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The Merrill-Cazier Library is overflowing with untapped resources and data that live to make your life easier.
3 Library Resources to Make Your Life Easier | Grad School

3 Library Resources to Make Your Life Easier

The Merrill-Cazier Library is overflowing with untapped resources and data that live to make your life easier.

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Present graphs and data plots effectively with clear, concise and powerful information.
3 Steps to Beautify Your Graphs and Data Plots | Grad School

3 Steps to Beautify Your Graphs and Data Plots

Present graphs and data plots effectively with clear, concise and powerful information.

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Utah State University professors share teaching advice for grad students.
3 Tactics to Improve Your Teaching | Grad School

3 Tactics to Improve Your Teaching

Utah State University professors share teaching advice for grad students.

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Learn what experts at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science teach academic professionals about communicating their research.
Audience Engagement During Research Presentations | Grad School

Audience Engagement During Research Presentations

Learn what experts at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science teach academic professionals about communicating their research.

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Creators of the Student Research Symposium rubric Emily James and Scott Bates share information on how it was created and how it applies to you at both USU conferences and beyond.
Best Practices for Conference Presentations | Grad School

Best Practices for Conference Presentations

Creators of the Student Research Symposium rubric Emily James and Scott Bates share information on how it was created and how it applies to you at both USU conferences and beyond.

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A panel answers your questions about teaching and how to start in a training at the graduate training series.
Building Successful Teaching Opportunities | Grad School

Building Successful Teaching Opportunities

A panel answers your questions about teaching and how to start in a training at the graduate training series.

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Grad school can sometimes be tricky waters to navigate, but there’s no better way to learn how than from your peers. At this GrTS, grad students who had recently finished or would soon finish their degrees shared their advice on how to be successful.
Common Grad School Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Common Grad School Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Grad school can sometimes be tricky waters to navigate, but there’s no better way to learn how than from your peers. At this GrTS, grad students who had recently finished or would soon finish their degrees shared their advice on how to be successful.

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Avoid common slip-ups by learning the principles of great presentation slides.
Creating Gorgeous Slides | Grad School

Creating Gorgeous Slides

Avoid common slip-ups by learning the principles of great presentation slides.

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Anna McEntire shares tips and tricks on how to design your poster by using real examples!
Design Stunning Posters | Grad School

Design Stunning Posters

Anna McEntire shares tips and tricks on how to design your poster by using real examples!

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Make your posters visually appealing and engaging to a wide audience.
Extreme Makeover: Poster Edition | Grad School

Extreme Makeover: Poster Edition

Make your posters visually appealing and engaging to a wide audience.

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Learn what makes an engaging and visually appealing poster or slide.
Getting Smart About Posters and Slides | Grad School

Getting Smart About Posters and Slides

Learn what makes an engaging and visually appealing poster or slide.

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How can you foster good relationships with your mentors? What tips can you use to help your own mentoring of undergraduate students? A panel of mentors and mentees give their best advice on navigating academic relationships while pursuing your graduate de
How to Mentor and be Mentored

How to Mentor and be Mentored

How can you foster good relationships with your mentors? What tips can you use to help your own mentoring of undergraduate students? A panel of mentors and mentees give their best advice on navigating academic relationships while pursuing your graduate de...

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Learn best practices for storing and sharing research data including security, file naming and metadata.
Manage and Store Data Effectively | Grad School

Manage and Store Data Effectively

Learn best practices for storing and sharing research data including security, file naming and metadata.

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This training seeks to answer three questions: 1) How to find a good mentor 2) How to be a good mentee 3) How to be a good mentor.
Mentorship 101

Mentorship 101

This training seeks to answer three questions: 1) How to find a good mentor 2) How to be a good mentee 3) How to be a good mentor.

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Learn the ins and outs of navigating the publishing process from our expert librarians.
Navigating the Publishing Process | Grad School

Navigating the Publishing Process

Learn the ins and outs of navigating the publishing process from our expert librarians.

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Learn tips and tricks from a presentation expert to improve your slides and the time it takes to create them
PowerPoint Presentation Skills | Grad School

PowerPoint Presentation Skills

Learn tips and tricks from a presentation expert to improve your slides and the time it takes to create them

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The road to a career in academia begins with thoughtful planning. November’s GrTS, led by USU Career Services, featured tips to help you jump-start that planning by focusing on how to strengthen your academic presence, so when the opportunity comes, you’l
Prepare for Your Career in Academia

Prepare for Your Career in Academia

The road to a career in academia begins with thoughtful planning. November’s GrTS, led by USU Career Services, featured tips to help you jump-start that planning by focusing on how to strengthen your academic presence, so when the opportunity comes, you’l...

