Professional Development

This meetup will feature a few 5-minute presentations followed by a hands on workshop on functional programming with purrr (http://purrr.tidyverse.org/). If you're interested in giving a 5-minute presentation featuring your work in R (ideally related to the workshop topic, but we're flexible), please email and/or with your brief pitch. Agenda: • 6:00pm - 6:15pm - […]

Get ready for the upcoming Master’s/PhD Fair! Learn how to interact with employers, appropriate dress, materials to bring to career fair, developing an effective introduction, and more. You will be provided with some basic “how to” information and leave ready to make the most out of your upcoming career fair experience. Register: http://tinyurl.com/y9lddhsq

Registration will be available in late September. Graduate and professional students and post docs in humanities/social sciences and STEM fields are cordially invited to attend this event at the Friday Center put on by 6 NC institutions (Duke, NC State, UNC CH, UNC Charlotte, UNC Greensboro, and Wake Forest). For more information on the event […]

This workshop will focus on the many careers that individuals with a PhD can pursue in industry. A panel of local business leaders will talk about their positions in research and development, technical sales and marketing, business development and consulting. The panelists will be available to meet with students as part of the workshop.

Master's, PhD and postdoctoral trainees from any discipline will hear from new and seasoned employees on a range of topics related to pursuing careers focused on policy. Schedule includes: 10:30-11:30a Panel Presentation combining STEM and Humanities/Social Science presenters 11:30a-12:30p Breakout session discussions STEM-Bioinformatics1131 Humanities/Social Science-Marisco 2004

This panel brings together a group of masters alumni to discuss a range of topics from advice on worthwhile activities for current students to career options. This seminar is designed to be interactive, so bring your questions! flyer

This meetup will feature three talks on working with three different web APIs in R: - Twitter - Zillow - Google NGram As always, if you're interested in giving a 5-minute presentation featuring your work in R (ideally related to the workshop topic, but we're flexible), please email and/or with your brief pitch. Dinner and […]

What we'll do Join us as we work through the first section of R for Data Science in small groups. This is a great way for both new and experienced users to become more familiar with R. All events are intended for women as leaders, mentors, members, and attendees. We are emphatically queer and trans […]