Resource Fair for Online Students

Graduate School Office of Professional Development

When you participate in professional development, you build skills needed to succeed academically and thrive in your career. Each semester the Graduate School Office of Professional Development, together with campus partners, hosts nearly 500 professional and career development events, which can be found through DiscoverPD and our events calendar. The Individual Development Plan (IDP) helps you reflect, plan, and discuss in order to achieve your academic and professional goals.

Beyond Graduate School

Beyond Graduate School is a one-of-a-kind online career training platform for master’s students. The platform provides on-demand, self-paced learning modules that allow master’s students to explore career options and learn proven job search strategies to secure employment after graduation. Beyond Grad School also hosts a unique video library where students can hear from master’s degree holders working in all career sectors.

Beyond Graduate School benefits master’s students by:

• supporting career exploration and building job search skills.
• providing proven job search strategies so students can leverage their education into professional careers of their choice.
• providing accessible, well-curated resources for busy master’s students.
• complementing existing on-campus graduate student career supports.
• offering recorded seminars, workbooks, and a one-of-a-kind informational interview library where students can learn from other master’s degree holders.

Handshake

With Handshake you can:

• Browse and register for career events
• Explore thousands of jobs and internships from over 300K employers nationwide
• Get personalized job recommendations based on your degree program, interests, and more
• Manage your own campus interviews with top employers

Join UW on Handshake! Here are the steps to get started:

1. Read the Student Terms of Use
2. Go to MyUW
3. Add the Handshake app to your homepage
4. Launch to the app and start exploring!

Campus has preloaded your profile to get you started. Please note that your profile’s default setting is set to “hidden.” Employers, alumni, and students won’t be able to see anything until you choose to unhide it.

Big Interview

Big Interview helps students to learn, practice, and improve their interviewing skills, whether it’s in the job search process or negotiations. This online platform combines training and practice to help you improve your interview technique and build confidence.

Big Interview offers a variety of tools and resources, including:

• A curriculum covering the entire job search process, interviewing, and negotiations
• Mock interview practice
• Industry- and competency-specific interview question sets
• Help creating a resume

To log in, go directly to Big Interview or add the Big Interview tile to your MyUW portal.

Center for High Throughput Computing

The Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) serves as UW–Madison’s core research computing center, with access to large-scale computing systems and dedicated staff who proactively work with researchers to help them scale their work beyond-the-desktop. Compute systems operated by CHTC are suitable for tasks from analyzing numerous pieces of data, to performing large/long simulations (including MPI-enabled applications), to machine learning and GPU-dependent work. Whether your computational work takes too long, crashes your computer, or requires more data than you can work with on your current system, CHTC’s Research Computing Facilitators can help you to find and most efficiently use the right services and support, whether offered by CHTC or by connecting you with another resource provider.

Office for Student Organizations, Leadership & Involvement

The Office for Student Organizations, Leadership & Involvement (SOLI) assists students in intentionally connecting with the far-ranging opportunities that exist throughout campus, including graduate student organizations, student leadership programs, and many others. SOLI offers leadership programming that supports students in making meaning of these experiences and in developing leadership capacity – the ability to affect positive change.

Data Science Institute

The Data Science Institute advances research through the power of data science. It collaborates with researchers to help build data science solutions tailored to your needs. The institute offers:

• data science tools that power research and foster interdisciplinarity
• community events and co-sponsored seminars that bring together researchers and other partners around relevant data science topics
• regular trainings around fundamental data science and computational skills

Office of Student Assistance and Support

The Office of Student Assistance and Support encourages student success by creating a culture of care on campus and connecting students with support resources available on campus. The office assists with academic, financial, health, family emergencies, and other difficulties including students who are victims of bias incidents or sexual harassment or violence. The office supports the success of ALL Badgers, including undergraduate students, graduate & professional students, special students, and undocumented/DACA students. Office of Student Assistance and Support staff also consult with faculty, staff, parents, and community members to help support overall student success.

Delta Program for Research, Teaching, and Learning

The Delta Program engages graduate students and postdocs in professional development in teaching, mentoring, outreach and advising. Whether your future career is in academia or beyond, Delta’s offerings can help you develop inclusive and evidence-based teaching and mentoring skills.

In addition to the Delta Program’s offerings, UW–Madison students can take advantage of online professional development opportunities presented by the CIRTL Network.

Want to be the first to know about Delta and CIRTL’s upcoming offerings? The best way to stay in the loop is to subscribe to Delta’s mailing list.

DesignLab

DesignLab offers free one-on-one design tutoring for UW–Madison students, faculty, and staff! Get help with all of your digital projects, including presentations, posters, videos, audio, websites/blogs, infographics, and more! DesignLab consultants can help with everything from conceptualizing the first steps to polishing a nearly finished project.

DoIT Help Desk

The DoIT Help Desk provides free tech support and troubleshooting help for students, staff, and faculty through phone, email, chat, or in-person assistance. The various level-one services we provide range from getting help with your NetID, resetting your password, software repair, malware detection/removal, and general troubleshooting and diagnostics.

