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Graduate Student Professional Development

Discover resources, connect with mentors, dive deeper into MIT’s 7 professional development competencies, and find out about upcoming events and opportunities.

Graduate professional development is skills-based training complementary to your academic coursework that will augment any career path you decide to follow, within and beyond academe.

MIT provides professional development resources to help you deepen your skills and knowledge in seven areas: career advancement, communication, interpersonal skills, leadership and mentoring, personal development, social responsibility, and teaching. Honing these competencies will give you the confidence to thrive and contribute as a researcher, educator, industry leader, and citizen.

 

Dissertation Dispatch: The Grad School Survival Guide

Graduate school can be hard. And during difficult moments, advice from peers who have walked a similar path can make you feel less alone. That’s why the Graduate Professional Development team is putting together a “Survival Guide” of real advice, …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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Redefine success, identify challenges, and flip failure this new year!

Life comes with its fair set of challenges. The goal of building resilience is to equip yourself to weather life’s challenges as they arise. Much of that work involves redefining what success and failure mean and finding ways to use …

By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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Writing and Communication Center IAP Workhop Series: Styling Your Academic Writing

Styling Your Academic Writing (5-session series)

Date: Jan 10th, 11th, 12th, 18th and 19th
Time: 12-1pm
Location: by Zoom (pre-register to receive the link to connect)

Register: https://forms.gle/zftHcRToe4FwGXnM6

This series will offer diverse and creative methods for styling writing. We will …

By Amanda Cornwall
Amanda Cornwall Associate Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
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Learn grant writing from the pros!

Please join us for a panel of MIT faculty and grant administrators as we explore the writing process and share tips and tricks for a successful grant application!

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By Tara Thakurta
Tara Thakurta Graduate Community Fellow
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New Professional Development Certificates for PhDs and Postdocs

Applications are now open

We are excited to announce that applications are now open for two new professional development certificate programs for PhDs and postdocs for AY 2023-2024: the Research Mentoring Certificate and the Grant Writing Training Certificate. Applications for …

By Amanda Cornwall
Amanda Cornwall Associate Director, Graduate Student Professional Development
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Featured Profiles

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Meet Breanna
Meet Journee
Meet Hannah
  • Associate Director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT
Meet Ashley
  • Senior Advisor for Communications , MIT Office of the Vice Chancellor
Meet Michael Patrick
  • Director of the Writing and Communication Center (WCC)
Meet Elena

Lily Liu

Graduate Student
  • PhD Student, gwaMIT Co-Chair
Meet Lily
  • Senior Lecturer, Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program
Meet David

Diana Chien

Alumni, Partner
  • Program Director, School of Engineering Communication Lab
Meet Diana

Sean Clarke

Alumni, Partner
  • Communication Instructor + Biotech Liaison
Meet Sean