The Graduate School has introduced a new Graduate Certificate in Workplace Competencies through the Center for Graduate Life.
The Workplace Competencies Certificate is designed for graduate students across all disciplines, students with a recent undergraduate degree, and young professionals interested in enhancing their career prospects.
For more details, please visit the Graduate School.
Graduate students competing in this year’s Three Minute Thesis will have their first round competition Oct. 28 beginning at 9 a.m. in the Halton Reading Room, main floor, J. Murrey Atkins Library.
Through the Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) program offered by the Center for Graduate Life (CGL), contestants vie for the most compelling presentation of research to an audience that may not share the same expertise. The program offers cash prizes and winners may go on to present at national and international 3MT events.
Participants receive developmental feedback on their communication skills. Each participant in the preliminary round will receive feedback from competition judges as well as a video recording of his/her own presentation.
For more information, visit the Center for Graduate Life, the Your Grad Life Blog and the 3MT Event Registration site.
Faculty may nominate students for the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award through Oct. 18, 2019.
The Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award is a part of the Graduate School’s focus on enhancing research skills. For more information, please visit the Center for Graduate Life’s Research Skills website.
Nomination information, fields of competition and more is available from the Graduate School.
If you have questions, please contact Julie Green, jhgreen@uncc.edu, Master’s Thesis Student Services and Fellowship Specialist.
Dr. Karen Kelsky, Ph.D., will address Hacking the Academic Job Market in a Sept. 19 webinar as part UNC Charlotte’s celebration of National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) Appreciation Week.
Kelsky is a former tenured faculty member and department head who now delivers career advice through her business, The Professor Is In. She has a reputation for telling the truth about grad school, the job market, and tenure. She and her team have a particular commitment to supporting black women in the academy, as well as other scholars of color.
This hour-long career webinar and Q&A, funded through the Chancellor’s Diversity Challenge Fund, will examine all aspects of the job search, including:
The webinar is available to all postdocs and graduate students.
September 16-20 marks the 10th annual NPA Appreciation Week. This year, the Graduate School and the Center for Graduate Life (CGL) plan several events to recognize the contributions of postdocs.
Other NPA Appreciation Week events include:
For more information on any of these events, visit the CGL Event Calendar.
The Graduate School’s Canvas TA Training course for the Fall semester is now available to all new TA’s. If any of your TA’s have not received an invitation to the course, if they’ve missed the course in the past, or if their assistantship contracts were processed later than August 5, please contact Dr. Aura Young so that they can be added to this required course. Questions regarding the training should also be directed to Dr. Young.
Graduate student orientation is planned for Aug. 17, with separate sessions planned for doctoral and master’s/certs/postbac students.
Orientation for doctoral students will be 11-3 p.m. in the Lucas Room and master’s, certificate, and post-baccalaureate students will run from 1-3 p.m. in McKnight Auditorium. The sessions were separated to better meet each group’s unique needs.
Both groups will travel to Uptown Charlotte at 3 p.m. via light rail for a reception at UNC Charlotte Center City.
For more information on graduate student orientation, please visit the Center for Graduate Life.
The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) will host a webcast Aug. 7 on emerging best practices for improving institutional culture and research integrity. The webcast highlights information from three graduate deans, including Tom Reynolds, Associate Provost and Dean of The Graduate School at UNC Charlotte.
Reynolds joins John Klingensmith, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, Duke University Graduate School and Judith Stoddart, Senior Associate Dean at Michigan State’s Graduate School to share strategies under way to strengthen research culture on campus. Their comments were recorded at a recent CGS conference.
The webcast will air Aug. 7, 2-3 p.m. EDT. Visit CGS to register.
The 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award goes to Lauren Austin, Public Policy and Amanda Burmeister, Biological Sciences.
This award is presented each year by the Graduate School to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte.
For more information, check out the News on the Graduate School’s website.
The Center for Graduate Life will host a three-day writing retreat in July offering quiet space, structured writing time and writing-related resources to with help a dissertation, thesis or other large writing project.
The Summer Graduate Writing Retreat runs July 26-28 at UNC Charlotte’s City Center building, 320 E 9th St, Charlotte. Meals, snacks and coffee provided.
The Retreat is open to UNC Charlotte graduate students, faculty, staff and members of the community. For more information and to register, please visit the Center for Graduate Life’s Events Calendar.
Students interested in making a strong start on their career will want to register for Career Lab: Developing Career Core Competencies through the Center for Graduate Life. The course delivers strategies for developing and promoting a personal brand such as a strong application package.
The course meets Mondays, 4-5:45 p.m. in Cone 268. It is instructed by Dr. Suzanne Voigt, Asst. Dir, University Career Center.
Register for GRAD 6320/8320 at my.uncc.edu.
The summer 2019 Ventureprise Launch National Science Foundation I-Corps program provides UNC Charlotte faculty, staff and students with commercialization training and up to an initial $5000 in NSF funding.
The next stage is a six month $50,000 NSF I-Corps Teams grant. The cohort will run May 29-July 10 (break for the July 4 holiday). The goal of the program is to identify potential commercial uses and prepare for more substantial commercialization funding opportunities.
A complete schedule and application form can be found at Ventureprise Launch NSF I-Corp. To learn more, please contact Principle Investigator Devin Collins (7-8058).
Yuehan Shao, Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, and Katie Wilkers, MS, Kinesiology, were named Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistants (TA) for 2018-19.
More information on the awards can be found in Graduate School News.
Converting years of research into a short, compelling description that grabs attention is an art. This workshop, offered through the Center for Graduate Life and facilitated by Dr. Elise Demeter, Office of Assessment and Accreditation, will share practical tips to help students craft an effective elevator pitch.
For more information and to register, visit the Center for Graduate Life.
The 2019 Graduate Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award will focus broadly on Biological Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts and nominations should be in by May 24.
This award is presented by the Graduate School to recognize outstanding research and scholarship by a doctoral student at UNC Charlotte. Award recipients receive a cash prize and possible participation in the annual meeting of the Council of Graduate Schools.
For more details and how to nominate someone, download the 2019 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award information sheet.
Students who need some help making progress on their thesis or dissertation will get a boost from the Graduate Writing Retreat Feb 22-24, offered by the Center for Graduate Life.
The retreat includes structured writing time, resources and support and a quiet space to work.
There is a registration fee. More information is available from the Center for Graduate Life.
Nominations for the 2018-19 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) Award will be accepted through Mar. 1. Awards will be presented in the spring semester.
The TA Award recognizes students who are nominated by their faculty supervisors for their work as teaching assistants. Two awards are presented; one at the Doctoral level and one at the Master’s level.
For more information is available on the CGL’s website.
The North Carolina Conference of Graduate Schools (NCCGS) will offer the Virtual Workshop, “Personal and Professional Development for Graduate Students – Best Practices” Friday Feb. 1 at 2 pm.
The presentation with discussion will be led by:
Join by Phone: 1-415-655-0003, Access code: 736 124 895
Join with WebEx. Access code: 736 124 895
For those connecting with WebEx:
Up to $5,000 in initial funding is available to selected students, faculty and staff who participate in the 2019 Ventureprise Launch NSF I-Corp program.
The program provides participants with commercialization advice, training and up to an initial $5000 in NSF funding. The goal of the program is to identify potential commercial uses and prepare for more substantial commercialization funding opportunities. The next stage is a six-month, $50,000 NSF I-Corps Teams grant. The cohort will run February 8 through March 22 on Friday afternoons.
Applications are due Friday, February 1. A complete schedule and application form can be found on the program webpage. To learn more please contact Laura Smailes at 704-687-5675.
