Dear all,

The IBACS IDEA Committee is hosting a mid-semester Mentoring & Teaching Discussion for graduate students and postdocs, and we’d love for you to join us, whether you’ve come before or this is your first time!

📅 When: Wednesday, October 28, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
📍 Where: Arjona 307
💻 Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/279233340235163?p=5YhgiawfixAxpohKHv
☕ Light refreshments will be provided!

Please RSVP by Friday, Oct. 23, at 5:00 PM: RSVP here

We’re asking everyone who plans to attend to RSVP so we can get a sense of in-person attendance and make sure we have a room that can comfortably accommodate everyone. If we have a larger turnout than expected, we may move to a different room, so your response will be helpful!

Now that the semester is well underway, this session is a chance to check in on how mentoring and teaching are going. As before, we’ll build the conversation around the questions and topics you bring. Whether you’re a first-time TA, guest lecturer, or instructor of record; a grad student supervising undergrads; or a new postdoc mentoring for the first time, this is a space to think it through together with peers.

Anonymous contributions are welcome, and you can upvote topics others have added. We’ve included a few starter topics to get things going.

Even if you can’t attend, feel free to add a question. We’ll capture the discussion and share it back.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Best,
Jillian
On behalf of the IBACS IDEA Committee