Education
Workshops and Educational SeriesIGSP Education Workshops
FALL 2011: October | November | December
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: SCIENCE IN ACADEMIA"
Tuesday October 18, 2011: Perkins 217, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners focusing on health careers. We are inviting Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Learn first-hand about the career paths and experiences of these science and health professionals. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
Please contact jessica.crowley@duke.edu with any questions.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: PHYSICIAN/PHYSICIAN-RESEARCHER: MD, MD/PhD"
Tuesday November 1, 2011: Perkins 217, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners focusing on health careers. We are inviting Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Learn first-hand about the career paths and experiences of these science and health professionals. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
Please contact jessica.crowley@duke.edu with any questions.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: PHYSICIAN ASST, PHYSICAL THERAPIST, NURSE PRACTITIONER, GENETIC COUNSELOR"
Wednesday November 16, 2011: Perkins 217, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners focusing on health careers. We are inviting Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Learn first-hand about the career paths and experiences of these science and health professionals. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
Please contact jessica.crowley@duke.edu with any questions.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: BIOTECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY: RESEARCH & BUSINESS"
Tuesday December 6, 2011: Perkins 217, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners focusing on health careers. We are inviting Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Learn first-hand about the career paths and experiences of these science and health professionals. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
Please contact jessica.crowley@duke.edu with any questions.
SPRING 2011: February | March | April
Please contact jessica.crowley@duke.edu with any questions.
February
"Introduction to SPSS"
February 9, 2011: Erwin Mill B140, 3:00 pm -5:00 pm
Presented By: Pontus Leander
The Statistical Package of Social Science (SPSS) is probably the most user-friendly statistical program for social science students and researchers. This short course, split into two sessions, will introduce its interface, entering data collected with questionnaires, merging files, recoding and computing new variables, restructure data files, running simple analyses, editing output tables, and creating graphs. The target audience is novice researchers who have little experience with the statistical software but want to start some data-related research work.
"Long Range Planning"
February 10, 2011: Perkins 217, 6:30 pm – 8 pm
Presented By: Dr. Tomalei Vess (Director, IGSP Education Office), Dr. ElizaBeth Fox (Director, Academic Advising Center), and Christina Pena (Peer Advising Network)
Workshop leaders will discuss the process of choosing and declaring a major at Duke. Topics will include: the "real" reasons one should choose a particular major, introduction to the LRP tools in ACES and how to use them, how to plan effectively to meet with one's academic advisor for LRP approval, what to do AFTER major declaration, and what to expect when joining a department. Open to freshman and undeclared sophomores
"Health Career Explorations Series Kickoff Event! Prepare for and Build Health Career Options. "
Wednesday February 16, 2011: French 2237, 7:30 pm - 9 pm
Join two career counselors from the Duke University Career Center on 2/16 as they set the stage for the IGSP Health Career Explorations Series. You will leave this interactive workshop with strategies on how to think critically about your career, build relationships, and the best ways to articulate your professional strengths in any situation.
"Using SAS"
February 16, 2011: Erwin Mill B140, 1:00 pm -5:00 pm
Presented By: Gary Thompson
Topics to be covered include: An introduction to SAS Windows; the basics of SAS programs; the data and proc commands; SAS libraries; reading raw data; creating new variables, recoding, and handling missing data; frequencies, contents, and univariate descriptions; cross-tabulation; descriptive statistics by groups; how to select observations and variables; how to sort, concatenate and merge data sets; data management in SAS; creating raw data sets; converting files from other applications to SAS; statistical procedures; graphs and charts.
"Medialab"
February 23, 2011: Erwin Mill B140, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Presented By: Pontus Leander
Learn how to develop your own experiments in MediaLab. During this training session you will learn to run, build, and modify your own experiments. This training session will first do a trial-run through a short experiment, and then we'll learn how to build that experiment from the ground up. Once we have the basics, we'll introduce some simple ways to enhance the functionality and professional appearance of any study you may wish to run.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: FACULTY MEMBER "
Thursday February 24, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
March
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: M.D. "
Thursday March 3, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
"Teaching in The Sciences: Preparing for a Career in Undergraduate Education"
Thursday March 10, 9 am - 5:15 pm (networking reception with local Ph.D. educators to follow)
Perkins Library Room 217
Are you a postdoc who is interested in teaching? Are you finding it difficult to identify teaching opportunities and develop your teaching skills? Do you want to maximize the impact of your teaching experiences?
Join the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) and the Office of Postdoctoral Services for this day-long workshop series designed to help postdocs develop the skills necessary for a career in undergraduate education. Each session will focus on building knowledge critical for success and will use small group interactions.
Topics for discussion include:
- Active and collaborative learning strategies
- Teaching with technology
- Advising and working with heterogeneous student populations
- Effectively supporting student motivation
- Learning through visual representations
- Developing your teaching philosophy
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: P.A., R.N.P., P.T. "
Wednesday March 16, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: GOVERNMENT "
Thursday March 24, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: INDUSTRY "
Thursday March 31, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
April
"Introduction to Unix" (Unix Tutorial Series Part I)
Wednesday April 6, 2011: Bostock 023, 9 am - 10 am
The first of four Unix tutorials offered this spring, this class presents a broad overview of Unix concepts and tools. The intent is to provide a 'first-step' in helping users become comfortable with the command-line environment.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: GENETIC COUNSELOR "
Thursday April 7, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
"Editing Text Files" (Unix Tutorial Series Part II)
Wednesday April 13, 2011: Bostock 023, 9 am - 10 am
The second of four Unix tutorials offered this spring, this class provides an introduction to the standard Unix text editors vi and Emacs. Command-line tools for manipulating text files will also be examined.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: SCIENCE WRITER "
Thursday April 14, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
"Working in the Shell" (Unix Tutorial Series Part III)
Wednesday April 20, 2011: Bostock 023, 9 am - 10 am
The third of four Unix tutorials offered this spring, this class covers helpful customizations and shortcuts that simplify working in the shell environment. Unix file permissions, useful for security and collaboration, will also be discussed.
"Health Career Explorations Series Dinner: HEALTH POLICY "
Thursday April 21, 2011: Faculty Commons, 6:30 pm - 8 pm
IGSP Education is hosting a series of dinners at Faculty Commons, each of which focuses on a particular health career and to which we are inviting two or more Duke-affiliated individuals or alums who are either pursuing or have already established themselves in a particular health career, and asking them to join in an informal discussion and share their experiences with undergraduates. Don't miss this rare opportunity to get an insider's perspective on these exciting and challenging health careers!
"Task Automation" (Unix Tutorial Series Part IV)
Wednesday April 27, 2011: Bostock 023, 9 am - 10 am
The fourth of four Unix tutorials offered this spring, this class provides an overview of methods available in Unix for automating repetitive tasks. Unix shell scripting will also be introduced and compared to other programmatic tools.
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