Weldon Graduate Program Announcements
June 15th, 2022
Career and Internship Opportunities
Internship Positions
Postdoctoral Positions
Full time Positions
The Office of Graduate Professional Development has partnered
with the Office of the Dean of Students to provide a unique training opportunity free to graduate students, faculty, and staff:
QPR Suicide Prevention Training
6/29 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (limit 40)
Register
Here
7/19 from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. (limit 40)
Register
Here
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Question, Persuade, and Refer — the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn
how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. (QPR Institute, 2022)
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In this workshop, students will Discuss the stigma associated with suicide and provide tips for having an impactful conversation for those in need. Join us as we share how to put into practice the 3 steps that may help prevent
suicide.
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Students who attend will receive certification and will become a QPR Gatekeeper.
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Lunch will be served
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To learn more about QPR, visit https://qprinstitute.com/
Participants must have an active Go Sign Me Up account
to register. To create an account, please see these instructions.
Feel free to email
profdev@purdue.edu
with any questions you may have!
Online event - What to Expect: Career Opportunities with Early-Stage
Life Science Companies
June 21st 11:00 am –
12:30 pm EDT
We cordially invite you to the Foundry’s next Spirited
Entrepreneur on Tuesday, June 21 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM ET at Nine Irish Brothers in West Lafayette.
If you plan on attending please RSVP using this link: https://bit.ly/SEjun21.
We hope you can join us for an evening of networking and casual conversation with entrepreneurs, founders, startup stakeholders, and members of the Purdue entrepreneurial ecosystem. Don’t miss a chance to meet the person that could be the key to your next innovation
milestone.
Friday, June 15, 2022, 6 pm - 8 pm
Tickets are $10 - $15
Chamber 465
202 East Market Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
“Does your startup need some press coverage? Learn how
to pitch your story to the IBJ. At this Startup Study Hall, Susan Orr, Business Reporter at the Indianapolis Business Journal will teach you how to pitch your story to a journalist. You would be surprised how many business owners struggle to concisely explain
what they sell and why the public needs to know about their business. Susan will provide expert and discuss what reporters look for in a good story.”
Bench to BARDA – Accelerator
Collaborative Series
Bench
to BARDA - Accelerator Collaborative Series
A 6-event series describing the various opportunities
to help bring your medical device technology from the bench to BARDA funding.
Attend this series if you are an early-stage startup who would benefit from expert insight and knowledge about the resources available to you throughout your commercialization journey!
Remember to register for all 6 events!
SBA
Contracting - The 8(a)
Business Development Program
The
SBA
8(a) Contracting Program is
designed specifically for small businesses and can provide a tremendous boost to a company’s government sales. Business Opportunity Specialist Vernice Mathis will explain the program, help you find out if your business is eligible.
This webinar will be held the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of the month through the end of September.
Exits
101 Webinar Series: Exits 101: How to Prepare
Tuesday, June 21 at 12:00 pm ET / 9:00 am PT
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Role and importance of due diligence, including financial, legal, and commercial, and impact on: Valuation, Certainty, Timeline, and Optionality
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Your team: advisors you need and how to pick and manage them, who to bring under the tent and when to do it, role and responsibilities of the board of directors, what agreements to have in place before you start
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Understanding legal and regulatory requirements
What you are doing (or not doing) now that will detract
from your value - or worse, cause buyers to walk away
2022 Crane IP
Pitch Competition
Tuesday, June 28
Deadline to apply is June 17, 2022
Entrepreneurs, inventors and start-ups can pitch innovative proposals to southwestern Indiana defense and economic development industry leaders on June 28 at Radius Indiana’s third annual virtual “Crane IP Defense Innovation Pitch Competition” with royalty-free
IP.
The competition is free for participants and will be held virtually. Entrants will receive a template to create a slide presentation for the competition
Interested in working at a startup or posting to our
job board? Startups in the Purdue Foundry ecosystem are welcome to post. Please click the button below to learn more.
See Attached
Dyson’s international engineering
and design competition, the James
Dyson Award
closes in less than one month! In addition to the $6,600 awarded to the national winners, there are two $40,000 global prizes for the taking: the International Sustainability Winner and Overall International Winner. Entrants can also gain international media
exposure.
The deadline to submit your entry is July 6 at 11:59pm PT. To enter your world-changing idea today, visit the James Dyson Award website: www.jamesdysonaward.org
If you have any questions, please
reach out to the Americas James Dyson Foundation manager at Samantha.kuderna@dyson.com.
Graduate Professional
Development Newsletter (June 10)
LINK:
Graduate Professional Development Newsletter (June 10)
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.
June 15th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Neal Patel & Andrew Sivaprakasam
June 15th College of Agriculture NSF Fellowship Panel Discussion
June 15th College of Pharmacy NSF Fellowship Discussion Session
June 15th Diet, Stress, & Emotional Eating
(Grad
School)
June 15th Startup Study Hall
June 16th Postdoc Grant Writing: Solicitations, Funding Agencies, and Components
(Grad
School)
June 16th Credit Cards and Credit Scores
(Grad
School)
June 17th Bench to BARDA (Virtual)
June 17th Deadline to apply for 2022 Crane IP Pitch Competition
June 21st How to Conduct a Literature Review
(Grad
School)
June 21st Diet, Stress, & Emotional Eating
(Grad
School)
June 21st Success Over Stress
June 21st Exits 101 Webinar Series
June 21st Bench to BARDA (Virtual)
June 21st The Spirited Entrepreneur
June 21st What to Expect: Career Opportunities with Early-Stage Life Science Companies
June 22nd BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Conner Earl & Kentaro Umemori
June 22nd Business Meal Etiquette
(Grad
School)
June 23rd Purdue Postdoc Alumni Panel: Careers, Experiences, and Transferable Skills
Part 2 (Grad
School)
June 24th Bench to BARDA (Virtual)
June 28th RCR: Discipline-Specific Training
(Grad
School)
June 28th 2022 Crane IP Pitch Competition
June 28th
Bench to BARDA (Virtual)
June 29th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Anna Alford & Brenna Vaughn
June 29th Suicide Prevention Training
June 30th Building Mentoring Relationships
(Grad
School)
July 1st Bench to BARDA (Virtual)
July 6th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Agnes Doszpoly & Zachary Davis
July 6th Deadline to apply for
James Dyson Award
July 13th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Claudia Benito Alston & Lexi Petrucciani
July 18th Coffee with the Dean
(Grad
School)
July 19th Citation Management with Zotero
(Grad
School)
July 19th RCR: Discipline-Specific Training
(Grad
School)
July 19th Suicide Prevention Training
July 20th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Om Kolhe & Julia Walsh
July 20th Business Meal Etiquette
(Grad
School)
July 27th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Seokkyoon Hong & Sang Hoon Um
July 27th Postdoc Grant Writing Lecture: All about National Science Foundation Grants
(Grad
School)
July 27th How to Find and Prepare for Fellowship Applications (Grad)
(Grad
School)
August 3rd BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Donghyun Yim & Seul Ah Lee
August 10th BME and IBSc Summer Seminar Presentation: Lucy Tecle & Luke Brennan
August 17th RCR: Discipline-Specific Training
(Grad
School)
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
Senior Graduate Training Program Administration and Professional Development Specialist
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
206 S. Martin Jischke Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032
o: 765-496-0294
Achiever, Relator, Includer, Restorative, Developer
