Life
Guide to Graduate Student Life
Written by students for students.
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Rules
Forms
Reduced Course Load for F-1 and J-1 Students
AAE Department letterhead -- log in to My AAE, and under "Forms" click on "Department Letterheads."
Business cards can be ordered at Pigwick Papers, formerlly Bob's Copy Shop.
Graduate School academic and administrative policies and procedures.
Defines and explains the sanctions for cheating, plagiarism, etc. Plagiarism by graduate students can result in suspension from the university; know the rules!
Registration and credit requirements
Degree completion guidelines
Ph.D. defense and thesis deposit
Steenbock Library offers thesis binding through their vendor at a fraction of the cost of other vendors. For more information about their binding services, call the Memorial Library Binding Department, 262-3294.
Professional Development
A listing compiled by the Graduate School Fellowships Office.
CALS Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Development maintains a website with information on sources of funding and professional development opportunties.
Dissertation Progress Calculator Helps you understand the process and create a timeline for crucial milestones. Good explanations of how to succeed and stay on track.
Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning
The Delta Program is a research, teaching and learning community for faculty, academic staff, post-docs, and graduate students that will help current and future faculty succeed in the changing landscape of science, engineering, and math higher education. The program offers workshops useful to grad students.
The Writing Center's programs are staffed by six professional writing instructors, 47 doctoral teaching assistants in composition and rhetoric and from literary studies, and 55 undergraduate Writing Fellows. All tutors in Writing Center programs are highly trained, expert readers and are qualified to offer help with writing in all disciplines and at all levels.
A Guide to Writing in Economics by Paul Dudenhefer, Duke University
Read this when you are writing your first major paper!
Dissertator Support Groups are offered by the UW Counseling and Consultation Services to help students initiate, conduct, and complete their dissertation, thesis, or other large academic project. Issues that are frequently discussed include time and anxiety management, emotional and academic support, and goal setting. These groups are not therapy groups, but support groups for dissertators.
Proposal Writing
The Art of Writing Proposals. Basic principles of how to write a compelling research proposal, published by the Social Science Research Council. Required reading for students at any phase of study.
The Elements of a Proposal. More advice on how to structure a proposal and avoid common writing errors, by Frank Pajares.
Academic Job Market Information
Log into My AAE and click on "Information," then "Grad Student Job Market." Additional materials are on file in the Taylor-Hibbard Library.
How to Print Business Cards
Campus area copy shops, such as Bob’s, near Taylor Hall
AAE letterhead is available in MyAAE, under Forms > AAE Letterheads
Making Research Posters for Conferences (thanks to advice from Marin Bozic)
Use the UW Digital Media Center: https://dmc.wisc.edu/
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Do a free test run, i.e. just a stripe of your poster, so you can see font size and colors .
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Schedule your appointment in advance; sometimes they are busy. Printing will take about 30 minutes, including time needed for them to process your file.
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Check with your conference on the maximum size of the poster.
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DMC can take payments directly from the department, if your advisor is putting this on some project money. It works the best if you have the staff person in charge of purchasing ready to speak with them to give the departmental credit card number.
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Triple check for typos in the text.
- Download stock photos from a source like canstockphoto.com.
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You can make the poster in PowerPoint, which restricts the dimensions of the slide to half the maximum length and width DMC can print. That is no problem, as you can enlarge it at DMC once the file is converted to pdf.
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Find a way to share your posters with communities of interest even after the conference. You can upload them to ageconsearch (http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/handle/91378). You can make a personal website. You can print "miniature" posters on 11” x 17” paper to use as hand-outs.