October 1 Fall 2024 Office Hours: Individual Development Plans — Up to 25 min. individual advising sessions Virtual Explore options or pursue a career path supported by easy-to-use planning instruments that help you thoughtfully design and track your professional development goals. Eligible trainees can get advising help and resources to proactively problem-solve and set yourself up for success. Registration Required.
October 1 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Copyright and Your Dissertation Virtual This workshop will provide you with practical guidance for navigating copyright questions and other legal considerations for your dissertation or thesis. Whether you’re just starting to write or you’re getting ready to file, you can use our tips and workflow to figure out what you can use, what rights you have as an author, and what it means to share your dissertation online. Registration Required.
October 1 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Career Group Chat: Level Up Your LinkedIn Profile Virtual Join Career Educator, Jesselle Hoque, for this LinkedIn 101 session! Learn how to create a compelling profile and showcase your skills and experiences. There will be opportunities for attendees to ask questions. Registration required.
October 1 @ 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM R Data Wrangling and Manipulation: Part 1 of 2 Virtual This R workshop will introduce the dplyr and tidyr packages to make data wrangling and manipulation easier. Participants will learn how to use these packages to subset and reshape data sets, do calculations across groups of data, clean data, and other useful tasks. Registration required.
October 1 @ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Faculty Perspectives on Adapting to Active Learning Virtual Join us for a dynamic discussion featuring several of our own faculty members who have successfully integrated active learning strategies into their classrooms. Each panelist will share their unique approach to active learning, including specific strategies, tools, and real-life examples from their courses. Additionally, we will provide a Google Doc for all participants to contribute their successful engagement methods, fostering a collaborative environment where everyone can learn from each other's experiences. Registration required.
October 1 @ 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM Python Fundamentals: Part 1 of 6 Virtual This workshop provides an introduction to visualization with Python. We will cover visualization principles and plotting with Matplotlib and Seaborn, working through examples in a Jupyter notebook and documentation of each plotting package. We’ll also learn about styles and customizing plots. Throughout the workshop, we’ll discuss the plot types best suited for particular kinds of data. Registration required.
October 1 @ 4:10 PM - 6:10 PM Bill McKibben on The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas MLK Jr. Student Union, Pauley Ballroom MLK Jr. Student Union, Berkeley Join Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Professor at Middlebury College for a Barbara Weinstock Lectures on The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to rein in greenhouse gasses, and the role that America–the world’s biggest exporter of gas–plays in this ongoing catastrophe. It will also explore the role that non-tradable commodities–sunshine and wind–might play in easing this crisis.