Graduate School Survival Skills
This session addressed strategies for maintaining balance and a positive perspective in your life during graduate school and throughout your career.
CRA-WP Graduate Schools
Finding Your Dream Job with a PH.D
A.J. Brush and Ming Lin discuss various career paths, interview tactics, and navigating job offers.
Academic Career Paths and Job Search
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session focused on the different career paths in academia. Consider research, teaching, and service, and how they differ by institution and position.
Building Self Confidence
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session addressed the confidence crisis that graduate students often face and how to persist towards your goals and milestones.
Summer Internships
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session focused on how to find an industry or government lab summer internship as well as the advantages and disadvantages of internships.
Presentation and Oral Communication Skills
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session focused on building verbal communication skills, which is essential for high quality oral presentations of papers, posters, and panels.
Choosing a Dissertation Topic
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session discussed key aspects of a thesis proposal including what should be in the proposal, how to choose your committee, and how to prepare your proposal defense.
Masters vs. Ph.D. Which One to Choose? How Far to Go?
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session addressed the main differences in graduate studies and career options between a Master’s degree and Ph.D. degree.
PhD Non-Academic Careers and Job Search
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session focused on the different career paths for new
Ph.D.’s in industry and government laboratories.
MS Career Opportunities and Job Search
Slides from the Grad Cohort 2017 Workshop. This session discussed career opportunities for Master’s graduates and how to find a position that is best for you.
