‘Video’
Beyond the Lab: Erin Flynt, Medical Communications
Apr. 13, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Erin Flynt, PhD, in one of our very first Beyond the Lab videos. We were so pleased that she (as well as Nicole Speed) went out on...
Beyond the Lab: Hillary Carter, Government Administration
Apr. 12, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Hillary Carter, Senior Advisor for Biosecurity and a Team Chief in the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR), US Department of State. Dr. Carter spoke at the 2015...
Beyond the Lab: Hugh Fentress, University Professor
Apr. 11, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Hugh Fentress, Assistant Professor of Biology at Tennessee State University. Dr. Fentress balances his time doing research and teaching and mentoring undergraduates at TSU here in Nashville....
Beyond the Lab: Leah Potter, Medical Writing
Apr. 10, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Leah Potter, PhD, who is a medical writer for Syncrogenix. We also hosted Dr. Potter at a PhD Career Connections event in Spring 2016. Check out...
Beyond the Lab: Meghana Rao, Consulting
Apr. 9, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Meghana Rao, PhD, who is a consultant for Campbell Alliance and who was a speaker for the 2015 Annual Career Symposium. Check out the video here! This video...
Beyond the Lab: Nuruddeen Lewis, Drug Discovery
Apr. 8, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Nuruddeen Lewis, PhD, Scientist, Cellular and Translational Immunology group, EMD Serono. Dr. Lewis spoke at a PhD Career Connections seminar in November, 2014, and we were...
Beyond the Lab: Nikki Cheng, Principal Investigator
Apr. 7, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Nikki Cheng, PhD, who attended our 2013 Annual Career Symposium as a speaker. Watch the whole video here! This video is supported by a...
Beyond the Lab: Hayes McDonald, Core Facility Management
Apr. 6, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Hayes McDonald, PhD, co-associate director, MSRC Proteomics Laboratory, here at Vanderbilt. Check out the video here! This video is supported by a BEST award from...
Beyond the Lab: Cynthia Brame, Academic Administration
Apr. 5, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Cynthia Brame, PhD, currently with Vanderbilt's own Center for Teaching serving as their Assistant Director. She also is an instructor in Biological Sciences. Here...
VU’s Institute of Digital Learning offering Fellowships
Apr. 4, 2016—The Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning (VIDL) is pleased to announce the 2016-17 Graduate Fellows Program application is available on our website. This year’s deadline is April 22nd. Graduate Fellows Program: VIDL invites applications for graduate student fellowships for the 2016-2017 academic year. Stipends will be $5,500 per academic year (this is intended to reflect a roughly...
Beyond the Lab: Jeremy Richman, From Pharma to Foundation
Apr. 4, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Jeremy Richman, a former Vanderbilt postdoctoral fellow and the founder and CEO of the Avielle Foundation. This video is supported by a BEST...
Beyond the Lab: Karissa Culbreath, Medical Genetics
Apr. 3, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Karissa Culbreath, the Scientific Director at Tricore Laboratories. Dr. Culbreath was a speaker at the 2013 Annual Career Symposium, and she shares her bio...
Beyond the Lab: Kim Dahlman, Shared Resource
Apr. 2, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. Today we highlight Kim Dahlman, PhD, the Director of Innovative Translational Research Shared Resource at the Vanderbilt Ingram-Cancer Center. Dr. Dahlman speaks with the BRET Office of Career Development about...
Beyond the Lab: Seth Ogden, Patent Law
Apr. 1, 2016—In the month of April, the Office of Career Development is featuring a Beyond the Lab video each day of the month, highlighting awesome alumni in the video series. We are starting off the series with the most popular interview of the series. This particular video is with patent attorney, Seth Ogden. Dr. Ogden has since returned to...
Internship Opportunity: BenchFly
Sep. 26, 2014—Internship Opportunity: BenchFly — Reinventing Science Communication Using Video This internship provides an opportunity for a Vanderbilt biomedical sciences graduate student or postdoc to apply their scientific expertise away from the bench, while developing their creativity, collaboration, and marketing skills. At BenchFly, we think the most exciting opportunities for innovation occur at the interface of two...
View 2014 Annual Career Symposium presentations again!
Jul. 1, 2014—Did you miss the 2014 Career Symposium? You can still watch the presentations! Please follow the School of Medicine Media Site link to watch the presentations of the 2014 Annual Career Symposium. Watch the following speaker presentations: Dr. Shari Barkin, M.D., William K. Warren Foundation Chair in Medicine, Marian Wright Edelman Professor of Pediatrics, and Director of Pediatric Obesity Research...
Web Presentations about McKinsey & Company consulting firm
Jun. 30, 2014—A recruiter from the management consultant firm McKinsey & Company shared this information with us. Even if you are not specifically interested in McKinsey as a future employer, these web presentations are a good way to learn more about consulting as a career field. Please find all the information below. When reviewing their website, note...
KGI Webinar: Transitioning from Academia to Industry
Jun. 6, 2014—The KGI — Keck Graduate Institute School of Applied Life Sciences — is leading a webinar series on “Transitioning from Academia to Industry.” Listen to members of the KGI’s Advisory Council who have completed the transition. Listen to their path and recommendations they have for today’s graduate students and postdocs. On Tuesday, June 10, Gino...
PhD in Progress
May. 15, 2014—Three Princeton PhD candidates from Molecular Biology have started a podcast – http://phdinprogress.com/about/ – to talk to graduate students about “topics of thriving in graduate school, pursuing an academic or non-academic career, and introducing the materials and resources capable of changing the way we believe graduate school should be.” Check it out!
Upcoming Offerings with Versatile PhD
May. 13, 2014—View the free telesummit on May 21-22 about “How Academia Messes with Your Mind.” A constructive panel addressing the emotional stress graduate students experience, especially around their careers. Listen for free during those two days: http://vphd.info/1mHCVfo Next is a panel discussion, “Careers in Data Science,” from June 9-13 in the STEM forum. More information: http://vphd.info/1kTaPMS ...