Graduate Training Events
The list below shows the composite schedule for all currently scheduled professional development events.
If you have questions about the listed events, or would like to suggest an event, please contact Professional Development.
Note: The professional development events page focus primarily on academic and career-oriented workshops and events. For social events geared toward graduate students, we invite you to visit the programs and events hosted through Graduate Student Life or Graduate Student Government.
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- Association for Women in Science
- Center for Social Concerns
- Conflict Resolution
- English for Academic Purposes
- Ethics
- Graduate Career Services
- Graduate Student Government
- Graduate Student Life
- Graduate Professional Development
- Graduate Resilience Alliance at ND
- Graduate School
- Grants and Fellowships
- Hesburgh Libraries
- Kaneb Center
- Leadership
- Mentorship
- Postdoctoral Scholars
- Recruiting
- The Writing Center
Upcoming events:
Title | Description | Date | Time |
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Introduction to Text Mining | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the benefits of using computers to supplement th... | 1-30 | 11:00 AM |
Introduction to GitHub and Markdown | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the basic functions of contributing to a reposit... | 1-30 | 02:00 PM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Citation managers help you keep track of the literature you have found for that research report, paper, or essay. They also... | 2-3 | 12:30 PM |
Faculty Panel | Personalization at Scale: Teaching Strategies for Large Class Sections | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence What can you as an instructor do to keep students engaged, even in large lecture hall settings? T... | 2-3 | 12:30 PM |
Foundations of Teaching in STEM, Social Sciences, and Humanities Part 4 | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence This four-part series (1/14, 1/21, 1/28 and 2/4) will introduce and develop the fundamental skills of ef... | 2-4 | 11:00 AM |
How to Make a Book | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Make a book using a "slot and tab" method and absolute... | 2-4 | 11:00 AM |
# Annotating Code: Preparing Code for Sharing & Reuse | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn why it’s important to annotate code, practice co... | 2-4 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Text Mining | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the benefits of using computers to supplement th... | 2-5 | 11:00 AM |
Introduction to GitHub and Markdown | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the basic functions of contributing to a reposit... | 2-5 | 11:00 AM |
Structure Searching Using SciFinder | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Find literature by drawing and searching for chemical structures in SciFinder. An introduction to searching chem... | 2-5 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Data Storytelling | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This workshop is designed to develop the ability to create impactful slide decks and enhance your presentation skills. ... | 2-7 | 01:00 PM |
Pathways to Flourishing as a Researcher | WORKSHOP Research is a pursuit of the beauty found in understanding, a journey that is increasingly challenged by the prevailing institutional culture of academi... | 2-7 | 04:00 PM |
Using the Distant Reader | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to automatically "read" and "analyze" any si... | 2-11 | 11:00 AM |
G&F: NIH Fellowships Tutorial | NIH is revising the application and review criteria for fellowship applications, beginning with those submitted January 25, 2025 and beyond. If you anticipa... | 2-11 | 12:00 PM |
Love Data Week 2025: R for Absolute Beginners | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers an introduction to R, a commonly-used lang... | 2-11 | 07:00 PM |
Which Graduate School Should I Apply To? | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Curious about graduate school and want to know which program is right for you based on the research they produce? Selecting... | 2-12 | 09:30 AM |
Designing lecture-session demonstrations and hands-on activities | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Demonstrations and hands-on activities in STEM lectures provide a unique opportunity for st... | 2-12 | 03:30 PM |
Love Data Week 2025: Introduction to Natural Language Processing | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 2-13 | 11:00 AM |
Introduction to Early Modern English Handwriting | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This workshop is a skills-based introduction to the handwriting of early modern England, primarily secretary hand - the mos... | 2-13 | 02:00 PM |
Love Data Week 2025: Introduction to Zotero (Managing Humanities) | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to use Zotero — an open-source research tool for creating ... | 2-13 | 02:00 PM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Citation managers help you keep track of the literature you have found for that research report, paper, or essay. They also... | 2-14 | 10:30 AM |
LASER Info Session | Learn more about the LASER program! The Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research (LASER) program is a nationally recognized, year-long training and dev... | 2-18 | 12:15 PM |
Using the Distant Reader | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to automatically "read" and "analyze" an arbitr... | 2-19 | 11:00 AM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Citation managers help you keep track of the literature you have found for that research report, paper, or essay. They also... | 2-19 | 12:30 PM |
