University of Florida Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Awards The award allots a total of $10,000 to the recipient for a one-year period: $8,000 for lab supplies and $2,000 for equipment/computer and travel expenses for the student.
Deadline to apply:
October 16, 2019 Click here for more information:
University of Florida Health Cancer Center Predoctoral Awards
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TL1 Information Session CG72 - Communicore UF Health Main Campus
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TL1 Information Session
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What You Need Before You Proceed:
Wednesday, October 9, 2019 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Bartram Hall 211 UF Main Campus Graduate students are overwhelmed trying to satisfy their advisor, committee, collaborators, department, and institution. But, graduate school is not meant to employ students; it is meant to train students.
This workshop has the graduate student’s best interest in mind. It will help you identify the gaps or weaknesses in your PhD in the context of your future in academia or industry. It will go over what you should be doing today to take control of your training
and ensure you are a competitive job applicant. Click here to register:
What You Need Before You Proceed: Finding and Filling the Gaps in Your Academic Training
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Maximize Your Mentoring Relationships in Graduate School Tuesday, October 15, 2019 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. McKnight Brain Institute DeWeese Auditorium, LG101A UF Health Main Campus Every graduate student has a mentor--self-selected, assigned, or both. Mentoring is a relationship, and you need to be intentional in developing these relationships in graduate school to enhance your success
now and in your future career. Dr. Linda Searby, mentoring researcher and practitioner, will share tips on how to develop a network of mentors for yourself, how to work harmoniously with your advisor/mentor, what your mentor wants in YOU, and what to reasonably
expect from your mentor. Click here to register:
Maximize Your Mentoring Relationships in Graduate School
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Science Fair Judges Needed Click here for more information:
You're Invited to Science Fair 2019 Click here to learn about how to volunteer: Volunteering in Science
Fair 2019 |
Cancer Policy Internship Deadline to apply:
October 6, 2019 Click here for more information:
Cancer Policy Internship
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3rd Annual Diversity Graduate Research Symposium The Diversity Graduate Research Symposium will include oral and poster presentations from graduate students at the University of Florida, as well as a keynote speaker addressing the importance of diversity
in research. The event will be interdisciplinary encompassing biological sciences, social sciences, humanities, computer science, engineering, math, and physical sciences.
The goal of this symposium is to showcase the outstanding quality and diversity of graduate-level research at the University of Florida, in addition to providing students with the opportunity to enhance their
communication skills with those outside of their discipline. Therefore, we welcome any research in progress, completed or previously presented research. Presentations will be judged by post-doctoral trainees and faculty.
Prizes will be awarded to presentation winners and there will also be a raffle for attendees.
This event is open to everyone that registers. Graduate students can submit original research abstracts (3000-character limit, ~500 words) by clicking the link below. The deadline to submit abstracts is Sunday,
October 20th, 2019. Work presented at previous national/local conferences are allowed. Deadline to register:
October 23, 2019. Registration and abstract submissions are free. Click here to submit abstracts and register for the symposium:3rd
Annual Diversity Graduate Research Symposium This event is hosted by the Black Graduate Student Organization funded solely through the generous donations from our sponsors. If you or your organization would like to contribute to this event (e.g., through
financial contributions, serving as judges), please email Brett Ball at [log in to unmask] or Neo Gebru at [log in to unmask]. |
International Visiting Fellowships at Technological University of Uruguay Click here for more information about visiting fellowships:
Visiting Fellows Click here for more information about UTEC:
Welcome to UTEC |
Getting a Job: Finding Work after Grad School 10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Library West, Room 212 (Scott Nygren Scholars Studio) UF Main Campus This workshop provides a brief introduction and discussion for graduate students about approaching the job market and job application process. This workshop is part of the "Graduate Student Workshop Series: Building Your Career." It is open to all UF Graduate and Professional Students. Registration is not required. |
Getting Published: Writing Clear, Effective Academic Prose 10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Library West, Room 212 (Scott Nygren Scholars Studio) UF Main Campus This session covers a set of powerful, easy-to-use techniques that will help participants write better theses, dissertations and manuscripts. This workshop is part of the "Graduate Student Workshop Series: Building Your Career." It is open to all UF Graduate and Professional Students. Registration is not required. |
Effective Science Communication in the Internet Age Friday, October 11, 2019 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Communicore C1-17 UF Health Main Campus The “Learn – Discover – Lead” seminar series is designed to provide practical advice for PhD and dual degree scientists, who will be managing and leading research teams of their own. The target audience is
graduate students, combined degree students, postdoctoral research trainees, and junior faculty, but everyone who may benefit from these seminars is welcome to attend!
