Weldon Graduate Program Announcements

Sept 17^th, 2025

 

• Career and Internship Opportunities
• Genomics Essentials: new RCAC mini-workshop series
• Deadline Approaching: Showcase Your Research in InnovatED – $500 Award
• ESE Symposium 2025 - Ripple Effect
• Workshops and Deadlines
• News from You

 

 

Career and Internship Opportunities

Internship Positions

• Medical Devices Engineering Intern, Battelle
• Manufacturing Engineer, Boston Scientific
• Biotech Intern, Thermo Fisher
• Research Scientist Intern, Promega
• Bioinformatics Intern, Integrated DNA
• Peripheral Interventions R&D Intern, Boston Scientific
• Interventional Oncology R&D Engineer, Boston Scientific
• Biomanufacturing Intern, Northeastern University
• 2026 Future Talent Program, Biotechnology Solutions, Merck
• 2026 Future Talent Program, Clinical Sciences and Study Management, Merck
• R&D Science Intern, Danaher
• Project Engineer Intern, Medical Devices, Tiger BioSciences
• Intern, Research, Fred Hutch
• Quality and Regulatory Affairs Intern, Aldevron
• 2026 Intern: R&D, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Haleon
• Research Co-op, Orthobiologics, Arthrex
• R&D Co-op, Procter and Gamble
• Intern 1, Regulatory Affairs, Dexcom
• Intern II, Medical Device Engineering, Dexcom
• Intern 1, Global Engineering
• Intern, Drug Product MSAT Lab, Bristol Myers Squibb
• 2026 Summer Intern, Quality and Regulatory Affairs, Roche

Postdoctoral Positions

• Postdoctoral Scholar, Novel Fluorescence Imaging Technology, Oregon Health & Science University
• Postdoctoral Scientist, Cardiovascular, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
• Postdoctoral Scientist, Imaging, Nationwide Children’s Hospital
• Postdoctoral Fellow, TBI and Ischemia Research, Henry Jackson Foundation
• Research Specialist, UAB
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Human Organoids, Henry Jackson Foundation
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Mass General Brigham
• NPA Website: https://careers.nationalpostdoc.org/jobs/

Full Time Positions

• Scientific Leadership Development Program, Tolmar
• Imaging Project Coordinator, Medpace
• Senior Engineer, Mayo Clinic Healthcare
• Scientific Liaison, Diasorin
• Senior Biocompatibility Specialist I, Arthrex
• BME Faculty Jobs List
• Purdue Start-up Job Board—Foundry Start Up Companies Looking to Hire
• ACTS Career Center—Association for Clinical and Translational Science
• Academic Careers

• Doc Jobs—Jobs beyond traditional clinical and academic roles

 

 

Genomics Essentials: new RCAC mini-workshop series

Genomics Essentials is a weekly, 30-minute series of practical, online sessions covering core genomics and HPC topics, from data transfer and shell scripting to productivity hacks, and reproducible documentation. Open to all Purdue campuses.

Register Here

 

 

Deadline Approaching: Showcase Your Research in InnovatED – $500 Award

The Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars (OGSPS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025–26 edition of InnovatED, our online magazine celebrating the innovative research and real-world impact of Purdue’s graduate students and postdocs.

 

Each year, we feature 10 exceptional scholars whose work embodies the Boilermaker spirit—bold, driven, and committed to making a difference.

 

What to Submit

·       A 700–800 word article written for a general, non-specialist audience

·       See past examples here: https://www.purdue.edu/academics/ogsps/professional-development/innovated-articles/index.html  

Why Submit?

·       $500 award per accepted article

·       One-on-one coaching in science communication

·       A strong writing sample that demonstrates your ability to explain complex research in clear, engaging language

 

Submission Deadline: Friday, September 26, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. (ET)

Learn more and submit: https://www.purdue.edu/academics/ogsps/professional-development/innovated-articles/how-to-submit.php

 

 

ESE Symposium 2025 - Ripple Effect

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Join us for the 19th Annual Ecological Sciences and Engineering (ESE) Symposium!
This year’s theme, Ripple Effect: Act Locally, Inspire Globally, highlights interdisciplinary and community-engaged work designed by the 2024 ESE Cohort.

