"Workshop on Negotiating a Faculty Position"
Workshop on "Negotiating a Faculty Position" took place on April 17 in Vail 513. Our panelists Prof. Elizabeth Smith (Biological Sciences), Prof. Casey Greene (Genetics) and Prof. Robert Cramer (Micro&Immuno) answered general questions on what to expect and what can (or should not) be negotiated during the academic negotiation process.
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"Postdoc Night Out"
Thursday February 21st of 2013 at Canoe Club (8pm).
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"Workshop on Developing and Maintaining Records of Research Performance + Interview Skills"
Workshop took place on Friday, Feb 22 12-1:30 pm in Vail 513. Knowing how to effectively market yourself is an essential skill for success, whether it is to prospective employers or for fellowship or grant applications. This workshop with Prof. Jennifer Loros (Department of Genetics) covered two related topics: 1) Tactics on making a great impression during a job interview 2) The importance of creating and maintaining effective records (such as CV) of your research/academic performance.
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"Annual DCPDA Research Symposium 2012"
Nov 27th at the gallery of the Life Sciences Building. Dartmouth's President Carol Folt was the keynote speaker. At the symposium Postdocs presented their research to the Dartmouth community in the form of poster presentations. Abstracts for these presentations will e available soon.
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"School Science Cafe Info/Training Session"
Oct 31, 2012 at DCAL, 102 Baker Library. School Science Cafes are outreach opportunities for grad students and postdocs working in the "STEM" fields of science, technology, engineering and math to visit a group of middle school students to share their experiences and career path. School cafes are designed to be highly interactive and conversational, and the goal is to engage students in talking about science and in considering STEM careers. This session covered the goals and expectations for School Cafes, provided tips on interacting with middle school students, and included some activities to help you explore your skills in communicating with a young audience about your work.
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"Workshop on Entrepreneurship"
Oct 25, 2012 in Vail 202. Jake Reder, Ph.D. (Director of New Ventures here at Geisel, and CEO of Celdara Medical, LLC) provided information on how (and why!) to commercialize research findings, how the patent system works, how to find a lawyer, how to start your own company, etc. and answered relevant questions on these topics.
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"Research and Beer"
Oct 8th at Murphy's. Michael Rosenweig has been involved in various clinical trials and provided an insight into the transition from a scientist into clinical trial projects.
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"Postdoc Night Out"
Thursday, Sep 20th 2012 at Canoe Club
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"Academic Job Search and Interview Workshop"
Wednesday, Sep 26 2012 in Vail 513. Panelists Prof. Yolanda Sanchez (Pharmacology & Toxicology), Prof. Brian Pogue (Thayer School of Engineering) and Prof. Bradley Duchaine (Psychological and Brain Sciences) answered questions and gave advice on how to search and apply for a job, what to expect, what you should and should not do, and how to best prepare for the interview.
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"Postdoc Appreciation Day"
Wednesday, Sept 19, 5-6:30pm, DCAL Teaching Center, 102 Baker Library
Faculty, Graduate students and, of course, Postdocs took part in our joint reception with DCAL for Postdoc Appreciation Day.
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"Writing Mentored NIH Career (K awards) for early stage investigators"
July 24th at DHMC Auditorium G, Rubin level 4. NIH Career Development Awards (K awards) are among the most successful NIH programs and have helped launched the careers of many young investigators. The NIH-wide success rates for K awards are good, yet investigators often don't understand which award is right for them and what's expected of them to secure an award. In this 4-hour seminar, information was given by Dr. Jack Hoopes (served on various NIH Peer Review Panels for K awards) about NIH Mentored K Awards, details of award types, content, and strategies for writing a highly competitive application. This seminar provided invaluable advise for early-stage or new investigators interested in a research career. This seminar was presented by Dr. Christopher Dant at the NCCC and SYNERGY/TDI.
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"PhD Consulting Panel"
June 26th 2012 at Moore Hall, room B03. The Graduate Consulting Club set up a panel of consulting professionals with PhD background. Participants learnt more about:
- How consulting experience enhances your career path
- What a PhD consultant does
- How to get into consulting as a PhD graduate
Format was a ten-minute intro to the GCC followed by a fifty minute panel discussion.
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"Workshop: Managing Lab Personnel"
May 30th, 2012. Learn more about how to manage laboratory personnel. Do you wonder how to pick and choose the members of a lab that you will be running in an academic
or industrial setting? Do you wish to have some insight into how to push the members of your team to be the most productive that they could be while at the same time
promoting a fun working environment? DCPDA sponsored a workshop on managing lab personnel, with these distinguished panelists: Duane Compton (Dept. of Biochemistry), Leslie Henderson (Depts. of Physiology& Neurobiology and of Biochemisty) and Bryan Luikart (Dept. of Physiology& Neurobiology) who talked about their past experiences relating to the management of lab personnel.
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"Research and Beer"
Tuesday May 8th. At Murphy's backroom of Murphy's. Dr. Brian Jackson talked about his work regarding arsenic accumulation in food products.
