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Graduate Student Programs and Services

GCIP Workshops

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Academic & Intercultural Skills

Academic Notetaking
Time Management
Classroom Engagement & Team Participation
Intercultural Awareness & Development

Speaking & Presenting

Name Pronunciation
Effective Presentations
Science Communication for Non-Experts
Small Talk
Designing Effective Slides for Presentations
Qualifying & Prelim Exam Preparation

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Field Trip to Duke Gardens 1

Allison and Melissa at Duke

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Writing

Tips for Strong Writing
Executive Summaries
Professional Bios
Crafting SOPs for PhD Applications
Qualifying & Prelim Exam Preparation

Special Programming

Snack Chat Conversation Group (monthly)
PhD & postdoc writing retreats (June & December)
3-Minute Thesis Preparation & Competition – for PhD students (Summer)
Research on Tap preparation (monthly)
Writing groups (by request)

Snack Chat

Snack Chat

Writing Retreat

SciComm Retreat

The top three students in the Three Minute Thesis competition pose for a photograph, from right: Maddiy Segal, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science student, Amit Narawane, MD/PhD student in biomedical engineering, and Hillel Price, PhD student in biomedical interferometry optics and spectroscopy, during Duke School of Medicine’s annual Equity Advancement Symposium at the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences in Durham, Monday, August 5, 2024. Hosted by the Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advancement, and Leadership in the Sciences (IDEALS) Office, the Equity Advancement Symposium brings the School of Medicine and broader community together to facilitate conversations at the intersection of science, diversity, equity, and inclusion. (Eamon Queeney for Duke University School of Medicine)

The Three Minute Thesis competition participants chose for a photograph during Duke School of Medicine’s annual Equity Advancement Symposium at the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences in Durham, Monday, August 5, 2024. Hosted by the Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advancement, and Leadership in the Sciences (IDEALS) Office, the Equity Advancement Symposium brings the School of Medicine and broader community together to facilitate conversations at the intersection of science, diversity, equity, and inclusion. (Eamon Queeney for Duke University School of Medicine)

Maddiy Segal, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science student, right, accepts the top prize in the Three Minute Thesis competition from Debra Ragland, PhD, Director, BioCoRE Program, center, and Marcie Pachino
Communications Consultant at the Pratt School of Engineering, left, during Duke School of Medicine’s annual Equity Advancement Symposium at the Fitzpatrick Center for Interdisciplinary Engineering, Medicine and Applied Sciences in Durham, Monday, August 5, 2024. Hosted by the Office for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion as well as the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advancement, and Leadership in the Sciences (IDEALS) Office, the Equity Advancement Symposium brings the School of Medicine and broader community together to facilitate conversations at the intersection of science, diversity, equity, and inclusion. (Eamon Queeney for Duke University School of Medicine)

students at Snack Chat

Snack Chat

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