IAP 2015 Activities by Sponsor - Graduate Student Council

Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communications Librarian

Jan/16

Fri

02:30PM-03:30PM

3-270

Enrollment: Go to http://signup.mit.edu/publishing to register.
Sign-up by 01/16
Limited to 90 participants

Looking for job opportunities beyond academia or industry? In the first of a series of Graduate Student Council-sponsored talks on alternative careers, panelists will discuss their publishing jobs and how your degree in science or engineering could be an asset an editor, writer, content producer, or publishing manager.

The session will address what journal and book editors do, the difference between scholarly publishing and journalism, science writing for technical and lay audiences, the skills you need to succeed, and how to find jobs. 

Our panelists include:

• Ada Brunstein, executive editor and acquisitions group leader at Oxford University Press, who previously worked as an editor in brain sciences, computer science, and linguistics at the Cambridge University Press, MIT Press, and Blackwell Publishing;
  
  
• Jennifer Griffiths, editorial development manager for North America at the Royal Society of Chemistry, who has a PhD in biological chemistry and previously worked at the American Chemical Society;
  
  
• Wade Roush, acting director of Knight Science Journalism at MIT, who has a PhD from MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society and spent 20 years as a reporter, writer, and editor.

 

Refreshments will be served.

Go to http://signup.mit.edu/publishing to register.

Sponsor(s): Graduate Student Council, Libraries
Contact: Katharine Dunn, 14E-210, 617 253-9879, KHDUNN@MIT.EDU