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Building Scientific Careers: A View from Europe

What are the career prospects for US-trained scientists in Europe? What are the future trends in recruitment? What are the future possibilities across the EU how might PhD students and post-docs secure them? Dr. Manolo Castellano is at the leading … Read more

PDA TruTalks

Join us on September 6th from 6:30 to 7:30pm at TRU Deli in Chapel Hill (https://www.trudeli.com) to listen to a great talk and help support fellow UNC postdocs. Our presentations are open to the general public, so please help share … Read more

NPA Webinar: myPostdoc Monthly: Immigration & Visas

The session will cover the types of visas used by postdoctoral researchers. Learn about self-sponsored applications, J-1 waivers and other visas, such as the F1 (OPT) and J-1 visas (including J1 waivers), and H-1B/O-1/TN. The webinar will also cover what … Read more

Designing Web Surveys

This course will introduce effectively designing web surveys to avoid common pitfalls that impact data quality and introduce measurement error. The course will focus on the following elements of web survey design – overall formatting and visual layout of screens, … Read more

Biostatistics Seminar Series: Basic steps in questionnaire development

This seminar provides a discussion on the basic steps in the Devellis questionnaire development process. Topics covered include defining your construct(s) of interest, evaluation of existing scales, prior scale adaptation, item pool generation, scale format, and testing paradigms. This event … Read more

NIH Virtual Seminar: Culture Change and Wellness

To launch this year’s series, we will begin with a webinar titled, Culture Change and Wellness on November 7, 2022, at 3:00 PM ET. The talk will be presented by Dr. Sharon Milgram, OITE Director. This webinar is open to … Read more

How to Publish a Book From Your Dissertation

This is a free online webinar for scholarly authors from Laura Portwood-Stacer of Manuscript Works. This webinar is intended for anyone who would like to publish a book based on their dissertation. It will focus on publishing with a university … Read more

How to Manage Stress, Rejection & the Haters in Your Midst

Are you stressed? Do you feel devastated when your articles and/or grant proposals get rejected? Is the pressure of publishing/funding your work making you sick? If any of this sounds familiar and you have difficulty managing the negative energy and … Read more