2024-2025
March 18: Resolving Conflict in the Lab and in Life. While differing opinions and work/life styles are inevitable, nonproductive conflict is not. Learn new skills for deescalating and navigating friction in professional and interpersonal relationships from trained facilitators from the UM Office of Student Conflict Resolution.
December 9: Advanced Word Workshop. Work more efficiently on dissertations, large review manuscripts, and more after attending this training and connecting with Rob, who is a great troubleshooting resource. We suggest bringing your laptop to practice the tools and tips during the workshop.
November 18: Adobe Illustrator Workshop. This workshop will be presented at two different levels so you can choose the starting point most appropriate for you.
October. Complete your CBI Biosketch and your CBI Individual Development Plan. Schedule your one-on-one meeting with either co-PI Scott or Koutmou.
September 30. 6-9 pm. An important part of our first meeting of the year is to gather information on professional and career development content that you want and which you might not be getting through other channels. We’ll also be scheduling our meeting dates for the rest of the year so bring your calendars. The other mission for our first meeting is to help everyone get to know each other so we’ll be hosting a bonfire/cookout.
2023-2024
April 9, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, Chemistry A505. Sharing Diverse Postdoc Experiences
March 5, 4:30 – 6 pm, Virtual. Tax Information for Graduate Students, Edward Jennings, UM Tax Director.
February 12, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, Chemistry A505. Communicating the Value of your Research to a Broad Audience: Elevator Pitches, Mike Ranella, Senior Director, UM Fast Forward Medical Innovation
January 16, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, Chemistry A505. Graphical Abstracts, Rob Pettigrew, Senior Learning Technologies Specialist, UM Library.
December 4, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, North University Building 2548. Mentoring Up Workshop: Resources for getting the most out of your mentoring relationship, Maggie Gardner, Rackham professional Development and Engagement
November 14, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, Pharmacy B022. To Postdoc or not to Postdoc? A discussion of the corresponding Next Gen PhD chapter (Chapter 4).
October 30, 4:30 – 5:30 pm, NUB 1552. CBI Sabbaticals: Finding, Funding, and Getting the Most From Them. CBI Senior trainees Chris Azaldegui, Zoe Yeoh, and José Hernández-Meléndez will share their recent experiences with sabbaticals at Merck and a national lab. Information will also be provided on the Rackham Doctoral Intern Fellowship Program.
September 6, 4 – 7 pm. Welcome pool party. Bring your ideas about want you want to learn this year to our first meeting of the year.
2022-2023
April 24. Resume and Biosketch Workshop, Dr. Maggie Garner, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
March 20. CANCELLED
February 20. Science, Technology, and Public Policy Certificate Program, Molly Kleinman, STPP Managing Director
January 23. miLEAD Opportunities for Consulting Experience During your PhD: Ellie Frydendall and Shannon Miller; Scientific Consulting: Prof. Emily Scott, Consulting for Pharmaceutical Companies and Legal Firms
December 12. Finding and Funding your Sabbatical, Dr. Maggie Garner, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies; Industry Sabbatical Experience at ThermoFisher Scientific, Senior CBI Trainee Joshua Salem:
November 16. Sabbatical Experiences at Macmillan Publishers, NIH, ThermoFisher, and Brandeis University, presented by senior CBI Trainees Liz Tidwell, Joshua Salem, and Alaina Richard