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"Spring Salsa Fest"
Sunday May 13th at the D.O.C. House. Catered by Gusanoz Mexican restaurant, with beer, wine and soft drinks provided by DCPDA. Also, there were two pinatas and other games too! There was also a Salsa competition:
Salsa 1:
People made their favorite salsa recipe and everyone attending were able to taste it and vote for the best salsa recipe. The first prize was a $30 gift certificate and the second a $20 gift certificate from Gusanoz mexican restaurant.
Salsa 2:
There was a free salsa class in which people learnt the basics of salsa Cuban style.
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"Postdoc Night Out"
Due to popular demand the Postdoc Night Out has restarted. On Thursday (April 5th) at 7pm, postdocs met for drinks at Canoe Club. Please let us know what time works best for you. Your feedback is important!
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"Workshop: Landing Your Academic Dream Job"
April 3rd, 2012. Lola Thompson, a current math PhD student went on over 30 academic job interviews! Her hard work paid off and she was offered both her "dream" tenure-track job at Oberlin College and her "dream" research postdoc (an NSF VIGRE postdoc at the University of Georgia). She offered her perspective on both types of searches. Joining her was Jennifer Taylor, a PhD chemistry student, who through networking obtained the job she wanted with one interview. She will be working as an IRTA research fellow at the NIH, in the protein-DNA crystallography lab of Fred Dyda.
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"Distinguished Lecturer Series"
March 20th, 2012 at DHMC (Aud G) at 5pm. The Dartmouth Clinical Trials Office in collaboration with the Dartmouth College PostDoctoral Association (DCPDA) are hosted an exciting presentation by Dr. Vijay Govindarajan: "Strategy is Innovation". Dr. Vijay Govindarajan is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy and innovation. He is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Recently, Prof. Govindarajan Ranked as Number 3 Management Thinker in the World and won the Breakthrough Idea Award for the $300 House.
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"Research and Beer (R&B) @ Murphy's"
March 22nd, 2012 at 5pm at Murphy's. Brain awareness week and Neuroscience Day at Dartmouth were held this week. To commemorate Prof. Eugene Nattie from the Physiology department talked about "Can We Prevent the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?". DCPDA provided food and drinks.
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"Workshop: Negotiating a Faculty position"
March 8th, 2012, in Vail 513, at 12p-1:30pm. Are you or will you be looking for a faculty position, and want to discuss some tips with professors on the negotiation process? Panelists (Dr. Karl Griswold (Thayer), Dr. Anne Clark (Pyschological and Brain Sciences), and Dr. Bill Wickner (Biochemistry)) to discussed these topics, answered questions and shared their experiences as both the interviewers and interviewees.
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"Workshop: Preparing for an academic interview"
Thursday, February 9, from 12-1:30pm in Vail 513. Are you planning to apply for a faculty position in academia? The Dartmouth College Postdoctoral Association (DCPDA) sponsored this workshop on how to prepare for the academic interview. Our panelists Prof. Patricia A. Ernst (Genetics), Prof. Charles K. Barlowe (Biochemistry) and Prof. Dean E. Wilcox (Chemistry) answered questions and gave you advice on what to expect, what you should and should not do, and how to best prepare for the academic interview process.
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"Research and Beer (R&B) @ Murphy's"
David Bzik (Microbiology and Immunology) presented on January 12 at Murphy's. Title of the presentation: "An inside job: Hacking into mammalian cell biology by the intracellular protozoan Toxoplasma gondii".
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"2011 Annual Research Symposium"
On December 12th at the Top of the Hop. This was the time when postdocs showed to each other, faculty and the broader Dartmouth community the great work done here at Dartmouth (Poster presentations) and also show back our appreciation to our mentors (Mentor Award).
The winners of the Mentor award were Alan Eastman (Senior) and James Moseley (Junior). The goal of this award was to recognize the excellent leadership and support in research.
The winners of the Poster Award were Andrea Corcoran (1st prize), Luca Magnani (2nd prize) and Dhana Nair (3rd prize).
To check out some photos of this event please click here.
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"Research and Beer (R&B) @ Murphy's"
On December 8th 2011, Dr. Jason Moore, a Professor of Genetics at Dartmouth Medical School, introduced us to the "Quantitative Biomedical Sciences at Dartmouth".
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"Workshop: Mock Grant Panel"
- Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 12:00-1:30 pm in Vail 614. Are you planning to write a research grant application? DCPDA offered a "Mock Grant Panel" workshop to provide early stage scientists with an insider's view of the grant revision process in study section. What are some of the does and don'ts in research proposals and what constitutes an outstanding grant application?
Our panelists Prof. Scott Gerber, Prof. George O'Toole and Prof. Bruce Stanton provided answers to these and other questions. Each panelist talked briefly about what they perceive as valuable advice for young scientists who are writing a research grant application, and this was followed by a Q&A session.
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"Academic Job Searching Seminar"
- Friday, October 14th 2011, 12 PM at Haldeman, Room 125. Brian Pogue, Professor of Engineering and Dean of Graduate Studies provided essential information on successfully landing an academic position, either at a postdoc or at an assistant professor level job.