How to promote student engagement with application response systems | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Looking to quickly assess how your students are responding to your course material? In this works... | 2-19 | 12:30 PM |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 2-20 | 11:00 AM |
Managing Your Scholarly Identity | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Learn how to manage your scholarly identity with ORCiD, ResearchIDs, and Google Scholar. Attendees will learn ho... | 2-20 | 01:30 PM |
Tour of the Tidyverse Series–Data Manipulation in R, Part 1 | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn to load in, manipulate, and clean data in R using the dplyr pa... | 2-20 | 07:00 PM |
Teach@ND Day | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence If you Teach@ND, this event is for you! Notre Dame Learning’s Kaneb Center for Teachin... | 2-21 | 09:00 AM |
Bringing Order to Qualitative Madness with ATLAS.ti | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to use ATLAS.ti to bring order to the chao... | 2-21 | 10:30 AM |
Create a Personal Website with Google Sites | Register through Hesburgh Libraries We live in an age where having an online presence is becoming the norm for most professionals. A well-designed website enha... | 2-21 | 01:00 PM |
Structure Searching Using Reaxys | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Find literature by searching chemical structures in Reaxys. An introduction to searching chemistry literature in... | 2-21 | 02:00 PM |
Using Chemical Data to Find Compounds & Literature | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Learn how to use chemical and physical properties to find chemical compounds. Using Reaxys (primarily) and SciFi... | 2-24 | 02:00 PM |
I Can Help - Suicide Prevention Training | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Instructors are often well-positioned to spot students who may be facing mental health struggles.... | 2-24 | 02:00 PM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This workshop will cover the basics of using one citation manager, RefWorks. Citation managers help you keep track... | 2-25 | 12:30 PM |
How to Make a Book | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Make a book using a "slot and tab" method and absolute... | 2-26 | 11:00 AM |
LASER Info Session | Learn more about the LASER program! The Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research (LASER) program is a nationally recognized, year-long training and dev... | 2-26 | 12:15 PM |
A Gentle Introduction to Unix Commands and Regular Expressions | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to explore, create, move, and search files in the command ... | 2-26 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Text Mining | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the benefits of using computers to supplement th... | 2-27 | 11:00 AM |
Cultivating Inclusive Learning Environments: UndocuAlly Training | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Together, we will discuss subjects related to the undocumented student experience, learn and appl... | 2-27 | 12:00 PM |
Tour of the Tidyverse Series–Data Visualization in R, Part 2 | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn to make simple graphs in R using the ggplot2 package. ... | 2-27 | 07:00 PM |
Creating Accessible Documents and Media | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Creating accessible documents and media can be costly and time-consuming. This workshop will intr... | 2-28 | 10:30 AM |
LASER Info Session | Learn more about the LASER program! The Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research (LASER) program is a nationally recognized, year-long training and dev... | 3-3 | 12:15 PM |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 3-4 | 11:00 AM |
Academic Integrity on Written Assignments: Surveys and Solutions | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Recent survey and experiential data from the Notre Dame campus on the use of AI in written assign... | 3-4 | 12:30 PM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This workshop will cover the basics of using one citation manager, RefWorks. Citation managers help you keep track of... | 3-4 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Medieval Documents | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This workshop is an introduction to medieval diplomatics (the study of documents) with a specific focus on medieval English... | 3-4 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Patents | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Learn how to search for patents and who has cited them. If you're not searching patent literature, you're missin... | 3-5 | 02:00 PM |
Using the Distant Reader | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to automatically "read" and "analyze" an arbitr... | 3-6 | 11:00 AM |
Tour of the Tidyverse Series–Data Manipulation in R, Part 3 | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn to write a reproducible report in R using R Markdown and the k... | 3-6 | 07:00 PM |
LASER Info Session | Learn more about the LASER program! The Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research (LASER) program is a nationally recognized, year-long training and dev... | 3-7 | 12:15 PM |
Designing Engaging Research Posters | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This comprehensive two-hour workshop provides participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to design and present co... | 3-7 | 01:00 PM |