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Effective Science Communication in the Internet Age
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How to Engage in Healthy Conflict 2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Online Do you often feel drained by departmental drama? Do feel unclear how to handle conflicts that arise in your department? Are you unsure when, where, and how to manage conflict with people who will be voting
on your tenure? Academics are notoriously conflict avoidant and the inability to manage conflict can result in negative physical, emotional, and relational consequences for tenure-track faculty. So why not learn early in
your career to master the SKILL of healthy conflict so that you can effectively manage conflicts as they arise and avoid carrying around all of the negative energy, anger and resentment in your mind and body. In this webinar, you will learn: ·
How conflict-management is an essential part of thriving in the Academy. ·
How to decide when to push-back and when to pull back in the face of conflict. ·
The difference between healthy and unhealthy conflict. ·
How to get clear about the role that power plays in resolving departmental conflicts. ·
Ten tips for engaging in healthy conflict Click here to register:
How to Engage in Healthy Conflict
Provided by the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity. UF has an institutional membership, which gives you access to a free membership. To activate it, please click here:
National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity |
Create Presentation Visuals Worthy of the TED Stage 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. 120 HR Building 903 W University Ave Imagine you are giving the best presentation of your career. Your verbal delivery is captivating and masterfully choreographed with slide visuals and props that are attention grabbing, easy to understand,
and even moving. This is what it means to use presentation visuals in a way that is “worthy of the TED stage.”
In this course, participants will learn about the common mistakes presenters make with their presentation visuals, gain insights into the way the human brain best processes information while experiencing a
presentation, leverage visual techniques for making your content resonate and stick, use next-level techniques to plan a visual presentation, analyze examples from some of the world’s best presenters, and apply key design principles.
This course is helpful for both novice and even highly seasoned presenters. Participants are encouraged to bring a laptop to this session to engage in hands-on design work activities in small groups. Click here to register:
Create Presentation Visuals Worthy of the TED
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1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. 120 HR Building 903 W University Ave Assertiveness is a skill you can acquire, not a personality trait that some people are born with and others are not. When we communicate assertively, we express our feelings, thoughts, and wishes--standing
up for our legitimate rights without violating the rights of others. In this workshop, you'll learn to:
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Distinguish between assertive, aggressive, and non-assertive (or passive) behaviors.
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Include the three parts of an assertive message in your communication approach.
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Listen assertively by concentrating your attention on the other person.
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Respond appropriately to criticism.
Building on the topics discussed in "Communication Confidence," this workshop highlights communication skills that are essential in many day-to-day situations. Improve your relationships and personal effectiveness
at work and at home: Attend "Communicate Assertively!" Click here to register:
Communicate Assertively
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Deadline to apply:
October 15, 2019 Click here for more information:
Harn Museum Internships
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Introduction to 3D Printing and Scanning
10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. UF Eduaction Library 2-150F UF Main Campus Learn how to create a 3D model, use a 3D scanner, and submit a 3D print job at the UF Libraries.
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Introduction to 3D Printing and Scanning
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11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. HSCL, C1-121 (BITS), Health Science Center Library UF Health Main Campus This class will take you step-by-step through effective literature search and save techniques—starting smartly, limiting efficiently without losing “good stuff,” searching for specific info (authors, types
of publications, specific journals) and refining your search. Depending on participant interests/needs and time, we may also cover setting up email alerts, transferring to bibliographic software like RefWorks or EndNote, filtering for evidence-based studies, building
collections within PubMed or other functions within PubMed. Click here to register:
Introduction to PubMed
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12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Health Science Center Library UF Health Main Campus This class will take you step-by-step through effective literature search and save techniques—starting smartly, limiting efficiently, searching for specific info (authors, types of publications, specific journals),
refining your search and exporting results to the bibliographic software. Click here to register:
Embase
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Running Graphical Applications on HiPerGator
10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 2205 Physics Building UF Main Campus Users can run applications with graphical user interfaces (GUI) on HiPerGator in the SLURM “gui” partition. Xpra is the software we use to connect to the graphics window of the application running on HiPerGator
from your local computer. These videos walk through setting up and connecting to Xpra sessions.
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Running Graphical Applications on HiPerGator
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Jupyter Lab & Jupyter Notebooks for R, Python, and More
10:40 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 2205 Physics Building UF Main Campus Learn how to use Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebooks on HiPergator. Attendees should have a Research Computing account. Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebooks offer open-source web applications that allow you to
create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text.
