What's Proseminar?!?
The biweekly Doctoral Student Proseminar is a unique element of the Environmental Health Doctoral Program that is organized by doctoral students in consultation with Dr. Michael McClean (Director of the Doctoral Program). The proseminar provides a forum for students to receive additional training in aspects of research that are often under-addressed as components of their formal coursework (e.g. grant writing, strategies for preparing a manuscript, strategies for managing data, etc). The first session of each semester’s proseminar series is a Department update from the Department Chair (Dr. Roberta White), who provides an overview of the latest activities/developments in the department and in the school as a whole. Subsequent sessions then alternate between a topic session and an environmental epidemiology journal club session to ensure that the students receive one of each on a monthly basis. The papers for journal club are coordinated with the weekly department research seminar and the topic sessions are chosen by the students in collaboration with Dr. McClean. In journal club, students conduct critical analyses of peer-reviewed journal articles and discuss the papers as a group with a faculty facilitator who has expertise in the topic. The final session of each semester is used as a Student Review Session, in which the doctoral students discuss their experiences in the program during the previous semester to compile questions, comments, and requests that are then shared with the Department Chair (Dr. White) and the Director of the Doctoral Program (Dr. McClean). This feedback is used as the basis for program enhancements.
What're we doing this semester?
What have we done in the past?
- Important Information from Past Proseminars
- Proseminar, Fall 2010
- Proseminar, Spring 2010
- Proseminar Fall 2009
- Proseminar Spring 2009
- Proseminar Fall 2008
- Proseminar Spring 2008
- Proseminar Fall 2007
- Proseminar Spring 2007
- Proseminar Fall 2006
What will we do in the future?