Perelman School of Medicine Events Calendar

A weekly in depth discussion of two pre-selected relevant recent publications from the biomedical literature

Graham Walker (MIT), “Translesion DNA polymerases: from cancer chemotherapy to bactericidal antibiotic action”

"Notch and the immune response"

Talking about your Research
12-1:30pm, Room 97, McNeil Building
Thursday 15th November, 2012
For grad students and postdocs - Preregistration is not required (but bring your PennCard)

When you are on the academic job market, you will need to be able to talk about your research to both specialists and non-specialists in a clear, concise and interesting manner, and in a variety of different venues. What do you say? How long should you talk? How specific should you be? What is the goal? In this workshop, career counselors will explore the different venues where you might have to talk about your research during the job hunt, and will give some suggestions for preparing to talk about your research in a variety of different settings. Then, you’ll practice doing so…

The PowerPoint used for this presentation will be available after the workshop.

Here are some additional resources to get you thinking about how to talk about your research:

· I touch briefly on the importance of talking effectively about your research in this blog (https://ulife.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/blog/?p=595)
· The challenges of answering the “tell us about your dissertation” question are discussed in this blog too (http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2010/12/tell-us-about-your-dissertation-and/)
· And if you are wondering how best to boil down the key aspects of your research to make it interesting and understandable to a broad audience, would you be able to identify the most important aspect of your research if someone were to ask you this question today?

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.