Events For Graduate & Professional Students

From workshops, to seminars to world-renowned speakers, there are hundreds of opportunities to learn and network at UB. Take a look at our upcoming events, designed specifically for our graduate and professional student population.

Be sure to visit UB's central events calendar for a comprehensive list of what is happening at UB, including conferences, lectures, meetings, seminars, sporting events and much more.

Stay tuned for more 2023 events!

Tough Talks: Communication Strategies for Difficult Situations
May 2, 2023

This workshop, presented by Counseling Services, focused on strategies for navigating difficult conversations with peers, mentors, faculty and staff. Stymied by how to approach a challenging conversation with your advisor? This workshop is for you. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Converting Your CV to a Resume Workshop for PhD Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
April 27, 2023

Whether you are entering industry or academia, understanding the difference between a CV and a resume (and how to write them!) is essential. The Career Design Center and the Graduate School are co-hosting multiple workshops to teach you how to compose a CV and resume and how to transition between them, depending on the requirements for the position. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Writing Your CV Workshop for PhD Students and Postdoctoral Scholars
April 18, 2023

This workshop, co-hosted by the Graduate School and the Career Design Center, teaches you top CV tips, how to update and rework your CV with recommended guidelines, understand common CV mistakes and how to avoid them, and how to tailor and build a stand-out CV. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Accomplish Your Goals with Slow Productivity
March 15, 2023

The Graduate School has partnered with the Graduate Student Association and the Office of Postdoctoral Scholars to provide a series of workshops dedicated to productivity. Dr. Kate Henry is a productivity coach specializing in sustainable and well-being-oriented productivity. As a productivity coach, she guides academics to develop actionable and achievable productivity and time management practices to achieve short-term and long-term goals without feeling overwhelmed. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Skillshop Lunch and Learn: Taking your PhD to Industry
Feb. 23, 2023

The Graduate School partnered with the Career Design Center to offer a lunch and learn skillshop designed for PhD students interested in careers in industry. Guest speaker Dr. Grennell completed her PhD in American Studies from the University at Buffalo in 2016. Her dissertation, entitled The Making of the ‘Fame Monster’: Disability Aesthetics, Bodily Deviance and Celebrity Culture troubled the distinctions between deviance and normativity by analyzing representations of disability, bodily difference, and deviance in American popular music and popular culture of the late 20th and early 21st century. She has worked as an adjunct in the disciplines of history, American Studies, American popular music, and disability studies for over 15 years at multiple institutions throughout Western New York. She began working for Anthology (then Campus Labs) in 2016 as a consultant and since then has also worked as an Account Manager and Senior Education & Training Specialist. In August 2022, she moved into the role of Accessibility Strategist at Anthology. In this role, she provides subject matter expertise to institutions who have adopted Anthology Ally, a digital accessibility tool. Her first book, Disability and Accessibility in the Music Classroom: An Instructor’s Guide (Routledge) was published September 1, 2022. Click here to watch a recording of the skillshop.

Converting Your CV to a Resume Workshop for PhDs and Postdocs with the Career Design Center
Feb. 21, 2023

 This workshop, co-hosted by the Graduate School and the Career Design Center, teaches you how to convert a CV to a resume with helpful tips and insights about both these documents. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Top Five Productivity Tolls that Helped Me Finish my Dissertation
Feb. 15, 2023

The Graduate School has partnered with the Graduate Student Association and the Office of Postdoctoral Scholars to provide a series of workshops dedicated to productivity. Dr. Kate Henry is a productivity coach specializing in sustainable and well-being-oriented productivity. Feeling stuck or stumped on your dissertation? Join Dr. Kate Henry, Productivity Coach, as she breaks down five tools and approaches that helped her to find motivation, keep up momentum, and complete her dissertation. Attendees will leave this workshop with tangible next steps for progressing on their own dissertations. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Grant Writing for Humanities: Pursuing Grants to Help Support Your Humanities Scholarship
Jan. 24, 2023

This workshop details what grants are available to researchers in the humanities and social sciences, how to look for appropriate funding opportunities, and how to compose your grant application. The recording will be available until July 24, 2023. Click here to watch the recording. Click here to download the workshop slides and other materials. 

Grant Writing for STEM fields: Research Planning for Future PIs
Jan. 24, 2023

Check out what grants are available to researchers in STEM fields, and then learn what funders look for in grant proposals. The recording will be available until July 24, 2023.  Click here to watch the recording. Click here to download the workshop slides and other materials. 

Fellowships and Grant Writing Basics
Jan. 19, 2023

Learn about the offerings for UB graduate students from the Office of Fellowships and Scholarships, followed by an introduction to grant writing. Click here to watch the recording.

How to Personalize Your Productivity Practice
Jan. 18, 2023

The Graduate School has partnered with the Graduate Student Association and the Office of Postdoctoral Scholars to provide a series of workshops dedicated to productivity. Dr. Kate Henry is a productivity coach specializing in sustainable and well-being-oriented productivity. During this workshop, you'll reflect on the ways your productivity utilizes finite personal resources and reconceptualize what it means to “be productive” by identifying your behind-the-scenes labors. Attendees will leave this workshop with a personal productivity plan for making their goals actionable and achievable. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

CV Writing/Revising Workshop

This workshop was the second of two workshops aimed at students who aim to prioritize teaching jobs in their job hunts. This workshop discusses the differences between CVs and resumes and how to transition between the two. Click here to watch a recording of the event.

Applying for Teaching Jobs in Higher Education

The Graduate School hosted a workshop for students who are aiming for careers that prioritize teaching. This workshop provided advice, resources and Q&A time about requesting recommendations, writing application letters, and tailoring CVs to teaching-centric jobs. Click here to watch a recording of the workshop.

Beyond the Professoriate Information Session

UB is proud to partner with Beyond the Professoriate, the only online professional development training platform for graduate students, postdocs, faculty and PhDs that helps them successfully transition into academic or nonacademic careers. Click here to watch a recording of an information session introducing the platform to graduate students.

Using LinkedIn to Leverage Your PhD for Career Success

In partnership with The Graduate School, the Career Design Center was thrilled to offer a career and professional development workshop for graduate students on April 29, 2022 and May 4, 2022. This workshop covered how to create an effective LinkedIn profile. Students also learned about eight career readiness competencies, and how to show employers on LinkedIn that they were proficient in these competencies. The information in this session is beneficial whether you're using your degree to go into industry or academia. Click here to watch the recorded version of this workshop.