Harvard SEAS Professional Development Seminar

Harvard SEAS Professional Development Seminar Series

Spring 2011

School of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University

About :: Seminar Schedule :: Resources :: Teaching :: Contact

Tuesdays, noon to 1pm in Maxwell-Dworkin 119

About

A weekly seminar on topics related to professional development for all graduate students and post-docs in SEAS. Lunch will be provided. If you'd like to be get email announcements of the week's speaker, email Jing Yang.

Schedule

Date	Speaker(s)	Topic	Resources
2/8/2011	Greg Morrisett	Professor Morrisett will talk about the 'Top 10 things I did right or wrong in grad school'	Slides
2/15/2011	Laura S. Malisheski	Building Professional Connections	Slides
2/22/2011	David Clarke Professor of Materials, Harvard University	Preparing for (Graduate School) Afterlife: Pointers for Your Future Career	Slides
3/1/2011	Daniel Jacob Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Harvard University	Balancing work and play
3/1/2011	Stuart Shieber Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University	What you should know about publishing
3/22/2011	Venkatesh Narayanamurti Former Dean of SEAS, Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Professor of Physics, Harvard University	Societal grand challenges and science policy: opportunities in academia, industry and national laboratories
3/29/2011	Robert Westervelt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University	The marriage of biological and physical sciences: the world over the bridge
4/5/2011	David Weitz Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Harvard University	A start-up company to start your career
4/12/2011	Garth McCavana Dean for GSAS Student Affairs, Harvard University	How I Moved to the Dark Side (i.e., Academic Administration)
4/19/2011	Federico Capasso Professor of Applied Physics, Harvard University	Find your voice in research
4/26/2011	Joanna Aizenberg Professor of Materials Science, Harvard University	Science on the Edge - A Life-Work Balancing Act

Resources

The Office of Career Services has many resources and seminars related to career and professional development for both academic and non-academic careers. We highly encourage you to use this as a complement to SEAS's own offerings!

Join their LISTSERVS just for grad students, one on academic and one on nonacademic careers. They send out job postings, reminders of OCS programs, and announcements of other career events and information
Check out their website, http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu, especially the section specifically for graduate students.
If you'd like to discuss your career questions with a GSAS specialist, drop by OCS any Monday 1:00-4:00pm for their scheduled drop-ins, or call OCS (5-2595) to schedule an appointment.
HBS has a cool elevator pitch builder.

The Bureau of Study Counsel is a center for academic and personal development. They host numerous workshops and discussion groups, as well as many self-help resources on a large variety of topics. Take a look around their website!

Teaching

SEAS offers a Teaching Practicum course (CS365) for all graduate students. This year it will be taught spring semester.
The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning offers many resources on teaching.

Contact

If you have any questions or would like to be added to a mailing list for weekly meeting reminders, please contact Dimitrios Antos, antos at fas.harvard.edu.