OPA Program

Dr. Latishya Steele, Associate Director of BioSci Careers, will be leading a workshop on Teaching Statements. This workshop will cover what goes into a great teaching statement, how they differ across institution type, and how to write one. If you are doing (or considering) the postdoc teaching certificate, a teaching statement is required, so you should definitely attend. Also for those going on the academic job market in the next few years. Open to all postdocs in any field. Please remember to bring your lunch!

BBL*: Finding and Applying for Postdoctoral Fellowships: Overview of Resources and Procedures - Open to ALL Postdocs

Presenters & Topics:

• Debra Porzio, Postdoctoral Fellowships Manager, Research Management Group, School of Medicine

• Tim Leung, Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Research Pre-Award

• Annelies Ransome, Associate Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

This workshop will focus on Speechless’ Improv Thinking as it applies to the leadership skills of collaboration, creativity, and communication. By the end of this on-your-feet workshop, attendees will have an introduction to improv thinking, as well as, conducive best practices and approaches for applying newly-activated tools and techniques in their everyday workflows as female leaders in academia. This workshop emphasizes five areas in particular: presence, originality, inclusion, narrative, and transformation.

Mondays, February 12 - March 19 (6 sessions), 5:00pm-6:30pm

Note: Due to the Presidents' Day Holiday on February 19th, this session has been rescheduled to take place on Wednesday, February 21st.

Open to all Stanford postdocs and to advanced graduate students as space is available.

This registration site is for the in-person Learning Community discussion group for the following course:

Wednesdays, April 4, 11, and 18 (3 sessions), 10:00am-11:00am

Mindfulness—paying attention to the present moment with curiosity and kindness—enhances many aspects of our physical health and emotional wellbeing. Want to increase immune function, positive emotion, social connection, emotional intelligence, focus and creativity? Want to decrease pain, anxiety, stress, depression, or emotional volatility? Mindfulness can show you how.

BBL*: Finding and Applying for Postdoctoral Fellowships: Overview of Resources and Procedures - Open to ALL Postdocs

Presenters & Topics:

• Debra Porzio, Postdoctoral Fellowships Manager, Research Management Group, School of Medicine

• Tim Leung, Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Research Pre-Award

• Annelies Ransome, Associate Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

Guest Speaker: Jack Baker, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering