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Highlight: Explore Career Options at GradCON 2016
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Brown graduate students are invited to register for GradCON 2016! Organized by CareerLAB, this event will feature Graduate School alumni from the humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and life sciences. They will share their experiences in charting careers by participating in alumni career panels, networking events, and small group discussions.
Graduate students are invited to a welcome breakfast, a student/alumni networking lunch (space is limited; advanced registration is required), and a closing wine and beer reception. Career panels will be held on Writing/Communications, Government/Policy, Science Research, Business, Higher Education Administration, Non-profits, and Data Science.
See the schedule and panelists. To register for GradCON 2016, please fill out the registration form.
GradCON 2016 is sponsored by The Office of the President, the Graduate School, the Graduate Student Council, the Brown Annual Fund, the Office of Alumni Relations, the Office of the Dean of the College, the Office of Student Life, CareerLAB, the BioMed Office of Graduate Students and Post-docs, and the School of Public Health.
Saturday, November 12, 2016, 9:15 AM–5:15 PM
Kasper Multipurpose Room
Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center, 75 Waterman Street
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Notices
Dedication of the Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room
The Brown University Library welcomes all graduate students to attend the formal opening and dedication of the Vincent J. Wernig Graduate Student Reading Room. Saturday, October 29 from 4-6:30 PM on the Second Floor of the Rockefeller Library, 10 Prospect Street.
Last Week for New SPS Summer 2017 Course Proposals
The School of Professional Studies welcomes new course proposals from faculty, graduate students, postdocs and adjuncts for new non-credit courses for pre-college students (summer on-campus & off-campus) and credit-bearing Summer Session courses (on-campus & online). Submit prior to Tuesday, November 1.
2017 iBiology Young Scientist Seminars Competition
Applications are being accepted for the 2017 Competition of the iBiology Young Scientist Seminars (YSS), a video series that features PhD candidates or postdocs giving talks about their research and discoveries. Applications are due December 15, 2016. Videos from the winners of the 2016 competition are now available.
NIH F32 BRAIN Initiative Workshop Series - November 1
Please join BIBS for a detailed description of the Brain Initiative F32 grant application and introduction of the format of each workshop module in this new series. Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by TODAY to brainscience@brown.edu if you’ll be attending and whether you will be applying for the BRAIN F32 application. Tuesday, November 1 from 11 AM-12 PM at 2 Stimson Avenue.
BWell Stress Survey
BWell, Brown's Office of Health Promotion, is conducting a short online survey as part of a project to help us increase resiliency and reduce stress among all students. The survey is anonymous and no identifiers are collected.
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Career Tip Central
What: Building Academic Job Applications: A Quick & Practical Guide for Early Career Researchers
Who Runs It: Jobs.ac.uk, which is a prominent international job board for careers in academic, research, science and related professions run by the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
What It Offers: This resource is targeted at those at an early stage of their academic career. It has been designed to offer practical suggestions and advice to assist early career researchers as they begin to apply for jobs.
Why It's Worth Checking Out: This resource may assist you in reviewing your existing application style and approach as well as providing a vehicle to assess career progress and identify a focus for further career actions. It will help you build the perfect academic CV, take you from building postdoctoral research to your first independent academic position, and help you to perfect covering letters and/or personal statements. It's also free to download!
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Postdoc Opportunity
Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowships - Brown University - Providence, RI
Brown University invites applications for one- to two-year Postdoctoral Fellowships to support the development of early career scholars from diverse backgrounds (with particular attention to historically underrepresented groups in the academy) who show promise as innovative scholars in the following integrative scholarship areas:
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Creating Peaceful, Just, and Prosperous Societies
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Exploring Human Experience
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Cultivating Creative Expression
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Understanding the Human Brain
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Sustaining Life on Earth
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Using Science and Technology to Improve Lives
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Deciphering Disease and Improving Population Health
The successful candidate will teach one course per year as part of the appointment and will participate in activities related to the President’s Diversity Postdoctoral Fellows Program. Scholars with a Ph.D. in the humanities, social sciences, sciences or engineering will be considered. The candidate’s dissertation must be complete by July 1, 2017. For more information and application instructions, please view the job posting.
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Career Position
Research Scientist I - Cancer Program - The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT - Cambridge, MA
Under the direction of the biology leader of the MCL1 therapeutic project, the person in this role will develop a system and study compound-protein interaction and drug resistance through novel approaches including high throughput saturated mutagenesis and deep sequencing (MITE-seq). He/she will work closely with the MCL1 therapeutic team, offering functional structural data and insight to guide lead optimization. The person in this role is also expected to identify biomarker for MCL1 therapeutics and drug resistance mechanisms. This position is a bench scientist position, with 80% time expected for wet lab work.
Requirements include a PhD degree in biochemistry, cellular biology, molecular biology, cancer biology or related discipline with 1-3 years of post-doctoral or professional experience in related areas desired, and significant experience in mammalian cell culture, cellular assays, molecular biology and biochemistry. Structural biology and/or genomic data analysis experience preferred. For more information, please view the job posting.
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Postdoc Funding Opportunities
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Graduate Student Funding Opportunities
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