The NIH’s Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) continues to host virtual events for trainees and researchers. Upcoming workshops include:
Visit the OITE website for a full list of upcoming events.
CAMB is hosting a Peer Mentor Training Seminar with guest speaker Dr. Sharon Milgram, Director of the NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education (OITE), on August 11th from 2:00-3:15pm. The talk is titled, “Promoting a Growth Mindset Through Peer Mentoring.” All BGS students are welcome to attend her lecture, which will be followed by a Q&A session. CAMB students are invited to attend the following case study session workshop from 3:20-5:00pm
Please contact Christina Strathearn (cstrat@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) or Laura Ohl (Laura.Ohl@pennmedicine.upenn.edu) with any questions.
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:
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
Becoming a Resilient Scientist: Setting Reasonable Expectations and Healthy Boundaries for Ourselves and with Our Supervisors
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2300107262959484429
Apr 01, 2020 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker(s): Sharon Milgram, PhD, Director, OITE
Being a scientist requires a tremendous amount of resilience – experiments fail, papers get rejected, we struggle to communicate effectively with our supervisors and peers, and establishing healthy work-life boundaries can be a challenge, even in good times. These challenges are amplified greatly during this current crisis where we are bombarded by stressful news and have to make major adjustments to the ways we can and cannot do work. Join Dr. Sharon Milgram, Director NIH OITE, for a workshop focused broadly on resilience in research environments with a special focus on topics that are an especially challenging now. Topics to be addressed include, setting expectations and responding to the expectations of others, staying focused when teleworking, dealing with career-related anxieties, and strategies for building our resilience for now and in the long-term.
Join Penn’s SACNAS chapter in celebrating Pi Day at the Franklin Institute on Saturday, March 14 from 10am-2pm!
Pi, the irrational number 3.14159265359…etc., better known as its symbol π, is defined as the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. On Pi day, we will be running an interactive, hands-on booth using PIE fractions to engage the public with everyday math problems in the Franklin Institute. The event runs from 9:45am-2pm, but volunteers are welcome to sign-up in shifts. Volunteers also get free admission to the museum!
If you would like to join us please sign up to volunteer here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11upoa91bNMV9eejZ9FoYN-7FtYstjarK5RzLevyTJV8/edit?usp=sharing
Visit https://www.fi.edu/event/2020-03-14/pi-day for more information on the event.
ENVISION-YOU – PSBR is partnering with ENVISION YOU – a community youth initiative by the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia. ENVISION YOU is an annual program designed to introduce students to professions, trades and other vocational opportunities that are open to them after high school. The goal is foster student awareness of professional options to which they may not otherwise be exposed. PSBR has been invited to offer K-12 students an engaging workshop focused on biomedical research. On average the program has about 120 total students (K-12) and the selected professional topic is presented to the students through age appropriate activities and discussions. We request volunteer support to run a PSBR-provided activity or to participate in a student-focused discussion.
This opportunity is coming up quickly, so if you are interested, please let me know as soon as you are able so we may include you in the planning stages of the event. Contact david@psbr.org
When: 3/28/20
Duration: 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Where: Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church
What we need: We need the support of our volunteers to provide assistance for the following tasks: 1) Run a biomedical science activity with the students, 2) Act as a workshop mentor, guiding students with their tasks and answering questions, and/or 3) Be part of a career exploration panel.
Philadelphia Science Festival – PSBR is once again running a variety of events at the Philadelphia Science Festival in April, 2020. And we could really use your support to make these programs a smashing success. Additional event information, including dates and locations, can be found below. Please consider joining us at one of these events to help PSBR engage our communities and youth. CLICK HERE to sign up for any of these events.
Community Nights at the Franklin Institute – Come out and enjoy us for a free night of fun at the Franklin Institute. Once a month, PSBR will host an exhibitor table during these events with promotional material and hands-on activities to engage attendees. Help us spread the word about the value of biomedical research to the general public. Use the link below to sign up for one of these events throughout the spring, beginning on 2/10/20.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080f45a5ac2da2ff2-volunteer
Are you a Black Woman working or interested (even remotely) in Computational Biology?
Join the Black Women in Computational Biology Network–a rapidly growing online networking platform for sharing resources, experiences, and exciting science with a unique community of scientists like you.
Our global community is comprised of exciting women of all intersections of identity across all degree and professional levels from an array of backgrounds in biology, computer science, mathematics, bioengineering, chemistry, physics, medicine, and much more refining their unique skillset to answer biological questions through a computational and quantitative lens.
Excited and want to learn more? Visit blackwomen-incompbio.weebly.com to join us today, or email Jenea Adams at jiadams@pennmedicine.upenn.edu with any questions you have.
We’re pleased to invite you to participate in a CHOP/Penn Research Mentor Training Workshop. Please choose the session that aligns best with your role:
The workshops, which will leverage training materials from the highly regarded Entering Mentoring program, will be facilitated by trained faculty from both Penn and CHOP. Topics will include effective communication strategies, aligning expectations and promoting self-efficacy.
This collaborative effort is intended to promote a culture of effective research mentoring practice on the CHOP/Penn campus.
Please be sure to save the date, and register using the links above. Please direct questions to atop@email.chop.edu.
See the full syllabus here and sign up today!
Improv is not stand-up comedy, it is acting without a script.
FREE BGS Improv Workshop (6 sessions)
Wednesdays Feb 19th – Mar 25th 5:30-7:30PM
Room 425 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center
This course offers a supportive and fun environment to:
Sign up at the following link:
https://forms.gle/Z7cMXtvPvqH1cHDv5
Space is limited, so make sure to sign up soon!