Community and Professional Development for Brown Graduate Students

Catalog description

Graduate students in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES) and across the Brown University campus more generally span a wide range of disciplines and departments. This presents both challenges and opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction among graduate students from different fields. The foremost goal of this seminar is to create a space for intellectual community-building and collaboration among Brown graduate students representing a broad array of intellectual pursuits, both within IBES and across campus. Its second goal is to help graduate students develop some useful professional skills in speaking, writing, networking, and career planning post-Brown. A student-favored community-building event will take place at the end of the seminar. Possible ideas for this event include (but are not limited to) a panel with invitees, field trip, poster session, invited speaker, group proposal, volunteer event, or social event.