The Why, What if-, and How of Intellectual Virtue for Graduate Students and Posdoctoral Scholars | WORKSHOP From a philosophical perspective, being good means establishing truth, knowledge, and understanding. Good thinking is critical for long-term success, or... | 3-13 | 03:00 PM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries This workshop will cover the basics of using one citation manager, RefWorks. Citation managers help you keep track of... | 3-17 | 09:25 AM |
Measuring Your Research Impact | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Learn how to use Google Scholar, Web of Science, and other databases to track your research impact. Attendees wi... | 3-19 | 03:00 PM |
Using the Distant Reader | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to automatically "read" and "analyze" an arbitr... | 3-20 | 11:00 AM |
Build a Better Lit Review: Introduction to VOSviewer | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn what VOSviewer is, how it works, and how you can... | 3-21 | 11:00 AM |
Wrangling Data with Google Sheets | Register through Hesburgh Libraries BI stands for Business Intelligence. It refers to the processes, technologies, and tools used to gather, store, analyze, an... | 3-21 | 01:00 PM |
Designing Your Online Course | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to apply the Backwards Design Model and... | 3-21 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Text Mining | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the benefits of using computers to supplement th... | 3-25 | 11:00 AM |
R for Absolute Beginners | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers an introduction to R, a commonly-used lang... | 3-25 | 07:00 PM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Citation managers help you keep track of the literature you have found for that research report, paper, or essay. They also... | 3-26 | 09:25 AM |
How to Make a Book | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Make a book using a "slot and tab" method and absolute... | 3-27 | 11:00 AM |
Introduction to Zotero (Managing Humanities Research) | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to use Zotero — an open-source research tool for creating ... | 3-27 | 11:00 AM |
Digital Accessibility and Canvas | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence This presentation will guide faculty on how to access the Panorama tool and interpret its reports... | 3-28 | 10:30 AM |
Introduction to GitHub and Markdown | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the basic functions of contributing to a reposit... | 3-28 | 01:00 PM |
# Annotating Code: Preparing Code for Sharing & Reuse | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn why it’s important to annotate code, practice co... | 4-1 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 4-2 | 11:00 AM |
Faculty Panel | Different Backgrounds, Same Course: Teaching Students from a Range of Preparation Levels | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence How do you teach a course when some students come in highly prepared and others have almost no ba... | 4-2 | 02:00 PM |
An Overview on Academic Soft and Hard Skills | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence This workshop aims to provide graduate students with an interactive overview of both soft and har... | 4-3 | 09:30 AM |
Using the Distant Reader | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to automatically "read" and "analyze" an arbitr... | 4-3 | 11:00 AM |
RefWorks - Managing Citations for Research | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Citation managers help you keep track of the literature you have found for that research report, paper, or essay. They also... | 4-4 | 11:30 AM |
HTML & CSS — Essential Training | Register through Hesburgh Libraries For those who use the Web to communicate with others, a familiarity with HTML and CSS can improve the clarity and power of ... | 4-4 | 01:00 PM |
Introduction to Tropy (Managing Humanities Research) | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to use Tropy — an open-source research tool for managing r... | 4-4 | 01:00 PM |
Assessment Strategies in an Online Course | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence In this interactive workshop, participants will focus on designing effective assessments that tra... | 4-4 | 02:00 PM |
Communicating Your Research in a World of Misinformation | With the rise of misinformation, it has become harder for many researchers to communicate their work effectively with the public. Distrust in science has been o... | 4-4 | 03:00 PM |
Teaching in the Age of AI: Graduate Student Perspectives | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Join us for an engaging panel discussion featuring graduate students from diverse academic discip... | 4-8 | 12:30 PM |
Lunch & Learn: Building and Holding your Creative Space | WORKSHOP An exploration of what it means to be creative in science and to build an environment/practice that supports that endeavor. Facilitated by Dr. A... | 4-9 | 12:30 PM |
Introduction to Tropy (Managing Humanities Research) | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to use Tropy — an open-source research tool for managing r... | 4-9 | 01:00 PM |
A Gentle Introduction to Unix Commands and Regular Expressions | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to explore, create, move, and search files in the command ... | 4-9 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 4-10 | 11:00 AM |
I Can Help - Suicide Prevention Training | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Instructors are often well-positioned to spot students who may be facing mental health struggles.... | 4-10 | 02:00 PM |
