Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development
Build Your Path to a Satisfying Career.
Graduate and Postdoctoral Professional Development seeks to:
- Foster existing and new professional skills development opportunities for graduate students and postdocs.
- Support the useful completion of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) for graduate students and postdocs.
- In partnership with graduate programs, the Career Center and other campus partners, enhance resources and opportunities for exploration of a broad range of careers for our students and postdocs.
- Provide support, advising, and institutional nomination for the development of external fellowships by graduate students and postdocs.
- Maintain the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, which supports and advises Stony Brook's postdoctoral scholars.
Build Your Skills
Graduate students and postdocs have a number of opportunities for professional development, including regular graduate courses and occasional seminars, workshops, and short courses.
LEARN MOREPast Events
Information and materials from past professional development workshops and programs.
LEARN MOREIDP Toolkit
Stony Brook's Individual Development Plan Toolkit includes resources, templates, and further information for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty on how to complete an Individual Development Plan.
LEARN MORESBU 3MT
Three Minute Thesis, or 3MT® for short, is a spoken word thesis competition. 3MT is an opportunity for SBU graduate students to present their dissertation research findings to a general audience in THREE MINUTES with only one PowerPoint slide.
LEARN MOREResearch Mentor Training
The Graduate School offers training on research mentoring for faculty, students and postdocs.
LEARN MOREPhD Works Awards
PhD Works Awards for Career Exploration (ACE) provides financial awards to grad students for career exploration and professional development activities that prepare them for careers beyond the traditional expectations of their program or beyond academic research.
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