April 27, 2017
Guest Speaker: Cynthia. Fuhrmann, Ph.D.
The Individual Development Plan: Strategically navigate your scientific career
Navigating toward your future can be daunting. Regardless of the careerpath(s) you are pursuing, today’s scientist faces a competitive job market that rewards productivity in the lab, stellar communication skills, a strong professional network, and professional confidence. Creating an Individual Development Plan (IDP) is one way to help you strategically work toward these goals, advocate for yourself, and take advantage of lucky opportunities that might come along. This workshop is designed to prepare scientists for creating their IDP, with practical strategies for evaluating career options, setting achievable goals, engaging mentors, and adapting to change as your plan progresses. Taught by myIDP co-author Cynthia Fuhrmann, this interactive workshop will propel you toward the next step along your career trajectory.
Although not required, we'd appreciate it if you would please register here.
Co-sponsored by:
The Graduate School, The School of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center For Career Development
Where/Time: April 27th, Student Union Building - room 304B @ 2:30-4:00pm – Student Presentation/Coffee Break
Bio: Cynthia Fuhrmann
Cynthia Fuhrmann, Ph.D. is Assistant Dean, Career & Professional Development and Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS). She founded and directs the Center for Biomedical Career Development, dedicated to taking a scholarly approach to enhancing the professional development training for scientists. As principal investigator of grants from the National Institute of Health (2013-2018) and Burroughs Wellcome Fund (2013-2014), Fuhrmann leads efforts to integrate career planning and professional development programs into the UMMS PhD and postdoctoral training experiences. Fuhrmann transitioned to UMMS in September 2012 from University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she founded the Preparing Future Faculty program and oversaw professional skills programs for biomedical scientists.
Fuhrmann co-authored myIDP, an interactive career-planning website with more than 130,000 users hosted by ScienceCareers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). A PhD-trained scientist herself, she has great interest in national issues related to the biomedical workforce and the career preparation of graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in the life sciences. Her work in this area has been highlighted in Science, Nature Careers, NIH Biomedical Workforce Report, Inside Higher Ed, and the Chronicle of Higher Education. Most recently, she was co-chair of the "Enhancing Training" working group for the 2016 ASBMB Summit on Sustaining the Biomedical Research Enterprise. She is an active member of the NIH BEST Consortium, Graduate Career Consortium, and AAMC Graduate Research Education and Training (GREAT) Group.
Fuhrmann speaks nationally on the incorporation of career and professional development into predoctoral and postdoctoral training, and leads workshops on creating an Individual Development Plan.
For more information, contact: Victoria Blodgett at victoria.blodgett@uconn.edu