Virtual Writing Session
Graduate School Office of Professional Development
Communication Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness
January 21st, 9:00am–10:00am
Join us for your daily writing session! We'll be live on Zoom to write together in community and reflect on how the session went. Professor Carlita Favero (Ursinus College) will provide a brief introduction, we'll write for 30 minutes, and we'll close out with reflections. Maybe you're asking, what counts as writing? Well, if the pen is moving on the page (or your fingers are on the keyboard), then you’re writing.
Illustrator 1: Creating Graphics with Illustrator
Software Training for Students (STS)
Inquiry, discovery, and creation Communication
February 3rd, 5:30pm–7:00pm
In this workshop, students explore the favorite tool of many creative professionals, Adobe Illustrator. Used by designers and artists around the world, this powerful vector graphics program makes it easy to create logos, posters, product labels, icons, website mockups and more. Software Training for Students (STS) offers free technology classes for students. If you are a student and would like to attend this class, please enroll via the STS website (sts.doit.wisc.edu).
Discovery to Product (D2P) Open House
Career development Inclusion and diversity Inquiry, discovery, and creation Leadership Managing projects and people Communication
February 5th, 4:30pm
Have you ever wondered where to start with your innovation or research idea? How do you develop it into a viable product, service or company? Meet our expert mentors and learn about our free training—attend a 30-minute UW Discovery to Product (D2P) virtual open house.
InDesign: Creating Documents with InDesign: Layout and Type
Software Training for Students (STS)
Inquiry, discovery, and creation Communication
February 5th, 5:30pm–7:00pm
This is an introduction to Adobe InDesign, an industry-standard desktop publishing software program. InDesign is used for creating documents with multiple pages like newsletters, magazine publications, newspapers, and books. In this class, you will design and create a magazine spread. Topics include: - Navigating the Workspace - Page Layout - Working with Frames and Shapes - Text and Paragraph Styles - Working with Graphics and Images - Intro to Parent Pages - Saving, Exporting & Packaging
Discovery to Product (D2P) Open House
Career development Inclusion and diversity Inquiry, discovery, and creation Leadership Managing projects and people Communication
February 7th, 12:30pm
Have you ever wondered where to start with your innovation or research idea? How do you develop it into a viable product, service or company? Meet our expert mentors and learn about our free training—attend a 30-minute UW Discovery to Product (D2P) virtual open house.
Oral History: What is it? And how do I do it?
Inclusion and diversity Inquiry, discovery, and creation Communication Personal and Interpersonal Effectiveness
February 12th, 4:30pm–6:00pm
If you’re interested in doing an oral history interview or project or just wondering what it actually is, this workshop will help you. Presented by UW-Madison Archives' Oral Historian Troy Reeves, this 90 minute session will offer an overview of the art and science of oral history. Please register for either the in person or virtual session at https://go.wisc.edu/u1261y . The zoom link for attending virtually will be sent prior to workshop.
Three Minute Thesis® (3MT) Finals
Graduate School Office of Professional Development
February 14th, 10:00am–12:00pm
DeLuca Forum, Discovery Building
Three Minute Thesis® is an international competition in which graduate students explain their thesis research to a general audience in only 3 minutes. The top 9 contestants from the semi-finals will compete for cash prizes and the chance to represent UW–Madison at the regional competition. Three Minute Thesis® is presented by the Madison Chapter of GWIS and the Graduate School Office of Professional Development.
Discovery to Product (D2P) Open House
Career development Inquiry, discovery, and creation Managing projects and people Communication
March 12th, 4:30pm
Have you ever wondered where to start with your innovation or research idea? How do you develop it into a viable product, service or company? Meet our expert mentors and learn about our free training—attend a 30-minute UW Discovery to Product (D2P) virtual open house.
Discovery to Product (D2P) Open House
Career development Inquiry, discovery, and creation Leadership Managing projects and people Communication
March 14th, 12:30pm
Have you ever wondered where to start with your innovation or research idea? How do you develop it into a viable product, service or company? Meet our expert mentors and learn about our free training—attend a 30-minute UW Discovery to Product (D2P) virtual open house.
CIRTL Network Teaching-as-Research Presentations
Graduate School Office of Professional Development
April 9th, 11:00am–12:30pm
Hear graduate students and postdocs from across the CIRTL Network share the results of their Teaching-as-Research (TAR) projects in this online presentation session. In TAR projects, future faculty explore a specific question about teaching and learning, design and implement some sort of classroom-based intervention to test that question, and consider how they might adjust their teaching practices based on what the results show. TAR is a cornerstone of CIRTL’s work in developing reflective pract