by anna_beaudry1 | Aug 19, 2022 | graduate student advice, Graduate Student Mentoring, interview, life in grad school, pedagogy, STEM, wellness
Welcome back Baylor Bears! At the end of last semester, we conducted an “exit interview” with our previous Associate Dean of Professional Development, Dr. Beth Allison Barr, which you can read here. To welcome in our new Associate Dean of Professional...
by anna_beaudry1 | Apr 25, 2022 | dissertation, GPS workshops, graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, Graduate Writing Center, interview, life in grad school, STEM, wellness, writing
For our final interview this semester in the How and Where I Write Series (don’t worry, we’ll bring this back in the future!), we sat down with Jasmine Stovall, a fourth-year PhD student in the Biology department. She also completed her MS at Baylor as...
by anna_beaudry1 | Apr 12, 2022 | graduate student advice, graduate student resources, Graduate Writing Center, interview, life in grad school, STEM, wellness, writing
Want to get to know the soon-to-be Associate Dean of Professional Development for Baylor’s Graduate School, Dr. Sara Dolan? Read on to learn more about her and her writing habits. Starting in June, Dr. Dolan will be taking over from current Associate Dean, Dr....
by anna_beaudry1 | Dec 6, 2021 | graduate student advice, Graduate Student Association, graduate student guest post, Graduate Student Mentoring, graduate student resources, guest post, STEM, wellness
Earning my undergraduate degree from Baylor and transitioning into graduate studies was a challenging experience. The friends and connections I made during my time at undergrad had left Waco and were flinging their green and gold afar, so to speak. For me, the first...
by anna_beaudry1 | Oct 4, 2021 | graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, graduate student resources, guest post, Present Your PhD, PYPhD, Research Opportunities, STEM
If you want to get a bunch of scientists to nod approvingly, walk up to a group of them and say “What we really need is to be better about communicating our science.” It’s the perennial problem that scientists love to complain about but don’t always act upon. Many...
by beth_barr | Feb 10, 2020 | GPS workshops, graduate student advice, graduate student guest post, STEM
Today we welcome Biology doctoral students Brooke Morris and Zach Winfield to BearTracks. “Find a mentor.” Right? We have all heard that phrase. But how do you do it? I remember hearing ‘find a mentor’ at the start of my undergraduate degree. But I...
