Graduate Student Disability Survey 
The Eberly College of Science Climate and Diversity Committee is working to incorporate disability more centrally into diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) efforts in the college, and we would like your help identifying key issues and needs. We have put together a short 5-10 minute survey to record the experiences of graduate students with disabilities and questions, comments, and concerns around disability at Penn State. . 
 
All information collected is anonymous, and specific entries will be reviewed only by the Climate and Diversity Projects Subcommittee. Any data shared with others will be shared in an aggregated fashion. Please answer as much as you are able to, but answers are not required for all questions, and you can return to the survey as needed. We would love you to fill out whether you identify as a person with a disability or not. 

Office of Diversity & Inclusion Kudos Initiative

At the Eberly College of Science, the people within our community represent the critical anchors that allow us to succeed with respect to our mission and core values. Your exemplary contributions deserve recognition, and we invite nominations for “kudos” to amplify the visibility of our extraordinary community.

The Kudos series recognizes faculty, staff, postdocs, and graduate and undergraduate students for college-related work they’ve done that goes above and beyond their job duties (for employees) or their academic responsibilities (for students). Kudos nominations are based on the college’s Code of Mutual Respect and Cooperation.

See the Guidelines Here

All Math Review

Quit spending time stressing about those math finals! Instead come to our event on Sunday night where select math faculty will be holding a review session for ALL math courses! 😲 Whoa! Really? All math courses? Yes, ALL math courses!

Drop in when you can, receive assistance on math problems, and grab some food!

Registration Preferred:

Finding Your Career Fit: An Alumni Panel for Science Graduate Students

The Eberly College of Science’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion presents “Finding Your Career Fit: An Alumni Panel for Science Graduate Students” on Thursday, April 25, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m., in the Chemistry Building, Room 102.

How do you know a career path is right for you, and that where you end up is the right fit? Graduate students often navigate graduate school with a drive for science but not a firm idea of what their future career will be or how to get there. At this event, Penn State Eberly College of Science graduate alumni from a diversity of professions will discuss how they navigated their careers and how they found the right career fit for them.

Join us for a moderated panel and Q&A to learn how alumni decided on their first profession out of graduate school and beyond, how their passions and motivations may have evolved over time, what factors they consider when deciding on a career path and if an employer is the right fit, and more.
Please register using our survey by 5:00 pm, Monday, April 22nd to guarantee your free dinner at the event!

We Are Scientists: A Documentary Series

The BMMB GSA and GWIS would like to invite you all to our ECoS SEED Grant supported event, We Are Scientists: A Documentary Series! We will be showing 3 documentaries focusing on underrepresented groups in STEM. Documentaries will be shown starting on Thursday, April 25th at 6PM in 106 AVBS, food will be provided! For the detailed schedule and the QR code to RSVP (you will need to be logged in with a .psu account), please refer to the flyer!

Melissa Marshall, founder of the science communications consulting company Present Your Science, will give the 2024 A. Dixon and Betty F. Johnson Lectureship in Scientific Communication on April 25 at 6:30 p.m. in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. The free public lecture is open to the Penn State community.

Graduate students are encouraged to sign up for the following two Johnson Lecture science communication workshops:

Tell a Clear Technical Story
9:30 a.m. on April 25 in Foster Auditorium, Penn State Libraries

The ability of your audience to understand and be interested in your technical work depends on what you say and how you say it. This session presents tools that participants can use to 1) filter the detail of their work to make a clear argument, 2) construct content that is memorable and "sticks" with an audience, 3) structure a presentation to tell a compelling story of the science, and 4) adapt technical content to audience members of different backgrounds—even when they are in the same room. These skills will be taught via lecture, discussion, small group exercises, and analysis of videos of other speakers.

Transforming Slide Design
9:30 a.m. on April 26 in Foster Auditorium, Penn State Libraries

Looking for improved and practical slide design strategies that go way beyond killing your audience’s interest with bullet point after bullet point? This workshop takes a deep dive into the world of slide design and challenges the status quo of boring, text heavy slides with innovative, research-based strategies for more effective and engaging visual aids. Working with their own material, participants will learn a framework for evaluating the effectiveness of slides and they will learn innovative new strategies for showing their science to their audience with exciting slide design. WARNING: This workshop results in dramatically improved slides and participants who will never think about or design slides in the same way ever again!