GradLink@Madison 2-17-06, UW-Madison Graduate School

If you are a student parent enrolled at the UW-Madison, you may qualify for financial assistance for child care fees through the Child Care Tuition Assistance Program (CCTAP). CCTAP is intended to financially assist eligible low-income students obtain quality child care. CCTAP is funded through student segregated fees recommended by the Student Services Finance Committee and approved by the Chancellor and the Board of Regents. Applications are being accepted for the spring 2006 semester. More information, deadlines, eligibility requirements and applications can be accessed on the CCTAP Web site.

Need money for MA, pre-diss, or dissertation overseas research and study? Come to an important informational meeting on the Fulbright-IIE Student Program and Fulbright Hays Dissertation Program (DDRA) competitions for 2007-08

This meeting is for graduate students interested in Fulbright-sponsored international research/study for 2007-08. Both sessions are the same. The campus deadline for the Fulbright-IIE competition will be Monday, September 18, 2006. The campus deadline for the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program will be set in the Fall semester (typically the deadline is in October). The Fulbright Student Programs are among the U.S. Government's most well-known and prestigious international research and study programs.

For more information check out the International Fellowships Web site. Please contact: Erin Crawley, Fellowships Advisor, International Institute, or call 262-9632.

The Marie Christine Kohler Fellowship offers an opportunity to dissertators, and third year MFA, Law, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine students to reside rent free in the Knapp House, the former Governor's Mansion. The fellowship is founded on principles of scholarship, leadership, and fostering a breadth of ideas.

4. Additional Funding Resources - For more information on the above and other funding opportunities check out the current edition of Wisconsin Week. Additionally, individuals looking for funding opportunities are usually best served by starting with the Funding Sources for Individuals category. For a complete list of fellowships and other funding opportunities for graduate students, check out the Graduate School's Office of Fellowship Newsletter.

Don't forget that the UW Job Center offers a great online resource for finding graduate student assistantships on campus. Register with the Job Center to receive weekly updates.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Classes, Programs and Workshops

5. Delta Teaching Portfolio Workshop Series

Presenting Yourself for a Successful Faculty Career - Part II: Understanding, designing and creating teaching portfolios

Thursday, February 22
8 :00 am - 11:00 a.m.
Tong Auditorium, Engineering Centers Building
Register by Friday, February 17

In this workshop, participants learn about the three parts of a portfolio: artifacts, reflective statements, and teaching and learning philosophies. In-depth attention is given to two of these parts (artifacts and reflective statements) through a series of connected activities and discussions. Participants leave with increased knowledge of what artifacts are and how to write reflective statements, as well as an artifact they create individually in the workshop and the start of that artifact's reflective statement. For more information see the Delta Web site.

6. Writing Center - February/March Classes

The Writing Center offers non-credit classes throughout the semester, held in Helen C. White Hall. Writing Center classes are free, and are open to currently registered UW-Madison students. Each class will give you the chance to pick up valuable writing skills in a supportive, small-group environment.

	Thursday, March 2	Writing Research Posters
	Friday, March 3	Writing Graduate Research Proposals
	Tuesday, March 7	Writing Critical Reviews of Nonfiction Books & Articles
	Thursday, March 9	Writing Literature Reviews of Published Research

7. Graduate School Seminar and Workshop Series offers opportunities throughout the year.

	Thursday, February 23 and Monday, February 27	Locating Grant Funding Sources using the SPIN Database
	Tuesday, February 28 and Wednesday, March 1	Proposal Preparation Tips
	Thursday, March 2 and Monday, March 6	Preparing Grant Proposal Budgets
	Friday, March 3	Material Transfer Agreements

8 . Library Workshops - February - March

Campus libraries conduct workshops throughout the year at no charge.

Topics include: using Refworks and EndNote; using Dreamweaver to build web sites; keeping up with the latest in your field through RSS feeds and self-service alerts; using web-based learning tools like My Web Space and Learn@UW, and publishing your research article.

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9. Online Workshop

Interviewing for Faculty Positions: Perspectives from the Chairs of Search Committees
(Click here to view the online workshop)
Sponsors: Women's Studies Research Center, Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning, Graduate Student Collaborative, and Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development.

