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Even faculty who have mentored dozens of graduate students and postdocs can always improve their skills in mentoring. This advanced topics workshop will use lessons and cases from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) for active learning (participation required) on the topics of 1) aligning expectations, 2) addressing equity and inclusion, as well as 3) promoting professional development. Interactions with your fellow faculty will help you reflect on various mentoring situations. This process will thus enhance your readiness to work with diverse mentees and anticipate new situations. All faculty are invited to participate and since the NIH requires those on training grants and whose students have their own fellowships to be trained, your participation will make our programs more competitive for future funding.

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Making your LinkedIn profile highly visible and building your brand is essential for expanding your network and helping you get hired. However, most of us struggle with what to include in our LinkedIn profile. Penny Pearl of 2Actify is an expert at helping scientists articulate their unique value and create a brand that we can use for marketing ourselves as researchers who have transferable skills. Attend this workshop to learn best practices as to how to create the different sections of your LinkedIn profile improve your chances of getting noticed by those who matter!

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This active learning workshop for PhD students, Postdoctoral Fellows and faculty will use techniques and case study discussions in breakout sessions to teach tools and skills to better mentor undergraduate students in a research setting.  Attendees will also reflect upon approaches they would use to mentor trainees and employees when they are running a lab or research group in the future. An opportunity to earn a Microbadge in Mentoring Undergrads will be available for those who wish to follow up with additional activities.

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Vidhya Rangaraju is a faculty at the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and started her group in 2020. She will share how she has successfully navigated the academic path to establish herself as a rising star. She will present her research from 12-1pm and then give her career path advice from 1-2pm. Dr. Rangaraju received her PhD at Weill Cornell Medicine and then was an EMBO and Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Germany. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Vincent du Vigneaud Award of Excellence, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Award, the MPIBR Scientific Discovery of the Year Award, the SfN Peter and Patricia Gruber International Research Award, the CZI Ben Barres Early Career Acceleration Award, the SfN Janett Rosenberg Trubatch Career Development Award, and the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.

Zoom and In-person options. Lunch will be served for those who attend in-person