 

📅 September 26–27, 2025
📍 Purdue University

 

The two-day event features a Graphical Abstract Workshop & Lunch and Learn, Creative Works Competition, Brain Blast Trivia Night, and a GrowLocal volunteering event—with prizes for competition winners!

 

 

Workshops and Deadlines

Here are some upcoming workshops and deadlines more detailed information about the workshops will be sent out separately closer to the event.

 

Sept. 17^th                 Tolmar Industry Information Session (10:30 – 11:30 am; MJIS 2001)

Sept. 17^th                 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Workshop (1:30 – 2:30pm; MJIS 2001)

Sept. 17^th                 Resumania – Indianapolis (11:30 am): Get Your Resume Reviewed (CCO)

Sept. 17^th                 Resumania – Indianapolis (2:30 pm): Get Your Resume Reviewed (CCO)

Sept. 17^th                 Employer Research: Making a Meaningful Connection (CCO)

Sept. 17^th                 Interview Prep: Behavioral Based Interview with STAR (CCO)

Sept. 17^th                 Interviewing Skills (GSPD)

Sept. 17^th                 Sleeping for Success (GSPD)

Sept. 17^th                 Indiana CTSI AI Workshop Series: AI and Research Ethics (Register)

Sept. 18^th                 Designing Interactive Dashboards with Tableau and Power BI (GSPD)

Sept. 18^th                 Preparing for Academic Interviews (GSPD)

Sept. 18^th                 2025 CCO International Student Workshop 2: Stress Management & Job Search (CCO)

Sept. 18^th-19^th         2025 IQVIA Institute Research Forum (Register)

Sept. 19^th                 Copyrights: An Overview for Scholars (GSPD)

Sept. 19^th                 NSF/NDSEG Fellowship Help Session (GSPD)

Sept. 19^th                 RCR: Discipline-Specific Training (GSPD)

Sept. 19^th                 Grant Writing Webinar Series Part 1: Ready, Set, AIM! (Register)

Sept. 22^nd                 Managing Uncertainty During Graduate School (GSPD)

Sept. 22^nd                 Navigating the IRB Process and Submitting Your Study (GSPD)

Sept. 22^nd                 NSF/NDSEG Fellowship Help Session (GSPD)

Sept. 22^nd                 Deadline to register for NTU Singapore CoE Faculty Recruitment Talk (Register)

Sept. 23^rd                 Negotiating the Job Offer (GSPD)

Sept. 23^rd                 NIH Fellowship Opportunities for PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Scholars (GSPD)

Sept. 23^rd                 NIH Loan Repayment Program Info Session (GSPD)

Sept. 23^rd                 Time Management (GSPD)

Sept. 24^th                 Citation Management with Zotero (GSPD)

Sept. 24^th                 CVs and Cover Letters for Academic Jobs (GSPD)

Sept. 24^th                 Hertz Foundation Fellowship Information Session (GSPD)

Sept. 25^th                 Boiler Up & Intervene (GSPD)

Sept. 25^th                 Comparing Job Offers (GSPD)

Sept. 25^th                 How Machines See: Introduction to Computer Vision (GSPD)

Sept. 25^th                 How to Buy a House (GSPD)

Sept. 25^th                 Personal Branding (GSPD)

Sept. 26^th                 For Postdocs ONLY: Get to Know your Postdoc Office! (GSPD)

Sept. 26^th                 Submission Deadline for the 2025-26 edition of InnovatED (Learn More & Submit)

Sept. 26^th                 Grant Writing Webinar Series Part 2: PLAN for Success! (Register)

Sept. 26^th                 LinkedIn (GSPD)

Sept. 29^th                 Patent Agent Careers in Life Sciences (GSPD)

Sept. 29^th                 NIH OITE Webinar Unit 1. An Introduction to Resilience and Wellness (Register)

Sept. 30^th                 Enhancing Conflict Competence for Graduate Assistants (GSPD)

Sept. 30^th                 NSF/NDSEG Fellowship Help Session (GSPD)

Sept. 30^th                 Engineering, Science, & Tech Connect: Purdue University Indianapolis Career Fair (Register)

