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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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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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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.

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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.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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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.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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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.

The workshop will be hosted on Zoom or WebEx.

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This workshop will provide suggestions for creating an inclusive classroom environment. During this session, we will review the benefits of inclusive, equitable teaching practices and discuss specific, actionable ways that instructors and TAs can foster a welcoming environment for all students.

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We will discuss strategies to encourage student participation, for both in-person and virtual classrooms. We will go over how to set the stage for success on the very first day and how to recognize and allow productive silence in the classroom. In addition, we will discuss activities and tools that you can use to increase student participation.

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Join us as we return to an in-person Symposium and Poster Session to celebrate the outstanding accomplishments of our Summer Scholars. Following an inspirational plenary speaker, meet the 64 students and learn about the research they have done under the guidance of carefully-matched Rutgers faculty mentors. Participants represent 49 sending schools from 21 U.S. states and territories.

For the full program and more information on the RISE Symposium, please see our full website here.