Issue 5, Fall 2023

News & Announcements

• Graduate & Professional Students Mental Health Awareness Week (10/2-10/5)
• Communicating Your Research to a Public Audience Workshop (10/6)
• UK GradResearch Live!
• GSC Scavenger Hunt (10/6)
• Start-to-Finish Mentorship Program
• UK Teaching Excellence Symposium (10/13)
• Workshop for TAs: Classroom Management Strategies to Create a Positive Learning Environment (10/13)

Reminders

• Course Repeatability
• For Graduating Master (Plan A & Plan B) and Specialist Students: Degree Audit
• Responsible Conduct of Research
• Graduate-Level Fellowships & Funding Opportunities
• Thomas D. Clark Graduate Study 
• Graduate Student Resources 

Graduate and Professional Students

Mental Health Awareness Week

All graduate students, professional students, and postdoctoral scholars are invited to attend the Graduate Student Congress’s (GSC) Graduate and Professional Student Mental Health Awareness Week (Oct. 2- 5). This four-day event aims to reduce stress in many ways: 

• 10/4 Wednesday
• 10-11 am: Graduate mindfulness (Zoom:https://uky.zoom.us/j/82653856538)
• 3-5 pm: Destress with art therapy (The 90 rm.203, 440 Hilltop Ave)
• 10/5 Thursday
• 9-10 am: Trauma informed pedagogies (Gatton student center rm.331 and zoom:https://uky.zoom.us/j/84176576970)

Please contact Levone Lee (levone.lee@uky.edu) with any questions.

Communicating Your Research to a Public Audience

Friday, October 6

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom: https://uky.zoom.us/j/83701802822

Join us for this workshop on public scholarship and how to communicate your research concisely and effectively to the general public. Dr. Shayan Mohammadomori, Postdoctoral Scholar in The College of Medicine and winner of the 2017 UK 3MT competition and 2023 UK Postdoc Annual Research and Career Symposium 3MT, will discuss how to effectively build connection with general audience and present your research in an accessible and impactful way. 

If you are interested in public scholarship, consider participating in UK GradResearch Live!, a Three-Minute Thesis competition and research showcase with over $3,800 in prizes!

At the end of the workshop above, we will introduce you to the UK GradResearch Live! competition and explain the rules and different tracks. We look forward to seeing you there!

GSC Scavenger Hunt

Join the International Student Concerns Committee of the Graduate Student Congress for an exciting Scavenger Hunt on the beautiful UK campus. This event promises fun, camaraderie, and prizes for the winners!

Event Details:

The adventure begins at 5 PM on Friday, October 6th at the Office of China Initiatives (160 Patterson Drive)

Team Formation: You'll be grouped into teams and then embark on a quest filled with photo-worthy moments! The best teams will be awarded prizes!

Start-to-Finish Mentorship Program

UK Teaching Excellence Symposium 

The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Office for Faculty Advancement (OFA) will host the UK Teaching Excellence Symposium on Friday, October 13, 2023 on the first floor of the Gatton College of Business and Economics building. The UK Teaching Excellence Symposium will be a space for sharing examples of exceptional teaching, exploring pedagogical frameworks, and fostering connections and community among UK educators.

A keynote address, “Realizing the Promise of Teaching with Technology: Insights from Learning Sciences,” will be given by Michelle D. Miller, Ph.D., professor of psychological sciences at Northern Arizona University and author of "Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology: Teaching, Learning, and the Science of Memory in a Wired World" (West Virginia University Press, 2022).

Anyone connected to the instructional mission of the university (faculty, teaching assistants, PTIs, etc.) is invited to attend and encouraged to register. 

Classroom Management Strategies to Create a Positive Learning Environment Workshop for TAs

The Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) and the Graduate School’s Office of Graduate Student Professional Enhancement (GSPE) are offering a fall series of teaching and learning workshops for graduate teaching assistants. The offerings provide an opportunity to discuss teaching practices and connect with TAs across colleges and departments.

Friday, October 13

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

via Zoom

Instructors can face challenging situations in the classroom that can leave them feeling unprepared on how to handle the situation in the moment. This workshop will discuss common challenges and approaches to addressing classroom management issues before, during, and after they arise.

Reminders

Course Repeatability

It is important to be familiar with the repeatability limits of courses.

If a student exceeds the limit, the Registrar’s Office will not assign academic credit to the course. The Graduate School cannot support petitions for exceptions to this policy.



For Graduating Master (Plan A & Plan B) and Specialist Students: Degree Audit

Conducting a degree audit is critically important during the semester you intend to graduate. Checking at the start of the semester gives you a view of the requirements you have satisfied and those that are remaining.

If you discover a course that was wrongly assigned to a requirement, or not credited, you should bring this to the attention of your DGS (Director of Graduate Studies) or your program advisor. The program should contact the student affairs officer for the area/ discipline well in advance of the final examination to resolve. If there are requirements that have not been met, then you and your program will need to decide it there are substitutions that will fulfill that requirement.

Responsible Conduct of Research

Graduate-Level Fellowship & Funding Opportunities

The Graduate School's office of Finance, Funding, and Analytics maintains a webpage of fellowship opportunities available through the university. They also keep a list of some external funding sources.

Additionally, UK Research's Proposal Development Office is a great resource to discover extramural research funding and award opportunities.