✨ Your Future, Your Career, Your Next Step ✨
Confused, excited, or a little nervous about what comes after graduate school? Are you ready to be empowered and informed as you plan for your future career(s)? The Office of Professional Development and Career Planning (PDCP) is here to help!
Sign up for our first career planning event of the academic year!
Career Planning in 2025: A Panel with LGS Career Coaches
✅ Ask your biggest career questions
✅ Get expert strategies for navigating the 2025 job market
✅ Leave with confidence and practical next steps
👉 Register now
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Office Hours with the Dean
Dean Kimberly Jacob Arriola invites graduate students to join her for an informal conversation during Office Hours with the Dean. This is a chance to share your experiences, ask questions, and connect directly with Dean Arriola in a welcoming and open setting.
No appointment needed—just stop by the LGS office located in Suite 200 of the North Decatur Building, sign in when you arrive and enjoy light refreshments while you wait. Hours are first come, first serve, so mark your calendars!
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Upcoming Parenting Webinars
Parenting while pursuing graduate studies presents distinct challenges. To offer guidance and resources, Emory’s Office of Benefits and Work-Life will host two upcoming webinars designed to support faculty and staff who are parents.
Interested in participating? Check out the upcoming events below.
Preparing for Parenthood & Newborn Care: Essential Insights for Expecting and New Parents
Time: 12 – 1 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, September 9
Register here
Chasing Perfect: How Comparison is Stealing Your Joy and Making Parenting Harder
Time: 12 - 1 p.m.
Date: Thursday, September 11
👉Register here
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The Hatchery Presents Skill Builder Workshop: Beyond Minimal Viable Product with Arthur Simoneto
Do you want to build a startup business that people cannot ignore? In this workshop, Arthur Simoneto, chief marketing officer and founder of Grana.ai, will share practical steps and strategic insights on how to move beyond creating something “viable” and instead develop products and companies that are truly lovable.
Participants will leave with actionable tools and a checklist of essentials to help their startup stand out in the market.
Dinner is included.
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Date: Tuesday, September 16
Location: The Hatchery
👉Register here
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New Series Helps Grad Students Build Skills
This fall, Laney Graduate School is launching its inaugural Skills Training Lunch and Learn series, designed to equip students with practical skills that support academic success, research excellence, and professional growth.
The first session focused on high-performance computing (HPC), offers an introduction to parallel computing, HPC clusters, job scheduling, and remote development workflows — no prior experience needed.
Stay tuned for additional workshops on harnessing the power of AI tools, building your personal academic website, and other learning opportunities that expand your toolkit and help you flourish on your graduate journey.
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Date: Friday, September 26
Location: Rollins Room 2052| Lunch Provided
👉Click this link to register by September 19.
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Paid Fellow Job Opportunity : Teaching Assistant Teaching and Training
Laney Graduate School’s Office of Professional Development and Career Planning (PDCP) is accepting applications for one or more Teaching Assistant Teaching and Training (TATTO) fellows to provide administrative and peer mentoring support for TATTO 600, TATTO extension sessions, and future TATTO planning.
Duration: Mid-September to mid-December 2025
Time: Approximately 10 hr/wk
Compensation: $20/hr
Read the full job description
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Ask RCRA Open House
The Office of Research Compliance and Regulatory Affairs (RCRA) will host its monthly "Ask RCRA" community forum to discuss important research compliance information, including regulatory updates and institutional changes in policies and procedures.
Topics of discussion will include NIH disclosure training and Global Engagement Office updates and research partnership.
Time: 12-1 p.m.
When: Tuesday, September 9
👉Register here
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Questions? Participants are encouraged to submit questions to researchcompliance@emory.edu or aaliyah.saran.van.de.cruize@emory.edu before the session.
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Write for Bare Bones STEM website
Interested in science communication? Writing for Bare Bones STEM is a great opportunity to gain experience writing in the sciences for a non-specialist audience and develop your communication skills.
Founded by the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), Bare Bones STEM invites submissions of 500-word stories. Entries may spotlight research conducted at Emory, celebrate the achievements of a successful woman in STEM at Emory, or explore a STEM-related topic of your choice.
Articles will be published online at the end of the 2025 fall Semester. Check out our website to read stories from the previous semesters.
Application deadline: Friday, Sept. 12
First drafts deadline: Monday, Oct. 27
👉 Apply here and check out the other tentative scheduled events.
Questions? Contact Ananya Dash
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LGS Graduate Writing Group – Fall 2025 edition
Join fellow graduate students for focused writing sprints, within a supportive community, that can help you move your writing forward.
Fall meeting time will be determined based on interested parties’ schedules.
Read more and express your interest here.
Questions? Contact Olexandra Kostenko
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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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