The Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs Office (GPPO) and the Career Development Center (CDC) are available to help support, promote, and enhance the professional careers of postdocs throughout the university.
Each year our offices help postdocs prepare for entering the job market through career programming in areas such as Lab Management, Professional Skills, Grant Writing, and Job Skills but to name a few.
All our professional development courses, workshops, and resources, including your Individual Development Plan (IDP) allow you to develop the skills you need for a successful and rewarding career.
You will also find access to Asynchronous Learning Content that will help benefit you in your Postdoc journey here at NYUAD.
This page will be updated regularly with new programs, workshops and opportunities as and when they are planned through the Academic Year.
For Academic Year 2022-23
We've received a lot of feedback that you are all looking for opportunities to present your research and to receive training on how to do so effectively. If you are one of the people interested in these areas, then we have exciting news for you!
In late-October, we will be launching our first ever three-minute thesis competition. This will be a big campus event, with a large audience, incredible presentations, and most importantly prizes! We are hoping to have up to 10 members of our graduate and postdoc community participate in the event, and we want to help prepare you for such an occasion.
We will be hosting an initial intro and developing presentation skills session on:
Wednesday 24th August from 11.30am-1.30pm in A6 (Conference Center) Room 009.
During this session, we will be covering some basics about how to develop a research presentation, and how to improve your delivery skills. We will also be providing more information about our thesis competition and how to submit your application to participate. This session will be limited to 30 attendees so please sign up. If we receive more interest, we will run a second session.
If you've never done something like this before and it seems quite daunting and perhaps a little scary, don't worry! We are here to help you along the way! The training you will receive will be beneficial for the rest of your career, and this is an experience that will look great on resumes and in future interviews.
For Fall 2022 and Spring 2023, Postdoctoral Associates with relevant subject knowledge and/or qualifications are invited to apply for Teaching Assistant (TA) positions at NYUAD.
For more information please follow the links to Handshake below:
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Physics (x1 Candidate) https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/6835522/
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Chemistry (x2 Candidates) https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/6828913/
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Cell and Molecular Biology (x1 Candidate) https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/6828905/
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Psychology (x1 Candidate) https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/6828908/
For Spring 2023, Postdoctoral Associates with relevant subject knowledge and/or qualifications are invited to apply for Teaching Assistant (TA) positions at NYUAD.
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Biopsychology - Spring 2023
https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/7253821
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Chemistry - Spring 2023
https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/7279645
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for (Physics) Foundation of Science - Spring 2023
https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/7264097
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Statistics for Psychology - Spring 2023
https://app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/7253825
NYU Abu Dhabi Teaching Assistant for Foundation of Science - Spring 2023
September
The Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs Office is pleased to share a new workshop series that will be offered in the Fall 2022 calendar. This 8 week series will introduce students and postdocs to the benefits of High Performance Computing.
Sessions will be hosted by Benoit Marchand, Senior Computational Scientist at NYUAD.
The workshop series is limited to 15 people. Please only sign up if you can commit to all sessions.
Location: Sessions will be held in person over lunchtime every Wednesday from September 7th through November 2nd, 12pm-2pm in ERB (C1) Room 120. Lunch will be provided.
The only pre-requirement is for you to bring your laptop with you to the sessions. All graduate students and postdocs of all disciplines are invited to attend this series.
*This workshop series is now waitlisted. We hope to run another workshop series in Spring 2023 for all those that are unable to this Fall*
Join Robby Nadler, Director of Academic, Professional, and Technical Graduate Writing Development at University of California Santa Barbara, to learn “What is the three-minute talk genre & how to develop your narrative” as you learn the basis of how to prepare for a three-minute thesis talk.
Date: Wednesday 7th September
Location/Time: Conference Center, A6, Room 006, 12pm-2pm
Grad Slam is an event where members of the NYUAD graduate and postdoctoral community will have the opportunity to present their research in a 3-minute public presentation. The final event will be held in-person in Fall 2022 with a virtual semi-final event occurring on September 29, 2022. There will be prizes for first and second place, as well as a people’s choice.
In preparation for the final event, the GPPO will be hosting a series of workshops to help develop presentation and writing skills for all graduate students and postdocs interested in participating. These workshops will cover a number of topics, including narrative writing, delivery skills, adapting your presentation to different audiences, situations, and media, and how to communicate best to people outside of your field. Additionally, students and postdocs will have the option to participate in one-on-one mentoring sessions while working on their presentation.
