169 College Ave
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Preparing Job Materials: A Co-Mentoring Session with Graduate Students and Postdocs
April 15, 2024
12:00-2:00pm ET
The Hatchery Innovation Studio at Alexander Library (169 College Ave., New Brunswick)
Applying for jobs can be an intimidating, time-consuming, and uncertain experience. This co-mentoring work session is designed to bring together graduate students and postdocs to share wisdom, ideas, and feedback with one another on job application materials for both academic and non-academic positions.
In an interactive, roundtable format, participants will both provide feedback on peers’ documents and receivefeedback on their own. Please bring 3 copies of one job application material (i.e., CV, teaching statement, diversity statement) on which you’d like to receive feedback from peers!
To attend this event, please sign up by April 10. Lunch will be provided!
Questions? Please contact Briana Bivens (briana.bivens@rutgers.edu), Janet Alder (janet.alder@rutgers.edu), and Itzamarie Chévere-Torres (ict@oq.rutgers.edu).
~This event is hosted and supported by the School of Graduate Studies, the Rutgers Health Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, and the Office of Postdoctoral Advancement and emerged from the ideation and advocacy of the SGS DEI Graduate Student Advisory Committee.~
Per a recent side letter agreement between the University and the AAUP-AFT, the University is pleased to announce the launch of a short-term travel grant program for Teaching Assistants (“TAs”) and Graduate Assistants (“GAs”), which will be administered by the graduate schools.
Phone
848-932-0975
Location
SEBS - Nutritional Sciences
225 Davison Hall
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Take your manuscript figures to the next level! Join us for a free workshop on creating better publication quality figures in BioRender. In this webinar, learn actionable tips and techniques for designing figures that will impress your manuscript reviewers.
Email
gd@french.rutgers.edu
Phone
848-932-8223
Location
15 Seminary Place, French Department, 4th Floor
Rutgers Academic Building, West
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
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