2008-09 Recordings

Noted speaker Scott Morgan, co author of Speaking About Science:  A Manual for Creating Clear Presentations and partner at the Washington, DC consulting firm Premiere Public Speaking, returns to Duke to reprise his popular workshops on developing effective communication skills.

Improving Your Spoken English (a pdf file of the presentation can be downloaded here.)
Speaking about Science (Our apologies that the recording of this workshop is not complete.  An earlier version of this lecture [2007] is available above.  You may also download a podcast of this same lecture from the Premiere Public Speaking website in 12 separate mp3 files with a total running time of 41 minutes.  Just click the website link above and go to the section Podcast.)

Preparing for the Faculty Career:
Panel discussions for PhD and postdoctoral students seeking positions in academia 

• Keynote Lecture: Grabbing the Brass Ring--Why A Tenure-track Position Won't Make You Happy and What You Can Do About It 
  (Speaker: Cat Warren, NCSU)

• Academic Career Resources at Duke
• with Denise Comer (University Writing Program), Hugh Crumley (Instructional Technology), Doug James (Responsible Conduct of Research, Pathways, and Preparing Future Faculty), Maria Parker (English for International Students), Molly Starback (Postdoctoral Services), Carolyn Strong-Turner (Office of Research Support), Virginia Steinmetz (Career Center), and Tomalei Vess (Graduate School Student Development),

• Behind the Scenes with the Search Committee
• with Blanche Capel (Cell Biology), Warren Grill (Biomedical Engineering), Herbert P Kitschelt (International Relations, Political Science), Lori Setton (Biomedical Engineering), and Grant Wacker (Religion)

• Conference and Campus Interviews
• with Lynn Smith-Lovin (Sociology), Amanda Moering (Biology), Beth Sullivan (Molecular Genetics & Microbiology), Daniel Tracey (Cell & Molecular Biology), and Adam Wax (Biomedical Engineering)

• Negotiating the Faculty Job Offer
• with Roger Barr (Biomedical Engineering), Hans Hillerbrand (Religion), Dan Kiehart (Biology), Joseph Nevins (IGSP Center for Applied Genomics Technology), and William Reddy (History)

• Teaching Methods
• with Hugh Crumley (Center for Instructional Technology)

• Laboratory Management
• with Christopher Counter (Pharmacology & Cancer Biology), Brigid L.M. Hogan (Cell Biology), Sally Kornbluth (Vice Dean for Basic Sciences, Professor of Pharmacology & Cancer Biology), Richard Mooney (Neurobiology), and Mohamed Noor (Biology)

• Work-Life Balance
• with Nancy B. Allen (Vice Provost for Faculty Diversity & Faculty Development, Professor of Medicine, Rheumatology & Immunology), Alfiee Breland-Noble (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences), Meta J. Kuehn (Biochemistry), Gunther Peck (Public Policy & History), and J. Warren Smith (Divinity)
  

• Careers in Interdisciplinary Research
  with faculty panelists: Robert Clark (Pratt School of Engineering), Cliff Cunningham (Biology), Michael Hauser (Medicine & Ophthalmology) & Michael L. Platt (Neurobiology)

• New ! NIH Grantwriting Seminar
  with Rebecca Moen (Office of Clinical Research, University of Minnesota Academic Health Center)