The series will consist of five webinars, each linked to a drop-in small-group discussion the following week. The webinars will highlight strategies needed for academic success and for thriving in research and healthcare careers. You will discuss the cultivation of skills to help you realize resilience and identify and deal with obstacles that get in your way.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration recommended via NIH.
Part of National Postdoc Appreciation Week
Join Robby Nadler, Director of Academic, Professional, and Technical Graduate Writing Development at University of California Santa Barbara, to learn how to improve your ability to write compelling papers, grants, and abstracts, with individual consultations and feedback on your writing.
The objectives of the boot camp are to:
(1) Create space and time in your schedule to make significant progress on your writing goals
(2) Develop goal-setting skills
(3) Practice editing and revision skills
(4) Learn and use peer reviews skills
(5) Determine sustainable writing habits
(6) Build strategies for writing success
(7) Offer both camaraderie and accountability
You must be able to:
-Ready to spend a week just writing, Monday through Friday
-Able to commit to arriving by 9am. and remaining until 1pm on all 5 days.
Refreshments will be provided!
Monday, Sept 19, 9am-1pm, C1-116
Tuesday, Sept 20, 9am-1pm, C1-116
Wednesday, September 21, 9am-1pm, C1-116
Thursday, September 22, 9am-1pm, C1-116
Friday, September 23, 9am-1pm, C1-116
Join Robby Nadler, Director of Academic, Professional, and Technical Graduate Writing Development at University of California Santa Barbara, to learn how to improve your ability to cite and learn good citational practices for your field of study. This workshop will help attendees learn to maximize the incorporation of literature into their work while abiding by the ethical practices (e.g., avoiding plagiarism) of citations.
Location: A6 (Conference Center) Room 006
Time: 26th September, 1.30pm-3.00pm
Limit to 30 people.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Are you a Ph.D./Postdoc fellow interested in learning more about Ph.D. pathways to tech? Come and join us to learn more from Larry, who is working as a researcher at Amazon!
Location: Online Zoom Session.
Please register on Handshake (link below)
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Are you interested in a career in Academia? Join our faculty members who will share their experiences navigating the academic job market.
Location: A6 (Conference Center) 001
Please register on Handshake (link below)
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Part of Postdoc and Graduate Student Career Development Programming
This workshop facilitates a discussion of academic integrity in postgraduate level writing. Participants will be introduced to various types of plagiarism and will have the opportunity to apply that learning to writing samples. Participants will also engage in a reflective discussion of best practices and tips to facilitate writing at the postgraduate level through the use of tools and techniques commonly used by researchers.
Learning objectives:
Postdoc and Graduate Student Academic Integrity workshop: STEM - Online Via Zoom
Date/Time: 30th September, 3-5pm
Location: Zoom https://nyu.zoom.us/j/91282294377
Please register below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
October
Part of Postdoc and Graduate Student Career Development Programming
A recent addition to candidates’ job market dossiers is the diversity statement. While not every institution requests one, more and more are. This is because colleges and universities are trying to ensure that candidates are committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. This does not mean that if you identify as a cis-gendered, heterosexual, white male that you are exempt from this document; it equally does not mean that those of us whose identity markers compose common notions of diversity can simply talk about our backgrounds here. No, the diversity statement is where all candidates explain why DEI matters to them and how it fits into their academic goals. This means that everyone has something to say on the subject.
In this presentation, we will explore diversity statements: what they are, what they look like, and how to make yours relevant to who you are.
Participants will learn how to write about themselves, their research, and their teaching in relation to diversity, regardless of how participants personally view themselves along the diversity spectrum.
CDC Career Cafe (C2, Campus Center, Career Development Center)
Time: 3pm-4pm, 5th October 2022
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part of Postdoc and Graduate Student Career Development Programming
Hosted by Christine Ponder, PhD, Senior Director, Research Affairs, NYU Office of the Vice Provost for Research
This career development session will cover how to look for a postdoc position in the US, how to evaluate the best postdoc for you, and how to make the best use of your time as postdoc to transition to the next phase of your career.
Date/Time: 12th October, 1.30pm-3.00pm
Location: A6-006
Please register below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Part of Postdoc and Graduate Student Career Development Programming
This workshop facilitates a discussion of academic integrity in postgraduate level writing. Participants will be introduced to various types of plagiarism and will have the opportunity to apply that learning to writing samples. Participants will also engage in a reflective discussion of best practices and tips to facilitate writing at the postgraduate level through the use of tools and techniques commonly used by researchers.
