Current Postdoctoral Scholars

• Funding and Career
• International Office
• News and Announcements
• Postdoctoral Affairs Office
• Postdoctoral Association (PDA) at UT Southwestern
• Postdoctoral Training and Education
• Reports and Studies on Postdoctoral Life
• Resources

The Postdoctoral Affairs Office serves and advocates for postdoctoral scholars.

Contact us at SGSPostdocOffice@utsouthwestern.edu

Funding and Career

• COS (Community of Science) Grants Database
• Career Services
• NIH-NRSA stipend levels FY2008
• Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities
• The Art of Grantsmanship by Jacob Kraicer
• Copies of several funded grant/fellowship applications and boilerplate text for applications are available upon request from the Postdoctoral Affairs Office.

News and Announcements

• News from the National Postdoctoral Association
• Postdoctoral Scholars in the News
• Postdoctoral Poster Session and Research Symposium Awards
  Grand Prize Winners for 2008 are:
  • Brajesh Kumar, Ph.D.
  • Sohini Mukherjee, Ph.D.
  • Baozhi Chen, M.D.

The next Postdoctoral Research Symposium will be February 5^th-10^th, 2010.

• The 2008 recipient of the Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Research was Shusheng Wang, Ph.D.
• HHMI Resources for the Development of Early-Career Scientists
  The publications and links on this Web site can help new investigators "make the right moves" and assist those who take on the important task of providing early-career researchers with scientific management training.
• UT Southwestern was ranked in the top third of institutions in the TheScientist Best Places to Work 2008: Postdocs.  The strengths recognized were networking opportunities and the quality of communication.

Postdoctoral Training and Education

• Certificate Programs
• Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
• Course Offerings and Schedules
• Ethics Training
  • Checklist Guide to Help Develop Notebook Policy
  • Summary of Ethics Training 
  • Syllabus of Postdoc Ethics Course
  • Topics & Case Studies on Responsible Conduct of Research
  • Understanding Plagiarism Tutorial  (Prentice Hall Publishers)
• Individual Development Plan
  • IDP Description for Postdoctoral Scholars
  • IDP Description for Mentors
  • IDP Form
• Postdoctoral Advisory Committee
• Summary of Training Program
• View Your UT Southwestern Academic Record On-line
  If you have been registered in courses at UT Southwestern, you can review your academic record (called Student Profile) by establishing your special Student and Alumni Affairs user name and password.  Select ‘Don’t know your username or password?’ at this site: http://swstuaff1.swmed.edu/dm/scripts/sis_stuprof1.asp

If you have not previously registered for courses at UT Southwestern you must wait until you have completed registration to establish a user name and password.

Reports and Studies on Postdoctoral Life

• American Association of Universities (AAU) Postdoctoral Education Survey Summary of Results (dated October 2005)
• Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors (AAMC)
• NIH Research Training Reports
• TheScientist Best Places to Work 2008: Postdocs

Resources

• Adobe Creative Suite 2 - Free of Charge 
• Career Services
• Postdoc Survival Guide
• Postdoctoral Association
• Postdoctoral Scholar Policy
• Postdoctoral Training Positions Available at UT Southwestern
• Search for Faculty by Research Interests
• Seminars and  Calendars
  • Quest for Career (QFC) Schedule
  • Seminars
  • University Lecture Series
  • UT Southwestern Calendar and Events
• Software Downloads 
• Video Recordings Provided by Southwestern Graduate School 
• Web Resources for UT Southwestern Postdoctoral Scholars

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