Thrive! UF Graduate School Professional Development Newsletter, 01/22/25

January 22, 2025

Supporting Your Success, Grad Gators!
UF Graduate Professional Development Resources Online

The Graduate Professional Development at the UF Graduate School hosts a website where you’ll find resources to help you succeed in graduate school and beyond. Features include:

Strategic Roadmaps for charting your course through graduate education.
Guides on how to make the most of your Individual Development Plan (IDP).
Daily updates on upcoming professional development events on and off campus.
Videos, transcripts, and other materials from previous events.
Individual webpages of resources to help you develop in six key areas: Research Skills and Knowledge, Management and Leadership, Effectiveness and Purpose, Professionalism, Communication, and Career Advancement.

Explore it all by clicking here: UF Graduate Professional Development Website.

Questions? Click here to email Director Dr. Talline Martins.

Professional Development Individual Consultations

Individual Consultations: Starting in the Spring 2025 semester, the Office of Graduate Professional Development will hold open, drop-in office hours for UF graduate students looking to discuss career advancement, job search, professional development workshops, and other opportunities. Bring something you're working on, general questions about career development, or simply pop in to say hello!

Office hours will be held by Dr. Jim Gillespie in Grinter Hall 127 and via Zoom (linked here) on Mondays (10:00 am –12:00 pm) and Thursdays (2:00 – 4:00 pm).

Office hours dates and times, along with Zoom links for virtual meetings, will also be posted to the Office of Graduate Professional Development website.

Career Connections Center (C3) Graduate Student Career Planning: UF Career Connections Center’s trained specialists can meet with you to review your curriculum vitae or industry résumé, discuss academic and non-academic job searches, hone networking skills, and more. Click here for details C3’s Gator CareerLink, then make email Michael Goldberg (C3 Career Design Specialist for Advanced Degrees).

Funding, Internships, and More

Global Essay Competition. Exceptional opportunity for master’s and post-graduate students born after 1995 to contribute their insights to addressing global challenges and driving meaningful change.

Application Open | Deadline February 1st | Hosted by St. Gallen Symposium | Learn more here.

Philadelphia Postdoc Preview. The target audience includes senior Ph.D. students (who passed the qualifying exam or are post-candidacy by the time of the event), recent Ph.D. graduates, or early-career postdoc scholars in science, technology, engineering, math, and medical fields. Postdoctoral opportunities at the participating institutions include basic, translational, and clinical research.

February 11| 12:00 - 3:30 pm| Online | Register here | Learn more here.

Yale University Virtual Postdoc Recruitment Event. The goals are to support potential postdocs in their career exploration and identifying next steps, engage with potential postdocs from underrepresented and historically excluded groups, and increase awareness of the experience of and resources supporting Yale postdocs.

Stanford's PRISM program. The program offers travel funds for an exclusive chance to experience Stanford's cutting-edge research environment, connect with faculty and lab groups, and immerse yourself in our vibrant postdoctoral community.

Application Open | Deadline February 25 | Hosted by OPA | Register here | Learn more here.

Virtual Postdoc Preview with Brown University. This event aims at advanced PhD students and current postdoctoral scholars within 1-2 years of completing a doctoral degree interested in learning more about postdoctoral training at Brown University.

STEM Fellowships & Scholarships. STEM funding opportunities for students with early fall deadlines for funding for the 25 /26 academic year, over 65 portable scholarships and fellowships posted on the site.

Application Open | Hosted by pathwaystoscience | Grad. Students learn more here; Postdocs learn more here.

Research Skills and Knowledge

Introduction to PubMed. This class will take you through effective literature search and save techniques to refine your search.

Submitting Your Thesis for Review by the Graduate School Editorial Office (Master Students). Join us to connect with the UF Graduate School Editors to learn more about using the template. Learn how to successfully navigate the template, prepare for deadlines, and work with the Thesis, Dissertation, and Publication team.

How to Write a Publishable Article Using CONSORT. This workshop teaches how to write a research article suitable for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. It is particularly suited to those with clinical trial results to report.

Embase. This class will take you step-by-step through effective literature search and save techniques using this bibliographic software.

Introduction to PsycINFO. This workshop will go over the basics of how to run a search in PsycINFO.

20 Minutes to Impact Series: ORCID and Dimensions. This session will cover creating your ORCID ID and linking it to Dimensions to add articles to your researcher profile.

Qualtrics @UF: Getting Started. In this workshop, participants will learn how to create and edit a basic survey, when and how to utilize Page Break and Block, and effectively distribute surveys, view results, and manage reports.

Management and Leadership

Thinking Strategically. Participants will learn a goal-setting strategy that can help ensure the team identifies and works on the right goals that align with the team and organizational vision and purpose.

Relationship Strategies. This workshop offers guidelines for understanding and adjusting to people's differences through observing their behavior.

Emotional Intelligence for Leaders. Participants will be able to identify how emotional intelligence affects leadership and will have generated ideas and next steps to leverage their emotional intelligence in the workplace for heightened leadership success.