Tour of the Tidyverse Series–Data Manipulation in R, Part 1 | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn to load in, manipulate, and clean data in R using the dplyr pa... | 4-10 | 07:00 PM |
Introduction to Zotero (Managing Humanities Research) | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn how to use Zotero — an open-source research tool for creating ... | 4-11 | 01:00 PM |
How to Make a Book | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Make a book using a "slot and tab" method and absolute... | 4-15 | 11:00 AM |
R for Absolute Beginners | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers an introduction to R, a commonly-used lang... | 4-15 | 07:00 PM |
Building Your Academic Career: Applying for Teaching Positions in Higher Education | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring experienced faculty members who will share p... | 4-16 | 09:30 AM |
Building Your Academic Career: Applying for Teaching Positions in Higher Education | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring experienced faculty members who will share p... | 4-16 | 09:30 AM |
Introduction to Text Mining | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the benefits of using computers to supplement th... | 4-16 | 11:00 AM |
Tour of the Tidyverse Series–Data Visualization in R, Part 2 | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn to make simple graphs in R using the ggplot2 package. ... | 4-17 | 07:00 PM |
Creating and Leveraging Asynchronous Content | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create engaging asynchronous content fo... | 4-18 | 02:00 PM |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 4-22 | 11:00 AM |
Introduction to Text Mining | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn the benefits of using computers to supplement th... | 4-24 | 11:00 AM |
Tour of the Tidyverse Series–Data Manipulation in R, Part 3 | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Center for Digital Scholarship Learn to write a reproducible report in R using R Markdown and the k... | 4-24 | 07:00 PM |
Creating a Bootstrap Website with Bootstrapr.io | Register through Hesburgh Libraries In this workshop, we will create a fully functioning Bootstrap website from the ground up. Bootstrap is one of t... | 4-25 | 01:00 PM |
Introduction to Natural Language Processing with Python | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip, this workshop offers a gentle introduction to Python and the NL... | 4-29 | 11:00 AM |
Using the Distant Reader | Register through Hesburgh Libraries Offered by the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarhip. Learn how to automatically "read" and "analyze" an arbitr... | 4-30 | 11:00 AM |
Designing Differentiated Learning and Assessments | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence Designing Differentiated Learning and Assessments- If we recognize that each student is truly unique the... | 5-2 | 10:30 AM |
Maximizing Canvas and Other Digital Tools for Online and Blended Learning | Offered by Kaneb Center for for Teaching Excellence In this workshop, participants will learn how to use their Learning Management System (LMS) and o... | 5-2 | 02:00 PM |
Lunch & Learn: Tell me, what do you do? Elevator Pitch Workshop | The session will emphasise how everyone should master the art of introducing themselves and communicating their work through compelling "elevator pitches" that ... | 5-14 | 12:30 PM |
Ethics of Research with Human Participants: Informed Consent | This session will explore the current ethical standards surrounding informed consent in human research, including (1) the historical and (2) philosophical under... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Ethics of Research with Human Participants: Biospecimens | This session will explore the current ethics standards surrounding the collection, storage, and use of human biospecimens for research, including (1) the histor... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Research Ethics Introductory Workshop | An introduction to ethical reasoning in the context of academic research. This two-part workshop is available year-round and consists of two 90-minute discuss... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Ethics of Research with Human Participants: Children | This session will explore the current ethical standards surrounding the involvement of minors in human research, including (1) the historical and (2) philosophi... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Research Ethics Foundations: Consequentialism and Deontology | This workshop introduces participants to the application of consequentialist and deontological ethical theories in the context of research. It is open to gradua... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Research Ethics Foundations: Virtue Ethics | This workshop introduces participants to the application of virtue ethics in the context of research. It is open to graduate students, postdocs, and any other N... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Ethics of Community-Engaged Research | This workshop will examine the values that motivate community-engaged research, as well as the ethical issues that researchers may face in conducting research i... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Dual Use Research of Concern and the Doctrine of Double Effect | This workshop examines the ethical challenges of dual-use research of concern (DURC) through the lens of the doctrine of double effect, exploring how unintended... | 5-15 | 12:01 AM |
Hosting a Static Website on Github | Register through Hesburgh Libraries In this workshop, you’ll quickly build a very simple website (or bring your own) and learn how to use simple terminal comma... | 5-16 | 01:00 PM |