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Professional Development

NETL POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH PROGRAM (PGRP)

The National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Postgraduate Research Program (PGRP), managed by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, is a high-intensity program designed to not only identify recent master’s and doctoral graduates of high promise, but to continue developing advanced research skills within those graduates. It allows the postgraduate researcher to systematically outline career goals and helps provide the means of achieving these goals. One way the program helps to achieve these goals is the critical interaction with NETL principal investigators, who become the postgraduate’s mentor. This interaction affords the postgraduate researcher a unique opportunity to define and structure his or her investigations, to establish a research paradigm, and to publish results– all critical skills needed to become an independent scientist or engineer. See the NETL On-Site Research Core Competencies.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AREAS

  • Carbon Management
  • Chemical Reaction Engineering
  • Combustion Science
  • Computational Research
  • Environmental Science
  • Fuel Cell Research
  • Geosciences
  • High Temperature/High Pressure Science 
  • Materials Performance
  • Methane Hydrates Research
  • Process Development
  • Reciprocating Engines Research
  • Remote Sensing
  • Sensors and Controls
  • Separations Science
  • Surface Science

LENGTH OF APPONTMENT

Post-Master: Ten weeks to two year initial appointments renewable up to three years

Post-Doctoral: Ten weeks to two year initial appointments renewable up to five years

ELIGIBILITY

Graduates who received their master’s degree within the last three years, or doctorate within the last five years.

BENEFITS

  • Stipend – All postgraduate appointments provide a monthly stipend based upon academic classification and experience.
  • Insurance – Stipend supplement for single or family medical insurance is provided for most appointments (restrictions apply).
  • Household Relocation – Awarded on a case-by-case basis, relocation supplements assist with moving your household goods from your current residence to the research center (restrictions may apply).
  • On-station Travel – Classified as travel during your appointment, on-station travel is designed to enhance your learning experience by promoting attendance at conferences, workshops, and other educational meetings. Awarded on a case-by-case basis.

APPLICATION DEADLINES

Application is always open.

Search for available positions at http://www.orau.gov/netl/applicants/current-opportunities.html

For more information, contact Terry Howard at (865) 574-6912 orTerry.Howard@orau.org.

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Professional Development

Tuesday Q&A about the PhD job search

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Join us for a live Q & A via Google Hangout on Air on Tuesday, 30 Aug, at 4pm ET. Heidi, Jen, and Maren will take your questions about the PhD job search process and talk about our new course. So, if you’re interested in enrolling — or even if you’re not and just want your questions answered — we hope to see you there!

To attend, simply click on this link on Tuesday afternoon: http://bit.ly/2bh6nfq

Cheers,

Jen & Maren

P.S. We’ve got a freebie for you! As a thanks for being on this list, you can download a .pdf package with a few of our favourite resources included. Materials from all three of us! Get that here: https://beyondprof.com/your-free-handout/

Lectures & Conferences, Professional Development

P&G FIRST Conference

FIRST (Focusing on Industrial Recruitment of Scientific Talent) is a Procter & Gamble sponsored conference targeted to PhD and Postdocs in STEM fields to gain a deeper understanding about industrial research careers.

P&G in collaboration with its minority scientists and the PhD recruiting office developed the conference 26 years ago (1990).

The Conference will be held September 18-21st, in Cincinnati, Ohio (all expenses paid)

To Apply Go to www.pgcareers.com click Apply / Search Job #RND00003000 or follow the link https://pg.taleo.net/careersection/10000/jobdetail.ftl?job=RND00003000

Learn more at: www.facebook.com/PGFIRST.

2016 FIRST brochure.pdf

Professional Development

Beyond the Professoriate Virtual Conference – FREE when you register through GPS!

Beyond the Professoriate Virtual Conference

Learn about PhD jobs . . . and how to get them!

The 3rd Annual Beyond the Professoriate is a career conference for PhDs. It is hosted entirely online, and welcomes participants from around the globe on two days, Saturday, May 7, and Saturday, May 14. New this year is a 21-day replay so attendees who can’t make it to the live sessions can catch up what they missed later!

