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
- Recruiting
- The Writing Center
Upcoming events:
| Title | Description | Date | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to GitHub and Markdown | Learn the basic functions of contributing to a repository and writing documents in its preferred plain-text format, markdown. Git is a popular “version control... | 4-13 | 02:00 PM |
| PERFORMANCE: Moving Through: A Site-Specific Performance Present | PERMORMANCEMoving Through: A Site-Specific Performance Present Brendan Fernandes’s Moving Through is a site-specific work that will be performed by six dancers... | 4-13 | 02:30 PM |
| Animating Data in R with gganimate | Learn to make animated data visualizations in R using the gganimate package. This workshop will introduce participants to gganimate, a package in R that provid... | 4-14 | 04:00 PM |
| CurateND 101: Get to know the Notre Dame Institutional Repositor | Unlocking the power of CurateND: A hands-on workshop for faculty and researchers, including graduate students. CurateND, Notre Dame’s institutional repository,... | 4-15 | 10:00 AM |
| Creating a Static Website with Bootstrapr.io | In this workshop, we will create a fully functioning Bootstrap website from the ground up. Bootstrap is one of the most popular frameworks for rapidly building... | 4-15 | 01:00 PM |
| CurateND 101: Get to know the Notre Dame Institutional Repository | Unlocking the power of CurateND: A hands-on workshop for faculty and researchers, including graduate students. CurateND, Notre Dame’s institutional repository,... | 4-15 | 01:00 PM |
| SHARE THE HEART OF YOUR WORK, TO INSPIRE US TO RECOGNIZE BEAUTY | SUBMIT ENTRY Beauty surrounds us. We see it. We hear it, But we also find it every time we learn something new about our world. There is a beauty to underst... | 4-15 | 11:59 PM |
| Gathering Data from the Web Using APIs | Learn how to use APIs to harvest information from the Internet. An API (Application Programming Interface) is a tool that lets computers communicate with each ... | 4-16 | 03:00 PM |
| ND Learning Postdoctoral Program for Teaching Excellence (Session 6 of 6) | The Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence will facilitate this teaching program for postdoctoral scholars at the University of Notre Dame. Topics include reachin... | 4-17 | 09:00 AM |
| ND Learning Postdoctoral Program for Teaching Excellence (Session 6 of 6) | The Kaneb Center for Teaching Excellence will facilitate this teaching program for postdoctoral scholars at the University of Notre Dame. Topics include reachin... | 4-17 | 09:00 AM |
| Mentoring Future Engineers | Despite being a main aspect of their work, graduate students and postdocs are rarely given opportunities to learn and practice how to be great mentors for those... | 4-17 | 12:00 PM |
| Mentoring Up: Mentoring Relationships | “Mentoring Up” is similar to “Managing Up” from the business world. It refers to the proactive approach where mentees take an active role in guiding and enhancing ... | 4-17 | 12:30 PM |
| Rethinking Online Assessment in the AI Era | In this interactive workshop, participants will rethink assessment strategies for online courses in the age of AI. Through practical examples and hands-on guida... | 4-17 | 02:00 PM |
| Fact Checking AI With Lateral Reading | This hands-on workshop will introduce you to "lateral reading," a powerful fact-checking strategy that involves leaving a source to verify information using multiple... | 4-17 | 03:30 PM |
| Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2026 (April 17 - April 19) | Participant registration is open from Sunday, January 12, through 6:00pm on Friday, April 17.Join the Slack workspace and use the #find-a-team channel! Learn m... | 4-17 | 06:00 PM |
| LATE REGISTRATION--Hesburgh Libraries Hackathon 2026 (April 17 - April 19) | Registrations open at 12:01AM Saturday, April 18, 2026.Registration Required | 4-18 | 09:00 PM |
| EAP Workshop: Strategies for Successful Academic Publishing | This workshop provides strategies for navigating the academic publishing process. Topics include identifying the appropriate journals, handling peer review fe... | 4-21 | 12:30 PM |
