Preparing graduate students for future careers while building community through professional development, social activities, and events

Upcoming Events

  • Communicating Your Research (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    Learn how to communicate your research project to a variety of audiences. This workshop is ideal for those presenting their research at the Student Scholar Symposium. 

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  • Ethics: Personal Integrity as a Graduate Student – CORE (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    In this workshop students will think with Dr. Beever about the concept of integrity. What’s the relationship between research integrity, academic integrity, and personal integrity? How does integrity shape our institution and your lives as graduate students? Through a series of cases studies and conceptual analyses, we’ll propose answers to these questions about integrity, and connect them to questions of …

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  • LinkedIn 2.0

    Virtual

    Attend this workshop to learn how you can leverage your profile to promote your brand and connect with professionals in your network. Follow along to update your profile and experiment with LinkedIn resources! This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. See https://graduate.ucf.edu/professional-development for details.

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  • Intellectual Property Rights – ELECTIVE (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    John Miner from the Office of Research and Commercialization will present this seminar which will address intellectual property rights specifically concerning graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.  This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. No RSVP or registration is required. See https://graduate.ucf.edu/professional-development for details.  

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  • A Practical Guide to Preventing Plagiarism - ELECTIVE

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    This session will outline ethical writing guidelines and define commonly found plagiarism practices. The student will gain an understanding on how to prevent plagiarizing another person’s work and learn the proper use of citations when drafting research papers and journals.  This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. No …

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  • Ethical Decisions in Grad School and Beyond - ELECTIVE (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    Actions taken as a result of a decision made reflect one’s values and principles. Inherently, we know what right and wrong behavior is and we typically make the correct decision. However, there are times when we allow outside factors to influence our decisions which could lead to personal and professional consequences. This seminar will provide problem-solving methods and critical questioning …

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  • Finding & Using Academic Sources (Recurring Event)

    Virtual

    This session highlights time-saving steps to locate academic sources for upcoming course assignments and literature reviews. Learn how to locate peer-reviewed articles and related sources for topics, identify relevant subject-databases and background information, develop a plan for reviewing sources, and tips to maximize Google Scholar. This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development …

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  • Citing and Managing Sources (Recurring Event)

    Virtual

    This session covers citing basics for academic writing and includes guidelines for using direct quotes and paraphrased text, formatting in-text citations and references, style guide resources (APA & MLA), and ideas for notetaking and managing sources. This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. No RSVP or registration is …

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  • Authorship Credit Collaborative Scholarship and Research: Ethical Pitfalls to Avoid - CORE (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    This workshop will help to clarify rules governing authorship of peer-reviewed publications, with particular focus on archival journals. We will identify issues and decision making with respect to authorship through the instructor’s personal experiences and example case studies.  This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. No RSVP or …

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  • Optimizing Your Online Presence (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    This session covers evaluating your publishing impacts and managing your online researcher profile. Learn about methods and tools to obtain citation counts and impact data, metrics to assist in identifying key journals and notable researchers, and why it’s important to develop an online profile using sites, such as ORCID, Research Gate, Academia.edu, PIVOT, Plum Analytics, and Google Scholar. This workshop …

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  • Create a Professional Portfolio

    Virtual

    Understand the importance of showcasing your skills, experiences and accomplishments through the use of a portfolio.  Compare the advantages of both a hard copy and an electronic portfolio. This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. See https://graduate.ucf.edu/professional-development for details.  

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  • Intellectual and Other Conflicts of Interest: Your Rights and Responsibilities - ELECTIVE

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    This workshop addresses the various conflicts of interest encountered by faculty during their academic and research tenure. The session will address conflicts of interest between faculty and students, financial conflicts of interests related to sponsored research and conflicts of commitments related to faculty members institutional assignments and their private business or consulting activity. The objective of the session is to …

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  • Intellectual Property Rights – ELECTIVE (Recurring Event)

    Graduate Student Center Presentation Room: Trevor Colbourn Hall: 208

    John Miner from the Office of Research and Commercialization will present this seminar which will address intellectual property rights specifically concerning graduate students and post-doctoral fellows.  This workshop is offered through the College of Graduate Studies Pathways to Success professional development program for graduate students. No RSVP or registration is required. See https://graduate.ucf.edu/professional-development for details.  

    Pathways to Success