Graduate Student Professional Development Events

Upcoming Graduate Student Professional Development workshops.

Graduate Student Professional Development

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GradCO Professional Development Offerings

About GradCO
Founded in 2020, is a collaboration of universities across 黑料社区. It provides a variety of professional development workshops, information sessions and trainings. Working together, we are better researchers, academics and career professionals.

This approach provides an opportunity to learn from experts at various institutions. It also allows you to connect with other early career scholars. GradCO provides development sessions that align with many career-readiness competencies. These are adapted from the .

Graduate students and Postdoctoral Fellows across 黑料社区 can attend these webinars for free. Explore and sign up for one or more of the offerings that serve your development interests and needs.

GradCO Professional Development Offerings for Fall 2026

(All events are online.)

Coming Soon!

Here were last semester’s topics:

  • Supporting Graduate School Success with Mindfulness
  • Proposal Writing: Planning, The Key to Successful Proposals
  • Resume and CV Workshop: Writing Effective Professional Documents
  • Literature Reviews in the Age of AI
  • Imposter Syndrome in Academia
  • The Playful Scholar: How Games and Play Can Innovate Teaching and Research
  • Career Exploration for Early Career Scientists
  • Know Your Financial Aid Options
  • Writing a Powerful Teaching Philosophy/Statement
  • Proposal Writing: Writing for Clarity and Concision
  • Develop Your Personal Brand

Recorded UNC GradCO webinars

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This webinar explores how play can meaningfully enrich both research methodologies and teaching practices in higher education and beyond. Drawing on insights from an open-access book and classroom-tested pedagogical strategies, the session positions play not as a diversion, but as a rigorous mode of inquiry that supports curiosity, experimentation and sense-making. Presented by Matthew Farber, Ph.D., and William Merchant, Ph.D.

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Being a graduate student can be one of the most fulfilling opportunities for learning and professional growth. At the same time, it can also be one of the most stressful endeavors, full of opportunities for deeply questioning our own competence, commitment and choices. How do we successfully navigate such a rewarding and perilous landscape? Mindfulness practice can’t present a roadmap to your destination or a shield to protect you from every hazard. But it can provide a reliable compass and walking stick to guide and stabilize your journey. In this talk, I will introduce a set of mindfulness techniques that, with enough practice, will support you across grad school’s ups and downs. Presented by Michael Kimball, Ph.D.

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