Learning objectives:
Postdoc and Graduate Student Academic Integrity workshop: Arts and Social Sciences - Online Via Zoom
Date/Time: 14th October, 3-5pm
Location: Zoom https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98925668954
Please register below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Show me the Money - Using Online Databases to Identify Funding Opportunities for Your Research
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: A6 (Conference Center) Room 006
Limit to 25 people.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Hosted by Holly Mace, Assistant Director, Pre-Award- Learn the basics on Finding Funding; Developing an Idea; Proposal types and common components; Budgets and the overall application process
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: A6 (Conference Center) Room 006
Limit to 25 people.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
November
Hosted by Holly Mace, Assistant Director, Pre-Award- Learn from Junior Faculty on tips and tricks on how best to navigate the grant writing process.
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: A6 (Conference Center) Room 006
Limit to 25 people.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Are you thinking of applying for a faculty or Postdoc position? Join us to learn more about Academic CVs and Cover letters used by several faculty members/professionals
Location: CDC Lounge, C2, Campus Center
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
December
In this workshop, we will discuss how our PhDs, Graduates and PostDocs can get involved in IDBE-related initiatives externally or internally that they are passionate about pursuing.
Location: CDC Lounge, C2, Campus Center
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
This event is organized in collaboration with the Office of Inclusion and Equity.
The Office of Inclusion and Equity will offer a training session on understanding and addressing microaggression, power, and privilege. Participants will further their knowledge and understanding of intersectionality and will be equipped with skills to: a) recognize, b) address, and c) respond to microaggressions, power dynamics, and privilege that can arise with their mentees and supervisors. Participants will engage in fruitful discussions and interactive activities.
Outcomes:
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: MPR Room (006) C3 - Arts Center
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs — registration required.
January
Public speaking is an unavoidable activity that we all participate in, many of us on a daily basis. Whether you have a terrible fear of presenting in front of others, or you would like to improve your skills, this 6-course series will help you become a better speaker.
These interactive lessons are designed to teach you ways to reduce your speech anxiety and improve key components of delivery, all while learning how to structure engaging and persuasive speeches and presentations.
Location: ERB (C1) Room 120
Classes are held each Tuesday and Thursday to the following schedule:
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
February
What is Lunch & Learn?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly lunchtime seminar that provides graduate students and postdocs a chance to socialize with and learn from different disciplines across the campus - and get a free lunch!
Each event features 10 to 15-minute talk by either a graduate student, or postdoc – usually from a different division or department to encourage cross-collaboration.
However, unlike traditional seminars and lectures, the Lunch & Learn series encourages speakers to communicate their topic in whatever way they feel most comfortable, welcoming anything from PowerPoint slides to fireside chats to hands-on demonstrations.
Remember the goal of Lunch and Learn: for the presenter to gain practice in public speaking and to receive constructive feedback from their peers in an informal environment Encourage your peers: share positive feedback in the chat and/or express your support for their talks.
Presenters for February:
Shujaat Mirza - Global PhD Candidate in Computing Science; Threat Characterization of Online Disinformation Operations
Juan Esteban Villegas - Global PhD Candidate in Engineering; Use of gradient descent based optimization for the design of optical components.
Time/Location: 12pm-1.30pm, C2-E231
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Join a virtual Zoom where your host will speak about Linkedin set-up, branding guidelines, job search strategies, and some best practices to optimize your job search experience using the LinkedIn platform.
RSVP Visa Handshake at the link below. A Zoom link will be shared with you after registration.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Learn how to speak and present with our faculty member, Prof. Khalil. He will share some curated tips and strategies to be a better presenter in a public setting. Please sign up for part 2 if you want to present and get instant feedback.
Time/Location: CDC Career Cafe (C2). 5.30pm-7.00pm, February 9th.
RSVP Visa Handshake at the link below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by Ashique Rafi
Are you thinking of switching to a career in industry? Come and join us to review several industry CVs and Cover letters.
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Postdocs who land faculty jobs at research-intensive institutions need to juggle several new large-scale tasks:
Come to this session to hear from Faculty at NYUAD. They will share their tips regarding what has worked for them, what were the greatest challenges, what they wish they had known beforehand, and maybe even where they really messed up. You will have the opportunity to learn from them by asking all the questions you ever wondered about that big transition from postdoc to PI
The session will be hosted by current NYUAD Faculty who currently run research intensive labs. The session will follow a Q&A Format so come ready with questions.
Location/Time: A6-006, 12pm-1.30pm
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs — registration required.
