The program is led by the non-profit organization Ciencia Puerto Rico (CienciaPR), in collaboration with Yale University.”
Read the full press release here.
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:
- How diversity and inclusion factor into strategic decisions
- Best practices and common pitfalls at leading inclusive businesses
- Identity-based resourcing perspectives
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. .
Learning how to write stellar grant proposals is a part of our craft and certainly important to a number of career paths. Join UPenn’s SACNAS Chapter to hear about the application process for two particular grants – the NSF GRFP and NIH’s NRSA F31 Fellowships.
When: Wednesday, September 26, 2018, at 12PM
Where: JMEC 505 EW (Smilow 5th floor)