Panelists:
Heidi Goodrich-Blair, Associate Professor, Department of Bacteriology
Leann M. Tigges, Professor and Chair, Department of Rural Sociology
Basil Tikoff, Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geophysics
Mariamne H Whatley, Professor, Curriculum & Instruction, Women's Studies Program, Associate Dean, School Of Education

The panelists, four recent chairs of search committees, offer very practical and candid advice. Since so many students expressed interested in attending this event, the panel presentation was taped to make it available to more students. We encourage you to discuss this material with your thesis advisor and other faculty and students in your department. This panel discussion was held in November, 2005.

Seminars and Conferences

10. "Success as a Post-doc and Beyond"

Dr. Sharon Milgram - Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (UNC)
Director of the UNC Interdisciplinary Program in Biomedical Sciences Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Adviser to the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Services and UNC Postdoctoral Association

Thursday, February 23, 2006
1:00-2:30 pm
Science House, 1630 Linden Drive
RSVP to Chris Pfund

Sharon has worked to develop the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Services which strives to enhance, support and promote postdoctoral training at the university and to prepare postdoctoral scholars for successful careers. Sharon also played a key role in establishing new postdoctoral policies and procedures at UNC and helped to make UNC the #1 ranked institutions for post-docs in the country. She has spoken and written on issues related to professionalizing the postdoctoral experience. Click here for more information.

Please join us for this unique opportunity! Email Chris Pfund at to reserve a spot at this event.

11. Delta Roundtable Dinner

How does a productive scientist add informal science education to her/his array of responsibilities? In this roundtable, scientists who have met with a measure of success at balancing research and outreach will talk about how they do it.

Wednesday March 1st
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Memorial Union

Informal and Outreach Science Education, Sharon Dunwoody (Journalism) and Steve Ackerman (Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences), Greta Zenner (MRSEC, Nanotechnology)

We invite members of the Delta Community, and those new to Delta, to join us for this free event and the opportunity to think about beyond-the-classroom teaching and learning opportunities.

12. Eighth Annual German and Dutch Graduate Student Conference: Voices Throughout the Ages

Friday & Saturday, March 3 & 4
Noon - 7:00 p.m.
225 Pyle Center

A conference focusing on the expression, development and authenticity in the German language. Information: 262-3008 or email.

13. Wisconsin Symposium on Human Biology

Monday - Thursday
May 22-25
Memorial Union

Can we evolve from the fractured understanding of human biology represented by our current specializations? Can we begin to learn how to assess environments, accounting for individual differences in genotype and phenotype and the interplay between robustness and plasticity? The Wisconsin Symposium on Human Biology will explore a number of areas of current progress in the analysis and enhancement of human biology.
Registration is required but free to members of Wisconsin’s academic communities. Be sure to register early. Some of the events have limited capacity.

GSC Professional Development

14. Women in Academia Discussion Group

Attention Graduate Women! Join us for monthly Women in Academia Discussions.

Friday, February 24
4:30 - 6:00
Memorial Union (TITU)

All are welcome. It's a great time to share thoughts with other women striving to succeed and balance different aspects of life here at UW well. Upcoming dates include: March 31, and April 28. Contact Hillary Lum if you have any questions.

15. Graduate Student Mentor Awards

Honor the graduate student in your department who takes the time to help others succeed in graduate school - nominate them for the Graduate Student Mentor Awards. To nominate an outstanding grad student mentor simply write a letter (no more than 3 pages) detailing how this person exhibited mentorship qualities. Include the contact info for you and for the nominee and submit the letter between March 1st and March 27th. Email the letter to the Graduate Student Collaborative (GSC) or send to 408 Bascom Hall. Any individual can nominate a graduate student who has made a difference through mentoring others. Several people can also combine efforts to nominate one peer in one letter. Recipients will be honored at a reception on April 27th at 5pm. This program is co-sponsored by GSC, The Graduate School, and PARTNERS for Success.

Additional Professional Development Opportunities

16. Sixth Annual International Opportunities Month - February 1 -28

February 2006 features the sixth annual International Opportunities Month (IOM) on the UW-Madison campus, organized by a campus-wide committee of globally focused UW-Madison organizations. Throughout the month, students of all majors can attend IOM events to hear about ways to travel, work, study and volunteer abroad. Programs will feature speakers from fields such as international public health, the US Foreign Service and the Peace Corps. Not only will participants learn about global career possibilities and all of the international programs that UW-Madison has to offer, but other events with an international focus, from samba dancing to a global governance simulation that will widen the lens through which IOM participants see the world. Click here for the International Opportunities Month home page.