Sept. 30^th-Oct. 1^st   Boston MEDevice 2025 Event (Register)

Oct. 1^st                     Postdoc Orientation: Employment Focus (GSPD)

Oct. 1^st                     Postdoc Orientation: Success Focus (GSPD)

Oct. 2^nd                     Exploring the Power of ArcGIS StoryMap for Research Communication (GSPD)

Oct. 2^nd                     Healthy Financial Habits (GSPD)

Oct. 3^rd                     Conducting a Literature Review (GSPD)

Oct. 3^rd                     RCR: Discipline-Specific Training (GSPD)

Oct. 3^rd                     Grant Writing Webinar Series Part 3: It’s All About SCALE! (Register)

Oct. 4^th                     Deadline to apply for Merck’s MLDP (Apply)

Oct. 6^th                     How to Find and Prepare Fellowship Applications (GSPD)

Oct. 6^th                     Success Over Stress (GSPD)

Oct. 6^th                     Influencing Without Authority (1:30 – 2:30pm; WALC 1121)

Oct. 7^th                     AI Tools for Lit Reviews (GSPD)

Oct. 7^th                     How to Buy a House (GSPD)

Oct. 7^th                     NSF/NDSEG Fellowship Help Session (GSPD)

Oct. 7^th                     The Cover Letter (GSPD)

Oct. 8^th                     Protecting Your Mental Health During Graduate School (GSPD)

Oct. 8^th                     2025 Virtual Grad Student Career Fair (Info)

Oct. 9^th                     Attention and Self-Attention (GSPD)

Oct. 9^th                     Research with Scite.ai (GSPD)

Oct. 10^th                   Finding Balance with Self-Care (GSPD)

Oct. 10^th                   Postdoc Power Session (GSPD)

Oct. 13^th-14^th           Future Faculty Boot Camp (GSPD)

Oct. 15^th                   Protecting Your Mental Health During Graduate School (GSPD)

Oct. 15^th                   Deadline to apply for Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellowship (Apply)

Oct. 16^th                   NDSEG Fellowship Help Session (GSPD)

Oct. 16^th                   The A-Z of the Job Search (GSPD)

Oct. 16^th                   Visual Analytics for Research Projects using Tableau (GSPD)

Oct. 17^th                   Budgeting and Saving Money (GSPD)

Oct. 17^th                   Understanding U.S. Government Tariff Resources (GSPD)

Oct. 20^th                   Budgeting and Saving Money (GSPD)

Oct. 20^th                   NIH OITE Webinar Unit 2. Exploring our Self-Talk: Cognitive Distortions and Imposter Fears (Register)

Oct. 20^th                   Healthy Relationships (GSPD)

Oct. 21^st                   Comparing Job Offers (GSPD)

Oct. 21^st                   Fellowship Coaching Hour (GSPD)

Oct. 21^st                   Introduction to Student-Centered Teaching (GSPD)

Oct. 21^st                   NDSEG Fellowship Help Session (GSPD)

Oct. 21^st                   Steps to Resolve and Character (GSPD)

Oct. 21^st                   BIG10 Academia Postdoc Hiring Fair (Register)

Oct. 22^nd                   Business Databases: Ace Your Job Interview, Find Investors for Your Research or Idea (GSPD)

Oct. 22^nd                   Time Management (GSPD)

Oct. 22^nd                   BIG10 Academia Faculty Hiring Fair (Register)

Oct. 23^rd                   Business Databases: Ace Your Job Interview, Find Investors for Your Research or Idea (GSPD)

Oct. 23^rd                   Coffee & Conversation with Vice Provost Oliver! (GSPD)

Oct. 23^rd                   CVs and Cover Letters for Academic Jobs (GSPD)

Oct. 23^rd                   Interviewing for Industry Positions (GSPD)

Oct. 23^rd                   Self-Supervised Learning (GSPD)

Oct. 23^rd                   BIG10 Graduate Student & Postdoc Industry Recruitment Event (GSPIRE - Register)

Oct. 24^th                   For Postdocs ONLY: Get to Know your Postdoc Office! (GSPD)

Oct. 24^th                   Sleeping for Success (GSPD)

