DMS PhD Students Only

2019 May 01

Mindful by Design: Incorporating mindfulness practices into your day-to-day life to improve effectiveness, perspective and self-care

Registration Closed 4:45pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library -- Lahey Room

Please join Kevin Wehmhoefer LICSW, Outreach Coordinator and Staff Clinician at Counseling and Mental Health Services/HUHS for an informal presentation which will review the benefits of mindfulness  and instruct attendees on how to start and sustain a practice that will support improved self-care, self-awareness and resiliency while strengthening stress management, perspective and overall effectiveness at work and at home. Presentation will include:

  • General review of mindfulness practices, goals and benefits

  • ...
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2019 Apr 24

Maximizing Your Individual Development Planning

Registration Closed 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library - Minot Room

The use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) have been widely promoted to support graduate student professional development. IDPs are structured frameworks to consider short-term and long-term career plans, laying a foundation for meaningful goal-setting.   This workshop will introduce trainees to knowledge and skills to inform IDP discussions.  It is open to all trainees, including master's and doctoral students.

Part 1: More Than Just Paperwork: Making IDPs part of a Meaningful Mentor-Mentee...

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2019 Apr 17

Choosing Mentors and Mentoring Up: An Interactive, Peer-Mentoring Workshop

Registration Closed 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Countway Library - Minot Room

Positive mentor-mentee relationships are a cornerstone of success for any graduate student. Choosing the right principal investigator (PI) and starting off with a proactive strategy to maintain a positive and productive work relationship is an early step toward graduate school success. Are you an early stage graduate student considering a choice of thesis lab/PI or looking for advice on ways to approach starting off on the right path to a positive and productive mentor-mentee relationship?

The Program in Graduate Education...

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2019 Apr 03

Workstation Ergonomics - The Benefits of Proper Posture (POSTPONED: new date in May will be posted soon)

Registration Closed 4:30pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Countway Library (Lahey Room)

Join Malia Koppin, PT, DPT, CSCS, WFS from Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) for this presentation touching on the importance of proactive strategies to maintain physical health, with a focus on workplace ergonomics, while pursuing work in graduate school and future careers.  Malia has extensive experience providing service to Harvard graduate students and will draw from this experience in highlighting frequent pitfalls resulting in workplace injuries. 

This session is part of the multi-session "PGE...

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Changing demographics of scientific careers: The rise of the temporary workforce

December 21, 2018

Contemporary science has been characterized by an exponential growth in publications and a rise of team science. At the same time, there has been an increase in the number of awarded PhD degrees, which has not been accompanied by a similar expansion in the number of academic positions. In such a competitive environment, an important measure of academic success is the ability to maintain a long active career in science. In this paper, we study workforce trends in three scientific disciplines over half a century. We find dramatic shortening of careers of scientists across all three...

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Postdoctoral Fellow – Instructional Research & Development @ UC-Davis

December 21, 2018

Position Description: Postdoctoral Fellow – Instructional Research & Development Organization: UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness The Center for Educational Effectiveness promotes excellence in undergraduate education at UC Davis through a combination of research, teaching support, and educational analytics. We collaborate with faculty, graduate students, and instructors to implement evidence-based instructional practices and develop and explore innovative solutions that enhance learnercentered instruction.

We presently have opportunities for a postdoctoral...

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2018 Nov 28

APPLICATION DEADLINE!: Career Pathways for Basic Scientists Interested in Clinical and Translational (C/T) Research

5:00pm

 

The Harvard Catalyst Postgraduate Education Program (PGE), would like you to share the following information with your program participants. PGE will be offering a new four- session career panel series designed to offer insights into the various career options in clinical and translational research available to PhD and MD scientists who may be interested in working in settings such as academia, industry, and government/regulatory agencies.

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Council of Graduate Schools Report: Graduate Enrollment and Degrees 2007-2017

October 17, 2018

The CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees is the comprehensive source of information on master’s and doctoral program applications, enrollment, and degrees in the United States. This report highlights ndings from Fall 2017 with detailed data tables. Below are several key points from this year’s survey.  Read more.

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2018 Oct 12

Data Analytics & Technology Fair (open to all Harvard graduate students and postdocs, including HMS Master's students)

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard SOCH (59 Shepard St., Cambridge, MA

Data Analytics & Technology Fair

Date: Friday, October 12, 2018
Time: 1:00 - 4:00pm
Location: Harvard SOCH (59 Shepard St., Cambridge, MA) (map)

Eligibility: Open to ALL Harvard University students...

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Evidence for a mental health crisis in graduate education (NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY)

September 2, 2018

There is a growing cry for help from graduate students across the globe who struggle with significant mental health concerns. Despite increased discussion of the topic, there remains a dire need to resolve our understanding of the mental health issues in the trainee population.

Recent research on mental health in the trainee population has focused on within-insti- tution cohorts, such as the 2014 UC Berkeley report, which found that 43–46% of graduate students in the biosciences were depressed, and the 2015 University of Arizona report, which found that a majority of doctoral...

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[HUHS] HUHS urgent care location change

August 31, 2018
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
 
I am writing to remind you that all HUHS urgent care services are now provided 24/7 (weekday daytime, overnight, weekend, and holiday hours) at the HUHS Smith Campus Center Clinic, 75 Mt. Auburn Street, on the third floor. Overnight urgent care is permanently closed at Pound Hall, but the Harvard Law School satellite clinic will continue to offer its regular services during business hours.

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2018 Sep 11

Dissertation Defense Seminar: Alexandra Victoria Batchelor (Neuroscience)

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Goldenson Building, Room 122, 220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115
Students and Faculty are invited to attend the dissertation defense seminar of:

Alexandra Victoria Batchelor

Ph.D. Candidate in the Program in Neuroscience

Dissertation Advisor: Rachel Wilson, Department of Neurobiology

Dissertation Title: Sound localization behavior in Drosophila

Dissertation Defense, Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Seminar: 12 PM

 

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