17. eTeaching- Opportunity for future faculty to learn about the changing academy

You are invited to explore eTeaching on Wednesday, March 1 as the IMDC airs the first in this year's Ready2Net series "The Future of eTeaching." This program will be presented in room 228 Educational Sciences Building, 1025 W Johnson St, from 10:30 am to 11:45 am. There will be time for discussion with other graduate students, School of Education faculty and staff, and members of ComETS (Committee of Media and Educational Technology Support). To read more about this series, visit the Web site.

Please let GSC know if you will attend.

18. Arts and Humanities Career Panel

Are you a current grad student in the arts and humanities? Are you wondering how the skills you are developing in graduate school will help you in the "real" world? If you answered yes to one or both of these questions, please join us for an informal discussion with UW-Madison MFA and PhD grads who are putting their skills to use in their post-graduate careers.

Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Noon-2:00 p.m.
Virginia F. Harrison Parlor
Lathrop Hall

Sponsored by Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development.

Registration required. Go here to register.

Nominations

19. Teaching Academy Seeks Future Faculty Partner Nomination

Graduate students, teaching assistants, medical and veterinary residents, postdoctoral fellows, or anyone else engaged in graduate or professional study with a strong interest in higher education teaching should consider a nomination as a Future Faculty Partner. Future Faculty Partners meet once a month to discuss a topic relevant to higher education teaching. They have guest speakers, participate in workshops, and discuss a variety of topics such as TA training, writing a teaching philosophy, writing a good syllabus, and interviewing for higher education jobs. The nomination /application procedure is available here.

For more information, contact Pamela Scheibel, Michel Wattiaux, or Heather Mc Fadden or call 263-7748.

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SOCIAL EVENTS

20. GSC Friday Social

Friday, February 17
Argus Food and Spirits on the Square
123 E. Main Street
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Don't miss the GSC Friday Social! This Friday, February 17, we will be at the Argus Food and Spirits from 5:00 -7:0pm. The Argus is located at 123 E. Main Street and offers pool and darts. Walk down State St, take a right on Carroll, walk around the Capitol to 123 E. Main Street. Look for the red GSC signs. Hope to see you there! Email GSC if you have any questions.

Hope to see you there! Email GSC if you have any questions.

21. GSC Graduate Student Bash with Hoofers Sailing and Grads from the Psychology Department

Friday, February 24
State Bar and Grill
118 State St
5:00 - 7:00 pm

Join the Graduate Student Collaborative, Hoofers Sailing Club, and graduate students from the Psychology Department at the State Bar and Grill for the February Grad Student Bash! The State Bar Grill is at 118 State St. We will be giving away prizes! E-mail GSC for more information.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

22. Freedom Fest: An Artful Celebration of African-American Heritage

The Madison Center for Creative and Cultural Arts presents four evenings of pride featuring movies, dance, poetry, theatre, music and poetry. Visit the Web site for a calendar of events.

February 18, Pan-African Dance Party
A unique dance experience fusing American and African dances featuring BroDJ and Most Variety DJ Lasisi.
Doors open at 8:00 p.m. Admission is $5.

February 25, Sounds of Freedom
An evening of poetry, music and song featuring the Hanah Jon Taylor Artet with bassist Yosef Ben Israel from Chicago; Atimevu Drum and Dance Ensemble and a special bass solo performance by Dr. Richard Davis.
Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Seating is limited. Admission is $10, $8 for students.

The Madison Center for Creative and Cultural Arts is a non-profit, grassroots arts organization serving the entire Madison community. For more information regarding Freedom Fest or other events at the MCCCA please call 251-2787.

ADDITIONAL GRADUATE INFORMATION RESOURCES

Want more? See the Graduate Student Professional Development Web site, the GSC Web site, the University Events calendar, Software Training for Students, the Library Workshop Calendar for general and specialized workshops.

ACADEMIC DEADLINES

For a list of all spring Semester deadlines check out the Office of Registrar Web site.

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GradLink@Madison is produced by the Graduate Student Collaborative and the Graduate School's Office of Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development. GradLink@Madison is produced monthly, on the third Friday of the month, from September 2005 to April 2006 as a pilot project. Each issue includes events for the upcoming month. We hope that you will find this information useful. We will be evaluating the effectiveness of the project in the spring.

GradLink@Madison is also designed to complement the weekly e-newsletter, Grad Connections, sent to students who subscribe to the GSC listserv.

To view past issues of GradLink@Madison go to the archive.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Classes, Programs and Workshops

SOCIAL EVENTS

COMMUNITY EVENTS

ACADEMIC DEADLINES

FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Classes, Programs and Workshops

ACADEMIC DEADLINES

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

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