Uses include: data cleaning and transformation, numerical simulation, statistical modeling, data visualization, machine learning and much more. Jupyter kernels can run Julia, Pthon, R and many other scripting
languages. This training session will focus on showing users how to launch Jupyter lab and Jupyter Notebooks on HiPerGator and connect to them from the browser on their local computer. We will also provide a quick introduction to using Jupyter. Click here to register:
Jupyter Lab & Jupyter Notebooks for R, Python,
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Industry Institute: Environment and Sustainability
5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Career Connections Center, 1st floor Reitz Union UF Main Campus Registration strongly encouraged. Click here to register:
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Adulting 101: Know Your Value – Job Offers and Salary Negotiation
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Career Connections Center, 1st floor Reitz Union UF Main Campus While negotiating a job offer can be scary, we guarantee you are worth more than you think you are. Attend this workshop to learn how to facilitate the negotiation timeline, how the offer process works with
employers, and understand negotiation best practices. |
Adulting 101: Starting Strong – Your First 30 Days in the Workplace
3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Career Connections Center, 1st floor Reitz Union UF Main Campus So you secured your first job after graduation, congratulations! Now what?! Attend this workshop to learn the topics you are expected to know but no one tells you about after starting your first full-time
job. |
1:55 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Career Connections Center, 1st floor Reitz Union UF Main Campus Come to this weekly open session to get individualized, real-time support at the 30 minute Resume Lab! Designed as a drop-in, learn the basics to get your resume started and polished. You are encouraged to
bring your laptops and tablets to edit, update, or make changes to your resume. |
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Norman Hall – Terrace Room UF Main Campus Industry Institutes provide an opportunity for students to learn about a specific area of work from a variety of employers. In the Education Industry Institute, students will connect with professionals who
work in the field of education and explore the many career pathways both in and outside of the classroom. |
Accessible Online Environments
Online This self-paced online offering provides instruction on how to design online courses with accessibility in mind. The course covers different types of accessibility needs and suggestions for making an online
course more accessible. After completing the offering, participants will have a full understanding of how to improve online accessibility for all students. This asynchronous online workshop requires all course materials and activities to be completed within a two-week window. Click here to register:
Accessible Online Environments
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Online Effective Feedback allows participants to analyze the positive impact of utilizing informative evaluations on student work in order to improve performance. Participants will be introduced to strategies that
provide effective feedback for all class sizes, and will experience the feedback process.
This asynchronous online workshop requires all course materials and activities to be completed within a one-week window. Click here to register:
Effective Feedback |
9 a.m. – 12 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus Conflict is part of our daily lives and can undermine our success unless we get better at using it effectively. As surprising as this might sound, we want conflict in the workplace; but it has to be the right
kind of conflict. In this class you will learn how to build your conflict competence/fitness to transform conflict and use it to our shared advantage for better decision-making, problem-solving and relationship-building in the workplace. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
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Tossing the Test: Grading Authentic Learning with Rubrics
2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus Do you want to break the lecture, lecture, test cycle? Do you want to find more authentic ways to assess learning? During this workshop, participants will learn how to create high-quality rubrics to assess
student performance on authentic tasks that simulate real-world experiences. Dr. Brian Myers and Dr. Tre Easterly are well versed in the application of research-based practices to assess learning and will help you develop strategies to assess learning in your
classes. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
here. |
Successfully Teaching Large Enrollment Residential Courses
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus Teaching large classes has major pros and cons. Is it possible to make a dent in that cons list and leverage the joy and effectiveness of the pros? Absolutely! This workshop is intended to introduce you to
(or remind you of) methods of instruction that can help you successfully manage larger residential classes. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
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Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms – Part 1
2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus Inclusive teaching means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
This two-part workshop, will familiarize participants with the concepts of diversity equity and inclusion, and the role of teaching methods in embracing student diversity in all forms. Also, attendees will
discuss practical strategies of inclusive teaching that can be incorporated into everyday student interactions and during course design and assessment. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
here. |
Make it Global: Curriculum Internationalization
11 a.m. – 12 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus This workshop explores ways to develop course assignments that incorporate international perspectives and enhance the development of intercultural competence. Attendees will engage in a self-assessment exercise
that will allow them to rate the degree to which they have internationalized their courses.
They will also learn about virtual exchange as a way to connect their classrooms to other classrooms around the world. All attendees will receive information about the Curriculum Internationalization grants
available through the UF International Center. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
here. |
Course Evaluations: Increasing Response rates and Interpreting Results
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus In this workshop we will discuss strategies to increase response rates for course evaluations. We will also delve into the new GatorEvals Individual faculty reports, as well as ways in which you can use this
data for course improvement. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
here. |
Inclusive Teaching Strategies: Embracing Student Diversity in All Forms – Part 2 2:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus Inclusive practices are critical to the higher education landscape to improve student learning. Inclusive teaching means designing and teaching courses in ways that foster talent in all students, but especially
those who come from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. This two-part workshop, will familiarize participants with the concepts of diversity equity and inclusion, and the role of teaching methods in embracing student diversity in all forms. Also, attendees will
discuss practical strategies of inclusive teaching that can be incorporated into everyday student interactions and during course design and assessment. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
here. |
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. 201 Bryant Space Science Center UF Main Campus How do cultural norms, religious beliefs, values, and educational experiences affect students’ understanding of our highly individualistic notion of “academic honesty?” This workshop will help us reflect on our own expectations of what is and what is not “honest” in an academic setting as well as offer some insight into why students may struggle to interpret and meet our
expectations. Participants will develop approaches to prevent acts of academic dishonesty among students and how to address it once it occurs. You can view and register for upcoming workshops in the new
Passport Portal. If you don't have access to the Portal create an account
here. |
When One Teaches, Two Learn: The Role of Inquiry in Inspired Teaching
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 3 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Norman Hall 1-255 UF Main Campus Dr. Dana will be hosting her Cherry Award Lecture, focusing on a process for teacher learning that she has been studying for over 25 years. She will share her own journey to inquiry, define and illustrate
it, as well as describe the work she is doing to introduce inquiry to UF Quest faculty to improve the college student experience. |
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