Communications & Writing
Montana State University-Bozeman modernized STEM graduate education by pinpointing aspects of oral communication training that positively impact students’ abilities to communicate orally to a wide variety of audiences, and increase the public’s understanding of and engagement with science.
Fostering Effective Oral Communication Skills for STEM Graduate Students
Data Science
The SOLution-oriented, STudent-Initiated, Computationally-Enriched (SOLSTICE) approach is a teaching method for improving graduate student training in data intensive fields.
Using a data-intensive, project-based learning approach, graduate students worked collaboratively to design, evaluate, and disseminate research in team environments.
Project Management
Iowa State University established sustainable learning communities of Graduates for Advancing Professional Skills (GAPS) and designed a new framework of training that adapts the project management skills from industry to academic research.
Learning Communities of Graduates for Advancing Professional Skills (GAPS): Integrate Professional Skill Training with Thesis Research