What鈥檚 your next step? This interactive workshop for graduate students will teach you the skills to review position types and work environments within the context of your career.
Thursday, November 6, 2025 15:00to16:30
Monday, November 10, 2025 10:30to11:00
Stay on track with a 30min 鈥減lan your week鈥� session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 10:00to11:00
Looking to manage your reading load? In this workshop, we鈥檒l dig into strategies for making sense of dense academic texts, pulling out key ideas, and organizing notes. You will move from note-taking (just jotting things down) to note-making for better understanding.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 13:00to14:00
Get started with this intro to SKILLSETS鈥� Presentation Skills series. This workshop teaches participants how to create clear, accessible and engaging research presentations that are fit for a variety of academic and non-academic audiences.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 16:00to17:30
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 16:00to17:30
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Thursday, November 13, 2025 13:00to14:30
Interested in improving your communication skills? Join us for this workshop to develop an understanding of what active listening consists of and how it can be practiced. This workshop will focus on defining what active listening is and isn't, explaining why active listening is both important and useful, and practicing active listening.
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Thursday, November 13, 2025 14:00to15:00
The Planning with Purpose information session is an introduction to the Individual Development Plan (IDP) at 黑料社. This session covers the process and building blocks of creating a meaningful IDP and setting goals in grad school.
Monday, November 17, 2025 10:30to11:00
Stay on track with a 30min 鈥減lan your week鈥� session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!
Monday, November 17, 2025 12:30to14:00
This 90-minute interactive workshop helps graduate students reframe the Progress Tracking Form (PTF) as more than a bureaucratic requirement鈥攖ransforming it into a personal roadmap for reflection, planning, and building strong supervisory relationships.
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 10:00to11:30
Having difficulty getting started? Do you find yourself putting off tasks? Join this workshop to (1) develop an awareness of what is procrastination and how you procrastinate, (2) identify how procrastination works, and (3) discuss how to change "procrastination to "doing."
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 13:00to14:00
This workshop focuses on the steps participants need to develop content for their next research presentation. From STEM based quantitative research, to social science exploration, this workshop will explore worksheets designed to help participants develop better content.
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Friday, November 21, 2025 12:00to13:00
Graduate school demands strong study habits and effective learning strategies. Throughout your degree, your reasons for studying will change (courses to comps to defense), which will require different strategies and approaches.
Monday, November 24, 2025 10:30to11:00
Stay on track with a 30min 鈥減lan your week鈥� session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 13:00to14:00
In this workshop, participants learn how to avoid the pitfalls of building slides that have too much information, take too long to process, and compete for audience attention. By understanding the limits of human visual and auditory language processing, participants learn how to work within them.