UC San Diego PhD Career Conference

Join us for the 6th Annual PhD Career Conference at UC San Diego! This conference agenda highlights many career opportunities represented by the successful careers of PhDs who have found their niche as well as workshops designed to help PhDs achieve career success.

Agenda

12-12:30 pm: Registration - Price Center East Ballrom

12:30-1:30 pm: Keynote Speaker - Price Center East Ballroom

Adam Ruben, PhD, Comedian, Writer, Scientist

1:40-2:40 pm: Concurrent Skill Development Sessions

2:40-3:30 pm: Concurent Panel Sessions

• PhDs in Business - Price Center West: Theater
• PhDs in Research - Price Center East: Forum
• PhDs in Teaching - Price Center East: John Muir Room
• PhDs in Startups - Price Center East: Earl Warren Room

2:40 - 5 pm: Round Table Networking

5 - 5:45 pm: Networking Reception and Closing Remarks

For more information and a full list of panelists, the PhC Career Conference website.

Keynote Speaker Bio:

Adam Ruben is a writer, comedian, storyteller, and molecular biologist. For over a decade, he has performed at clubs, colleges, and private venues across the country, including at some of the best-known storytelling shows and comedy clubs, where he has opened for comedians such as Kevin Nealon, Ben Bailey, and Jake Johannsen. He is the author of Surviving Your Stupid, Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School (Random House, 2010), a satirical guide to the low points and, well, lower points of post-baccalaureate education.

For ten years, Adam has taught an undergraduate stand-up comedy class that has quickly become one of the most popular January “Intersession” courses at Johns Hopkins University, where he received his Ph.D. in Biology. He writes the humor column “Experimental Error” in the otherwise respectable journal Science; he has also been seen and heard on the Food Network’s Food Detectives, the Science Channel’s Head Rush, and NPR’s All Things Considered. He currently co-hosts the Science Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science, soon to film its third season.

His one-man show, Please Don’t Beat Me Up: Stories and Artifacts from Adolescence, debuted to rave reviews at the Capital Fringe Festival in July 2011. In addition to his day job developing a malaria vaccine at Sanaria Inc., Adam travels the country, performing his show as part of anti-bullying programs and talking about his book to audiences of disaffected grad students.

Whova Event app:

This year the conference will be using the Whova app. Whova event app is designed to assist event attendees navigate through their events with mobile brochures and facilitate networking among all event attendees based on their professional profiles, which are automatically generated from relevant professional information assembled from company bio pages, personal home pages, social media profiles (LinkedIn), news/blogs, publication, patent, etc. The profiles include only professional information publicly available in the Internet and does not show personal profiles such as Facebook and Google Plus or any contact information. To contact other attendees, speakers or organizers, an in-app messaging feature is provided. Consent to be listed as an attendee in the app will be available during registration for this event.

Please download the Whova event app to receive access to mobile brochures, GPS guidance, maps, and extensive networking features that allow you to connect with other participating event attendees.

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