Resources

Hosted by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Online Feminism Conference of 2014 brought together advocates for feminism, in person and online, to discuss the challenges and possibilities of internet activism. This website provides links and resources for you to learn from and stay connected with the conference. Through the website, you can find stories and videos from the conference, as well as readings to enhance your knowledge and understanding of online feminism and activism. 

The Hume Center's Oral Communication program offers for-credit courses for graduate students seeking to improve their public speaking skills, confidence, and vocal expression. See website below for course descriptions and current offerings. 

Does the thought of public speaking make you nervous? This two-page PDF from the Oral Communication Program helps you to be proactive about speech anxiety by providing you tips to conquer it. The second page lists common public speaking myths and fears, while also offering solutions for those fears. This documents serves as a quick reference designed to help you feel more comfortable and confident when speaking in front of an audience.

Are you interested in studying abroad as a graduate student? Many funding opportunities exist to support your work in dozens of locations overseas. The Bechtel International Center compiles a list of overseas scholarships (available to both graduate and undergraduate students) and provides application information and deadlines. Explore the list to find the perfect fit to support your graduate studies abroad. 

• Insurance
• Budgeting
• Credit cards
• Investing
• Taxes
• Student loans

You can also view recorded workshops on topics such as financial wellness for FLI students and first-time homebuying on the Mind Over Money website.

Created by Dr. Jorge Cham (PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University), this comic strip offers a satirical and humorous outlook on some of the many challenges facing graduate students, both in general and unique to Stanford. With over 20 years of comics, this strip not only can make you laugh but also serve as a look back into Stanford history! 

BioSci Careers (formerly the Stanford School of Medicine Career Center) provides career development programming and services to all School of Medicine graduate and medical students, residents, postdoctoral fellows, and alumni. The Industry Insights program is a regular series in which companies and agencies from across various sectors speak about trends, developments, and business strategies within the life and medical sciences. You can find a sampling of past Industry Insights events available for free via podcast on iTunes. Great for anyone looking for a career in the biosciences!

The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs offers numerous postdoc programs and events throughout the year. Covering everything from social activities and English classes, to pedagogy and mentoring, there are a wide range of events to help postdocs (and interested graduate students, when space permits) make the most out of their time at Stanford and grow personally and professionally. Check out the OPA calendar throughout the year to keep up with what's going on. 

Body language speaks louder than words. In this video Stanford Business School Professor Deborah Gruenfeld discusses the body language of authority and how fluently adapting your body language to match different situations can be a source of power and influence. Your body language influences both your personal psychology and how others perceive you. All videos from this Voice & Influence series on the VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab website include a downloadable discussion guide and links to further resources.

Want to make better use of Powerpoint? This one-page PDF from the Oral Communication Program offers seven quick tips on how to use Powerpoint to get your point across most effectively. Each tip offers questions and advice on how to make the best use of Powerpoint for a broad range of oral presentation scenarios.

Using examples from its programs, the Haas Center for Public Service offers this resource to help you structure conversations about ethical community engagement and service. Designed for students engaged in service work and faculty applying for service-learning grants, but useful for anyone with an interest in learning more about principles of ethical behavior and leadership.

Need to print on campus? Check out this resource from the Learning Technologies & Spaces team for all of your printing needs, including instructions for Cardinal Print.

Procrastination is one of the most common issues graduate students struggle with, putting off a task in favor of something more pleasurable, only to feel even worse later. For insight into why people procrastinate, check out this article from The New York Times addressing it from a mood management perspective. You may also be interested in these related resources from the Center for Teaching and Learning and this unique essay from a Stanford professor on "structured procrastination."

From Stanford University IT come a number of tools and software designed to improve collaboration between groups and increase productivity. Whether you want to create a Slack group for your cohort or you need Zoom video conferencing support, this University IT page can point you in the correct direction for how to proceed.  

Many Stanford courses welcome graduate students from a variety of departments and programs. This list of current courses from Explore Courses appears to align with the Professionalism competency of the Grad Grow framework and to be of interest to grad students broadly. Explore the list to find courses of interest to you and be sure to note any restrictions or pre-requisites.

Stanford's Linnea Williams discusses some simple tools that you can use to make sure that you're working on the right things at the right time. Because there will always be more than you can do.. Follow the video with the session's slides and explore more resources below. (recorded March 2018)

• Review the Important/Urgent matrix
• Check out the SMART Task Way of Getting Things Done
• Download the Don't Break the Chain template
• Learn more about cognitive biases list
• Learn more about the Power of Habit book

Students come to Stanford from a wide array of backgrounds. As an instructor or TA, you are likely to find yourself working with students from highly diverse cultural, racial, socio-economic, gender, and linguistic backgrounds. To ensure that all students feel welcome and have access to equitable learning opportunities, it is important to actively and consciously integrate strategies to promote inclusion in your classroom. See this collection of resources, provided by the Center for Teaching and Learning, for ideas for enhancing the learning environments that you foster as an instructor.

From DoResearch at Stanford, this set of materials offers a general introduction to grant-writing that can help you begin to build the skills you'll need to write a successful proposal. This is meant to be an overview: be sure to seek more comprehensive guidance as well. Especially relevant to students in the sciences.   

Sometimes finding funding for a postdoc position can be difficult. If you are a graduate student interested in a postdoc position, or a current postdoc looking for further funding, this list from the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs might be helpful. They maintain a compiled list of references for how to find funding and write applications for grants, as well as a list of various funding opportunities on campus and beyond for engineering as well as the sciences and humanities. 

Interested in writing about the humanities for a broad public audience? Check out the Public Humanities Initiative for Graduate Students, created by the Humanities & Science's Dean's Office in collaboration with the English Department. The project involves a series of events and programs designed to support humanities students in writing for and communicating to a broader, non-academic audience.