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November

November 15 – Job Search Strategies Cohort 2– Session IV

12:00-1:00 pm EST, Zoom. Job Search Strategies (JSS) is comprised of 4 workshops led by the Director of Career Readiness. JSS is a cohort based program with a limited number of open seats. If accepted, you will be required to attend all four sessions. Click HERE to learn more and register.

November 15 – SRP SPAN Webinar Academic Careers Panel

1:00-3:00 pm EST. Live webinar. Our next Student Post-Doc/Alumni/Network (SPAN) webinar is open to all SRP Trainees. During this call, we have invited several individuals to be part of a career panel focused on the academic sector – a follow-on from our government panel back in April. Click HERE to zoom.

November 18 – RETCC: Citation Management with Zotero: Bibliographies Made Easy!

2:00-3:00 pm EST. In-person, East Learning Lab B 2113, DH Hill Library. Learn how to manage your research library, create citations, and insert bibliographies automatically using the free software Zotero. In this hands-on workshop, we will create Zotero accounts, download the software & plugins, practice importing documents, and learn how to create in-text citations and bibliographies with the click of a button. Click HERE to learn more and register.

November 19 – Michigan State University “Teaching, Researching, and Understanding the Social Science of Trust (TRUSST) Lab” Workshop

10:00-11:00 am EST, Virtual event. TRUSST’s Annual Workshop is a guided, “open-table” discussion intended to support graduate student trust research. Interested students are asked to have a specific trust-related project in mind but this can either be one that they are working on or one that they are conceptualizing. Click HERE to learn more and register.

November 19 – Career Readiness: A2i Industry Insights: Transition from Graduate School to Industry

12:00-1:00 pm EST, Online event. A series of talks led by A2i industry partners to provide you the opportunity to build your network, explore career opportunities, and prepare for the transition to industry. Click HERE to learn more and register.

November 19 – Introduction to Creating Publication-Quality Visualizations

2:00-3:30 pm EST, Online event. In this introductory workshop, you will learn how to identify the main design elements of a visualization: color, typography, titles, subtitles, annotations, dark/light contrast, and labels. You will learn how to use these design elements to create visualizations specifically for publication in various formats. We will give an overview of tools that you can use to create publication-quality visualizations. Click HERE to learn more and register.

November 20 – STEEP SRP Seminar with Dr. Joseph Braun: PFAS Exposure and Health Risks

11:00-12:00pm EST, Zoom. Dr. Joseph Braun, Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, will present “PFAS Exposure and Its Health Impacts: Understanding Sources, Health Risks, and Interventions.” The seminar will focus on the relationship between PFAS exposure and long-term metabolic diseases, as well as strategies for assessing and mitigating these risks. Click HERE to learn more and register.

November 20 – Advancing Environmental Health Research with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Session II — ML & AI Applications to Environmental Engineering & Bioremediation

2:00-4:00 pm EST. Live webinar. The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) is hosting a Risk e-Learning webinar series focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to advance environmental health research. The series will feature SRP-funded researchers, collaborators, and other subject-matter experts who aim to better understand and address environmental health issues by applying AI and machine learning approaches to complex issues. Click HERE for more information and to register.

November 20 – RETCC: Responsible Use of AI in Research

3:30-5:00 pm EST, Zoom. Research librarians (Tyler Kroon) will present this session on guidance for and awareness of responsible use of AI in research. Click HERE to zoom.

November 22 – Advancing Environmental Health Research with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: Session III — Understanding Omics, Metabolomics, & Immunotoxicity and Optimizing Bioengineering

12:00-2:00 pm EST. Live webinar. The NIEHS Superfund Research Program (SRP) is hosting a Risk e-Learning webinar series focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to advance environmental health research. The series will feature SRP-funded researchers, collaborators, and other subject-matter experts who aim to better understand and address environmental health issues by applying AI and machine learning approaches to complex issues. Click HERE for more information and to register.

November 25 – Writing a Literature Review for Publication

10:00-11:0 am EST, Online event. This workshop, offered through the Campus Writing and Speaking Program (CWSP) at North Carolina State University, is designed for faculty and graduate students looking to enhance their skills in writing literature reviews for publication. Whether you are preparing a literature review as part of a dissertation, research article, or grant proposal, this session will provide practical guidance on organizing, synthesizing, and presenting scholarly literature in a way that contributes to your field and stands out for journal publication. Click HERE to learn more and add to your calendar.

December

December 2 – Career Readiness: A2i Industry Insights: Life Sciences Career Opportunities

December 4 – RETCC: Fall 2024 Trainee Meetings/Events

3:30-5:00 pm EST, Zoom meeting. SRP Trainees are invited to attend the Trainee Meetings as part of their Superfund experience. Click HERE to zoom.

December 5 – TAMU Superfund: TrAC Meet 2024: Community-Engaged Research in Houston, Texas

Houston, TX, In-person. Texas A&M Superfund presents TrAC Meet: A unique opportunity for trainees to learn about community-engaged research. This event will take place at the Houston headquarters of one of the Texas A&M Superfund Research Center’s community partners, t.e.j.a.s (Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services). Participants will spend the day with t.e.j.a.s and Community Engagement experts to learn first-hand about the opportunities and challenges of community-engaged research and research-informed solutions that address climate change resilience and environmental justice. Click HERE to learn more and register.

December 11 – RETCC: Joint meeting with STEEP

11:00-12:00 pm EST, Zoom event. This is an ongoing once-a-semester joint trainee meeting with the SRP STEEP Center; at least one trainee from the STEEP Center and one from our Center will share their research activities and results with all the trainees from both Centers. Click HERE to zoom.

December 12-13 – Communication Skills: Writing Retreat

9:00 – 4:00 pm EST, Zoom event. The two-day Virtual Writing Retreat Sprint offers graduate and postdoctoral writers the dedicated time and structure to make progress on a major writing project in a supportive online setting. Click HERE to learn more and register.

December 18 – RETCC: Fall 2024 Trainee Meetings/Events

3:30-5:00 pm EST, Zoom meeting. SRP Trainees are invited to attend the Trainee Meetings as part of their Superfund experience. Click HERE to zoom.

January 2025

January 16 – ITRC: Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Identification Framework Training

1:00-3:00 pm EST, Live webinar. In 2023, the ITRC Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CEC) Framework was published to help environmental regulatory agencies and other stakeholders identify, evaluate, and manage CEC’s while acknowledging uncertainties in their environmental fate and transport, receptor exposure, and/or toxicity. Such an approach can be conducive to improved allocation of regulatory response resources and provide a foundation for communicating potential risk to stakeholders. Click HERE to learn more and register.

January 28 – ITRC: PFAS Introductory Training

1:00-3:00pm EST, Live webinar. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a large and complex class of anthropogenic compounds whose prevalence in the environment are an emerging, worldwide priority in environmental and human health. The ITRC PFAS Team, formed in 2017, has prepared readily accessible materials to present PFAS information to stakeholders, regulators, and policy makers. The PFAS team represents a diverse cross-section of expertise and experience working on PFAS. Click HERE to learn more and register.