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February 2, 2023

Early Career Awards Webinar

Category: Grad School, University-Wide Early Career Awards Webinar


February 2, 2023

Date: 

Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Online

Please join this half-day webinar workshop for junior faculty interested in NSF CAREER and other grants for early-career researchers. This workshop will focus on common aspects of early career grants, special requirements for these grants, how to decide when to apply, and the keys to writing a successful proposal. Led by Lucy Deckard of Academic Research Funding Strategies, LLC, this workshop is for early-career faculty, as well as postdocs and graduate students.

For more information and registration, please visit https://research.msu.edu/event/how-write-successful-proposals-nsf-career...

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Important Dates
Professional Development
Funding

Slavery to Freedom An American Odyssey Series: Marley Dias

Category: Grad School, University-Wide Slavery to Freedom An American Odyssey Series: Marley Dias


February 2, 2023

Date: 

Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 5:00pm

Location: 

Wharton Center for Performaing Arts Pasant Theatre/Online

The Dr. William G. Anderson Lecture Series: Slavery to Freedom gives members of the mid-Michigan community opportunities to interact with multicultural leaders from education, business, industry, entertainment and government. For 23 years, this series has featured living icons of the American Civil Rights Movement. All Activities are free of charge.

Marley Dias began working as an activist at the age of 11 when she created #1000BlackGirlBooks, collecting over 13,000 children’s books featuring Black girls as the lead character. She is also the author of Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You! She was recognized by TIME in 2018 as one of the 24 most influential teens and was named the youngest member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Today, Dias is a student at Harvard University and is the executive producer and host of Bookmarks: Celebrating Black Voices on Netflix.

The Graduate School is a sponsor of this event.

This event will be hybrid. Register to attend here.

Category: 

Diversity and Inclusion