qCMB Supported Activities

The Leadership Certificate consists of a series of 8 workshops that will be offered continuously over the course of four semesters so that qCMB Fellows can complete the series within the fellowship period.

  • Supervision and Delegation
  • Effective Administration
  • Change Management
  • Intercultural Leadership
  • Transformational Leadership

1: Conflict and Communication: Practical Strategies

2: Dealing with Difficult People: How to have tough conversations

3: Team Management: Supervision 101

4: Employee Performance Management: From Good to Great

5: Network Your Way to Success / Negotiate like a Boss

6: Applying Intercultural Competence as a Workplace Management Technique*

7: Project Management: Exploring frameworks for innovation

8: Transformational Leadership: Building Your Mission, Vision, and Values to Lead for Change

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Workshops Developed By:

Rachel Kiemele, the Program Coordinator, Co-Curricular Leadership Development, and qCMB Steering Committee member. Contact Rachel for questions about the Leadership Certificate.

This 3-part workshop series will be offered in the spring. Each workshop will include a Canvas assignment, small group discussions, and an invited speaker.

Workshop A: Study Design

Workshop B: Study Conduct

Workshop C: Transparent Reporting / Replication

Spring 2023:

  • Invited Speaker: Casey Greene, University of Colorado -Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Topic: “Lessons in Research Reproducibility: I’ll Keep on Making New Mistakes”

Spring 2022:

  • Invited Speaker: Tim Errington, Center for Open Science
  • Topic: “Barriers to Replicating Preclinical Cancer Biology Research: Challenges or Opportunities”

Spring 2021

  • Invited Speaker: Leonard Freedman, Founding President of the Global Biological Standards Institute
  • Topic: “Closing the Reproducibility Gap with Standards & Best Practices”

Spring 2020

  • Invited Speakers: Rebecca Bradford and Manzour Hazbon, BEI/ATCC
  • Topic: “Reproducible Resources”

These are monthly meetings that are planned and hosted by qCMB students and advisors, typically featuring invited speakers. The goal of these meetings is to foster new scientific collaborations and support community building.

The annual qCMB/qBio Summer Symposium offers opportunities to connect with the qCMB community, share research, and interact with esteemed guest speakers. There will be a poster competition as well as lightning talks with prizes for the winning presentations. Click here to see the 2024 symposium webpage.

This 3-part workshop series was developed to facilitate more productive writing partnerships. In the first part, students and advisors separately explore the barriers experienced when working together on a shared assignment (such as an abstract, or manuscript for publication). They will then work together over the next few weeks on a short writing assignment where the student writes and the advisor provides feedback. The mentor/mentee pair will then join with the workshop leader, Kristina Quynn, and discuss ways to refine and improve the process. The workshop wraps up with all parties together to reflect and share their experiences. Mentor/mentee pairs are encouraged to complete this workshop early in their mentoring relationship.

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Carol Wilusz

Workshops Developed By:

Kristina Quynn, Founding Director of CSU Writes

Carol Wilusz, Director of the Cell and Molecular Biology graduate program at CSU.