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Graduate Life is tough! Here's
some advice, and where to go for more help...
Topics:
General Grad
School Survival
Help with Classes
Advice for TAing
Funding - Travel Grants
Funding - Grants,
Fellowships, and Scholarships
Overly stressed?
Post Grad School Career
Advice
Post-Doc Application
Advice
Women in Science
Minorities in Science
Interesting
Science Facts and Information
Comic Relief (to
keep things in perspective!)
General graduate school
survival
Struggling with classes?
These people have volunteered to give help for the subjects listed.
TAing Help
- TAing
resources - a pdf with links out to websites that are useful.
Download the pdf directly here.
(stolen from the JHU department of Biostats)
- TA
training syllabus
- this is an old syllabus, but it links out to more useful information,
usually in the form of powerpoint presentations. Or download the pdf here. (also stolen from
the dept. of Biostats)
- JHU Center for Educational Resources (CER) - offers lots of tools for teaching, such as info about how to use WebCT. Also has additional information on TA training here.
Funding - Travel Grants
Want to go to a meeting, but don't have the money for it?
- The GRO offers travel
grants
to students in departments that have representatives that faithfully
attend their meetings. This includes Biology (special thanks to Adam
Ruben, our faithful GRO rep!).
- Travel funds are available within the
department
for travel to meetings, up to $400 per year for students in their 3rd
year and up. The exact specifics of where the money comes from depends
on if you are supported by the training grant or departmental funds,
and if you are TAing. See Joan to get specifics on your situation.
- Travel grants may also be available directly
from the meeting you are trying to get to, so don't forget to look
there.
Funding - Grants, Fellowships,
and Scholarships
Most of these will
replace your
current stipend with a slightly larger stipend. Others will simply help
you get out of debt from college loans.
- NSF
grants - The
Graduate Research Fellowship Program offers grants to students in the
early phases of their graduate careers (generally through the beginning
of their second year).
- Department
of Homeland Security
- The DHS offers stipends to graduate students. You must be a
US
citizen, and apply within the first year of your graduate program
before completing 2 graduate-level classes (or before you begin your
graduate studies).
- NIH
Loan Repayment Programs
- The NIH will pay off your student loans with one of these. The
program is directed toward specific areas of research, and not all of
them are available to gradauate students, but their topics of interest
change periodically, so keep checking back.
- Other places to find funding opportunities
Need someone to talk to?
The counseling center is good at listening, and helping you to deal
with stress and sort through problems.
JHU
Counseling Center - call 410-516-8278 to setup an appointment
Post-Graduate School Career
Choices Help
Post-Doc
Application Advice
Issues for Women in Science
Issues for Minorities in Science
- MInDS
- Mentoring to Inspire Diversity in Science - run by our own Hopkins
grad students
- MARC
- Minority Access to Research Careers
- SACNAS
- Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in
Science
- ABRCMS
- Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students
- ASCB
MAC - American Society of Cell Biology Minorities Affairs
Committee
Interesting Information and
News in the World of Science
Grad School Comic Relief
PhD Comics
- they also have a useful grad forum
to discuss grad school woes
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