Fall 2025 Preparing Future Faculty and Professionals Seminar (PFFP) Topics
Each semester, the Graduate School hosts three LIVE events as part of the Preparing Future Faculty & Professionals Seminar series. UWM log-in required. If you are unable to attend the live event, these will be archived for later viewing and available typically within two weeks of the event.
October
Scholarly Publishing with Springer Nature
Thursday October 23, 2025, 12:00 pm-2:00 pm (in-person)
Program:
12:00-12:30 pm: Lunch sponsored by Springer Nature
12:30-12:35 pm: Introduction by Michael Doylen, Associate Vice Provost & Library Director
12:35-12:55 pm: Presentation by Rina Ghose, Professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
12:55-1:40 pm: Workshop by Morgan Ryan, Executive Publisher, Springer Nature
1:40-2:00 pm: Presentation by Alison Donnelly, Professor of Geography
The UWM Libraries invite you to a workshop in which you will learn about the best practices for scholarly article publishing in Springer Nature journals. This year, the UWM Libraries and Springer Nature signed a new “read and publish” agreement which allows authors to publish their articles through the open access program without paying processing charges while retaining their copyrights.
In this workshop, the Springer Nature publisher will discuss how to choose the right journal for your manuscript submission, what happens during the editorial and peer review processes, how to respond to reviewer comments effectively, and how to publish open access articles via the new agreement. In addition, the UWM faculty authors will talk about their first-hand experiences of the scholarly article publishing and how they make decisions about what, where, and how to publish.
View the slides from the presentation: My Experience in Academic Publishing by Alison Donnelly, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and Springer Nature author workshop by Morgan Ryan
If you have any questions about the event, please contact Svetlana Korolev (skorolev@uwm.edu)
November
Ethical considerations for AI research assistants
Monday November 24, 2:30PM, live virtual session
Speaker: Stephanie Surach
Social Sciences Librarian
Research & Academic Outreach, User Services Division
UWM Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Program:
Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, the use of generative AI and the implementation of Lare Language Models in various products has become pervasive. AI-powered tools are being developed by research database platforms (ex. ProQuest, JSTOR) and startups alike to support research tasks like literature searching. In this webinar, we will explore ethical considerations in deciding to use such tools, as well as publisher AI use policies and disclosure of AI tool use.
Watch the recorded presentation: PFFP: Ethical Considerations for AI research assistants