Graduate Student Retreat 2012

 

 

 

Graduate students convened at the Highlands Environmental Research Institute (HEnRI) in Tuxedo, NY to foster interdisciplinary interaction within the Earth and Environmental Sciences and Ecology departments on the Rutgers Newark campus. Challenges and opportunities of being a graduate research student were discussed with opportunities for small group discussions.  

 

Each graduate student presented a poster on their ongoing and/or future research.  This gave the graduate students the opportunity to practice communicating their research in an informal setting also leading to synergistic opportunities for student collaborations. Below is a list of presentations at the retreat.

 

Presenter	Topic
Alec Gates	How to make the most of your graduate experience at Rutgers-Newark
Karina Schafer	Ethics and Responsible Research
Kristina Keating	Effective presentation styles for conferences/workshops (both oral and poster)
Bonnie Fong	Optimizing the library resources in research
Heidi Renninger	Writing a research articles for submission to peer reviewed journals
Lee Slater	Overview of the departmental and graduate school requirements, and potential stumbling blocks along the way Writing a research articles for submission to peer reviewed journals
Kisa Mwakanyamale	Opportunities to make the most of the graduate student experience at Rutgers-Newark
Markus Wehrer	Strategies for getting the most out of a postdoctoral research experience
Angelo Lampousis	Why Collaboration Matters:  Perspectives from CUNY
David Grunat	GSA Grant Proposals