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"Career Planning for Postdocs Seminar"
DCPDA hosted a special seminar by Dr. John Bixby on Thursday (Oct. 13th) from 12-1.30 at Vail 202.
Dr. John Bixby, who besides running a research lab, is also the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at the University of Miami, gave an informal talk entitled "Career Planning for Postdocs".
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"Workshop: Presentation Coaching"
- June 23rd, 2011. Do you tend to feel nervous about giving a presentation for a seminar/conference or would you like to improve your general presentation skills?
DCPDA offered a workshop with presentation coach Elizabeth Appleby. Coming from an acting background, Elizabeth Appleby is experienced in coaching people with stage fright and provides advice and exercises that help overcome presentation anxiety. In addition, by focusing on verbal and non-verbal cues rather than the content of a presentation, she can give advice on how to improve the delivery aspects of your presentation.
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"Cinco de Maio Postdoc Social Party"
- Sunday May 15th 2011, starting at 5pm. DCPDA hosted a Cinco de Maio Postdoc Social Party at the DOC house. Food was catered by Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant.
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"Biochemistry Postdoc Seminar Series 2010/2011"
- Having taken over from Chris Stroupe, Katja Koeppen is now organizing the Biochemistry Department's Postdoc Seminar Series. The seminars will take place on alternate Fridays.
Presenting your work in this informal and congenial setting is a low stress way to synthesize your ideas and get friendly feedback from your peers.
It is rewarding, and it is also a nice way to network with other Dartmouth Postdocs.
These Seminar Series take place every year. Please notify new Postdocs in your lab who might not be on the mailing list and encourage them to attend.
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"Jump Start Your Job Search: A Short Course in Social Media"
- This was a 3-part workshop series on how to effectively use social media in your job search. Even if you are not actively looking for a job right now, this series prepares you for what you need to know and what "no-no's" to avoid online.
January 12, 2010 (Tuesday) Online Presence "101." Click for details.
January 14, 2010 (Thursday) Career Positioning Using LinkedIn and Twitter
January 21, 2010 (Thursday) The Web 2.0 Job Search
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"DCPDA Travel Award 2009"
- Please help us congratulate the following postdocs for competing for the first DCPDA travel award. Due to the generous contributions of several Dartmouth departments, we were able to award four outstanding postdocs with $1000 EACH for travel to a conference of their choosing.
Shalini Ayyagari, Department of Music, Mentor: Theodore Levin
Aurelie Deveau, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Mentor: Deborah A Hogan
David J Graber, Department of Pathology, Mentor: Brent T Harris
Ronald White, Department of Chemistry, Mentor: Jane Lipson
We would also like to congratulate all of the outstanding applicants who submitted applications and presented at the awards ceremony. It was a fantastic, very well attended event! We are looking forward to another poster symposium, with even perhaps more money to compete for next year!
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"Spring Postdoc Social Party"
- Sunday May 3rd 2009, from 2-7pm. DCPDA hosted a Spring Postdoc Social Party at the DOC house. Food was catered by Gusanoz Mexican Restaurant.
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"Meyers-Briggs Testing"
- May 11th 2009, 4-6 pm. Meyers-Briggs Testing (at Vail 202)
A personality test will be given to interested postdocs to determine their type. The test will be given out before hand and the two hour session is to score and interpret the test results. Descriptions of the personality types and possible career choices/approaches will also be discussed.
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"What makes a good Chalk Talk?"
- Everything you wanted to know about the infamous Chalk Talk during academic interviews! Are you applying for academic jobs this fall? This informative session explained the basics of the Chalk Talk presentation. A panel of both new and established faculty answered questions and shared their perspectives on what makes a good Chalk Talk, things you should and should not do, and how to best prepare for them. Please click here to see presentation given on this topic by George O'Toole, Prof. of Microbiology and Immunology.
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"Cover Home Repair Project"
- June 13th and 14th, 2009. Cover is a local non-profit organization whose mission is to build community and foster hope through cooperation and fellowship among all home repair and reuse participants. The project involved working together with two low income families in Canaan, building entryway steps, repairing a rotted portion of flooring, and applying a protective coating on a roof to make both homes safer and more inhabitable.
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"From CV to resume"
- June 10, 2009. 12 noon. Chaninging your CV to a resume (DCAL)
Denise Robbins from HR lead a workshop showing postdocs how to convert their academic CVs into resumes suitable for many industry, and other "real-world" jobs.
more details here.
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"Evaluating and Negotiating Job Offers: Demystifying the Process"
- March 20, 2009. Video presentation on "Evaluating and Negotiating Job Offers: Demystifying the Process"
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"Conflict Resolution Workshop"
- Wednesday, February 18th 2009, 12-1:30 in DCAL. "Conflict Resolution" (link to workshop material 1, material 2)
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"Insider Scoop: Industry Networking Panel"
January 22nd 2009, Occom Commons. "Insider Scoop: Industry Networking Panel"
Purpose