I have a much simpler suggestion that did me a world of good - make the grad
students talk. My thesis advisor constantly pushed us to give seminars, both
internal and external. Our internal seminars were every week, and we were
also pushed to give public talks at any opportunity. Although we all started
as pretty awkward speakers, by the time we finsished I think we were all
pretty polished and received more than our share of speaking invitations.
How important this was came home to me by the time that I was a faculty
member helping select new staff, which usually meant attending the kind of
seminar where the speaker stood up, immediately asked for the first slide
(typically a diagram of the experimental setup) and never got around to
telling us what the whole project was about.
Bill Silvert
----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron T. Dossey" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: domingo, 25 de Abril de 2010 18:58
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] lessons for new faculty members?
Here are some positive recommendations for new faculty, but older faculty
could probably benefit from these as well:
