11th Annual Career Conference: For First-Year Ph.D. Students
The 11th annual academic career conference (see Almanac, September 21, 1999), sponsored by Career Services and the Deputy Provost, has a fourth session scheduled for October 5. Please register by calling (215) 898-7530 or sending an e-mail message to heiberg@pobox.upenn.edu.
The Insiders' Guide to Graduate Education at Penn: A Program for First-Year Ph.D. Students
Tuesday, October 5, Logan Hall, Room 17
4-5:30 p.m.; What You and Your Department Can Expect from Each Other; Peter Conn, Deputy Provost; advanced doctoral students and recent Ph.D.'s will give first-hand advice on getting off to a good start, choosing a committee, managing relations with your advisor, and completing your program successfully and expediently; Peter Conn, moderator; Leigh Edwards, Ph.D. in English; David Ege, Chemical Engineering; Lynn Green, Sociology; Marcine Pickron-Davis, Ph.D. in Education; and Julie Baker, Chemistry.
Almanac, Vol. 46, No. 6, October 5, 1999