2016 at a glance: 2 days. 4 panels. 6 presentations. 11 hours of exclusive, live content. 20+ PhDs. 21-day replay.

See the full conference program at https://beyondprof.com/2016-conference/

And read all the speaker bios at https://beyondprof.com/2016-conference/speaker-bios/

NOTICE: Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies will sponsor graduate students and postdocs to attend the two-day conference. Sign up via this form and GPS will follow up with you with instructions on how to gain access to the conference for FREE! Deadline to sign up for your free registration from GPS is Friday, April 15th.

What: Beyond the Professoriate Virtual Conference

When: May 7th, 10am – 4pm CST and May 14th, 10am – 6pm CST

Where: Your couch, office, or the library… anywhere your computer has access to the internet!

Link to sign up for free registration from GPS: http://graduate.rice.edu/beyondprof

Questions: Contact Kiri Kilpatrick, kiri.kilpatrick

Professional Development

Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning

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GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN TEACHING & LEARNING
With registration for the fall semester quickly approaching, the Center for Teaching Excellence would like to remind the campus community of our signature program for PhD students: The Graduate Certificate in Teaching & Learning (GCTL).

This program, approved by the Faculty Senate in 2014, gives graduate students preparing for future careers in academia an opportunity to take dedicated, graduate-level courses on undergraduate pedagogy. And if they complete all four courses within the program (UNIV 500, 501, 502, and 599), their transcript will indicate that they have met the requirements for this fully-accredited certificate.

In the first two years of the program, 62 students from 21 different departmentshave taken at least one certificate course, and 15 students have completed the entire certificate. In the fall, students will be able to sign up for two of the four courses (UNIV 500 and 502), and we hope that you will consider registering and/or encouraging PhD students you know to register. Complete course descriptions, testimonials from participants, and a link for further information are below.
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UNIV 500: Principles of Effective College Teaching
Fall 2016; Friday, 9:00-11:30AMThis course provides an overview of essential, research-based methods used by college instructors to enhance the quality of student learning. Topics will include course and syllabus design, student engagement, classroom management, and more. the course will culminate with the development of a teaching philosophy and a sample syllabus.

Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: None
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UNIV 501: Research on Teaching and Learning
Spring 2017This course explores scholarship on teaching and learning in detail with special attention to the breadth of approaches and methodologies. The culminating project will be a literature review in an area of interest.

Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: None
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UNIV 502: Practicum in College Teaching
Fall 2016; Friday, 1:00-3:30PMThis practicum allows students to design and deliver teaching demonstrations and to receive feedback on their work. The course will also focus on the place of teaching in the broader landscapes of higher education and the academic job market.

Credit Hours: 3
Pre-requisites: UNIV 500 & UNIV 501
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UNIV 599: Teaching Portfolio
Fall 2016; Spring 2017; Summer 2017This course provides an overview of essential, research-based methods used by college instructors to enhance the quality of student learning. Topics will include course and syllabus design, student engagement, classroom management, and more. the course will culminate with the development of a teaching philosophy and a sample syllabus.

Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: UNIV 500 & UNIV 501
Corequisite (or prerequisite): UNIV 502
“As someone on the academic job market this year I found [the program] extremely helpful for talking about my teaching at interviews as well as for preparing my teaching statement. Many schools I interviewed at asked questions about how I would deal with diversity in the classroom, what style of teaching I find most effective, how I engage students in the learning process, etc. Having discussed these issues in [certificate courses] I was able to give thoughtful responses to these questions that were well received.”

Jennifer Bulcock, Former Rice Graduate Student
Assistant Professor, Cabrini College

“[The Certificate Program] was valuable for me in two primary ways: first, it provided a discussion platform for a number of issues about larger trends in higher education and second, we explored specific pedagogical goals and strategies and how that relates to syllabus construction and lesson planning. Doing that within a class consisting of graduate students and professors from multiple disciplines made salient how different presuppositions about educational values and approaches can be, which was especially valuable, both because it challenged me to defend what I presumed about the values of certain practices, but also because I hope someday to be a professor, and insight into colleagues who think very differently than I do about these matters will be important.”

Carissa Phillips-Garrett, Current Rice Graduate Student
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