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Tuesday, October 21, 2025 16:00to17:30
Essentials of Managing a Lab Budget

Join us for an insightful webinar where we delve into the essential strategies for effective lab budgeting. Learn how to prioritize your expenses by identifying critical research needs, equipment maintenance, and personnel costs to allocate your budget more effectively.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Financial Skills
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 14:00to15:30
Skills for Strategic Procrastination

Having difficulty getting started? Do you find yourself putting off tasks? Join this workshop to (1) develop an awareness of what is procrastination and how you procrastinate, (2) identify how procrastination works, and (3) discuss how to change "procrastination to "doing."

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, student services, student wellness hub
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 16:00to17:00
Professional and Engaging Presentation Presence

This workshop teaches participants how to balance confidence and professionalism with dynamic physical and vocal presence. Specifically, participants will learn the importance of gestures and vocal variety; as well as how to use physical space, naming and props.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, presentation skills
Thursday, October 23, 2025 12:00to13:00
Planning with Purpose

The Planning with Purpose information session is an introduction to the Individual Development Plan (IDP) at ÂĚñÉç. This session covers the process and building blocks of creating a meaningful IDP and setting goals in grad school.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, myPath: Developing your IDP, Planning with Purpose, individual development plan
Monday, October 27, 2025 10:30to11:00
Grad Breakfast Club

Stay on track with a 30min “plan your week” session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Grad Breakfast Club
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Tuesday, October 28, 2025 14:00to15:30
Turning Failure into Success

Interest in learning how to turn failure into success? This workshop will focus on defining failure, describing resilience, grit, and it's connection to emotional well-being, and identifying practical steps to build resilience, cope with failure and create change!

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, student services, student wellness hub
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 16:00to17:30
Foundations of IP and Patent Searching

This workshop will demystify and explain the various forms of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets, and when they are used. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, ÂĚñÉç Engine Centre, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Skills
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 16:00to17:30

This workshop will demystify and explain the various forms of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets, and when they are used. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.

Learning outcomes:

  • Describe the various forms of IP, their protection, and use.
  • Explain the patenting process.
  • Use DERWENT to do your own patent searching.


Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ÂĚñÉç Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
Thursday, October 30, 2025 14:00to15:30
Managing Stress in Uncertain Times

Do you have difficulty coping in these uncertain times? Feel you lack a sense of personal control in your life? Do you struggle? In this workshop you will learn coping skills and mindfulness to help you manage anxiety and stress.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, student services, student wellness hub
Monday, November 3, 2025 10:30to11:00
Grad Breakfast Club

Stay on track with a 30min “plan your week” session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Grad Breakfast Club
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Wednesday, November 5, 2025 12:00to13:00
Overqualified or Underqualified? Which Is It and What to Do About It

November 5, 12pm - 1pm (online)

PhDs are often told by employers that they are overqualified for positions. But they're also told that they don't have enough experience. So, which is it?

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Beyond Career Platform; Beyond the Professoriate; job qualifications
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 14:00to14:30
Three Mistakes You’re Probably Making on LinkedIn

November 5, 2pm - 2:30pm (online)

Are you finding networking on LinkedIn difficult? Not sure how to engage with employers, grow your network, or use the platform in a way that doesn’t seem self-serving?

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Beyond Career Platforms; Beyond Graduate School; LinkedIn
Thursday, November 6, 2025 15:00to16:30
Exploring Your Professional Path After Grad School

What’s your next step? This interactive workshop for graduate students will teach you the skills to review position types and work environments within the context of your career.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, myPath: Developing your IDP, Exploring Your Professinal Path, individual development plan
Monday, November 10, 2025 10:30to11:00
Grad Breakfast Club

Stay on track with a 30min “plan your week” session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Grad Breakfast Club
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Wednesday, November 12, 2025 10:00to11:00
Read Effectively and Take Smart Notes in Grad School

Looking to manage your reading load? In this workshop, we’ll dig into strategies for making sense of dense academic texts, pulling out key ideas, and organizing notes. You will move from note-taking (just jotting things down) to note-making for better understanding.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Academic Skills

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