Oct. 29^th                   Conference Paper Writing and Presenting: Strategies for Success (GSPD)

Oct. 29^th                   Indiana CTSI AI Workshop Series: AI in Qualitative Research (Register)

Oct. 29^th                   Deadline to apply for Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship (Apply)

Oct. 29^th                   Mentoring Dialogs (GSPD)

Oct. 30^th                   Exploring Google Earth Engine for Spatial Analysis (GSPD)

Oct. 30^th                   Mindfulness (GSPD)

Oct. 31^st                   Application Deadline for Hertz Foundation Fellowship (Apply)

Nov. 1^st                     Deadline to apply for Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Apply)

Nov. 3^rd                    Budgeting and Saving Money (GSPD)

Nov. 3^rd                    How to Find and Prepare Fellowship Applications (GSPD)

Nov. 3^rd                    NIH OITE Webinar Unit 3. Self-Advocacy and Assertiveness for Scientists (Register)

Nov. 3^rd                    Setting Yourself Up to Win in Grad School (GSPD)

Nov. 3^rd                    First Day of NCFDD Winter 14-Day Writing Challenge (Register)

Nov. 4^th                    Redwire Space Industry Information Session & Lunch (Attendance may be limited! Email tsiemers@purdue.edu)

Nov. 5^th                    Postdoc Orientation: Employment Focus (GSPD)

Nov. 5^th                    Postdoc Orientation: Success Focus (GSPD)

Nov. 5^th                    Publishing for Impact (GSPD)

Nov. 5^th                    Setting Yourself Up to Win in Grad School (GSPD)

Nov. 6^th                    Generative AI, Diffusion/LLM (GSPD)

Nov. 6^th                    Retirement Planning (GSPD)

Nov. 7^th                    RCR: Discipline-Specific Training (GSPD)

Nov. 10^th                  NIH OITE Webinar Unit 4. Developing Feedback Resilience (Register)

Nov. 11^th                  Best Practices in Research Data Management (GSPD)

Nov. 11^th                  Comparing Job Offers (GSPD)

Nov. 12^th                  Successes, Surprises, and Pitfalls Workshop (1:30 – 2:30pm; WALC 1018)

Nov. 12^th                  Fellowship Coaching Hour (GSPD)

Nov. 13^th                  Web Mapping for Beginners: Creating Interactive Maps with Leaflet and Mapbox (GSPD)

Nov. 14^th                  Postdoc Power Session (GSPD)

Nov. 18^th                  Indiana CTSI AI Workshop Series: Participant Messaging Using AI for Study Marketing (Register)

Nov. 19^th                  Navigating the IRB Process and Submitting Your Study (GSPD)

Nov. 20^th                  NIH Fellowship Opportunities for PhD Candidates and Postdoctoral Scholars (GSPD)

Nov. 20^th                  Staying Happy and Productive in Grad School (GSPD)

Nov. 24^th                  NIH OITE Webinar Unit 5. Managing Up to Maximize Mentoring Relationships (Register)

Dec. 2^nd                    How to be a Good Reviewer (GSPD)

Dec. 3^rd                     How to Find and Prepare Fellowship Applications (GSPD)

Dec. 3^rd                     Postdoc Orientation: Employment Focus (GSPD)

Dec. 3^rd                     Postdoc Orientation: Success Focus (GSPD)

Dec. 4^th                     Healthy Financial Habits (GSPD)

Dec. 5^th                     For Postdocs ONLY: Get to Know your Postdoc Office! (GSPD)

Dec. 5^th                     RCR: Discipline-Specific Training (GSPD)

Dec. 5^th                     SMART DoD Scholarship Program Application Deadline (Apply)

Dec. 9^th                     Fellowship Coaching Hour (GSPD)

Dec. 12^th                   Postdoc Power Session (GSPD)

 

 

News from You

 

Please inform Tammy of honors, awards, or other accolades (to include having a paper published) you receive so that the Weldon School may recognize your accomplishments. Send the complete information – specific title and nature of the award, name of conference or event at which award was given, date of said event, photograph if available, etc. – to tsiemers@purdue.edu.

 

 

Tammy Siemers

She/Her
Associate Director, Graduate Education

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