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by Ashique Rafi
Do you have a draft ready, or are you still struggling with writing one? Come and join us to get started and write together. You will be given instant feedback and support needed to get started.
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: CDC Career Cafe
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by Ashique Rafi
For industry jobs, interviews are one of the essential parts of being hired. Come and join us to discuss different behavioral interviewing frameworks!
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: CDC Career Cafe
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
March
High Performance Computing Workshop Series - Spring 2023
The Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs Office is pleased to announce the HPC workshop series will be offered in the Spring 2023 calendar. This 6 week series will introduce students and postdocs to the benefits of High Performance Computing.
Sessions will be hosted by Benoit Marchand, Senior Computational Scientist at NYUAD and other colleagues from the Computational Research team.
The workshop series is limited to 15 people. Please only sign up if you can commit to all sessions.
Sessions will be held in person over lunchtime every Tuesday from March 21st through April 25th, 12pm-2pm in A2-127. Due to Ramadan, lunch will not be offered.
The only pre-requirement is for you to bring your laptop with you to the sessions. All graduate students and postdocs of all disciplines are invited to attend this series.
Course Structure:
Week 1 - Introduction, Tuesday March 21st - A2-127
This introduction to High Performance Computing aims to familiarize with the various aspects of these specialized computers that significantly differ from ordinary laptops and desktops.
We will start by introducing a very brief history of computing evolution. Then we will review the major physical components of modern High Performance Computers, and the software tools required to operate then. Finally, we will present several ways in which computing parallelism can be exploited.
Weeks 2-6 - HPC Users, Every Tuesday from March 28th till April 25th A2-127
Curious minds should not be deterred by the curriculum of this 5 weeks series of talks. Although High Performance Computers are very complex, their use isn't. This training is an introduction to the various aspects of using super-computers such that, at the end, attendees can use with confidence NYUAD's own High Performance Computer.
You will cover fundamentals of Unix (Linux, OSX, Android, etc.) operation, such as process creation, process environment, file descriptors, pipelines, and file permissions. Then you will be introduced to BASH - the most common command line interpreter - and review branching, loops, functions, and variables. You will also be introduced to HPC Storage technologies and parallel processing methods to boost your productivity.
All attendees who attend all sessions will be awarded a certificate of completion to assist with your career development.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part two is curated for anyone interested in practicing giving a presentation on something you are passionate about. Our graduates/postdocs are also welcome to give a 3 mins job talk or presentation or anything that they are passionate about to get instant feedback. To sign-up for the presentation (3 mins), email Ashique Rafi at ar189@nyu.edu
Time/Location: CDC Career Cafe (C2). 5.30pm-7.00pm, March 1
RSVP Visa Handshake at the link below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by Ashique Rafi
Take the opportunity to learn how you can negotiate your salary. Join us to understand different negotiation strategies.
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Location: CDC Career Cafe
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
What is Lunch & Learn?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly lunchtime seminar that provides graduate students and postdocs a chance to socialize with and learn from different disciplines across the campus - and get a free lunch!
Each event features 10 to 15-minute talk by either a graduate student, or postdoc – usually from a different division or department to encourage cross-collaboration.
However, unlike traditional seminars and lectures, the Lunch & Learn series encourages speakers to communicate their topic in whatever way they feel most comfortable, welcoming anything from PowerPoint slides to fireside chats to hands-on demonstrations.
Remember the goal of Lunch and Learn: for the presenter to gain practice in public speaking and to receive constructive feedback from their peers in an informal environment Encourage your peers: share positive feedback in the chat and/or express your support for their talks.
Presenters for March:
Faten Yasin, - Postdoctoral Associate in Biology, Understanding the Role of CD5+ Clonal Expansion and Heterogeneity in B Cell Malignancies
Philippe Antoine Martinez - Postdoctoral Associate in Linguistics, Evidentiality as a linguistic category denoting source of information in Tibeto-Burman languages (and beyond!): implications for our understanding of consciousness
Time/Location: 12pm-1.30pm, C2-E231
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by The Graduate and Postdoctoral Programs Office and Career Development Center.
Come for an evening of Networking, with 4 external guests who will help you practice and refine your networking skills.
Guests:
-Jennifer Adams, NYU Stern MBA Alumni and Consultant who has worked at JPMorgan and NYU UAE Regional Alumni Founder
-Robin Mukherjee, INSEAD Alumni, Regional Director for Modirum, with experience working at Visa and ENBD.
-Alison Horace, York St John Alumni, Executive Director in Global Markets for First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB) with experience working at Merrill Lynch and startups.
