OPA Program

Wednesday and Thursday, August 15-16, 8:30am-4:30pm (breakfast and lunch provided on both days)

Monday and Tuesday, July 2-3, 8:30am-4:30pm (breakfast and lunch provided on both days)

Often, postdoctoral instructors receive little guidance on what terms such as diversity, equity, and inclusion mean or how to implement these ideas in your mentoring or teaching practice. Instead, fearing that they will 'get it wrong,' many instructors avoid engaging with issues of diversity and inclusion altogether. In this workshop, we break down these terms to create a shared language around diversity, inclusion, equality, and equity, and discuss strategies for inclusion.

Wednesdays, May 9, 16 & 23 (3 weeks), 9:00am-11:00am

Improv for Communication uses techniques drawn from improvisational theater to develop communication skills that can be beneficial for collaboration, mentoring, day-to-day conversations, presentations, or job searches. 

The Introduction for Postdoctoral Scholars series is 3 weeks, held on Wednesdays 9am-11am. Participants must be able to attend ALL 3 sessions.

** Please note: this session is currently full, but we expect some seats to become available and will do our best to accommodate everyone interested in attending. Please register on the waitlist for this event.**

Student-Centered Instruction with Free Resources from HHMI BioInteractive

Target audience: Faculty teaching General Biology, Cell/Molecular Biology, Genetics, Evolution, and related courses, at the undergraduate level.

HHMI’s Free Teaching Resources for Student-Centered Learning

Target audience: Postdoctoral Scholars interested in teaching and learning. The learning exercises that will be showcased are particularly relevant for introductory-level Biology, Cell/Molecular Biology, and Genetics.

Participants will:

This workshop uses design thinking to address the “wicked problem” of designing your life, postdoc, and career. This workshop offers a framework, tools, and most importantly a place and a community of peers and mentors where we’ll work on these issues through hands-on exercises. This workshop employs a design thinking approach to help postdocs from any field develop a constructive and effective approach to finding and designing their time at Stanford and vocation after. 

Have you ever wondered what a fellowship application review committee is looking for in an application?  Here is your chance to find out from some review committee chairs themselves!

Join us for a panel discussion with the application review committee about the Stanford Medicine Dean’s, Berry, McCormick and Henzl-Gabor postdoctoral funding opportunities.

More information about these fellowships is available at: http://postdocs.stanford.edu/fellowships/fellowships_SoM.html.

Thursday and Friday, March 29-30, 8:30am-5:00pm (breakfast and lunch provided on both days)