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The Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë center provides resources to research companies, make connections and network with others, and apply and interview for jobs.

Skills: Networking, Job Search

Career paths: All

The Eberly Center provides seminars and individual consultations to help graduate students who wish to improve their teaching or prepare for future careers as faculty members. For students who may wish to pursue academic careers, particularly at four-year colleges or teaching-intensive universities, this is an invaluable opportunity to prepare for those positions.

Skills: Teaching

Career paths: Academic, Teaching; Other Careers

The student academic success center offers language training and testing for non-native speakers of English at Carnegie Mellon. It is designed to help students achieve the robust English fluency needed for teaching in the American classroom and giving professional-quality presentations. Students are strongly encouraged to take advantage of this resource even after passing the ITA test at the level required by the department in order to make their English fluency an asset in teaching, research communications, and their future careers.

Skills: Communication

Career paths: All

Communication Support through the student academic success center has trained consultants who are ready to help you with any kind of written, verbal, or visual project. If you're conveying ideas to another person, we'll help you make sure those ideas are clear and communicated effectively. They offer free communication consulting and free workshops regularly throughout the semester.

Skills: Communication

Career paths: All

The Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship works with its partners to serve the entire Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë community to accelerate bringing research innovations and promising ideas to the global marketplace and helping all entrepreneurial students, faculty, staff and alumni tap into the “innovation ecosystem.”

Skills: Leadership, Management

Career paths: Academic, Research; Industry, Management; Other Careers

Public Communication for Researchers

Public Communication for Researchers (PCR) is a student organization whose mission is to help graduate students hone their communication skills. PCR was founded by three Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon who wanted to raise the level of public discourse on issues related to science and technology.

Skills: Communication

Career paths: All

Office of the Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Education (AVPGE)

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Seminars

The Office of the Assistant Vice Provost for Graduate Education hosts a series of seminars to help students understand, prepare for, and write for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship application process.

Skills: Communication

Career paths: Academic, Research; Industry, Research

Graduate Women's Gatherings

The Graduate Women’s Gatherings are opportunities for women of the graduate student, post-doctoral fellows, faculty and administrator communities to network, share ideas and experiences, gather resources.

Skills: Networking

Career paths: All

Students of Color

Network with fellow Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë PhD students of color or share dinner with students of color from Ò»±¾µÀÎÞÂë and University of Pittsburgh.

Skills: Networking

Career paths: All

Chemistry Summer Seminar Committee

This committee coordinates the Summer Seminar Series, where graduate students in the Chemistry Department host seminars delivered by peers. The seminars are a great opportunity to practice delivering professional seminars and serving on the organizing committee develops valuable organizational skills for organizing future professional meetings.

Skills: Communication, Leadership

Career paths: All

Future Leaders of Science (FLOS)

Future Leaders of Science, founded by chemistry graduate student Danielle Chirdon, is an outreach organization that is designed to create and foster K-12 students’ interest in the sciences by displaying various science demonstrations to teach children the fundamental concepts in the sciences. Both undergraduate students and graduate students with a love of science, regardless of their level or field of expertise, are taught the demonstrations and then work together to display and explain the science behind the demonstration.

Contact: Michael Polen, mpolen@andrew.cmu.edu

Skills: Teaching

Career Paths: Academic, Teaching; Other Careers

09-712 Communication Aspects of Scientific Research

The design and presentation of scientific plans and results to the scientific community are very important aspects of the work of any chemist, who needs to disseminate the results of research by publishing papers and to write research proposal to raise funds. This course will cover skills that are important for the design and writing of scientific documents, such as research reports, papers and research proposals. The course will also cover aspects of responsible research conduct in recording the results of lab experiments. The organization and presentation of data and research ideas for communication to the scientific community will be discussed. Students will learn about the scientific review process to which original manuscripts and proposals are subjected. Students enrolled in the course will be evaluated based on the quality of writing of a short original proposal in the format specified for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship as well as for their participation in class discussions and in review of proposals written by others.

This mini-course is intended for graduate students in Chemistry in their first three years in graduate school. Undergraduate students who plan to apply for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship will be able to enroll in the course. Postdoctoral fellows are welcome to audit the course.

This course is offered every few years. Check the current .

Skills: Communication

Career Paths: All