Academic and Professional Skills

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For improving academic and professional skills, the CFP offers Workshops for the Academic Scientist and courses in teaching and pedagogy. The OPF offers workshops and programs on communicating science and the international lab (for non-ESL students), which are open to graduate students. 

ABLConnect

ABL Connect is a searchable database of interactive lesson plans and assignments designed for and used in college and university classrooms. Its goal is to provide you with examples that will help you think about how to design your own activities and...

Academic Research Integrity: Practical Applications in the Lab

This slide deck from the Office of Academic Research and Integrity at Harvard Medical School covers important research integrity and reproducibility topics, with a particular focus on lab notebook maintenance and recordkeeping, maintaining digital data...

Bok Center Seminars

Bok Seminars are short courses on topics in teaching, learning, and communication designed for GSAS PhD students at every stage. Learn in community with your peers and discuss current topics in higher education. Bok Seminars are limited to GSAS PhD...

Chalk Talk Training Resources

These videos from the BCMP200 course at Harvard Medical School provide examples of both a "good" and "great" chalk talk on experimental design. The PDF (link below) contains the chalk talk prompt and additional information and notes. "Good" Chalk Talk...

Conduct of Science Course

This course is a required course for all DMS students and all who receive support from NIH training grants. The goal of this course is to inform students about the appropriate conduct of research and the many ethical and social problems that they may...

DMS SEAL Certificate Program

SEAL participants learn to teach using evidence-based best practices and become part of a science teaching community that continually explores and adopts the most effective teaching approaches. In addition to coursework, workshops and a regular journal...

GSAS Business Club Mini-MBA

The Mini-MBA program is a five-week accelerated business course designed for non-business students that was relevant to those interested in working in the management realm. The Mini-MBA will introduce the material that MBA students encounter in their...