Past Events

Visa and Immigration Options for International Postdocs & Researchers

May 29, 2020, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Brendan will give an informational seminar about visa and immigration options for international postdocs and researchers. He will also touch on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the immigration landscape.

How to Stay Calm-ish and Carry on: Tips on Parenting during COVID-19

Apr 24, 2020, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Parenting in a time with no or limited child care, schooling at home, and extra stress on the family all around brings about unique challenges. This brief, interactive online session will allow for discussion about some current common parent challenges and offer tips and practical strategies for navigating parenting in the face of COVID-19. Organized in collaboration with the Society of Postdoctoral Scholars

Begin with the End in Mind: Postdoc to Faculty Career Planning

Mar 10, 2020, 1:30 – 2:30 PM

In this personal account, Dr. Alexander-Bryant will share career planning advice to advance from postdoc to faculty. Organized in collaboration with the Office of the Vice President for Research and the F Joseph Halcomb III, M.D. Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering

The Graduate Student and Postdoc's Guide to Personal Finance

Feb 4, 2020, 12:00 – 1:00 PM

Are you ready to take the next step with your finances as a graduate student or postdoc? Do you want to learn how to allocate your money more optimally, break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck, build up savings, and/or begin investing? This seminar teaches graduate students who receive stipends and postdocs how they can develop positive lifelong financial habits and increase their net worth while still in training. The topics covered in this seminar are: financial goals, budgeting, saving, investing, debt repayment, and taxes.

Navigating graduate student and postdoctoral funding: Foundation/Non-NIH funding

Jan 29, 2020, 2:00 – 3:00 PM

Navigating graduate student and postdoctoral funding: Foundation/Non-NIH funding. Organized in collaboration with the Markey Cancer Center and the Office of Biomedical Education

How to make people care about your data

Nov 20, 2019, 4:00 – 6:00 PM

He doesn't know who you are. He doesn’t know what you want. He doesn’t have a PhD... but what he does have is a very particular set of skills. Skills he's acquired over a very long career in public speaking and pitching to clients. Skills that make him a must-see for postdocs like you. In this interactive workshop, he will teach you tips and techniques that will guarantee you stop presenting boring seminar presentations and posters to audiences who (may or may not) care about your research.

Building a scientific editing network

Nov 13, 2019, 1:30 – 2:30 PM

In this interactive seminar, Kathleen will teach us how she built InPrint, a scientific editing network, and how it helped support her research career. InPrint is a trainee-run scientific editing network and resource that provides free, confidential editing of scientific communications to the Washington University in St. Louis research community. InPrint editors work with clients to provide prompt, concrete edits and writing suggestions for manuscripts, abstracts, fellowship proposals, presentations, cover letters, and more.