(Note we will start at 12:15 in June.) Practice makes perfect! For this month’s LCFF, we will be discussing the dreaded chalk/research talks used at job interviews. To better prepare ourselves, we will practice how to teach our research to different people in forms of short, mock chalk talks. Come practice and polish your pitches for job talks, chalk talks, networking events, or family gatherings.
Come prepared with a short pitch to explain your current research to the group (3-5 min)—and challenge yourself to use the whiteboard instead of slides!
Please look at the following links to prepare your mock talks:
http://www.ascb.org/compass/compass-points/preparing-academic-chalk-talk/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~provost/postdoc/docs/ChalkTalkPresentation%20Nov%2009.pdf

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. The LCFF meets monthly on the 2nd Monday of the month. Let us know if you'd like to facilitate!
Date:
Monday, June 12, 2017
Time:
12:15pm - 1:30pm
Location:
DCAL, 102 Baker Library
Campus:
DCAL
Categories:
DCAL
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/2697937

Come enjoy lunch and discussion with GRAD Alum, Marcella Lucas on her international career.


Dr Marcella Lucas is an innovation strategy consultant specializing in establishing and growing innovative companies globally. She obtained her BSc Biochemistry from the University of Bath (UK) and her PhD in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (Neuroscience) from Dartmouth. She worked as a strategy consultant in the pharmaceutical and medical devices space in Boston before joining Malaysia Blue Ocean Strategy Institute in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2014.

At Malaysia Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, Dr. Lucas developed innovative national-level strategies for the Malaysian government, its top leadership and key private sector players to foster social and economic development. Dr. Lucas is now applying Blue Ocean Strategy concepts to release untapped talent and energy in organizations and individuals and she is working with LeadWomen to design workshops, programmes and conferences with the aim of developing innovative women leaders in the new economy across ASEAN and East Africa. Concurrently Dr Lucas is setting up a Kenya-based nano-finance platform in Malaysia which will enable the bottom-40 population to access loans and capital to support their entrepreneurial enterprises.


Marcella M. Lucas, Ph.D.
Date:
Friday, June 16, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: 37 Dewey Field Rd, Suite 437
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3350576

Please join Christian for lunch and a discussion on his career path from a postdoc to Academic Administration.

Lunch provided.

37 Dewey Field Road, Suite 437

Christian Darabos, Ph.D., is the Life Sciences Application Specialist at Research Computing and applications team co-lead. He supports the computational efforts and needs of the research and teaching community at Dartmouth. After obtaining an MSc in Computer Science and an MSc in Bioinformatics from the Universities of Lausanne(Switzerland) and Torino (Italy), respectively, Christian set up an international collaboration for graduate programs between the two universities. In 2010, he obtained a double graduate degree (Ph.D.'s) in Business Information Systems and in Molecular Biotechnologies from these institutions. His post-doctoral research fellowship led him to join Jason Moore’s Computational Genetics Laboratory at Geisel School of Medicine first, then at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine until 2015. His research interests span across all aspects of Dynamical Complex Network Systems for simulating bio-medical phenomena.
Date:
Monday, June 19, 2017
Time:
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location: 37 Dewey Field Rd, Suite 437
Campus:
Graduate Studies
http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3366444

Alumni Email Transition

In 2011, Dartmouth decided to offer matriculated Dartmouth students an e-mail address for life. This means that the address they get when they matriculate at Dartmouth will be theirs to use for the rest of their life. Since the vast majority of alumni already forward their Dartmouth e-mail to free commercial e-mail services that better meet their needs – and are much better at blocking spam and other unwanted messages - Dartmouth made the decision to transition all alum.dartmouth.org accounts to this dartmouth.edu "e-mail address for life" service as well. By the end of 2013, Dartmouth will retire the College-administered e-mail service used by some alumni (BlitzMail) and instead offer Dartmouth.edu addresses to all alumni.

It is important to note that the "e-mail address for life" service is an account with an e-mail address, but does NOT have a mailbox attached to it. Dartmouth will provide you with the tools to forward your Dartmouth.edu address to any other e-mail account you own, such as gmail or hotmail. This means that you can give out your Dartmouth.edu address when you start as a student and know that this address will always be yours – not just for the time you are in Hanover.

To help you manage this change, the Alumni Help Desk (603) 646-3202, will provide alumni with information (see below) on how to obtain, setup, and configure free e-mail accounts that are offered by Microsoft or Google. They will also assist with configuring those accounts to allow you to send e-mail from your new Dartmouth.edu address. This will allow you to receive and send mail from a Microsoft or Google account but using a Dartmouth.edu address.

For graduating students: your e-mail address will stay the same but approximately 60 days after commencement your mailbox will be removed. Prior to this time, your dartmouth.edu address should be forwarded to a non-Dartmouth account. Information will be sent to you during the spring term regarding this transition, giving you time to migrate any messages or contacts to another non-Dartmouth account.

8 Steps to a Successful E-mail Transition:
Know your NetID: When you log in you will be prompted for your NetID. If you can't remember what it is, you can find it at http://login.dartmouth.edu. Click the Lookup your NetID link on that page. In the window that appears, type your first and last name. Do not press Enter. If more than one account is displayed, click on the line with your complete name. Your NetID will appear.

Set Forwarding on Your Account: Log into Dartmouth's Directory Manager system (dartdm.dartmouth.edu) and set the forwarding on your account to another non-Dartmouth e-mail address that you own.
Migrate Any Messages You Want Retained: If you have used BlitzMail in the past, log into your alum.dartmouth.org account and review any messages there. If there are any you want to keep, forward them to your non-Dartmouth account.
Migrate Any Addresses You Want Retained: If you have used BlitzMail in the past, log into your alum.dartmouth.org account and review the personal mailing lists you have there. Set up these same mailing lists in your non-Dartmouth account and test those lists to ensure you transferred the addresses correctly.

Remove BlitzMail from any Computers Your Own: Once your transition date arrives, remove the BlitzMail application from any computer you own so that you don't accidently log back into your alum.dartmouth.org account and wonder where all your new mail is.

Watch for e-mail updates for specific information informing you of your transition date. We will be sending you more detailed e-mails, including the date on which your account will transition. After this date, if you have not set forwarding on your account, e-mail sent to your alum.dartmouth.org account will be returned to the sender as undeliverable.
Have a mobile device (smartphone, iPad, etc.)? Delete your alum.dartmouth.org and/or Dartmouth.edu account from this device before your transition date.

Update your contact information with your new Dartmouth.edu address. If you have your alum.dartmouth.org e-mail address on any business cards, resumes, etc. update those places to reflect your new Dartmouth.edu address.
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Do you need solid career advice? Have you ever wanted to write a social media post for us? And how about getting a free lunch at '53 Commons? Here's how you can do all three!
Step 1: Come to one of the career workshops hosted by Kerry Landers, Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs. (Look out for her emails!) Or other GRAD related events...
Step 2: Check in with Amanda Skinner. Write a little blurb highlighting the moments in the workshop that the graduate student community can learn from and take a few cool photographs. Send the info to Amanda Skinner or Analisa Goodman.
Step 3: If we post, you get a foco lunch coupon (all you can eat), on us!