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We’re Biased. So Now What?: Personalizing and Mitigating Unconscious Bias
Many of us are committed to DEI and accept the extensive evidence from scholarly studies in psychology and neuroscience demonstrating that we all have unconscious biases that affect our interactions with others. In this interactive workshop, participants will: Gain...Talking Outside Your Field: Explaining Your Research During Your Industry Job Search
Are you a graduate student intending to apply for industry jobs? While talking to potential employers, you’ll find yourself trying to describe your research to non-experts, struggling to avoid jargon, and feeling like your description is vague or unclear. In this...Coffee Chats for Graduate Students: Networking for Career Success
“Networking” is a word that’s thrown around a lot, but what does it really mean? In this coffee chat for graduate students, we’ll unpack what networking is, why it’s useful, and some strategies to make it worthwhile. In particular, we’ll focus on informational...Grad School 101: Filing Taxes for Graduate Students
This session, which is geared towards domestic graduate students, will help prepare for tax season and answer questions. Registration is required at https://myumi.ch/73xbb. We want to ensure full and equitable participation in our events. If an accommodation would...Seventh Annual Rackham King Talks
Join us in the Rackham Auditorium as Rackham students communicate the relevance of their work to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in a TED-talk style. The 2024 MLK Symposium theme is “The 21st Century Struggle: Transforming the Jangling Discords of Our Nation into...MORE (FACULTY): Getting Your Relationship Off to a Good Start
This virtual workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and...MORE (STUDENT): Getting Your Relationship Off to a Good Start
This virtual workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles, and...Writing a Diversity Statement for Your Faculty Job Search
Increasingly, hiring committees are interested in how prospective faculty job candidates will contribute to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a result, many academic employers have begun to request a diversity statement as part of the faculty job application...A Community of Scholars: Summer Research Opportunity Program at U-M
In this Q&A, Richard Nunn, senior program lead and SROP coordinator, shares his thoughts on the program’s greatest impacts, needs, and vision.