Graduate Professional Day: Inclusion and Diversity in STEM

Thursday, October 15, 2020
2:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.

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The School of Graduate Studies (SGS) presents the annual Graduate Professional Day, a professional development event for graduate students.

Schedule:

2:10pm – 3:05pm: How to Advance Your Career on Linkedin

3:15pm – 4:30pm: Keynote Address: Unconscious Bias and Challenges to Fair Assessment & Inclusion Maydianne Andrade, Professor of Biology and Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs, Equity & Success

4:45pm – 6:00pm: Panel discussion: Grad Career Development and Equity

Speakers include:

• Sara Ahmed, Researcher, Service Learning and Diversity Outreach, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto

• Roopali Chaudhury, PhD, Founder, CEO, Lead Researcher, Lotus STEMM

• Nana Lee, PhD, Director of Graduate Professional Development and Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream of Biochemistry, Immunology and Graduate Life Sciences and Education, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto

• Dimpho Radebe, Educational Diversity Initiative, Faculty of Engineering, University of Toronto

View the detailed program for Graduate Professional Day

How to Participate

Students will be able to select which events they plan to attend in the registration form.