Orientation
In addition to the orientation sponsored by human resources, Postdoctoral scholars are also required to attend the orientation sponsored by the office of Postdoctoral Education. This hour long orientation covers information on sponsored programs, intellectual properties, gives an overview of training opportunities and introduces postdocs to the valuable resources they have access to on campus. This program is held once a year in the spring
Giving Effective Presentations: A Training Program to Enhance Public Speaking Skills
Purpose: This training program is specifically designed to improve the oral communication skills of Post-Doctorates for public speaking engagements. The program teaches the essential elements of effective public speaking and includes adaptations for multi-cultural situations. Classroom techniques include brief lectures, group discussions, demonstrations, critique of sample speeches, and video recording of participant speeches.
Course Facilitator: The seminars will be facilitated by Ms. Peg Peterson, a Public Speaking instructor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Ms. Peterson is certified in teaching English as a Second Language and provides assistance with pronunciation and comprehensibility issues. For the past six years she has been coaching international professionals and students on public speaking in English in multi-cultural environments.
Grant Writing Seminar
This seminar teaches new investigators how to write a grant application, a skill that is seldom taught to graduate students and post-doctoral scholars. The program content is appropriate for senior graduate students, post-doctoral research fellows, and non-tenure track faculty members who aspire to tenure track and have never written a successful grant application. The seminar is a modification of the advanced seminar, Write Winning Grants. The difference is that the pace is slower. For example, more time is allowed for questions and discussion, and more basic material is included (e.g., how priority scores are calculated, what facilities and administrative (indirect) costs are, how to analyze a critique in anticipation of resubmission, etc.). As would be expected, greater emphasis is given to how one starts to build an academic career. This Seminar is offered every other year, next seminar is in the spring of 2012
