Professional Development Series
This series focuses on efforts within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to promote diverse career pathways to our students. Please visit the Professional Development section of our website to learn more about upcoming seminars and workshops, opportunities to connect with our career counselors, and online career resources.
Photo Credit: Dan Holmes
April 30, 2024
On April 5, 2024, GSAS students participated in the 2024 Three Minute Thesis Competition, Brandeis's third. They presented their research in three minutes for a general audience, won prizes, and gained valuable skills along the way.
April 29, 2024
While graduate school is a notoriously busy place, it’s always a good choice to make time to think about career planning and the future. The Brandeis University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Professional Development team supports students through this often tricky process through a variety of programming and services, including the Career Fellows Program. Now in its third year, the program brings together students across departments who are committed to career exploration, building a cohort who connect with each other while attending a range of professional development workshops, informational talks, and networking sessions.
April 17, 2024
While Division of Science graduate students are hard at work in their labs, they’re also beginning to think about their plans for life after graduate school. Here to help is the Career Development for the Sciences (CDS) group, which organizes programming, including workshops and many guest speakers, to help students get a sense of the many paths available to them and the skills they need to get there.
Photo Credit: Alyssa Canelli
January 5, 2024
This past December, Liz Mahon finished the fall semester with a bang by traveling to the nation’s capital to try out her three minute thesis on a new audience. Accompanied by Alyssa Canelli, Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs for GSAS, and by Ollie the Owl, Liz was ready to compete in the finals for the North American 3MT Competition, hosted by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS).
Photo Credit: Dr. Elizabeth Santiago
October 24, 2023
This summer, GSAS collaborated with the Rabb School of Continuing Studies to launch a pilot program in Learning Experience Design, led by Dr. Elizabeth Santiago. A group of 10 GSAS PhD students participated in the program, which will continue into the fall.
Photo Credit: Marty Samuels
October 16, 2023
On September 9 and 10, 2023, the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) held a pedagogy seminar for Brandeis graduate students. Led by Dr. Marty Samuels, CTL Program Director, and Dr. Charles Chip Mc Neal, Director, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Education Learning Initiatives, the seminar aimed to teach graduate students techniques for course design and inclusive teaching, whether they were experienced instructors or soon to be standing up at the front of a classroom for the first time.
September 1, 2023
For graduate students, summer doesn’t necessarily mean a break from work. For many, it’s a chance to build on existing skills and experiences and to further explore their academic and professional interests. This year, many GSAS students did this through summer internships, which they found in a wide range of fields and some of which were funded through Brandeis initiatives.
July 25, 2023
From June 26 to June 30, GSAS hosted Brandeis’s inaugural summer Teaching Institute in Reading-Writing Pedagogy. While particularly aimed at students who are interested in teaching positions at community colleges and access-oriented institutions, it also prepared students for teaching at other types of colleges and universities.
Photo Credit: Liz Mahon
May 24, 2023
Liz Mahon, fourth-year Psychology PhD student, only had a few weeks to prepare for the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools (NAGS) Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) on April 28. After winning first place in her division (Sciences), the People’s Choice Award, and the highest overall score at the Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 3MT Competition on April 4 though, she was ready to rise to the occasion.
April 10, 2023
On April 4, 2023, The Shapiro Theater hummed with nervous energy as the finalists for the second annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition filed inside. These ten graduate students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) had made it through a preliminary round with twenty-five students, and now got to present their research one more time to a panel of judges and a new audience.
March 31, 2023
GSAS career fellows have engaged in a wide range of career exploration and professionalization activities during the spring 2023 semester, led by the GSAS Professional Development team.
January 24, 2023
Last year, English PhD candidate Emiliano Gutierrez Popoca won the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at Brandeis and proceeded to compete in the national competition.
October 14, 2022
From biotech startups to youth advocacy, GSAS students across the academic spectrum explored careers across academia, industry and non-profit organizations during the summer.
June 22, 2022
On April 13, four teams presented their business ideas in the Innovation Corps (I-Corps) “Demo Day.” I-Corps is supported by the National Science Foundation, and Brandeis is one of ten universities in the New England region selected to host the program.
May 20, 2022
Members of the GSAS Career Fellows Cohort and the 2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finalists were invited to a professional development reception with recent GSAS alumni on April 28. The Career Fellows Cohort is designed to give GSAS students skills to prepare them for careers in academia, non-profits, industry and beyond.
April 12, 2022
The finals for Brandeis University’s first ever Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition were held on the evening of April 7, 2022.
April 6, 2022
On Thursday, April 7, twelve GSAS students will compete in the final round of Brandeis University’s first ever Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. 3MT is a speaking competition designed to showcase graduate student research in three-minute talks to a general audience.
March 14, 2022
“Graduate students want and need to build a variety of skills that will help them meet their professional aspirations, which can feel daunting as our plates are often already full,” says Moriah King, a PhD student in anthropology. But how big is the skills gap between doctoral and professional training? It may not be as wide as one would expect, at least that is what King and other GSAS students discovered recently while participating in a pilot program that places them in classes at The Rabb School for Continuing Education.
February 10, 2022
For Peter Taylor PhD’00, the journey to his current career as Executive Associate Dean for Academic and External Affairs at Nova Southeastern University’s Patel College of Health Care Sciences has been far from linear.
November 15, 2021
It is no secret that it has become harder and harder to find tenure-track jobs in the academic market. Yet much doctoral training is aimed almost exclusively at the small fraction of students who will obtain those roles in academia. While this trend has developed over several decades, the 2008 financial crisis and the Coronavirus pandemic have exacerbated the problem in recent years.