Would you like to hone your writing skills? The School of Graduate and Advanced Studies is looking for a few good writers from across the programs to write about significant events, awards and publications from each discipline to be featured on the home page of the School website.

Articles should be between 600-800 words and published authors will receive a $50 stipend.

The School also offers a monthly science outreach event called Brain Buzz in White River Junction in association with the Upper Valley Food Coop and the Vermont Institute for Natural Sciences where graduate and advanced students are invited to participate in a casual conversation around their research. Food and drinks are provided at this monthly event which takes place the final Wednesday at 6pm. This is a great opportunity to present your research to a friendly, engaged, and informed lay audience, make connections in the local community, and offers a chance for lay-audiences to engage in the scientific conversation with Dartmouth researchers. Spaces are filling fast for this, so please reach out to participate either as an individual, pair, or group. The local Public Access channel often films these events, posting the video to Vimeo, which is great for those broader impact statements!

Please contact Amanda Skinner ([log in to unmask]) for more information if interested in either.

We welcome all graduates researchers to participate in the 2nd Annual Celebration of Biomedical Research (CBRaD) poster session. This event will highlight research in all the science graduate programs under the School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, and biomedical-related research labs throughout Dartmouth. All are welcome to attend and/or present!

We hope to further engender a sense of community throughout the faculty, postdocs and graduate students who do research here, as well as foster potential collaborations. As many graduate students join us in the fall, this is also an opportunity to demonstrate the strength and diversity of biomedical research at Dartmouth, particularly for students seeking rotations and thesis labs. Poster presenters will be given 5 minutes to deliver their poster to judges, and top posters will be awarded either an iPad, $100 gift card to Simon Pearce, and $25 gift card to Starbucks. If poster presenters do not want their poster to be judged, then they will be entered into a raffle where they can win other awesome prizes. Food and beverages (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic) will be provided.

As the date for CBRaD is fast approaching, we would encourage all graduate students, postdocs and faculty interested in presenting their own research or their lab’s research to sign up on the Google spreadsheet linked directly below. We also have a spreadsheet for attendees below that. Please sign up by October 12th as we will need a final headcount for posters, food, and beverages.


**UPDATES**

Just a few updates on this event and a reminder to please sign up ASAP!

v NEW this year! We are having a mentoring award - To qualify for this award we would ask students to submit a short cover-letter detailing why their mentor should win this award, along with the biosketch or CV from that mentor. Please submit to Gail Egner no later than October 12th.
v This year we have 10 monitor/screens available in LSC 200, so if you are interested in presenting an interactive poster, please send that request to Gail. If we have more than 10 interested in using the monitors, we will assign them based on who replies/requests them first.
v Reminder – Faculty, students and postdocs can present their work. Last year we had a nice mix and it really adds to the character of the event!


Poster session sign up:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1j3LQAm9FlMAkO7yIAaIWXRazSqKZr63bX9E_yRHUu8o/edit?usp=sharing

2nd Annual CBRaD Poster Session Sign-up
docs.google.com
Posters Please choose ONE Name, Program, Department, Position ( Student/ Postdoc / Faculty), Poster Title, Mentor( s), Do you want to be judged?, Or entered in the raffle? Shan Chen, MCB, MSB, Student, Circadian Rhythms in Murine Macrophages, Dr. Jay Dunlap Dr. Jennifer Loros, Yes Nichola...



To RSVP for the event:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tAQnIRch1vKS0datGkMFFIAvoZ_REV2gA6zp7DF80MU/edit?usp=sharing

RSVPs for CBRaD (non poster presenters) - October 20th
docs.google.com
Sheet1 Name, Department/ Program Brock Christensen, Epidemiology/ PEMM/ QBS Adrienne Mehalow, MSB Brooke Brauer, PEMM Alexander Titus, Epidemiology/ QBS Diana Toledo, MSB/ MCB Colin Sheehan, MCB Muhammad Abubakar Khan, MCB Muhammad Abdul Haseeb, MCB Janice Galejs, MCB Daniel Mattox, Q...



We hope you all will participate in CBRaD. Please email any questions to [log in to unmask], or the PEMM student reps [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

In order to cultivate a community focused on teaching and learning amongst graduate students and postdocs, DCAL has established a Learning Community for Future Faculty (LCFF). The focus of this group is to share the rewards and challenges of college teaching, while digging a bit deeper into best practices and techniques for teaching. For this month's LCFF meeting, we will discuss how to deal with problematic situations/students in a classroom setting. We will go through mock classroom situations to discuss how we might best respond. If you have an example of problematic cases that you would like to go over with the group, bring it along!
Date:
Monday, October 10, 2016
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/2697929

What is your teaching philosophy? If you don't know, come to the Teaching Statement Workshop Series. Most academic institutions ask for applicants for an assistant professor position to submit a teaching statement/philosophy. Come find out how to articulate your philosophy in a concise essay. In the first session we will discuss teaching philosophies and what should go in your statement. During the second session we will review each other's statements.

This is a 2-part workshop. ***Please register for both sessions!!!*** (Note this is at 3:30pm, not noon as was put on the flyer.) Thanks!
Date:
Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Time:
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/2796923

First Generation College Grad Students’ Lunch

location:TBA

(First Gen students are those whose parents did not complete
a 4 yr college degree)

Are you the first in your family to go to college? If so, then perhaps navigating graduate school has its share of joys
and challenges.

Come enjoy lunch and talk to other first-generation college graduate students about their experiences.

If you are interested in reading a bit about the research on
First Generation Graduate Students here is an article...

http://www.academia.edu/474522/_Those_invisible_barriers_are_real_The_progression_of_first-generation_students_through_doctoral_education
or

Here's Smarty-Pants, Home for the Holidays

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Heres-Smarty-Pants-Home-for/136069/
Date:
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/2769617

Grad Alumni Visit

Date:
Thursday, October 20, 2016
Time:
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Location:
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/2859169

Location: 1930s Room, Rockefeller (off Webster Ave.)

Brad DeMay and Juan R Cubillos-Ruiz talk to graduate students about consulting and academic careers.