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Remembering all the “rules” for resumes and CVs can be difficult. Knowing what to include, what to leave out, and when you need one or the other. By learning the standards and merits of both forms, you can set yourself up for future success.
Preparing Your Resume and CV

Preparing Your Resume and CV

Remembering all the “rules” for resumes and CVs can be difficult. Knowing what to include, what to leave out, and when you need one or the other. By learning the standards and merits of both forms, you can set yourself up for future success.

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As much as it might feel like graduate school is the center of the universe, not every student stays within academia throughout their career. At the January Graduate Training Series, career experts will give their advice on how to be successful after grad
Preparing for a Career Outside of Academia

Preparing for a Career Outside of Academia

As much as it might feel like graduate school is the center of the universe, not every student stays within academia throughout their career. At the January Graduate Training Series, career experts will give their advice on how to be successful after grad...

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This workshop helps students learn best practices for data visualization that they can incorporate into presentations and publications.
Publication Graphics and Data Visualization

Publication Graphics and Data Visualization

This workshop helps students learn best practices for data visualization that they can incorporate into presentations and publications.

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Exercise, eat well, get enough sleep – you probably already know the keys to being physically healthy. At this GrTS, Justin Barker and Amanda Bloom from USU’s Center for Counseling and Psychology Services (CAPS) shared how you can keep your mind healthy w
Resilience Lite: Strategies for Staying Emotionally Healthy

Resilience Lite: Strategies for Staying Emotionally Healthy

Exercise, eat well, get enough sleep – you probably already know the keys to being physically healthy. At this GrTS, Justin Barker and Amanda Bloom from USU’s Center for Counseling and Psychology Services (CAPS) shared how you can keep your mind healthy w...

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Enhance your teaching techniques and skills with advice from Utah State professors.
Teaching Techniques | Grad School

Teaching Techniques

Enhance your teaching techniques and skills with advice from Utah State professors.

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Whether it be with labmates, a mentor, or someone in your personal life, conflict affects relationships. Learn how to view conflict as a positive thing and how to properly manage conflict both in your professional and personal relationships.
Tips for Dealing With Conflict

Tips for Dealing With Conflict

Whether it be with labmates, a mentor, or someone in your personal life, conflict affects relationships. Learn how to view conflict as a positive thing and how to properly manage conflict both in your professional and personal relationships.

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Learn how to present data in a new and interesting way from a panel of researchers who weigh in on all the new possibilities of data presentation.
Tips for Effective Data Visualization | Grad School

Tips for Effective Data Visualization

Learn how to present data in a new and interesting way from a panel of researchers who weigh in on all the new possibilities of data presentation.

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You have found a listing, submitted your resume, and now you have an interview. How do you ensure that you get the job? Come learn from Career Services all their tips and tricks to ensure that you put your best foot forward at future job interviews.
Tips for Interviewing for a Job

Tips for Interviewing for a Job

You have found a listing, submitted your resume, and now you have an interview. How do you ensure that you get the job? Come learn from Career Services all their tips and tricks to ensure that you put your best foot forward at future job interviews.

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Communications professor and public speaking expert Clair Canfield teaches how to properly communicate ideas and craft an effective narrative.
Tips for Persuasive Public Speaking | Grad School

Tips for Persuasive Public Speaking

Communications professor and public speaking expert Clair Canfield teaches how to properly communicate ideas and craft an effective narrative.

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Improve your literature reviews by learning tips and tricks for finding and orgazining your sources.
Tips for Successful Literature Reviews | Grad School

Tips for Successful Literature Reviews

Improve your literature reviews by learning tips and tricks for finding and orgazining your sources.

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Learn how to become a more effective undergraduate teacher and mentor.
Tips for Teaching Undergraduate Courses | Grad School

Tips for Teaching Undergraduate Courses

Learn how to become a more effective undergraduate teacher and mentor.

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Get tips on effective teaching and mentoring from a panel of award-winning instructors.
Tips for Teaching Undergraduate Students | Grad School

Tips for Teaching Undergraduate Students

Get tips on effective teaching and mentoring from a panel of award-winning instructors.

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In many ways, graduate school is like running a marathon. You spend a lot of time training and preparing, and now the race has begun. The September edition of the Graduate Training Series included such suggestions and advice from graduate school administr
What I Wish I Knew

What I Wish I Knew

In many ways, graduate school is like running a marathon. You spend a lot of time training and preparing, and now the race has begun. The September edition of the Graduate Training Series included such suggestions and advice from graduate school administr...

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Dylan Burns, a specialist from University Libraries, shares tips on how to best present yourself online.
Your Path to Maintaining a Professional Online Presence | Grad School

Your Path to Maintaining a Professional Online Presence

Dylan Burns, a specialist from University Libraries, shares tips on how to best present yourself online.