{"585542":{"#nid":"585542","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Preparing Physics Graduate Students For Their Future","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETo advance its efforts to improve the introductory physics courses at Georgia Tech, the School of Physics is launching the Physics Education Research (PER) colloquium series, beginning on Jan. 9, 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.physics.umn.edu\/people\/heller.html\u0022\u003EKenneth Heller\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Minnesota, will discuss \u0026ldquo;Preparing Physics Graduate Students for Their Future.\u0026rdquo; He will describe a program that fully integrates teaching assistantship (TA) into physics graduate education.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAccording to Heller, integrating TA into graduate education \u0026ldquo;results in graduate students that are more satisfied with their TA experience, are better prepared to function in research groups, provide a better classroom experience for their undergraduate students, and have the soft skills necessary for employment.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program Heller will describe is applicable to other disciplines.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStudies show that the skills traditionally associated with an academic research program are necessary but not sufficient for employment as it exists now and in their future. Graduate students\u0026nbsp;need education in and practice of\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;soft skills.\u0026quot;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Graduate students need education in and practice of \u0022soft skills.\u0022"}],"uid":"30678","created_gmt":"2017-01-05 14:39:33","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:13:28","author":"A. Maureen Rouhi","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-01-09T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-01-09T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-01-09T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-01-09 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-01-09 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-01-09 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"585510":{"id":"585510","type":"image","title":"Kenneth Heller","body":null,"created":"1483553688","gmt_created":"2017-01-04 18:14:48","changed":"1483553688","gmt_changed":"2017-01-04 18:14:48","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223202","name":"Kenneth.Heller.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kenneth.Heller.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Kenneth.Heller.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":30375,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Kenneth.Heller.jpg?itok=2agnW7h9"}}},"media_ids":["585510"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.cos.gatech.edu\/hg\/item\/585515","title":"Reforming Physics Education"}],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"1275","name":"School of Biological Sciences"},{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"},{"id":"1279","name":"School of Mathematics"},{"id":"126011","name":"School of Physics"},{"id":"443951","name":"School of Psychology"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"173128","name":"Physics Education Research"},{"id":"166937","name":"School of Physics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"10377","name":"Career\/Professional development"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}