The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series (Spring 2025) - Early Career Faculty Panel

Join early career faculty panelists, from several institutions across the country to discuss their experiences on the academic job market, how they prepared for their current position, how their institution approaches community and mentoring for early career faculty and any general advice they would give to current graduate students and postdocs. Plenty of time will be given to questions. This is the first event in our eight-part series “The Joyful Journey: Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Scholar Professional Development Series.”

Speakers

R. Kōnane Bay, Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Warren Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor, Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Deanna Hirsch, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Production, Metropolitan State University Denver
Jed Forman, Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Assistant Professor in Buddhist Studies, Simpson College

Event Schedule

This online event meets on Monday, February 3 at 8:30-9:30pm Atlantic / 7:30-8:30pm Eastern / 6:30-7:30pm Central / 5:30-6:30pm Mountain / 4:30-5:30pm Pacific (for our Khalifa University participants, this event takes place on Tuesday, February 4 at 4:30-5:30am Gulf Time).

Audience

This event is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers looking for an introduction to fundamental academic professional development topics.

Accessibility

If you have access needs, please let us know what they are. Contact Kate Diamond (kdiamond3@wisc.edu), who is supporting this workshop, to let us know how we can help you have a successful experience. In addition to meeting individualized needs, we will also take measures throughout the workshop to support accessibility for all our students:

• Enabling live captioning in synchronous sessions
• Incorporating multiple modes of interaction into synchronous sessions