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The academic job interview: Three do’s and don’ts when preparing for a teaching demonstration

By Barbi Honeycutt

Most faculty job interviews include a research presentation and a teaching demonstration as part of the on-campus interview process. Postdoctoral scholars are experts in research. They know how to design experiments,…

Advancing graduate education through global engagement

A week after celebrating Independence Day is a perfect time to consider and celebrate the democratic values on which our nation was built — values like liberty, freedom and justice. The democratic success of the United States is also built upon…

Distinguished award program advises ASU student applicants

Arizona State University graduate student Shantel Marekera has been awarded the 2019 Rhodes Scholarship, making her one of the 32 young students from the United States who receive the award each year.

The Rhodes…

Graduation deadlines

The end of the semester will be here before you know it. Please refer to the deadlines below to make sure you are on time to graduate this semester. 

Friday, June 28: Last day to schedule an oral defense of a thesis/…

Postdocs gather for inaugural Career Conference

The NSF defines a Postdoctoral Scholar as “an individual who has received a doctoral degree and is engaged in a temporary period of mentored training to enhance their professional skills to pursue his or her chosen career path.” 

Upcoming travel award deadlines

Graduate College Travel Awards provide student funding for airfare and/or registration cost of attending professional conferences and workshops up to $500. Applications must be submitted by a students’ academic unit by the deadlines…

Outstanding Graduate Faculty mentoring spotlight: Dr. Barbara Klimek, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

The Graduate College’s Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards showcases the importance of faculty-student relationship-building. At the 2018-2019 OFMA ceremony on January 30, four outstanding student-nominated ASU faculty members were…

ASU Graduate College nominates two alumni to the CGS/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Awards

The Distinguished Dissertation Awards represent one of the nation’s most prestigious awards programs for recently graduated PhD researchers. Every year, the Council of Graduate Schools and ProQuest sponsor a national competition to…

Connected Academics at ASU

As the 2018-19 academic year came to a close and most students and faculty began their summer hiatus, Connected Academics at ASU geared up for two, separate, three-day events to further prepare doctoral students of language and…

Mexican students visit ASU to exchange ideas on water solutions

This past March, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Sonora Norte, part of a university in Mexico, held a workshop on water solutions in the Sonora-Arizona desert region in collaboration with ASU’s Associate Dean of the Graduate College, Dr. Enrique…

Summary of developments and events

Register now for Teaching Assistant Orientation

Teaching Assistant (TA) Orientation provides a breadth of information for graduate students new to a teaching assistant position, allowing them to start their…

Letter from the 2019-2020 Graduate and Professional Student Association

As your president and assembly president of the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), we are excited to be serving the graduate community for the 2019-2020 school year! GPSA is the student government body that represents…

Associate Dean Enrique R. Vivoni promotes graduate degrees and institutional design in Chihuahua

By invitation from the Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua (UACH), Associate Dean of the Graduate College Enrique R. Vivoni led a workshop on Sustainability and Convergence that promoted the trajectory of Arizona State University as an…

Graduate Toolkit to expand expertise and knowledge

It is common knowledge that the skills and expertise of graduate students differentiate from that of undergraduate students. While we’ve had an orientation for online undergrads for some time, we have built upon those resources and…

Five Questions with Thomas Lassi

1. Tell us about yourself

I’m originally from northern Sweden, from a tiny rural area north of the Arctic Circle. I did my undergrad at Luleȧ University of Technology in northern Sweden and my masters at Oklahoma State…

Dean Alfredo Artiles elected to the National Academy of Education and honored with mentoring award

The Graduate College is proud to announce that Dean Alfredo J. Artiles was elected to the National Academy of Education and received the Spencer Mentor Award.

Dean Artiles was elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd) for his…

Annual NPA Conference brings together PDOs and PDAs

By Wiley Larsen, Program Manager

The National Postdoctoral Association convened it’s annual conference April 12-14 in Orlando with a collection of around 400 postdocs and postdoc office directors. Like last year, the split was about 1/3rd…

ASU Postdoc Office will launch Inaugural Career Conference, May 22

The majority of postdoctoral scholars are working toward securing a tenure-track faculty position at a research university. However, according to ASU professor Christopher Hayter, fewer than 15% of postdocs will secure this type of employment (…

Annual NPA Conference brings together PDOs and PDAs

By Wiley Larsen, Program Manager

The National Postdoctoral Association convened it’s annual conference April 12-14 in Orlando with a collection of around 400 postdocs and postdoc office directors. Like last year, the split was about 1/3rd…

What challenges will we face in the next 80 years of graduate education?

Another academic year comes to a close, and I’d like to start by congratulating all of the graduates who will continue to walk their paths as Sun Devils. This spring, over 4400 graduate students (400+ doctoral and 4000+ masters) will graduate…

REGISTER NOW for the ASU Postdoc Career Conference, set for May 22

It’s time to get the gang together!  We’ve reserved a bunch of rooms in the Tempe Memorial Union to get all of ASU’s postdocs together for one day, to meet one another, to network, and to talk about your future!  Whether you’re headed for the…

A picnic, writing camp and how to say no

All-American Picnic for all students

Hamburgers, apple pie, and baseball, oh my. The Grad College hosted an “All-American” Picnic for students in International Accelerated Degree Programs (IADPs) at ASU.

The picnic was a chance for…

How to survive an Arizona summer

If you are new to Arizona, you are probably sick and tired of people asking you “have you experienced a summer yet?” It’s even kind of intimidating the way they ask it… like, “a” summer. It’s a thing. And if you like to do anything outside…

Outstanding Graduate Faculty mentoring spotlight: Dr. Gabriel Shaibi, College of Nursing and Health Innovation

The Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awards showcases the importance of relationship building.