Skill Development

The Versatile PhD is excited to launch their first PhD-level innovation challenge sponsored by NHLBI, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and NASA Tournament Lab. This “Air You Wear” challenge is an exceptional career development opportunity for graduate students and post-docs who are motivated to solve an… Read More

Successful science communication is at the core of just about everything in science. This module—essentially an eight-part workshop—will give trainees in the sciences greater skill, ease, and confidence in formal and informal science communication scenarios. Through a series of practical exercises, participants will gain experience speaking to and… Read More

This series of 14 lessons and exercises was developed at Vanderbilt. It covers the structure of manuscripts and proposals, tips for making writing more efficient, and revision techniques to improve organization, logical flow, and sentence structure. Each lesson uses examples to illustrate how to make scientific writing easier to understand,… Read More

Presented by Rory Dicker and Brianna Nesbitt, Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center Tuesday, July 27 12:00–1:30 p.m. CT Zoom Please register here. Read More

The Postdoc Academy’s second online course, Building Skills for a Successful Career, will launch July 19, 2021 and run for 7 weeks. This series of modules will build advanced skills that will enable postdocs to transition to independence. Participants will learn how to: Inform their approach to leadership; Build and supervise… Read More

The Leadership Alliance is excited to announce its upcoming Virtual Career Development Workshop from July 28-29, 2021. The ASPIRE team is proud to be a part of the planning committee for this year’s event, which also features Senior Associate Dean Kathy Gould and Assistant Dean Ashley Brady as speakers. The Virtual Career Development… Read More

Registration is now OPEN for the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences (CQS) Summer Institute program of 2021! OVERVIEW: Our CQS Summer Institute offers three great courses that will sharpen your quantitative research skills and give you methods and tools to deepen your understanding in biostatistics and bioinformatics.  Registration is expected to… Read More

The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) is pleased to announce the IMPACT Fellowship Program (“IMPACT”), a six-month program that provides marginalized early-career research trainees with access to personal and career resources, along with opportunities to build skills, assess… Read More

This article was originally published in the 2018-2019 Annual Report.  The Vanderbilt ASPIRE Program piloted a new initiative in partnership with the Nashville Software School to enhance the readiness and confidence of biomedical trainees to pursue data science careers. Data Science Essentials combined project-based didactic exposure to data science… Read More

  The ASPIRE Annual Career Symposium will be here soon, and we are welcoming 13 invited alumni speakers virtually.  In addition, many other alumni attendees will be present for small group rotations in a virtual power hour.  How can you make the most of the networking opportunities that this… Read More