These archived PFFP videos are available to support students in professional development for success as a graduate student and in planning for your career beyond your degree. A minimum of 3 new videos are added per semester, so check back periodically to view new content.
(Note: videos are listed in chronological order, newest to oldest).
Building Professional Connections
Panelists: Nan Kim, Associate Professor, Director of Public History; Ilya V Avdeev, Associate Professor Mechanical Engineering; Director of Innovation UWM’s Lubar Entrepreneurship Center; Ava J Udvadia, Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Biological Sciences
How do graduate students develop the professional networks they’ll need later in their careers? Many students find it daunting even to try, especially when they aren’t established in their own fields yet. This panel will help students understand the value of professional networking and the best ways to go about it. It turns out that being a graduate student can be beneficial! This panel of experts will talk us through some of the most common options, from organizing conference panels to recruiting outside advisors to making full use of online resources. They’ll also reflect on the long-term benefits of networking for their own careers.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series and Grad 801 Fall 2021.
Community Engagement.
Presenters: Nan Kim, Director, Public History; Timothy Ehlinger, Director of Sustainable Peacebuilding.
Find out why and how professors at UW-Milwaukee create community-engagement projects, and learn more about how community engagement can be an exciting part of faculty and graduate student research across disciplines. The guest speakers will discuss the methods, challenges, and rewards of developing their own community-engaged projects, and can advise students on how to pursue their own community-engaged initiatives.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals, Fall 2019.
Academic Entrepreneurship: Impacting Society from Inside the University.
Panelists: Carol Hirchmugl, Physics; Dave Clark, English; Ilya Avdeev, Engineering; Anne Basting, Theater.
Academics have long sought to engage the world outside the university. Academic entrepreneurship – converting academic research into new cures, technologies, and practices that have real consequences for people- is one such avenue for engagement. This interdisciplinary panel will share their won experiences, successes, challenges, strategies for, and reflections on becoming academic entrepreneurs and how such work shapes their understanding of what they do as academics.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series, Fall 2017.
Academic Integrity: What It Is, Why Have It, How to Foster It.
Panelists: Marija Gajdarziska-Josefovska, Graduate School Dean, Physics; Amy Harley, Public Heath; Michael Liston, Philosophy; Martin Kozon, History.
As emerging scholars who are conducting research, publishing results, and working collaboratively, graduate students are beginning to navigate some of the complex ethical situations encountered in advanced academic settings. This faculty-student panel will discuss how they handle the complicated nuances we all face in our research and writing as well as what academic integrity is and why it matters. Topics of discussion will include responsible authorship, allocation of credit, collaborative work, peer review, self-citation and repurposing one’s own material, conflicts of interest, responsible data management, and publishing pressures.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professional Series, Fall 2017
Becoming a Public Intellectual in the 21st Century.
Presenters: Mark Carey, History, University of Oregon; Lane Hall, English, UW-Milwaukee.
This panel presents their divergent experiences being public intellectuals in the 21st century. Dr. Lane Hall, English, will present on his work with the Overpass Light Brigade, as an example for those who actively wish to become public intellectuals and an example of innovation in finding ways to adapt and use social media outputs for a positive message about issues that matter in Wisconsin and beyond. Dr. Mark Carey, History, University of Oregon, (via Skype) discusses the reception of his work on glaciology and the experience of being the recipient of sudden media attention and critique and how he handled it.
Recorded for Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Series, Fall, 2017.