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Date

Topic

Assignments/Resources

Jan 28

·          Preparing your Professional Portfolio

·          Time Management

·          Skills Inventory Exercise

 

Feb 4

·          Grantsmanship

Please bring to class on February 4 an application for a pre-doctoral or post-doctoral fellowship application that you are eligible to submit. Select one that you would meet the criteria if you were to submit this application within the next 9 months.  Read the application carefully during class you will prepare an outline of what you need to write to submit this application.

 

NIH, NSF, Ford Foundation,  and other agencies all have these types of fellowships.  A web search will generate lots of opportunities.

At NIH:

 

    * NIH grantwriting advice  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/grant_basics.htm

    * Examples of funded grants  NIH CRISP http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/

    * Minority post-doctoral proposal  http://minorityopportunities.nci.nih.gov/mTraining/K01Career.html

 

At NSF:

 

    * NSF grantwriting advice  http://www.nsf.gov/funding/preparing/

    * Examples of funded grants by NSF http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/

    * Pre-doctoral proposal http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=6201

 

Dr. O’Connell Notes

 

RESOURCES

http://crisp.cit.nih.gov/crisp/crisp_query.generate_screen

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/preparing/

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/oer.htm

http://www.nsf.gov/funding/

http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/

NIH Summer Graduate Internships http://www.training.nih.gov/student/sip/info.asp

Feb 11

·          Toolkit for  completing your NMSU Graduate Degree

·          Presentation Slide Blitz

·         Bring your time management plan to class: http://www.businessballs.com/timemanagement.htm

·         Submit typed 1-2 paragraph (200-400 words) précis of the writing project: format, audience, goals, faculty reviewer. The final writing project must be a minimum of 4000 word in length.

·         Prepare no more than 3 powerpoint slides that summarize who you are and your research/technical goals and achievements. Send to your cohort coordinator before class.

Feb 18

·          Development Plan

·          Preparing the Professional Portfolio

·          Representing yourself:

·          Resumes, CVs

·         Bring a 2.5 inch binder with dividers to house your portfolio. Prepare a table of contents and place it at the front.

·         Bring your 2007 Progress report and your 2008 plans to class

·         Bring your resume and your CV to class.

Feb 25

·          Representing yourself:

·          Resumes, CVs, webpages, business cards personal introductions

·          Writing project goals

·         Bring a resume and a CV to class from the web for a professional whose work resembles what you aspire to achieve.

·         Bring your revised resume and your CV to class.

·         Complete a COS profile and bring to class. Do not publish to the web until it is reviewed. http://expertise.cos.com/about/cosprofile.shtml

·         Bring your abstract to class for the writing project.  Access Link Here

 

RESOURCES

·         http://med.stanford.edu/careercenter/highlights/files/Effective_Credentials_4.14.06.pdf

·         http://www.training.nih.gov/student/common/appadvice.pdf

Mar 3

·          Email etiquette

·          Research dissemination

·          Representing your research and skills:  abstracts, lay summaries, the “elevator talk”, manuscripts, technical documents, oral presentations

 

·         Discussion of portfolio contents in progress

·         Responding and using criticism

·         Rubrics for oral presentations

·         Time management revisited

 

RESOURCES

·         http://www.the-aps.org/education/professionalSkills/pdfFiles/Elevator%20Talk.pdf

·         http://www.pertinent.com/articles/communication/kareCom8.asp

·         http://science.kennesaw.edu/~hmattord/email.htm

Mar 10

·          Social dimensions of science

·          origins of the university,  networking

·          references, internships, mentors, committee members

·          session chairs, peer review,

·          diversity, globalization, outsourcing

·         Discussion of CV

1.      download Chapter 1 from this site and bring to class for discussion

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/tools_resources/careers_basics_booklet 

2.      NSF search for biographical sketch http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2003/nsf03041/2.htm

3.      NIH search for biographical sketch  http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/phs398.html

4.      resume http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/resume.html

 

·         March 15, 2008 (Grads) Present your research at NMSU Grad Symposium Link to this site: http://www.nmsu.edu/~wwwgsc/gras/

Mar 17

·          Professional conduct

·          Workplace dynamics:

·          compliance,  EEO, human resource and development, Research ethics, IACUC, IRB, Intellectual property, equity, justice, conflict resolution, responsibility

·         Oral presentation abstracts and venue due

 

·         browse this website thoroughly

http://www.nmsu.edu/~eeo/index.html

·         Print and bring to class the policy statements here:

http://www.nmsu.edu/~eeo/policy_statements.html

§         Bring your 1 minute elevator talk to class for presentation

Mar 24

Spring break

 

Mar 31

·          Leadership and service

·          Personal Philosophy Statements: Research, Profession, Teaching, Learning, Service

§         Bring a one page Teaching Philosophy Statement to class for discussion and submission

http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/philosophy.html

http://www.lll.hawaii.edu/sltcc/tipps/philosophy.html

http://www.oic.id.ucsb.edu/TA/port-FAQ.html

§         Bring  a paragraph that summarizes your definition of a leader

§         Bring 2 pages of your science writing project o class for evaluation

http://www.biochem.arizona.edu/marc/Sci-Writing.pdf

April 30

Revised writing project due

Access Link Here

 

Final exam

Date/time in official schedule for courses that meet Monday at 2:30

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