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Reimagining the accelerated master’s degree: Flexibility for the modern graduate student
Did you know that undergraduate students in approved programs can start taking graduate coursework their senior year and apply credit towards a master’s degree?
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Welcome new postdocs!
Register for New Postdoc Orientation.
Greetings and welcome to ASU from the Postdoctoral Affairs Office. We are excited that you are here. We want to take a minute to introduce you to the Office and let you know what we have in store for…
Get ready for National Postdoc Appreciation Week — September 16-20
Register for National Postdoc Appreciation Week events.
The Postdoctoral Affairs Office, in partnership with the ASU Postdoc and Early Career Scientists Network, has planned a series of great events for the 2019 National Postdoctoral…
Welcome new postdocs!
Register for New Postdoc Orientation.
Greetings and welcome to ASU from the Postdoctoral Affairs Office. We are excited that you are here. We want to take a minute to introduce you to the Office and let you know what we have in store for…
Meet your advisory committee
I am happy to announce two important accomplishments that took place over the summer. These two milestones give postdocs at ASU more voice and leadership in what happens as members of the ASU community.
Postdocs gather for a 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.”
It was…
Get ready for National Postdoc Appreciation Week — September 16-20
Register for National Postdoc Appreciation Week events.
The Postdoctoral Affairs Office, in partnership with the ASU Postdoc and Early Career Scientists Network, has planned a series of great events for the 2019 National Postdoctoral…
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,…
Five questions with Mukul Sonker
1. Where are you from and how did you get into Science?
Intentional conversations
Mentoring is a relationship entailing formal or informal processes whereby a mentor provides intentional guidance, motivation, and encouragement. Mentors also share knowledge, experiences, and perspectives to empower the mentee in the…
Nine best practices for mentors
Mentoring is a relationship entailing formal or informal processes whereby a mentor provides intentional guidance, motivation, and encouragement. Mentors also share knowledge, experiences, and perspectives to empower the mentee in the…
Initiating mentoring relationships
Mentoring is a relationship entailing formal or informal processes whereby a mentor provides intentional guidance, motivation, and encouragement. Mentors also share knowledge, experiences, and perspectives to empower the mentee in the…
Goal setting
Mentoring is a relationship entailing formal or informal processes whereby a mentor provides intentional guidance, motivation, and encouragement. Mentors also share knowledge, experiences, and perspectives to empower the mentee in the…
Creating a mentoring agreement
Mentoring is a relationship entailing formal or informal processes whereby a mentor provides intentional guidance, motivation, and encouragement. Mentors also share knowledge, experiences, and perspectives to empower the mentee in the…
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…
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…
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…
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.” …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ten best practices in graduate student well-being
Web link: https://graduate.asu.edu/newsletter/best-practices/ten-best-practices-gr...
Read up on some of the ways you can care for yourself through increasing academic rigor and demands.
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…