COMPASS Open Forum: Managing Up to Maximize Mentoring Relationships
Come participate in an interactive session on maximizing mentoring relationships to receive better guidance as a trainee. Trainees will learn strategies to manage up in their relationship with their mentor to receive better-tailored and maximal mentori…
How to Benefit From Integrating International Research Infrastructures in Your Research Project
Research is becoming ever more complex and increasingly requires access to state-of-the-art technologies and specialized expertise, which are not always available to researchers. Publicly funded international research infrastructures make state-of-the-…
How to Give a Chalk Talk
Are you interested in a career in academia but unfamiliar with the standards of chalk talks often giving during interviews? While trainees have plenty of opportunities to practice and present their data, tips and strategies on delivering a chalk talk a…
Mentoring Keynote: “Seeding Science”
Professor MariaElena Zavala, the 2020 Mentoring Keynote honoree, will describe her career path as a scientist and how mentoring has played a role. Learning Objectives:1. Participants will learn how mentoring shapes the development of a scientist2. Part…
Navigating the Grant and Fellowship Process for Trainees
This session will be a panel discussion focused on the application process for grants and fellowships for graduate students and postdocs. This session will be very interactive, featuring a short introduction and overview of various fellowships and tips…
Getting into Graduate School: the Do’s, the Don’ts and the What if’s
Sponsored By: ASCB MAC-IPERT Fund The Annual ASCB meeting is a unique professional development opportunity for undergraduate students to attend a premier international scientific meeting. This session is designed specifically to inform undergraduate at…
Increasing the Number of Blacks in STEM
As the various advances in science and technology continue to shape our world, it is vital that the United States of America be able to contend with other developed nations in producing qualified individuals to fill positions in the STEM. In order to d…
Transitions Academy – Senior Graduate Session: Planning Your Next Step Finding the Right Path For Your Career
Sponsored By: Minority Affairs Committee, IPERT Fund In the final year of a Ph.D. program, graduating students must decide which career path they are passionate about. Opportunities exist in academia, industry, government, non-government organization…