-Jason Moore, UCLA Business School and US Naval Academy Alumni, President for Lanjaron Arabia. Chairs two committees at American Chamber of Commerce in Abu Dhabi.
Hear their networking experiences and advice and ask questions to formulate your own approach. Rotate in breakout sessions to: Develop your elevator pitch and speed introduction to become more comfortable and Explore ways to expand your networking universe and increase your odds of success
Location: C2, Campus Center, Career Development Center, CDC Cafe
Time: 4pm-7pm
Register: https://intranet.nyuad.nyu.edu/calendars/#67880
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
April
What is Lunch & Learn?
Lunch & Learn is a monthly lunchtime seminar that provides graduate students and postdocs a chance to socialize with and learn from different disciplines across the campus - and get a free lunch!
Each event features 10 to 15-minute talk by either a graduate student, or postdoc – usually from a different division or department to encourage cross-collaboration.
However, unlike traditional seminars and lectures, the Lunch & Learn series encourages speakers to communicate their topic in whatever way they feel most comfortable, welcoming anything from PowerPoint slides to fireside chats to hands-on demonstrations.
Remember the goal of Lunch and Learn: for the presenter to gain practice in public speaking and to receive constructive feedback from their peers in an informal environment Encourage your peers: share positive feedback in the chat and/or express your support for their talks.
Presenters for April:
Kaushik Sunder - PhD Candidate in Mechanical Engineering, Parkinson's disease
Kamil Elkhoury - Postdoctoral Associate in Engineering, Following a heart attack, heart muscle cells die and as a consequence part of the heart stop beating. I will present how using biomaterials, 3D bioprinting, and cell reprogramming, we can restore the full functionality of the heart.
Time/Location: 12pm-1.30pm, C2-E231
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by Ashique Rafi and Eman Alsamara
Join us for a session on careers in the nonprofit sector for PhDs and Postdocs. Learn more about the diverse options for pursuing opportunities within this sector as well as everything you need to transition to a career path in the nonprofit sector.
Light Snacks and Refreshments Provided
Time/Location: April 27, 1pm-2pm, CDC Career Cafe, C2.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
May
Part of Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Development Programming
Hosted by Dr. Philip Rodenbough via Zoom
Short talk on long writing: Techniques for approaching dissertations and grant proposals
Join Dr Philip Rodenbough, the graduate office’s long-time specialist in scientific writing and the one-man operation behind the NYUAD Scientific Writing Program, for a short talk on how to approach long-form writing projects such as dissertations and grant proposals. In the talk, Dr Rodenbough will discuss what makes a dissertation different from a regular manuscript, places for graduate students and postdocs to look for possible grant funding, how to use metadiscourse properly, and how to achieve a compelling tone in your writing. You’ll also learn how to continue your writing journey with the Scientific Writing Program beyond the day’s talk by seeing how to schedule individual consultations.
Time/Location: May 8, 4pm-5pm, Zoom
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students — registration required.
June
The Postgrad Writers’ Room is intended to foster a collaborative postgrad writing community (Open to all Postdocs and Graduate Students)
The Postgrad Writers' Room offers:
The Postgrad Writers Room is held in the Library (C2) Room 339, Monday's 2pm-5pm, and Thursday's 9am-12pm.
We provide access to many types of asynchronous online learning platforms at no cost to you.
The Versatile Ph.D. is a web-based, socially positive business that helps universities provide graduate students with non-academic professional development. Our mission is to help graduate students and PhDs envision, prepare for, and excel in non-academic careers.
We want doctoral students to be informed about academic employment realities, educated about their non-academic career options, and supported in preparing for a wide range of careers so that in the end, they have choices. The key concept here is versatility: the ability to apply skills, abilities, and interests in various positions and fields.
*Please note that if it is your first time signing into Versatile Ph.D., you will also need to register with your NYU email address
ImaginePhD is a free online career exploration and planning tool for PhD students and postdoctoral scholars in the humanities and social sciences.
Humanities and social sciences PhD students and their mentors have long recognized the need for more resources to help bridge the knowledge gap between doctoral education and the realm of career possibilities. ImaginePhD is designed to meet this need by allowing users to:
myIDP - a unique, web-based career-planning tool tailored to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdocs in the sciences.
myIDP provides:
STEMPeers TM is a 501(c)(3) organization registered in PA as PhD Career Support Group. The organization helps creates a growing network of STEM scientists that is involved in peer-to-peer mentoring and support.