| Programming Logic for Non-Programmers | A very gentle introduction to programming logic. This workshop is for the: Uninitiated: You’ve never written a line of code, and you’re not sure w... | 4-21 | 03:00 PM |
| Programming Logic for Non-Programmers | A very gentle introduction to programming logic. This workshop is for the: Uninitiated: You’ve never written a line of code, and you’re not sure w... | 4-21 | 03:00 PM |
| Hosting a Static Website on Github and Netlify | Learn to rapidly build and host a professional website for free on both Netlify and GitHub Pages platforms Creating and hosting a static HTML and CSS website h... | 4-22 | 01:00 PM |
| Fulbright Info Session | Learn about the fundamentals of a Fulbright application, get acquainted with our Fulbright Program Advisors, and begin working on your materials. If you hav... | 4-22 | 02:30 PM |
| KEYNOTE SPEAKER: The Art of Encounter | The ART of ENCOUNTER Spring Symposium Keynote Speaker: Pádraig Ó Tuama Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Pádraig Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, c... | 4-23 | 12:00 AM |
| Lunch & Learn: Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Fair Use | Join the Director of the Intellectual Property Clinic of the Law School, Grace Mills, for a workshop to learn about intellectual property issues. Scholars will... | 4-23 | 11:30 AM |
| SYMPOSIUM: The Art of Encounter | The ART of ENCOUNTER Spring Symposium Raclin Murphy Museum of Art This symposium seeks to stimulate dialogue that connects scholarly study with the lived exp... | 4-24 | 12:00 AM |
| Mentoring Future Engineers | Despite being a main aspect of their work, graduate students and postdocs are rarely given opportunities to learn and practice how to be great mentors for those... | 4-24 | 12:00 PM |
| Mentoring Up - Maintaining Effective Communication | Good communication is a key element of any relationship and a mentoring relationship is no exception. This session of a 6-part series is designed to provide scholars... | 4-24 | 12:30 PM |
| Creating and Leveraging Asynchronous Content | In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn how to create engaging asynchronous content for blended courses. We will review different types of asynchrono... | 4-24 | 02:00 PM |
| Artful Yoga | Artful Yoga Raclin Murphy Museum of Art Relax and recharge at the Museum during Artful Yoga. Find inspiration for your practice on the mat while surrounded b... | 4-30 | 05:30 PM |
| Mentoring Future Engineers | Despite being a main aspect of their work, graduate students and postdocs are rarely given opportunities to learn and practice how to be great mentors for those... | 5-1 | 12:00 PM |
| Mentoring Up - Aligning Expectations | Problems between mentors and mentees often arise from misunderstandings about expectations. This session of a 6-part series is designed to provide scholars the know... | 5-1 | 12:30 PM |
| Mentoring Up - Addressing Equity and Inclusion | Diversity, along a range of dimensions (e.g. cultural, racial/ethnic, sexuality, gender, neurotype, disability, etc.) offers both challenges and opportunities to any... | 5-8 | 12:30 PM |
| Maximizing Canvas and Other Digital Tools for Online and Blended Learning | In this workshop, participants will learn how to use the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS) and other digital tools effectively to create engaging and supp... | 5-8 | 02:00 PM |
| Mentoring Up - Building Research Self-Efficacy | Self-efficacy is the perceived confidence people have in their ability to perform. Increasing your research self-efficacy can increase the likelihood that you will ... | 5-19 | 12:30 PM |
| Mentoring Up - Achieving Independence and Professional Development | The goal in any mentoring relationship is for the mentee to achieve independence and defining what independence looks like in a particular field and at various caree... | 5-21 | 12:30 PM |
| Beauty of Understanding Showcase and Reception | Event Beauty surrounds us. We see it. We hear it, But we also find it every time we learn something new about our world. There is a beauty to understanding ... | 6-4 | 05:00 PM |
