✨ Your Future, Your Career, Your Next Step ✨
Join LGS Professional Development and Career Planning for an Interviewing Workshop for Academic and Non-Academic Careers designed to equip students with essential skills and strategies to excel during interviews.
Students will practice interviewing and offer feedback to each other and should expect to leave the workshop with concrete skills, confidence, and ideas for further preparation.
This will be a participatory, in-person workshop and will not be recorded.
🕛 3–4:30 p.m. | 📅 Tuesday, Sept. 30|📍 In-Person location details will be sent to registrants
✅ Discuss what interviewers are really asking
✅ Learn common interview questions and themes
✅ Learn how to craft impactful responses
✅ Learn how to present yourself as a confident professional
👉 Register now
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The Diabetes Translational Accelerator (DTA) is advancing research and technologies to address the most pressing challenges in diabetes and its complications through start-ups and commercialization.
Through the Lakshmi and Subramonian Shankar Fellowship, Emory PhD students can receive $45,000 per year for up to five years to support stipend, tuition, and insurance while working to commercialize their dissertation research. Fellows may also be eligible for up to $75,000 from the Shankar Innovation Fund to bring a minimum viable product to market.
The fellowship is open to prospective Laney PhD applicants as well as current first- or second-year PhD students at Emory. Student–advisor teams are encouraged to tackle high-priority diabetes problems identified in India and rural Georgia—or propose innovative solutions with strong justification. Applicants should plan for both technical and clinical co-advisors, including at least one from the Woodruff Health Sciences Center. Students from all disciplines, including STEM and beyond, are welcome.
Questions or need help finding co-advisors? Contact egdrc.dta@emory.edu.
👉Learn more here
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SMARTA Passes Available to Graduate Students
Emory is offering graduate students Subsidized MARTA (SMARTA) passes for purchase at the Transportation and Parking Services Office as part of the Graduate Student Government Association (GSGA) SMARTA Program.
Program highlights:
- Graduate students may purchase Breeze cards each month at the Transportation and Parking Services office on the Clairmont campus.
- Breeze cards will be valid for one calendar month (unlimited rides) and will be sold between the 25th of the prior month and the 10th of the month of use (e.g., September 25–October 10 sale period for a pass that can be used October 1–31).
- Graduate students will pay a subsidized rate of $33.50 via credit/debit card, with GSGA covering the remaining $35.
Transportation and Parking Services Hours of Operation
Time: 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Date: Monday-Friday
Location: 1945 Starvine Wat, Atlanta, GA 30033
Want to be added to the SMARTA listserv? Fill out the interest form here.
👉Questions? Contact Jenna Daniel
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Explore the Elements of Your Wellbeing!
The Center for Student Wellbeing updated its website to feature eight essential “Elements of Your Wellbeing”. Discover how the following elements foster resilience and can contribute to your purpose and wellbeing while at Laney and beyond.
Elements of Wellbeing:
Visit the Center for Student Wellbeing: Alumni Memorial University Center, Suite 237, 630 Means Dr Atlanta, GA 30322
👉Learn more here
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The Laney community is invited to a special seminar presented by Romesh Subramanian, PhD, the GDBBS 2025 Distinguished Alumni of the Year and a 2001 graduate of the Molecular and Systems Pharmacology program. Subramanian will share his remarkable path from technician to graduate student, to founding biotech start-ups, and ultimately to venture capital.
Now a Venture Partner at Scion Life Sciences, his seminar will draw on his experience in both science and entrepreneurship to identify and support innovative biotech companies. His career reflects a unique blend of rigorous research, business leadership, and investment strategy; skills first cultivated during his time at GDBBS.
Time: 3-4 p.m.
Date: Oct. 2, 2025
Location: Grace Crum Rollins Building, Rita Anne Rollins Room 860
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Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian, John D. Morgenstern, PhD, is offering workshops on copyright for theses and dissertations before the fall ETD submission deadlines.
Use the links below to sign up for one of the upcoming Copyright Considerations for Theses and Dissertations Workshops sessions. All sessions will be held virtually.
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Harold Josephson Award for Professional Promise in International Education
Nominations are currently open for the Harold Josephson Award for Professional Promise in International Education until October 1.
The Harold Josephson Award recognizes exemplary graduate students who demonstrate emerging leadership and are making significant contributions to the field of international education. The nominee’s impact may be evidenced by their graduate study, involvement in international education initiatives, research related to international education, and/or other relevant contributions.
Application deadline: Wednesday, October 1
👉Learn more here
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Journey to Vietnam Trip
The Office of Spiritual and Religious Life’s Journeys of Reconciliation program invites participants to encounter the world’s challenges to hear stories of change and liberation, and to seek wisdom from outside the university’s walls.
The program is seeking applicants for the Journey to Vietnam trip from May 13-22, 2026. Participants will visit Vietnam and learn from those on the ground about how they have healed and rebuilt from the impacts of the Vietnam War.
Graduate students not graduating in May 2026 may apply.
Application deadline: Friday, October 10, 2025
Learn more here
👉Apply here
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Science Policy and Advocacy Intern
Research!America is seeking a Science Policy and Advocacy intern. This paid, temporary full-time, three-month internship will report to the Senior Director of Policy and Advocacy. The intern will assist the organization in advancing its mission and objectives through education, advocacy and public policy activities.
Research!America is looking for an intern with a strong work ethic, organizational and multitasking skills, and can effectively prioritize competing tasks. The intern must pay attention to details, effectively follow instructions and work equally well independently and in collaboration with others.
Compensation: $20/hour for up to 40 hours/week
Application deadline: October 13, 2025
👉Read the full job description
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Unlock the power of clear and confident communication. This two-part multi-level workshop will focus on critical elements of American English pronunciation and offer strategies to elevate your overall intelligibility.
Date and time: TBD
Interested in participating? Sign up here
👉Questions? Contact Grace Song
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Academic Success Resources
Are you looking for some help related to procrastination, imposter syndrome, test anxiety, perfectionism, or attention and concentration challenges? Check out the resources available on CAPS website.
In addition, the LGS Student Affairs Team is here to support every phase of your educational journey, so reach out any time! They can connect you to resources, answer questions you might have, or discuss concerns.
Explore these topics and other student affairs-related topics by contacting an LGS Student Affairs team member:
Jennifer M. Cason, EdD, assistant dean of student affairs and deputy Title IX coordinator
Emily Neutens, associate director of student affairs
Shannon Marsh, student affairs program coordinator
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Emory Student Telehealth
24/7 Medical and Mental Health
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Are You Concerned about a Student?
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Emory Flexible Teaching Toolkit
The toolkit is a collection of resources
designed to support the development of
flexible courses from CFDE, TLT, ATS,
and Library Services. Resources are
helpful to graduate students involved in
teaching at every level.
Read here.
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Attention Laney Community:
Do you have an idea for a story or event for this newsletter? If so, please submit it here.
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