OPA Program

Guest Speaker(s):

Guest Speaker(s): Patricia Burchat, Professor, Physics and Kritika Kanchana Yegnashankaran, Associate Director, Faculty and Lecture Programs (VPTL)

Guest Speaker(s): Carolina Tropini, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Microbiology and Immunology and Lorraine Ling, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics

Guest Speaker(s): John L. Hennessy, President Emeritus, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Polly M. Fordyce, Assistant Professor, Genetics and Bioengineering

Guest Speaker(s): Alexandra Konings, Assistant Professor, Earth System Science and Erin MacDonald, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Guest Speaker(s): Bruce A. Wooley, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Sarah Heilshorn, Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

**This session has been canceled, please sign up for a future session of Designing Your Postdoc HERE**

In this session, you'll have an opportunity to apply design thinking to your postdoctoral training and reflect on who you are, where you are going, and how you can get there.

You'll identify resources and plan to apply them to your training in the right place at the right time. The work we do together will support a thoughtful and balanced individual development plan.

In this session, you'll have an opportunity to apply design thinking to your postdoctoral training and reflect on who you are, where you are going, and how you can get there.

You'll identify resources and plan to apply them to your training in the right place at the right time. The work we do together will support a thoughtful and balanced individual development plan.

Design thinking can inform our decisions and provide new insight into our skills, values, interests, and plans. Join us as we apply design thinking to postdoctoral training and reflect on who you are, where you are going, and how you can get there.

This new curriculum, developed in conjunction with the Stanford d. School, is intended to help you identify resources and apply them to your training in the right place at the right time.  In true design thinking style, this workshop is a prototype and we invite you to make the best use of it, and help us make it even better!

IV. Accent Reduction

Prerequisite: Oral Communication

Summer Session: Thursdays, June 27 - August 8, 5:00pm-7:00pm (no class 7/4)

This class helps non-native speakers to recognize and practice American English sounds, stress, and intonation patterns in order to improve comprehension and intelligibility. This is accomplished through identification of problem areas, focused practice and recording of exercises for instructor feedback.

Course topics: