Rutgers Graduate Geographers Project

Any Geography graduate students who do not yet have access to our Sakai site, send an email to Theresa and Betty Ann.
-thanks, Michelle

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**** This Friday @ 2pm in the Grad Lounge****

Prof. Rick Schroeder will give part 2 of his “Joining the Ranks Talk”. He will pick up from where he left off last week and cover the job application process itself and interviewing in a lot more detail.

Snacks and soda will be provided.

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****** Professor Rick Schroeder – “Joining the Ranks: Part I” ******

****** Geography Grad Lounge (B231) Lucy Stone Hall ******

****** 2.15 this Friday, October 2nd ******

Snacks and soda will be provided so come in for Ken’s Brownbag talk and stay for this!

Rick will give his now famous (within this department at least) talk on how to successfully get that academic job. In this part I of the talk he plans to cover a number of issues including: how to prepare to make an application, the broader question of professionalization, how to build a cv, how to build a teaching portfolio and the nature of credentials in a tight job market.

There is a second part of the talk which covers the on campus interview, the job talk, getting the job offer etc. but unless he gets through it all very quickly we will probably be holding that over for a second session later in the semester. Even if the job market seems like something that is several years down the road or if you don’t plan on going for an academic job I think this will still be worth attending.

Now is also a good time to mention our plans for the professional development forum for the rest of this semester. We are still figuring out the details but hopefully the rest of the semester will include:

***** “Writing your proposal” ******

A workshop where grad students share their experiences and advice on writing both your dissertation proposal and proposals for external funding

***** “Joining the Ranks: Part II” *****

The second half of Rick’s talk

***** “Demystifying the Qualifying Exams” ******

Those of us who have taken on the dreaded qualifiers and survived to tell the tale, give the rest of you some suggestions and everything from selecting committee members through to surviving the oral exam.

Hope to see you all on Friday,

Jim & Nate

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Thursday Sept 24th: Our weekly pub night becomes game night! My place @ 7.30pm

Friday September 25th: Ph.D. Defense:  Mariana Leckner - ” Coastal planning ‘down the shore’ geographical applications in New Jersey” @11am in B-120.

Colloquium Series: Lisa Campbell (Duke) “Geopolitical Genetics: Claiming the Commons Through Species Mapping” @ 2pm in B115

Tuesday September 29th: GGP Meeting @ 12.30pm in the Grad Lounge

Masters Thesis Defense: Carrie Lewis Ferwerda - “Characterizing the relationship between Asian Tiger Mosquito Abundance and Habitat in Urban New Jersey” @ 4pm in Ecology & Natural Resources, Room 145 (Cook Campus)

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Worth reading. For those of you who (like me) find that having an Internet connection and being productive often don’t go together!

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Greetings from your GGP Social Chair (Jennifer)! This year the GGP is putting together a bunch of events. Here are a couple to start the year off right and help welcome the new cohort:

(1) “Pub Night”

Date: This Thursday, September 3rd

Place: Ale ‘n ‘Witch, 246 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick

Time: About 7 o’clock pm (after Perspectives)

Carpooling is encouraged and we hope to make it a regular thing so let me know what you think of the location/time.

(2) Roller Skating

Save the date for roller skating on Saturday, September 19th. We’ll meet at Lucy Stone at 1:00 pm and carpool to the skating rink in Woodbridge. More details soon.

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Elected at our last meeting of the year yesterday:

President:  Irene Zager

Vice-President: Eric Sarmiento

Treasurer: John Mioduszewski

Secretary: Colleen Earp

Faculty Meeting Reps: Irene Zager & Jim Jeffers

GSA Meeting Reps: Adelle Thomas & Nelun Fernando

Speaker Series Reps: Nate Gabriel & Abidah Setyowati

Social Events Co-ordinator: Jennifer Stevens

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