######################################################################## Graduate Studies Listserv - ######################################################################## To view this newsletter in a browser, visit: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A2=GRAD;5970bf22.1710p To ensure that this newsletter is delivered to your inbox, add [log in to unmask] to your address book. ######################################################################## In this Newsletter: * Science Writing Workshop 2 parts * Teaching the Interview * Academic Chalk Talk * Talk about writing books and getting grant $$ * Write Winning NSF Grant Proposals * * Subscription Details ######################################################################## * Science Writing Workshop 2 parts * Science Communication Workshop Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Location: Campus: Graduate Studies http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3480454 Lunch provided for by STEPS Location: 102 Baker/Berry in DCAL Science Communication Workshop 2 part workshop - must sign-up and attend both sessions. Location 102 Baker (DCAL) Science communication transforms research into a story. The discovery of gravitational waves is an epic journey that covers over a billion years of cosmic history. Research into Antarctica’s melting ice sheet is a tale where climate scientists live in the frigid world for weeks on end, listening to the pops and bangs that radiate from the ice every time a new crack forms. And a study on Ethiopia’s plate tectonics is a daring story where researchers brave political dangers in order to better understand our shifting planet. But science communication isn’t just an art form — it’s a skill that’s necessary in today’s world. In this workshop, you will learn how to communicate your research to colleagues outside your immediate field, patients and the public at large. Not only will you learn to accurately summarize your research — often distilling years’ worth of work into a few paragraphs — you will also learn how to convey the underlying passion, excitement and resourcefulness that produced those discoveries. Regardless of past experience, you will walk away with a better understanding of how to communicate your findings. Bio Shannon Hall is a freelance science journalist and recovering astronomer based in Hanover, New Hampshire. She received her first master’s degree in astronomy before she jumped ship and received a second master's degree in science journalism. When she’s not sitting in a coffee shop writing, she can be found chasing a story — like the one that took her deep into Maine’s forests to stalk moose calves or the one that took her to Ethiopia, where the African continent is literally ripping in half. Her work appears in Scientific American, National Geographic, Discover, Nature, Sky & Telescope, New Scientist and others. You can read her stories at www.hallshannonw.com or follow her on twitter @ShannonWHall. * Teaching the Interview * Teaching the interview class Date: Monday, October 23, 2017 Time: 3:30pm - 5:00pm Location: DCAL, 102 Baker Library Campus: DCAL Categories: DCAL http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3544464 In addition to a research talk, you may be asked to teach during your interview. Join us to chat about teaching the interview class. * Academic Chalk Talk * Academic Job Search - Crafting your "Chalk Talk" & Research Statement Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Location: DCAL, 102 Baker Library Campus: Graduate Studies Categories: postdoctoral scholars http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3651389 The Academic Job Search often requires that candidates (particularly scientists) give a talk or a "chalk talk" during a campus interview. What’s a chalk talk? (excerpt from "Demystifying the chalk talk" by Charles Brenner, as printed in the ASBMB "today" pub. 2013) A chalk talk is your opportunity to present your forward-looking research program to potential colleagues. They will have seen your seminar on the first day, so your research accomplishments will be fresh on their minds. They will be wondering how you plan to organize your laboratory, what types of experiments you plan to do first, what your funding plans are, what your relationship is with your current principal investigator, who you think your major competition is and how well you have thought out your research plans in case things don’t work out the way you think they will...... Project your inner principal investigator, who is capable of defending a progressive research plan to successful colleagues and who appears capable of directing a small research group. * Talk about writing books and getting grant $$ * Lunch with Charlotte Bacon Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017 Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm Location: Campus: Graduate Studies http://libcal.dartmouth.edu/event/3633148 Come enjoy lunch and conversation with Charlotte Bacon, associate director for Humanities Grant Support at Dartmouth. She will talk about writing books, finding, and applying for grant money! Bio: As associate director for Humanities Grant Support, Charlotte will work with faculty in the humanistic disciplines to identify funding opportunities and facilitate connections to resources for scholarly work. Based at the Leslie Center, she hopes to develop strong relationships within and across departments in an effort to fund research that supports faculty aspirations and enhances Dartmouth's reputation for scholarship. She has managed and written grants for projects in the arts and directed and obtained funding for nonprofits. Charlotte was an associate professor of English at the University of New Hampshire and has published five works of fiction, including three novels with Farrar, Straus & Giroux. She has received the PEN/Hemingway prize, a fellowship from the NEA, a Guggenheim Foundation award, and a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. Her degrees are from Harvard and Columbia. * Write Winning NSF Grant Proposals * Dartmouth GrantGPS invites you to attend the following all-day seminar: Write Winning NSF Grant Proposals Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 Time: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM (Lunch provided) Where: Dartmouth campus (Hanover), Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (room 041) Presenter: John Robertson, PhD (from Grant Writers’ Seminars & Workshops) A brief description of the program is available at http://www.grantcentral.com/seminars/write-winning-grant-proposals/. This seminar is appropriate for all Dartmouth faculty, postdocs, graduate students, grant administrators, and others involved in writing NSF proposals. A draft agenda is attached. Participants will receive an extensive handout and a workbook. To register please send an email to Cindy Stewart ([log in to unmask]), indicating your primary department and title. 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