Professional Development

The Graduate Resource Center (GRC), administered by the Office of Graduate Studies, provides several resources tailored to the professional development needs of graduate and professional degree students, including:

Workshops on topics such as writing, academic skills, and professional skills and leadership development.
The Graduate Online Writing Lab (GrOWL).
Thesis/dissertation writing and support groups.

Some additional resources for your professional development include:

Information about Managing Your Time from the Academic Skills Center of Dartmouth College.
Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab providing hundreds of handouts for students and teachers about the writing process.
A free online edition of the classic writing reference book, The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr.
The PUENTES Program from the University of Texas at El Paso offering workshop materials on a variety of topics, such as Research Planning and Selecting a Research Proposal Topic.
Hundreds of resources on current issues related to PhD students at OnlinePhD.org.
A collection of integrated digital resources and services from the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)

Resources

Professional Development