Past Events

Please join us for Coffee and Connections Hour! Are you an international graduate student or postdoc eager to brew up success in your career journey? Look no further! Join us for an invigorating and enlightening experience at the Coffee and Connections Hour, where meaningful conversations blend perfectly with the aroma of delicious coffee.

Through hands-on activities and discussion, this workshop will introduce you to student-centered grading practices and some time-saving tips for managing your workload.

Learn how to network effectively and build meaningful, two-way relationships at an upcoming site visit in this interactive virtual workshop with the Office of Career and Life Design! Identify where you can add value, refine your messaging, and practice strategies to connect.

Looking to find balance and joy in your busy life? Want to make more intentional decisions about your future? Join our workshop over lunch on design thinking mindsets and practices. You'll use empathy, curiosity and collaboration to design small changes for a more satisfying life. Tackle an aspect of your life where you seek clarity, try new things and learn from others. Gain valuable insights and tools from the life design framework to explore multiple possible futures. Take the first step towards a more balanced and joyful life. Join the Office of Career & Life Design and Urmila Venkatesh, former Life Design Fellow and Assistant Dean of Career Education for PhDs and Postdocs at Stanford to kick off the life design learning community.

Come meet with alumni and recruiters in a relaxed environment. Ask alumni about their career journey, from academia into industry, their current role, advice on entering the job market and ways to be a competitive candidate.

Overcome any reservations you might have about professional networking in live situations. During this interactive session, attendees will learn how to effectively identify and approach potential professional contacts with a keen understanding of professional etiquette. Participants will leave with resources and an action plan for who they want to meet with, core questions to ask and how to create an authentic connection to most effectively establish and build a professional network.

In their courses, TAs and AIs have an opportunity to create welcoming learning environments that foster meaningful participation in the classroom since students often feel more comfortable communicating with them. During this 90-minute session, you will learn about how to work with students with disabilities in your role as a TA or AI!

Contributing to your scholarly field involves joining a conversation that others have been conducting in journals, at conferences and through research advancements. Rigorous research builds upon this conversation while contributing new knowledge, in many ways following a similar structure to improvised performance.

Discussion can be an effective classroom tool to reach a variety of course goals. "Facilitating Effective Discussions" aims to equip instructors with tools to encourage and maintain classroom engagement for all students while meeting course goals. Join us for an exploration of different techniques and technologies for establishing and maintaining interest and interaction with course content.

Join us for a lunch & workshop series this semester for hopeful/soon-to-be/already-parents/caregivers who are graduate students and postdocs.