Professional Development

Many opportunities are available on and off campus to supplement your formal education with an eye toward broadening your experience and strengthening your credentials.

Selected organizations that provide opportunities for environmental studies students are listed below. Some are more discipline-focused but touch on areas that interest environmental studies students; others are directed more at interdisciplinary environmental studies; still others provide general opportunities open to anyone.

The postings are categorized as follows:

• Campus Opportunities
• National Organizations
• International Organizations

Campus Opportunities

• Center for Biology Education
• Center for the Humanities
• The DELTA program
• Graduate School
  
  • Graduate Student Collaborative
  • Graduate Student Professional Development
  • Graduate Student Professional Development Programs, Awards, & Workshops
• Departments and Majors - many departments and majors on campus have their own professional development groups or organizations (i.e. Geography Student Groups)
• Morgridge Center for Public Service
• Natural History Museums Council - for information contact Professor Dan Young
• Office of Human Resources
• Professional Development and Applied Studies in the Division of Continuing Studies
• Teaching Academy
• Training for Teaching Assistants
  
  
  • College of Engineering Learning Center
  • Graduate Student Professional Development - Teaching
  • Letters and Sciences TA Resources
• Undergraduate Advising Toolkit - Career Advising and Counseling - a listing of all of the campus career resources for undergraduate students
• Wisconsin Ecology formerly the Madison Ecology Group (MEG)
• Wisconsin Entrepreneurial Bootcamp
• The Writing Center

National Organziations

• American Society of Agronomy
• Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences
• Crop Science Society of America
• Ecological Society of America
• Environmental Education in Wisconsin
• National Environmental Education Week
• National Institutes of Health - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Soil Science Society of America

International Organziations

• Eldis
• Georgetown Environmental Law & Policy Institute (GELPI)
• Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• North American Association For Environmental Education
• People and Wildlife
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Student Conservation Association
• Society for Ecological Restoration
• The Wildlife Society