NPAW: Postdoc Headshots with OPA
Please review the available slots via the link below and register for the time that works best for you (one sign up per person).
If you can no longer make the time you selected, please be sure to cancel your reservation, so other postdocs can take advantage of the opportunity.
NPAW: Coffee Cart & Early BBQ Ticket Pickup with OPA
Monday, September 15, 9:00am-12:00pm, Sapp Courtyard
Postdoc Coffee & Donuts with OPA
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) is hosting a coffee cart, plus Golden Gate Mini Donuts for all postdocs!
Mentoring Lunches: Incorporating Psychological Safety in Mentorship
Psychological safety is the foundation for openness, trust, and healthy mentoring relationships. But how do we build it in practice?
In this interactive follow-up session, we’ll move beyond definitions to explore concrete strategies you can apply today to foster psychological safety in your mentorship. Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you’ll develop greater self-awareness, practice communication skills that encourage openness, and leave with practical tools to cultivate trust and safety in your current and future teams.
Mentoring Lunches: Personnel Management: Managing Conflict Within a Lab
In this interactive session, we will explore practical strategies for navigating and resolving conflicts within the lab.
Through engaging case studies and role-play activities, participants will practice tools for fostering open communication, addressing tensions constructively, and creating a collaborative, inclusive lab environment.
Writing Policy Memos for Science, Technology, and Society
Wednesday, August 20, 12:00pm-1:20pm, On Campus
This workshop introduces you to the craft of writing policy memos for decision-makers in government, think tanks, nonprofits, and corporate policy. Focused on science, technology, and social science issues, participants will learn the purpose, tone, and structure of a memo, with emphasis on professional formatting strategies.
If Not You Then Who: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Tuesday, August 12, 12:00pm-1:20pm, On Campus
As researchers, imposter syndrome can creep into various stages of our process - in discussions with peers and advisors, in proposing and designing our projects, in data collection - but perhaps no stage of the process elicits more of a sense of being discovered as a fraud as writing. Writing is when we set about communicating ourselves and our work - and it's supposed finality is part of why it makes us so vulnerable.