Effectiveness and Purpose

Therapeutic Horticulture Workshop. Explore dimensions of wellness and strategies to strengthen your resiliency and other aspects of well-being through hands-on activities in the greenhouse and garden at Wilmot Botanical Gardens.

Stress Management through Mindfulness and Meditation. We will discuss stress and how to use meditation and mindfulness as a stress management strategy.

Developing your Emotional Intelligence for Workplace Effectiveness. Join this workshop to explore ways to understand your own emotions, find ways to strengthen relationships, and more.

The Power of Self-Compassion. Learn skills to improve your well-being through practicing self-compassion. All sessions in the series will include skill-building exercises.

Ease my Mind. A six-week wellness program focused on effective stress management techniques. Through daily texts and engaging activities, you'll learn valuable skills to navigate the pressures of graduate school and enhance your mental well-being.

February 1^st - March 15 | Text-Based | Register here.

Page Unbound: Black Living and Other Computational Poetics. Join in for a thought-provoking discussion that examines the interplay between human understanding, computation, and our evolving relationships with machines.

February 6 | 4:00 – 5:30 pm | In-Person, Smathers Library 100 | Hosted by CHPS | Learn more here.

SKY Happiness Retreat. The wellness program, taught in 12 hours spread over three days, trains participants in evidence-based SKY meditation, breathwork, yoga, social connection, and mindful leadership.

Professionalism

Teams Mini-Series: Channel Management. Learn advanced strategies for organizing your Teams workspace, from best practices for handling large teams to understanding the differences between private, standard, and shared channels.

UF GPT: Microsoft Copilot - UF AI Assistant for Work. Explores the various ways to utilize Copilot, from streamlining tasks like drafting emails and composing documents to writing Excel formulas and debugging code.

January 28 | 2:00 – 3:00 pm | Online | Hosted by CITT | Learn more here

Mastering NaviGator Chat. Participants will learn how to navigate and maximize the use of the UF Navigator Chat tool.

Inspiring Trust. Participants will be able to identify the key aspects of integrity and humility and generate ideas and action items to cultivate these aspects.

Communications

AI Image Generators. Discover how you can use AI tools to create and edit images. This live training focuses on various AI tools for generating and editing images.

Cultural Differences in Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication. We will cover theories and some examples from studies on cultural differences in communication.

The Art of Difficult Conversations. You will learn how to prepare for, initiate, and conduct difficult conversations that can yield positive outcomes.

Introduction to Microsoft Teams. This hybrid training is meant for beginners who want to get their feet wet! Participants will learn the basics and how to use Teams in the work environment.

February 4 | 2:00 – 3:30 pm | Online | Hosted by CITT | Learn more here

Communication Confidence. Learn a number of skills and tools to improve the way you communicate with others. We all can be better communicators.

14-Day Writing Challenge. It is an opportunity for you to experiment with daily writing, online community, and supportive accountability.

February 24 - March 9 | Application Open | Deadline February 14 | Hosted by ncfdd | Learn more here.

Career Advancement

How PhDs Can Identify Non-academic Career Options. Join us for this webinar on how PhDs can identify and research non-academic career options through informational interviews.

February 5 | 12:00 – 12:45 pm | Online | Hosted by beyondprof |Learn more here

How Master's Students Can Land Jobs and Gain Work Experience (Boot Camp). It is a virtual webinar series designed to help you navigate the internship or job search process with confidence and success.

The Transition from Grad Student to Postdoc. This session will provide a brief presentation, which will be followed by a panel of faculty who serve as postdoc mentors from UTK.

February 19 | 9:00 – 10:00 am | Online | Hosted by OPA UTK |Learn more here.

In-Person/Virtual Express Drop-In. Express Drop-Ins are designed for document reviews (i.e., resumes, cover letters, personal statements), mock interviews, LinkedIn profile reviews, and quick Career Planning questions.

Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays In-Person (C3); Tuesdays and Thursdays Online (Registration) | 1:00 – 4:00 pm | Hosted by C3.

Resource Spotlight

Master and Doctoral Student Industry Meet-up

Wednesday · January 29 · 5:00 - 7:00 pm · Reitz Union

The Master and Doctoral Student Industry Meet-up is next week! Master and Doctoral Student Industry Meet-Up is an open networking event for UF graduate students and advanced degree-holding alumni to connect with employers and industry professionals. Employers attending the event are looking to recruit UF graduate students and alumni for a variety of experiences- including internships and jobs. Employers also attend to support graduate students in building their professional networks. This event allows students and employers to meet each other in a more casual, relaxed environment. Sample employers include:

· Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

· GHC Orcutt | Winslow

· KidsPeace

· Honeywell

· Sandia National Laboratories

· Voloridge

· Agnostic Life Finding Association (ALFA)

· NCASI

For a complete list of all participating employers, please log onto Gator CareerLink .

Details in a nutshell:

What:	Master and Doctoral Student Industry Meet-up
When:	Wednesday, January 29, 2024 5 to 7 p.m.
Where:	Reitz Union - Grand Ballroom (2nd floor)
For whom?	For all graduate students
More Information:	Career Connection Center

Dress for this event is business casual. We advise that you bring copies of your resume to share with recruiters.

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