Morgridge Center for Public Service

The goal of the Morgridge Center for Public Service is to connect the University of Wisconsin–Madison to service and learning opportunities at the local, national, and global level. Specifically, graduate students have the remarkable opportunity to partake in the Wisconsin Idea through these online options offered by the Morgridge Center:

• Community-engagement workshops
• Engaged Scholar Talks

Office of Child Care and Family Resources

The Office of Child Care and Family Resources administers early education and family support programs, helping campus families to earn degrees, to achieve career objectives, and to foster positive social and emotional development for their children. We offer support to student parents enrolled at UW–Madison:

• by providing financial grants to pay for the cost of high-quality early care and education for their children
• by recognizing their multiple roles as students, parents, and employees
• by giving them access to valuable resources on parenting

Sign up for the parent support newsletter and check out upcoming parent classes and events.

Office of Human Resources Madison Benefits Services

UW–Madison’s Office of Human Resources Benefits Services specialists work with employees who qualify for employee benefits. Graduate Students who may qualify include certain fellows, scholars, TAs and PAs who hold appointments of at least 33% time for at least a full semester or longer. Benefits specialists present new employee insurance overviews. And every fall, during the Annual Benefits Enrollment period, we offer Benefits Changes presentations so you can learn what benefits changes may affect you next calendar year. Visit our website for information on grad employee insurance coverage and how much insurance plans would cost if you were to enroll.

Office of Student Financial Aid

The Office of Student Financial Aid is here to help you navigate the financial aid process to get the most out of your online experience. Its website is a great place to start to find answers to many of your questions. Virtual services are available, just call 608-262-3060 or email finaid@finaid.wisc.edu to connect with us. Current UW–Madison students may also schedule a virtual appointment with one of our advisors through Starfish.

Office of Sustainability

At UW–Madison, sustainability means caring for the health and resilience of our shared environments and communities. There are many ways to get involved:

• The UW–Madison Green Fund supports student-initiated projects that address the environmental footprint, social impact, and operating costs of campus facilities.
• Working in a campus office or lab, or organizing a campus event? You can make your activity greener by collaborating with the Office of Sustainability.
• Stay informed by signing up for the sustainability newsletter or following the Office of Sustainability on social media at @SustainUW.

Research Data Services

Research Data Services (RDS) supports UW–Madison researchers as they gather, manage, and share their research data to make their data citable, reproducible, and publicly accessible. We offer consultations, education and training, online resources, and referrals to campus services that support researchers’ efforts to store, manage, and share their data. Learn more about Research Data Services’ consultants. We can help you:

• review your data management plan
• share your data to meet publisher and funder requirements
• find appropriate storage for your data
• learn more about data equity, reproducible research, and open data
• and many other things like digital humanities, text analysis, geospatial data, data policy, and more!

Software Training for Students

Software Training for Students offers free technology training and project support to registered UW–Madison students.

• The STS Canvas Course: Great for students who want to access our existing training materials on different softwares.
• Remote Ask-A-Trainer Appointments: Great for students who have very specific questions regarding a software they need to use for a class project.
• LinkedIn Learning: Great for students who like to learn a software more in-depth at their own pace. All UW–Madison students have free access to LinkedIn Learning!

University Book Store

The University Book Store is your one-stop campus shop for textbooks, tech, school supplies, Badgers clothing and gift items, and more! Since 1894 the University Book Store has proudly served the students, faculty, and staff of the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the greater community. We are a non-stockholding corporation that receives no aid or funding from the University or the State of Wisconsin. Our proceeds stay local to benefit UW students and our community.

UW–Madison Libraries

When most people think of libraries, the first thing they think of is books. And it’s true, we do have more than 10 million books in 425 different languages! However, the Libraries also have thousands of databases, which contain millions of articles, streaming movies and music, as well as more than 1.3 million eBooks. In addition, the Libraries have more than 7 million materials in other physical and digitized formats. You can find nearly all of these resources through the Libraries website. Learn more about these resources, services, and spaces in this guided orientation to the Libraries. The UW–Madison Libraries support your research, learning, and teaching, including one-on-one research assistance, interlibrary loan, citation management support, research data services, workshops, and library instruction. To learn more or take advantage of any of these resources, contact the Libraries by chat, email, text, phone, or make an appointment with a subject specialist librarian.

The Writing Center

The Writing Center works with graduate writers at any stage of the writing process—from choosing a topic to drafting to revising. Our online services for graduate students include one-to-one meetings, writing groups, writing workshops, and an extensive online Writer’s Handbook. During a one-to-one appointment, we will talk with you about your goals, review your writing with you, and discuss the next steps you might take. There are two options for online appointments:

• Virtual Meetings
• Written Feedback appointments

The Writing Center also offers weekly writing groups, which are a fantastic way to get some support and accountability when you’re working on longer projects. In addition, if you want to learn about writing in different genres, there are free, non-credit workshops for graduate and professional students.