Graduate Student Events
Graduate Student Professional Development Series:
Leadership and Management Skills
Friday, April 12 from 1 - 2:30 pm
Join graduate students from across Oregon for this professional development workshop and gain strategies for management and leadership skills, including 360 management, relationships, and professional growth. Moderators include OHSU's Assistant Dean of Graduate Student Affairs, Monica Hinds, and OHSU's Career Development Specialist, Seth Igarta.
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Three Minute Thesis
The 3MT for short, is a research communication competition designed to help graduate students develop presentation skills by consolidating and presenting their research succinctly to a non-specialist audience, all in just three minutes. Although the name of the event is Three Minute Thesis, as a PSU Masters or Doctoral student, you are eligible to present any research you are conducting for a thesis, dissertation, or culminating project.
First Place, Runner Up, and People's Choice prizes are awarded.
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Workshop Series:
Spring 2024 Schedule
Citation management with Zotero
Instructor: Billy Nee, Interim Science & Engineering Librarian
Date: Tuesday, April 23rd
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm
Location: Library classroom 170
Get your personal research library built and organized! This workshop provides an overview of Zotero, a free and open-source citation management tool that allows users to quickly save citations, full text documents, and annotate PDFs. Zotero is an especially powerful research tool because it can quickly save citations from databases, journal websites, Google Scholar, the PSU Catalog. It also integrates with Word and Google Docs for easy generation of in-text citations and reference lists.
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Basics of Scholarly Publishing: Journal Articles
Instructor: Kimberly Pendell, Social Work & Social Sciences Librarian, Professor
Date: Thursday, April 25th
Time: 5:30-7:00 pm
Location: Zoom
Submitting a manuscript to a journal can be intimidating, especially if you don’t know what to expect. This workshop will support you publishing in a scholarly journal by demystifying the process. We will discuss selecting a journal, what to know when submitting an article, the review process, and more. Participants will gain a better understanding of scholarly publishing in general, enabling them to better navigate the dissemination of their scholarship in the future.
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Overcoming Writer’s Block
Instructor: Susan Kirtley, Professor of English
Date: Friday, May 3rd
Time: 10:00-11:30 am
Location: Zoom
Everyone gets stuck sometimes, especially with the high stakes writing required of theses and dissertations. In this interactive workshop, we discuss barriers to writing and how to overcome them. Gain practical tips and strategies to conquer writer's block and finish that project!
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Writing Retreat
Instructor: Writing Center Instructor
Date: Monday, May 6th
Time: 10am - 1pm
Location: Graduate Student Collaboration Hub, Classroom ML-490E (south side of the Library, 4th floor)
Three hours of focused writing time with support available from the Writing Center instructors. Please plan on attending the duration of the time and limit distractions. Drinks and snacks available to registered students.
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Grad Student Professional Development Series
The Graduate School is excited to announce a collaborative professional development effort offered by OSU, the University of Oregon, Portland State University, and Oregon Health and Science University. The “Grad Student Professional Development Series” is for graduate students at the four participating institutions and is intended to provide networking opportunities and training in skills beyond disciplinary knowledge that are essential for achieving career readiness and professional success post-graduation. Each university will host one session this academic year online, and in some cases, in person as well. Graduate students from any of the host institutions may attend any and all of the events (see complete list below and via this flier).
Tools and Strategies for Better Networking. Hosted by U of O
November 3, 2:00-3:30pm
Online only. Register here.
Advancing your Scholarly Writing as a Graduate Student. Hosted by OSU
December 7, 10:00-11:30am
Heckart Lodge 100 and online. Zoom link here.
Strategies for Navigating Interpersonal Conflict. Hosted by Portland State University
February 9, 2-3:30 p.m.
Leadership and Management Skills. Hosted by Oregon Health and Science University
TBD
Student Research Symposium
The Portland State University Student Research Symposium is an opportunity for current PSU graduate and undergraduate students across all disciplines to showcase their research through poster and oral presentation formats. This event is traditionally held during Spring Term in the month of May.
For more information including how to participate and registration please visit the event's PDXScholar page.