Leadership
and Professional Development
for
Graduate Students
As Rice graduate students, you play an
important role in advancing the university’s
research mission and in supporting undergraduate
instruction. The Cain Project’s Leadership
and Professional Development (LPD) workshop series
prepares you for professional roles as academic
researchers, teachers, and future industry leaders.
Your participation in LPD skill-building workshops
will enable you to
LPD
Workshop Sessions
Each
workshop features mini-lectures and small group
activities in which you apply what you have
learned, assess your performance, and receive
feedback from Cain Project instructors and
coaches, other faculty, or industry affiliates.
Workshop
Topics
LPD
Workshops Offered Spring 2007
Poster Design II
Friday, April 13 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Abercrombie B109
This workshop introduces the decision process of integrating
poster design elements and techniques for focusing attention,
creating a color palette, and checking the logic of the
poster content. Participants practice presenting complex
elements
of their posters with process descriptions, summaries,
and explanations
of visual evidence. Registration
for this workshop is closed.
Assigning
and Evaluating Writing
Friday,
April 20 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Abercrombie B109
This workshop helps teachers develop and assess writing assignments. Participants
will discuss rationales for using writing, elements of effective assignments
for both short and long writing, uses of OwlSpace for writing, and designs of
assessment rubrics. Participants will create an assignment and assessment strategy
for their course.
Registration
for this workshop is closed.
Writing a Paper for Publication
Friday, March 16th 3:00
- 5:00 pm
HUMA 119
(Limited to 20 graduate students or post-docs in science or engineering)
In this workshop we will analyze the organization, writing style, and contents
of a well written short sample paper that has already been published. We
will identify the answers to the Seven Key Questions in the abstract, body, and
conclusion of the paper. We will also discuss techniques used to provide
clarity and effective transitions.
Registration
for this workshop is closed.
Data
Display: Effectively Present Your Research
Findings
Friday, March 23 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Abercrombie B109
This workshop shows participants how to design
professional-quality figures and tables that will
showcase their research results.
Registration
for this workshop is closed.
Poster
Design I
Friday, March 30 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Abercrombie B109
This workshop introduces the process of designing a poster plus guidelines
to follow in meeting the requirements of a specific session. Participants work
in groups to evaluate posters and to create a poster using elements such as
a data set, graph, diagram, illustration, and text.
Registration
for this workshop is closed.
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