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UC Irvine GPS-STEM

Graduate Professional Success for PhD students and Postdocs in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics

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GPS-STEM Radio

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GPS-STEM presents, a podcast series designed to offer a digital medium for career and professional development training of PhD and Post Doctoral fellows in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics!.

This podcast series will bring experts from multiple job sectors to your earbuds!
The mission of GPS-STEM Radio is to:

  • Provide digital avenues of learning
  • Offer Career exploration talks and in-depth knowledge of different job sectors
  • Build peer-peer knowledge & experience a sharing platform
  • Connect with alumni & listen to their career journeys

This podcast series will offer an opportunity to listen to experts in science communication, science policy, STEM industry research, regulatory affairs, medical devices, bioengineering, data scientists, higher education administrators and health & wellness professionals.

GPS-STEM Radio is divided into 3 major podcasts or sub-podcasts:

  1. Science Policy Podcast
  2. Health and Wellness Podcast
  3. Career & Professional Development Podcast
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GPS-STEM Radio Intro

GPS-STEM Radio designed for the career and professional development training of PhD and Post Doctoral fellows in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics!

This podcast series emanates out of the Public Policy Prep (P3) Program supported by the Burroughs Welcome Fund (BWF). In this series, we will introduce you to science policy professionals working on the frontiers of policy making, Science & Technology fellows, UCI alumni in policy circles and fellow students & postdocs actively engaged in the policy arena.

Science Policy Podcast

This podcast series emanates out of the Public Policy Prep (P3) Program supported by the Burroughs Welcome Fund (BWF). In this series, we will introduce you to science policy professionals working on the frontiers of policy making, Science & Technology fellows, UCI alumni in policy circles and fellow students & postdocs actively engaged in the policy arena.

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Health & Wellness Podcast

The goal of this podcast is to introduce and discuss health related topics to promote well-being among graduate students and postdoc fellows in an effort to raise awareness of health services and encourage daily integration of health and wellness.

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Career and Professional Development Podcast

The focus of Career and Professional Development Podcast series is to introduce STEM researchers to a wide variety of careers within the academia and industry. This podcast series brings UCI alumni and non-alumni (industry professionals and academics) to share their career journey, in depth detail of their job sector, and offer valuable advice on how to transition into these roles.


Meet the the GPS-STEM Radio team:

Podcast Producers:
Harinder Singh, PhD, Program Director of GPS-STEM
Joanne Ly, Multimedia Director of GPS-STEM

Introduction:
Bri McWhorter, CEO of Activate to Captivate

Graphics, Audio Editing, and Recording:
Joanne Ly, Multimedia Director of GPS-STEM
Aaron Ledray, Multimedia GPS-STEM Trainee
Remy Vu, Multimedia GPS-STEM Trainee
Christina Thai, Multimedia GPS-STEM Trainee

Join GPS-STEM on social media!

  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Job Search Resources & Databases

  • BioPharmGuy
  • BioSpace
  • Naturejobs: Science Jobs of the Week
  • NIH OITE Career Blog
  • Science Careers
  • UCI Career Center Job & Internship Database

Spotlights

Graduate Professional Success (GPS) is a campus-wide effort to improve career development for PhD's. GPS-BIOMED is an NIH funded component for scientists in the biomedical fields.

DID YOU MISS THE ORIENTATION??
Contact Program Coordinator Emma Flores PhD, eflores@uci.edu, for more information

Completion of the program provides a professional development certificate that can be shared with employers.

New networking opportunities and one-on-one alumni mentorship are in the works!

External Partners

  • Allergan
  • Fish & Tsang LLP
  • LDOS Media Lab
  • OCTANe

UCI Partners

  • Antrepreneur Center
  • Applied Innovation
  • Career Center
  • Graduate Resource Center
  • Outreach & Minority Science Programs
  • The Graduate Division
  • UCI Division of Continuing Education
  • UCI Office of Postdoctoral Scholars
  • UCI Postdoctoral Association

External Partners

  • Allergan
  • Fish & Tsang LLP
  • LDOS Media Lab
  • OCTANe

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