About GradConnections Weekly:

GradConnections Weekly is a newsletter prepared by the Graduate School Office of Professional Development and Communications. It includes upcoming events, deadlines, announcements, professional development opportunities, wellness/mental health resources, funding opportunities, and the Pet of the Week feature, all targeted to graduate students. It goes out every Tuesday during the academic year and every other Tuesday during the summer.

Who gets GradConnections Weekly:

• Enrolled graduate students (in on-campus programs)
  • Note: Enrolled student lists are updated at the beginning of each fall and spring semester for the first ~3 weeks of the term
• Subscribers
  • To subscribe to GradConnections Weekly, faculty and staff can fill out the GradConnections email preferences form. Check the "GradConnections Weekly Newsletter" box to subscribe.
• Graduate School staff

An unsubscribe link is included in the footer of each email. On the email preferences page, uncheck the "GradConnections Weekly Newsletter" box to unsubscribe.

How to submit content for GradConnections Weekly:

GradConnections Weekly serves current graduate students in both master’s and doctoral programs across all disciplines and academic departments served by the Graduate School. As such, content submissions for the newsletter should be relevant to a wide variety of graduate students. Events and other listings are included at the newsletter editors' discretion.

Submit an event

To have an event included in GradConnections Weekly, add it to the graduate student events calendar using these instructions:

1. Create an event on today.wisc.edu (in the top right, click Submit an Event to begin). Or, if you already created an event, proceed to the next step and edit your event accordingly.
2. The first required tag is “GSPD” (it stands for Graduate Student Professional Development). This pulls the event into our Graduate School calendar.
3. The second required tag should come from the following list corresponding to the facets of professional development in DiscoverPD. This adds the tag to the DiscoverPD database. Enter the tag(s) that best describe the aspect of professional development the event addresses.
   1. Inquiry, discovery, and creation
   2. Disciplinary expertise and interdisciplinary connections
   3. Leadership
   4. Career development
   5. Managing projects and people
   6. Communication
   7. Inclusion and diversity
   8. Personal and interpersonal effectiveness
4. Optionally, if relevant, you may use the tags “teaching” and/or “outreach” that will add another filter criteria in the Graduate School events calendar and DiscoverPD.

Once the event appears (or updates with the added tags) in today.wisc.edu with both required tags mentioned above, it will automatically appear in the Grad events calendar and in the DiscoverPD database.
 
The Graduate School uses those calendar listings to include events GradConnections Weekly, so once your event is in the calendar and tagged GSPD, it will be included in the newsletter issue before it takes place. If you want to ensure it is included, you can also email gspd@grad.wisc.edu and include the link to your calendar event.

Submit a funding opportunity or award nomination

Send submissions to gspd@grad.wisc.edu for consideration as soon as applications are open. Please provide a brief summary of your submission including a link to a web page or calendar listing with more information. You can also submit your information in advance of the application open date and ask for it to run on a specific date once applications have opened.

Other submissions

Email gspd@grad.wisc.edu with other content for the newsletter. Please include a link to a web page or calendar listing with more information. The GradConnections Weekly editors will use their discretion as to whether, when, and how to include your item.