Event Description
Project management is a great career for those who love research but are tired of the bench and want to be involved at a higher level organizing and coordinating the studies. Come hear from PhD level employees at Merck, Orthobond, Sherlock Biosciences, and an independent consultant. Also learn about the software tools and approaches that are the state-of-the-art for project management so you can understand these processes and use them in either an industry or academic job.
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iJOBS and Erdos Institute Seminar: Ray Lei Zhong, PhD Data Analytics
Professional Development
Event Description
Ray Zhong is the Senior Director of Data Analytics R&D at Real Chemistry. Learn how he has transitioned from a PhD in nerve cell regeneration to a data scientist to his current role. At Real Chemistry Ray brings data analytics and clinical solutions together to drive innovation and leads a cross-functional team to standardize and commercialize the core offering of Real Audiences. He also leads internal initiative to explore and build social analytics capability in the clinical development space and led a digital clinical trial recruitment project to analyze patient profile, design creatives, activate media, and report on the outcomes for a basket of 3 late phase clinical trials.
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iJOBS Seminar: Startups and Fellowship Opportunities
Professional Development
Virtual Location
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Are you interested in joining a startup or being an entrepreneur yourself? Small companies allow you to wear many hats and learn all aspects of industry which helps you with your long-term career prospects. Attend this panel to meet scientists from 3 different local startups to hear their stories and advice on how to navigate this career path. You will also learn about an exciting fellowship opportunity for recent PhD graduates to have a 2 year postdoc at a company in New Jersey funded by the NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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iJOBS Site Visit: Bristol Myers Squibb
Professional Development
Event Description
You are invited to spend an afternoon at Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS), one of the nation's leading pharmaceutical companies, located right here in New Brunswick. Learn how the company operates, have an opportunity to meet with PhD level scientists at the social networking hour and tour analytical and automation laboratories. BMS is a differentiated company, led by its unique BioPharma strategy that leverages the reach and resources of a major pharma company paired with the entrepreneurial spirit and agility of a biotech firm.
IN PERSON ONLY
1 Squibb Drive, New Brunswick, NJ
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iJOBS Company Visit to Campus: Merck
Professional Development
Event Description
Come in person to meet several Merck PhD level employees representing the following groups: Bioanalytical, ADME, Toxicology Safety, and Pharmacometrics. They will each give a background on their area and talk about their own career paths. Then we will have round table discussions with lunch served where you can network and ask questions. Next we will hear from Human Resources about some open positions and the skill sets most in demand. Finally, the Merck scientists that include hiring managers will do mock interviews with behavioral based interview questions and review resumes in small groups.
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Fellowship Application Workshop for Biomedical PhD Students
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GradFund on how to use their resources at Rutgers for identifying fellowship opportunities and applying for them.
A faculty member who serves on NIH study section and reviews fellowship applications with pointers on what reviewers are looking for.
A panel of graduate students and their mentors who have successfully obtained funding in the past few years from various organizations.
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Intermediate Prezi Next
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Teaching with Technology WorkshopsEvent Description
This webinar will give an introduction and overview of Prezi’s newest applications: Prezi Video - “lets you interact with your content live as you stream or record (instead of adding it later), for more natural, seamless, and compelling videos.” Prezi Videos can be produced from scratch, or you can, with one-click of your mouse, transport your Prezi Present file into a Prezi Video file. Prezi Design – an editor that, “lets anyone make professional-looking charts, reports, maps, infographics, and more, then share them anywhere in any size."
The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.
Using Media in PowerPoint
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Teaching with Technology WorkshopsEvent Description
This workshop will explore the incorporation of audio and video into PowerPoint presentations for the PC. We will cover the different audio and video formats that are compatable with PowerPoint and available web resources for downloading free content.
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Introduction to VoiceThread
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Teaching with Technology WorkshopsEvent Description
VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia web-based application that allows you to place collections of media-like images, videos, documents, and presentations at the center of a conversation. It can be an easy way to differentiate instruction while providing engaging choices to "show" learning, engage in conversation, and think openly and critically about content. In this workshop, you will learn how to use VoiceThread for your online courses and how to integrate it with your Sakai page.
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Introduction to Prezi Next
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Teaching with Technology WorkshopsEvent Description
Prezi is a cloud-based presentation application (for both Mac and PC) that lets you organize and share ideas and information in a very dynamic way. You can lead your students (and audience) on a visual journey, collaborate in real time across time zones, and run your presentation from the cloud, desktop, iPad, or iPhone. In Intro to Prezi NEXT, you learn how to set up a free account, navigate the canvas, create topics and subtopics, utilize templates, apply text, images and video, and use the Tool/Prezi Editor.
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