STEMPeers has several online initiatives to its credit like Gurukool (A platform that helps people during job transitions via peer mentoring), ClubSciwri, The STEM times, MedNess, The Newsletter and Jidnyasa.
They have two annual conferences- Annual STEMPeers conference in USA and EuroSTEMPeers in Europe.
AURORA is the only online professional development training platform for graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and PhDs that helps them successfully transition into academic or non-academic careers. This research-driven platform is informed by nearly a decade of experience supporting PhDs to launch new careers with their skills and training.
Trusted by over 30 institutions (and growing), Aurora helps grad students and PhDs leverage their education into meaningful careers, whether in academia or beyond the professoriate.
When logging in, choose 'New York University' as your Institution.
Grad Slam is our 3 minute thesis competition open to Postdocs and Graduate Students. The final will be held on November 16th on campus. The semi-final deadline is October 25th. The following workshops will help prepare you to submit your semi-final video and equip you to be a confident 3-minute thesis presenter!
Part of our Grad Slam Workshop Series for Fall 2022
One of the fundamentals of good communication happens to also be one of the least considered: narrative. Whether you are writing your dissertation on the physics underlying the connectome or giving a brief talk to policymakers about the importance of sand dunes, narrative is required to ensure that your audience understands your work. That is to say, contrary to popular belief, narrative is not a humanities-exclusive feature.
But what is narrative, and why does it matter? A simple way to consider narrative is to think of storytelling. For many academics, storytelling might seem childish and entirely out of place, but this isn't the case. After all, how are you supposed to convince a grant reviewer that your research into alternative forms of energy deserves to be funded? How do you connect the various chapters in a dissertation so that the work doesn't read like eight separate pieces? And in our case, how are you going to ensure an audience who might know nothing about your research area understands and appreciates your work—in only three minutes. Through narrative! This workshop will teach participants fundamentals of narrative and its power in effective communication. From there, participants will learn how to better construct their three-minute thesis presentations with strong narrative principles.
Location: A6-006
Date/Time: Wednesday 14th September, 3pm-5pm
Please register below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Part of our Grad Slam Workshop Sessions for Fall 2022
Join Karl Kalinkewicz to learn “Foundations of Communication”
Location: A6-006
Date/Time: Thursday 29th September, 10am-12pm
Please register below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Part of our Grad Slam Workshop Sessions for Fall 2022
Join Karl Kalinkewicz to learn "Technical Aspects of Delivery"
Location: A6-006
Date/Time: Thursday 13th October, 2.30pm-4.30pm
Please register below.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
Students and Postdocs who are participating in the Workshops are welcome to book 1:1 coaching and feedback sessions. These sessions will be in person, or via Zoom, whatever you prefer. Each session will last 30 minutes.
Sessions are available during the following times:
To book a session, please email mk6872@nyu.edu with your preferred 30 minute slot and date.
*Open to all NYUAD Postdocs and Graduate Students*
The Office of Research Affairs (ORA), NYU Washington Square will be offering webinars as a part of the Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) workshop series for Fall 2022. All researchers, postdocs and graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend these sessions. For student researchers working with US federal funding, please note that attending these sessions will count towards fulfilling their RCR training requirements
All sessions are held from NY at 9am Eastern Time on a Friday (currently 5pm Gulf Time)
October 7th - Peer Review
Facilitator: Kurt Becker
Dr. Becker will discuss how peer review works in publications and grant reviews, and the ethical responsibilities of peer reviewers in research.
Register: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CWAc-1gTRa66TijBYa9-Ig
October 14th - Data Management and Planning
Facilitator: NYU Libraries
Faculty from NYU libraries will cover topics related to best practices for managing research data, keeping data secure, and preserving data for long-term accessibility and will include elements such as: data ethics, sensitive data, data de-identification and/or anonymization, curating data for re-use.
Register: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CWAc-1gTRa66TijBYa9-Ig
October 21st - Safe and Respectful Research Environments
Facilitator: Representatives from the Office of Global Inclusion will talk about how to create and promote a safe and respectful research environment, free from sexual harassment, bullying and other forms of professional misconduct.
Register: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CWAc-1gTRa66TijBYa9-Ig
October 28th - Research Misconduct
Facilitator: Christine Ponder
Dr. Ponder will cover what constitutes research misconduct, why misconduct happens, and how misconduct is reported and handled by NYU. This session will also cover conflicts of interest and mentor-mentee relationships.
Register: https://nyu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_CWAc-1gTRa66TijBYa9-Ig
