Category: Webinars

Maximizing the signal, decreasing the noise; Writing skills for communicating clearly Recorded March 14, 2019   About This Webinar This seminar introduces Professor Tobias Baskin’s writing philosophy in the form of a set of guidelines for writing clearly that is based on how people read. In…

Giving and Receiving Feedback: Constructive Follow-up Recorded March 2019  About This Webinar Giving and receiving feedback are not easy tasks for most of us. Yet they are necessary in helping us improve and communicate our goals. Often we avoid both giving and receiving feedback, but this will…

Transforming Pixels to Millimeters: Geometric Camera Calibration Recorded November 29, 2018   About This Webinar  The affordability and ubiquity of cameras have led to their increasing use in many disciplines. In plant phenomics, it is common to see experimental data based on image-derived…

Prioritization and Work / Life Balance: Do Less, Work Better Recorded November 2018  About This Webinar Work/life balance is important to our society regardless of gender. Many professionals today are experiencing the “sandwich” effect—taking care of a family as well as aging parents. In…

Plant Synthetic Biology 101 Recorded November 2018 About This Webinar Synthetic biology is an emerging discipline that seeks to apply engineering principles to biology. But what does this actually mean? How does it differ from what has come before? And what challenges are presented by pursuing…

Self-Advocacy and Negotiation Recorded October 2018 About This Webinar How to advocate effectively for yourself, your ideas and project, or your group does not necessarily come naturally for many of us and can actually be very difficult depending on your personality, gender, or cultural norms.…

Is This Newsworthy? How to Assess if a Press Release Might Become a Science News Story Recorded September 2018   About This Webinar To understand how to write a successful press release, we will put ourselves in the mind of a journalist trying to decide whether several press releases are…

Plant Science: Science at the Interface of Math, Computer Science, and Plant Biology Recorded July 2018  About This Webinar This seminar will give insight into the research of cross-trained scientists at the interface of mathematical, computational, and biological sciences. In doing so, the seminar…