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The Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science offers a 3-seminar course series for postdocs and graduate students interested in learning to teach and mentor effectively, and to build their teaching portfolios. The three zero-credit hour seminars include: Introduction to Evidence-Based Teaching (fall); Mentored Teaching Experience (spring); and Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers (spring or summer).
More info about the Concentration in Teaching and Mentoring can be found here.
Industry Site Visits
In the past years we have arranged industry site visit to local companies including Signature Science, Asuragen, Luminex, and Agilent Technologies. Each time we brought about a group of 15-20 postdocs to each company for tour of the facilities, journey discussion (how did you get here and where are you going kind of discussions in small groups), and general networking in informal non-structured setting.
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