Gain crucial insights into academic career advancement and prepare for a successful faculty career! This two-day event includes 10 workshops that will help you demystify the job search, prepare your hiring documents, and get the job you want. Register now and start shaping your future in academia!
Breakfast and lunch are being provided. Open link for schedule.

We are now accepting applications for the 19th annual Dow Building Engineering and Science Talent (BEST) Symposium.

This year’s BEST symposium will be held virtually on July 28 – July 30, 2025. The symposium is primarily intended to introduce underrepresented U.S. doctoral and postdoctoral scientists to the wide range of rewarding careers in industrial research, and in particular, the many opportunities with one of the world’s largest and leading materials science companies, Dow. This conference, developed jointly by our minority scientists and Ph.D. recruiting team, demonstrates our commitment to an inclusive work force.

Join us for an audience-led fellowship information session! Our fellowship coach will have a menu of fellowship-related topics to share, and the audience votes on which topics to cover. Open link for topics.

Join us for an audience-led fellowship information session! Our fellowship coach will have a menu of fellowship-related topics to share, and the audience votes on which topics to cover. Topics to share include: • How to Avoid Common Mistakes in Fellowship Applications • How to Condense a Draft • How to Plan a Research Project • How to Use the Pivot Funding-Search Tool • Tips on Letter of Recommendation Asking • Fellowship Opportunities for Non-STEM Fields • Fellowship Opportunities for Non-US Citizens • Fellowship Opportunities for Computational Fields This session will be offered twice monthly, once in the AM and once in the PM. Feel free to join as many times as needed as each one will be unique.

Attend this presentation to learn how to improve your LinkedIn profile, and use the website for networking, information gathering, and job searches.

Join us every month to plug in to peers and professional development!

11:00 – 11:30AM: Coffee & Cookies sponsored by PPDA
11:30AM – 12:20PM: Postdoc Research Presentation(s)
12:20 – 1:00PM: Professional Development Talk

The Office for Postdoctoral Scholars is looking for postdocs who want to present their research for practice and peer feedback.

Please email ops@purdue.edu if you are interested.

Exclusively for postdocs! Join Rachelle Swan, Director of the Office for Postdoctoral Scholars, for an hour to chat about your Purdue experience, ask postdoc orientation questions or questions about the office’s goals and resources, and connect with Rachelle (a former Purdue postdoc herself) and other postdocs in an intimate setting. Meet at the beginning of the Starbucks line so she can treat you to your favorite Starbucks beverage! Registration is limited to 5 people per session, and please limit your sign-ups to once per semester to give everyone an opportunity. She will invite you to the Coffee Chat through Outlook at least one week prior to meeting. Sign up now!

PhD candidates and postdocs in the life sciences, medical sciences, and related subjects are encouraged to attend. This webinar session provides a writing strategy for research plans as well as advice about preparing the other required documentation. The F32 fellowship and the career-pathway K99/R00 program will be covered. Both fellowships fund 1-3 years of your postdoctoral studies; additionally, the K99/R00 provides 3 years of funding once you transition to a beginning faculty position. The K99/R00 does not require US citizenship.

NIH offers three fellowship opportunities for graduate students aiming to become research scientists in fields serving to improve the human condition. If you are a US citizen or permanent resident, you are eligible to apply for the NIH F31 (or F30 if you are the PhD/MD program). If you want to pursue cancer research as a postdoc, you might be interested in the F99/K00 which is open to all students regardless of citizenship, however, only ONE student per year is allowed to apply (requiring a nomination process). All three of these fellowships fund the last 1-2 years of your graduate studies so you can just focus on your research; additionally, the F99-K00 funds up to 3 years of a cancer-research focused postdoc. This webinar session will provide a writing strategy for research plans as well as advice about preparing the other required documentation.

Dr. James Mohler, Purdue University Research Integrity Officer, will host an RCR workshop designed to help all grad students, faculty, staff, and postdocs meet the 2-hour, discipline-specific RCR training required under University policy S-20.

Dr. James Mohler, Purdue University Research Integrity Officer, will host an RCR workshop designed to help all grad students, faculty, staff, and postdocs meet the 2-hour, discipline-specific RCR training required under University policy S-20.

Dr. James Mohler, Purdue University Research Integrity Officer, will host an RCR workshop designed to help all grad students, faculty, staff, and postdocs meet the 2-hour, discipline-specific RCR training required under University policy S-20.