Graduate Program: Academic Skills

How to Survive Graduate School — Academic Skills Seminars for Graduate Students

As part of our effort to enhance the graduate program in the EEB Department, several department faculty and graduate students have identified a number of academic skills, and organized Friday afternoon workshops — a few a semester, depending on availability of leaders and time slots. The concept of these seminars is for a faculty member or graduate student with expertise on one of these topics to lead a discussion with all interested participants, and then put together a document summarizing the topic and providing additional information and references for those who want to pursue it. These documents will be edited and put together as a series, accessible from the EBIO webpage. For further information, suggestions, or corrections, please contact the series editor, Thomas W. Sherry.

Be sure to check out Dr. Fleury's all-in-one guide How to Survive Graduate School.

Topics for Discussion
Guidelines for Special Occasions: Introducing a Speaker Leading Discussion of a Scientific Journal Article Money Management (or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?) How to Survive Graduate School Oral Scientific Presentation Time Management Writing a C.V. and Cover Letter The Job Interview Public Speaking Teaching Skills Communication Skills Writing Effectively Grant-Proposal Writing Stress Management Negotiation Involvement in Professional Organization Job Search Strategies

Topics for Discussion

Guidelines for Special Occasions: Introducing a Speaker
Leading Discussion of a Scientific Journal Article
Money Management (or Who Wants to be a Millionaire?)
How to Survive Graduate School
Oral Scientific Presentation
Time Management
Writing a C.V. and Cover Letter
The Job Interview
Public Speaking
Teaching Skills
Communication Skills
Writing Effectively
Grant-Proposal Writing
Stress Management
Negotiation
Involvement in Professional Organization
Job Search Strategies