SLHS 497/597: Workshop on Foreign Accent Modification (1 credit)
Course Description
Looking for information on how to be successful in graduate school and beyond? Professor Jenny Hoit's Survival Skills and Ethics course this spring is a proven resource for success. In addition to spreading research-based strategies on a variety of topics germane to graduate student and postdoc success, all students have the opportunity to earn Responsible Conduct of Research certification upon course completion. Please see the information below for more details.
Starting November 3, we will provide spaces throughout campus where you can focus on your writing projects—whether class assignments, theses, grant proposals, dissertations, or manuscripts for publication. Each writing oasis location will be open for three hours. During the first hour, a writing specialist from the Writing Skills Improvement Program or the Think Tank will be available to answer questions and provide suggestions.
Site hosts are the Office of Student Engagement in the Student Union, the Writing Skills Improvement Program in the Geronimo building on University Boulevard, and the Poetry Center
The University of Pennsylvania has just announced a new postdoctoral fellowship opportunity. Check out the call for candidates below for more information. In addition, be sure to check out the How to Find a Postdoc page to learn about UA openings and related postdoc position listing databases.
Postdoctoral Fellowships for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Arizona Quarterly, the UA Department of English's Graduate Literature Program, and the Graduate Center are excited to announce a two lecture series on the topic of Academic Publishing. Students, faculty, and staff are invited to attend. Attendees will learn about the academic publishing process and ways to be effective in getting published in scholarly journals, books, and more.
“Scholarly Publishing: What, Where, When, and How”
The Office of Instruction and Assessment, the Graduate Center and the Graduate & Professional Student Council would like to invite you to our “Preparing for Faculty Job Applications” Brown Bag Discussion Series. This is a series of 4 brown bags, with the first one starting this coming Tuesday on September 6th. Attached and copied below is the schedule for the series.
“Preparing for Faculty Job Applications" Brown Bag Discussion Series Schedule
The Fall 2016 workshop schedule for the Campus Connections Program is now available. Through Graduate Center sponsorship, most sessions are open to graduate students and postdocs, in addition to new faculty members. Check out the schedule below for more information on each session and how to register for these free workshops. There are three workshop tracks: Getting Published, Diversity in the Classroom, and Advancing Faculty Careers.
Please email Dr. Laura Hunter at lahunter@email.arizona.edu with questions.
FROM ABD TO PhD
Fall 2016 WORKSHOP SERIES
Purpose: Provide writing support for ABD (all but dissertated) students; discuss shared concerns about the dissertation process; and introduce strategies to facilitate writing. All participants should come prepared to write and work collaboratively with students from across diverse disciplines. This series will continue with three new workshops in the spring.
The workshops series is facilitated by the Writing Skills Improvement Program and the Think Tank Writing Specialist, and is sponsored by the Graduate and Professional Student Council and the Graduate Center.
