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April 2017
VT Event: Writing Center Workshop- Professionalizing Your Writing
April 17 from 1:00-3:00 PM; Location: Graduate Life Center, Room C Spring 2017 Writing Center Workshop Series This workshop will include guided instruction from Writing Center graduate student coaches on the following topics: Understanding writing tasks rhetorically. Exploring common writing mistakes. Recognizing and fixing your own mistakes. Developing strategies for making your writing more clear. Additionally, students attending the workshop will have time to work on their own writing tasks with support from coaches. For more information, please click here.
Find out more »VT Event: Translation & Commercialization Lectures (Mark Van Dyke, PhD – Clinical Trials)
Mark Van Dyke, PhD– Clinical Trials April 19, 2017 TBMH Suite 201 1 Riverside Circle Roanoke, Virginia 24016
Find out more »VT-BEST Event: Staying in Science Without Staying in the Lab: A view (and a career) from the other side of publishing
Seminar: Staying in Science Without Staying in the Lab: A view (and a career) from the other side of publishing April 20th, 2017; 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, R3012, 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA Eric Prager, Ph.D. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Neuroscience Research Come listen as Dr. Prager describes his roles as Editor-in-Chief and Developmental Editor, discusses what he looks for in submitted manuscripts, and explains how he makes his editorial decisions. He will also provide…
Find out more »VT-BEST Event: Reviewing for Transparency and Reproducibility: What Authors Should Know Mini-Internship
The BEST program mini-internships are designed to expose trainees to “a day on the job” for a variety of career paths, through hands-on exercises, site visits, and/or case discussions with biomedical professionals. At this mini-internship, come play the role of scientific editor, as Dr. Prager leads attendees through hands-on activities designed to instruct about the editorial process for reviewing manuscripts, ethical considerations in publishing, and the editorial decision making procedures. Space is limited! Participants must register in advance. To register…
Find out more »VT Event: Translation & Commercialization Lectures (Robert Gourdie, PhD – Biotech Startups: An Inventor’s Perspective)
Robert Gourdie, PhD– Biotech Startups: An Inventor’s Perspective April 26, 2017 TBMH Suite 201 1 Riverside Circle Roanoke, Virginia 24016
Find out more »May 2017
VT Event: Translation & Commercialization Lectures (James Ramey– Funding Biotech Commercialization)
James Ramey– Funding Biotech Commercialization May 3, 2017 TBMH Suite 201 1 Riverside Circle Roanoke, Virginia 24016
Find out more »Non-VT Event: 10th Annual NIH Career Symposium (May 11, 2017)
Building 45, Natcher Conference Center This event is recommended for: Graduate Students; Postdocs/Fellows. The NIH Career Symposium highlights the diversity of career choices available to yourgeneration of biomedical researchers. Whether you are a new graduate student, postdoc, or clinical fellow just beginning to consider career options or a senior student/fellow ready to look for a job, the NIH Career Symposium is for you. We invite any postdoc, clinical fellow or PhD-level graduate student to join us, regardless if you are…
Find out more »Non-VT Event: Research Mentor Training
May 30, 2017 10:00 am - 12:00 pm, Building 35, Room 620/630 Speaker(s): Elena Hernandez-Ramon, MD/PhD, Pre-professional Adviser, OITE This event is recommended for: Postbacs; Graduate Students; Postdocs/Fellows. This 4-hour (2 sessions, 2 hours each) mentoring course is for postbacs, graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists/staff clinicians who will be training our summer interns. It will use a highly interactive format to cover mentoring issues "just in time", as they are likely to emerge. Topics include: Effectively establishing mentor-mentee expectations Developing strategies for helping mentees…
Find out more »June 2017
Non-VT Event: Research Mentor Training
June 6, 2017 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Building 60, Room 142 Speaker(s): Elena Hernandez-Ramon, MD/PhD, Pre-professional Adviser, OITE This event is recommended for: Postbacs; Graduate Students; Postdocs/Fellows. This 4-hour (2 sessions, 2 hours each) mentoring course is for postbacs, graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists/staff clinicians who will be training our summer interns. It will use a highly interactive format to cover mentoring issues "just in time", as they are likely to emerge. Topics include: Effectively establishing mentor-mentee expectations Developing strategies for helping mentees…
Find out more »VT Event: The Entrepreneurship Option (Lebanon, VA)
This interactive workshop will help you identify what it takes and what it means to be a true entrepreneur instead of an employee. Presented in conjunction with Southwest Virginia Workforce Development Board. June 15, 2017 SWCC Center for Education and Training 141 Highland Drive, Lebanon, Virginia 24266 For more information and to register, please click here.
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