New! PhD and Master’s Virtual Career Expo

The Virtual Career Expo is a single-day, online career expo for advanced degree students, postdocs, and alumni in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, sponsored by the Graduate Career Consortium Emory is a proud participant.

Date: March 3
Time: 9 AM - 7 PM
Details here
Sign up on the CareerExpo website here

New! Developing Professional Body Language and Voice for Online Interactions Workshop

This virtual workshop covers ways to project a professional, engaging, and confident persona when participating in online communication tasks.

Date: March 3
Time: 5 PM – 7 PM
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New! Global Research Fellows Program

The Halle Institute for Global Research announces the 2021 Global Research Fellows Program for Laney Graduate School PhD students in the pre-candidacy stage. The program will fund up to six grants with maximum awards of $4,000/grant.

Information Session Date: March 4
Time: 12 PM
Questions? Kelly Richmond Yates- kyates2@emory.edu

New! Dobes Award Session: "Tell the Story of Your Research through Creative and Persuasive Communication" presented by Misael Romero-Reyes

This workshop explores how to generate relevant analogies— an essential component to simplifying research, and how to leverage elements of persuasive communication in research descriptions, such as defining vocabulary, buzzwords, and keywords tailored to their audience.

Date: March 4
Time: 3 PM-5 PM
Register here

New! Berlin Graduate Student Exchange Program

The Laney Graduate School maintains a graduate student exchange program with the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB). One student may be selected to represent Emory at the FUB for the 2021-22 academic year (October 1, 2021 - July 31, 2022). Selection is based on a competitive process.

Deadline: March 5, 2021
View application information here

Upcoming This Week:

Publishing, Postdocs, and VAPS Oh My!: Thriving in Academia as an Early Career POC

The Office for Racial and Cultural Engagement is hosting a speaker series that highlights the experiences of early-career scholars of color in academia. The first session features Dr. Justin Hosbey, Emory Assistant Professor of Anthropology and co-editor of the #BlackEcologies series on the award-winning blog Black Perspectives.

Date: February 23
Time: 12 PM
View flyer here

Pathways Beyond the Professoriate: Entrepreneurship

Pathways Beyond the Professoriate connects students with distinguished alumni who have chosen career paths outside of the academy. This edition is about careers for PhDs in Entrepreneurship, featuring Dr. Chris Hermann (Clean Hands – Safe Hands) and Dr. Chris Lee (NuVasive via Vertera Spine Acquisition; Woodbridge Foundation).

Date: February 23
Time: 12 PM – 2 PM
Register here
Details here

Deadline Approaching! LGS Three-Minute Thesis Competition

The Laney Graduate School is hosting our annual Three-Minute Thesis Competition. This competition is an opportunity for PhD Candidates to tell the story of their research to a diverse audience in under three minutes. Cash prizes are available to the winners.

Deadline to apply: February 26
Time: 12 PM
Details here
Apply here

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Fellowships

LGS connects students to funding and fellowship opportunities to help further their research and gain professional experience. See below for upcoming fellowship deadlines.

Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program
- Deadline: February 26
Nat C. Robertson Graduate Fellowship in Science and Society
- Deadline: March 12
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Program
- Deadline: March 22

View more at our Fellowships and Grants website.

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Ongoing Events

Emory CAPS (Counseling and Psychological Services)

Emory CAPS has a variety of resources to help graduate students manage and take control of their mental wellness. For more details, click the links below to view flyers.

New! Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) Workshop Series

ECDS is offering a workshop series on Wednesdays at 1 PM (EST) via Zoom View an overview of the workshop series here, or click each item below to register.

Feb. 24: Accessibility and Captioning Videos
Mar. 3: Working with Dates in R
Mar. 10: Working with Git and GitHub
Mar. 17: Intro to Python
Mar. 24: Data Manipulation in R
Mar. 31: Finding Health Data

Questions? Contact ECDS at ecds@emory.edu.

Writing Support for Laney Graduate Students

The Emory Writing Center is here to support LGS Students. Make an appointment at writingcenter.emory.edu.
For further support, join the weekly graduate student writing group co-hosted by the writing center and ELSP.
- For details, visit: LGS Writing Group Facebook page.

LGS Virtual Office Hours:

The LGS staff will host virtual office hours for graduate students. Contact an LGS team member to confirm an appointment and receive a Zoom link.

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Additional Resources