Explore Resources

As you navigate your research and the academe, there are a myriad of resources to help you with each step of your journey. From goal setting tools such as Imagine Ph.D. and MYIDP to career development and networking opportunities, all resources are free and accessible to students that are designed to help support you in your development, progression and career outcomes. 

General Resources

  • Center for Career Development

    Center for Career Development

    Princeton’s Center for Career Development assists graduate students in exploring and preparing for their careers. The Center offers one-on-one advising and programs for career development tactics such as self-assessments, networking, internship and job options and more.

  • ImaginePhD

    ImaginePhD

    ImaginePhD is a career exploration and planning tool for Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers and scholars dedicated to the humanities and social sciences. It is a free, online resource that enables you to explore careers by evaluating and reflecting on your own abilities, values and interests that navigates related professional opportunities.

  • LinkedIn Learning

    LinkedIn Learning

    LinkedIn Learning offers more than 5,000 on-demand courses on business, creative and technology skills that is available to you at no additional cost.

  • MyIDP

    MyIDP

    myIDP is a free, career-planning tool that is designed to meet the needs of Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholars in the sciences. This tool helps you define and pursue your career goals with exercises to match your skills, interests and values with a variety of scientific professions.

  • National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

  • Princeton Writing Program

    Princeton Writing Program

    Writing in Graduate School and beyond brings new challenges.  Not only do writers encounter different settings and documents, they must develop sustainable, self-directed, and productive strategies for managing successful research communications, including:

    Understanding new audiences and formats such as proposals, abstracts, dissertations, and journal articles. Obtaining useful feedback on works in progress and incorporating it into revision. Establishing scholarly practices to maintain motivation and focus over months and years.

    Whether you’re looking for a single consultation or sustained classroom instruction, the Writing Program offers a variety of opportunities for...

  • Professional Associations & Organizations for Graduate Students

    Professional Associations & Organizations for Graduate Students

    This list of professional organizations and associations has been compiled by the Princeton University Library--a key resource for Princeton graduate students, and a close partner of GradFUTURES.

Research & Data Analysis

  • Research on the Road

    Research on the Road

    Sharpen your communications skills, apply to be a presenter for Research on the Road, a new initiative between the Graduate School and Alumni Engagement that brings the exciting research conducted by Princeton graduate students out to the wider Princeton alumni community through regional gatherings in cities across the country. Three to five graduates students who are in their third year or above will be selected and coached to present a seven-minute talk about their research in one of three regions in 2020: Greater Philadelphia area, Seattle and Chicago. All travel will be fully-funded.

    Apply here by January 1, 2020

Leadership & Collaboration

  • Keller Center

    Keller Center

    The Keller Center focuses on bridging technology and society through innovation, design, and entrepreneurship. The Center provides a broad range of interdisciplinary courses, co-curricular activities, workshops, and lecture series aimed at educating leaders for a technology-driven society.

    Keller Center Fellows in Innovation, Design, and Entrepreneurship serve as key advocates and supporters of the Keller Center's role while honing their skills as leaders and entrepreneurs. Graduate and undergraduate students selected as fellows serve for terms of one academic year. The fellows are invited to special events and functions hosted by the Center and are eligible to apply for special...

  • National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

  • Princeton Entrepreneurship Council

    Princeton Entrepreneurship Council

    The Council offers mentorship, networking and funding opportunities in the startup or entrepreneurial space. Graduate students are encouraged to take advantage of the many resources available. 

  • Princeton Innovation Center | Biolabs

    Princeton Innovation Center | Biolabs

    Princeton Innovation Center, powered by BioLabs, provides co-working lab and office space specifically designed to help high-potential high-tech startups go further and faster on limited investment capital. The Center is available to companies formed by Princeton’s faculty, students and alumni, as well as by members of the wider New Jersey community.

Teaching & Mentoring

  • Collaborative Teaching Initiative in the Humanities

    Collaborative Teaching Initiative in the Humanities

    Graduate students in the humanities who have successfully completed their general examination and who have already demonstrated excellence in teaching as an AI in a previous semester may apply to participate in a pilot initiative that allows them to co-design and co-teach an undergraduate course at Princeton with a faculty mentor. The aim of this initiative is twofold:  first, to facilitate graduate student intellectual development and pedagogical and professional experience under the guidance of a seasoned mentor, specifically through the design and full co-teaching of a course; and second, to provide innovative new team-taught classes for Princeton’s undergraduates.

  • Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP)

    Princeton University Preparatory Program (PUPP)

    PUPP is a comprehensive academic and cultural enrichment program for high-achieving, low-income high school students from Ewing, Lawrence, Nottingham, Princeton and Trenton High Schools. PUPP works with high school scholars beginning the summer after their 9th-grade year and continuing through high school graduation. The program's goal is to prepare students for success at selective colleges and universities.  Fellows serve as mentors and lead weekly academic enrichment sessions on critical reading, writing and thinking skills for 6 to 12 high school juniors and seniors.

  • Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI)

    Prison Teaching Initiative (PTI)

    PTI provides credit-bearing college courses to inmates at New Jersey correctional facilities near Princeton’s campus. Courses in several disciplines are taught by volunteer instructors, including Princeton faculty, staff, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, alumni, and advanced undergraduates.  Graduate student volunteers have the opportunity to teach their own courses in a nontraditional, meaningful setting through this initiative. 

  • ReMatch

    ReMatch

    ReMatch is a research mentoring program designed to connect undergraduate students and graduate students, two historically unconnected populations at Princeton, through their shared interest in academic research. ReMatch offers fellowship funding for mentorship connections and joint research projects. The graduate student mentors come from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering, representing research opportunities of interest to a wide spectrum of undergraduates.

  • Resident Graduate Student Program

    Resident Graduate Student Program

    Each of the undergraduate residential colleges at Princeton includes up to ten graduate students who live among the undergraduates within the college and offer academic, intellectual, social, and cultural programming and support to those undergraduates. Residents graduate students (RGSs) are appointed each spring through an interview process managed by the Office of the Dean of the College.

  • Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP)

    Scholars Institute Fellows Program (SIFP)

    SIFP offers mentorship, academic enrichment, and a welcoming scholarly community to undergraduate students from backgrounds historically underrepresented at Princeton, including first-generation and low-income students as well as military veterans and transfer students.  Graduate Fellows provide individualized mentorship to an undergraduate student leader, as well as co-facilitate monthly mentorship meetings with 10-12 undergraduate students.

  • The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

    The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning

    The McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning offers extensive programs and services geared toward developing graduate students as professional scholars and teachers.  These programs can assist graduate students both in meeting degree requirements and in acquiring skills needed for careers in teaching.

    Programs include: Assistant in Instruction Training, Pedagogy and Professional Development Workshops, and McGraw Teaching Seminar: Scholarly Approaches to Teaching

Written & Verbal Communication

  • GradSpeak

    GradSpeak

    GradSpeak is a workshop offered monthly to enhance graduate student's public speaking skills where practice is encouraged and feedback is given in a constructive supportive environment. Each session will have an inpromptu topic (e.g. your research in a nutshell, someone who inspires you) and a focus on a technical skill such as diction or eye contact with the audience. Co-sponsored by The Graduate School, and PrincetonWrites.

  • Graduate Writing Days 

    Graduate Writing Days 

    Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Graduate School and the Graduate Student Government, Graduate Writing Days offer graduate students of all years of study a quiet, comfortable place to write with good food and lots of caffeine. Pre or post-generals graduate students are welcome to work on a dissertation chapter, conference paper, journal article, seminar presentation, chapter, or grant application during Graduate Writing Days.

  • Princeton Research Day

    Princeton Research Day

    Princeton Research Day (PRD) is a one-day celebration of the research enterprise across generations of scholars and researchers at Princeton.  It is sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the College, Office of the Dean of the Graduate School, Office of the Dean of the Faculty and Office of the Dean of Research. Undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs may apply to present their research in various formats to the campus community.  The event promotes Princeton’s commitment to scholarship, innovation, and research and provides a venue for professional development. There are additional opportunities to volunteer to chair or judge a session.  This year’s event will take place on May...

  • Research on the Road

    Research on the Road

    Sharpen your communications skills, apply to be a presenter for Research on the Road, a new initiative between the Graduate School and Alumni Engagement that brings the exciting research conducted by Princeton graduate students out to the wider Princeton alumni community through regional gatherings in cities across the country. Three to five graduates students who are in their third year or above will be selected and coached to present a seven-minute talk about their research in one of three regions in 2020: Greater Philadelphia area, Seattle and Chicago. All travel will be fully-funded.

    Apply here by January 1, 2020

  • Speak with Style

    Speak with Style

    Speak with Style (SwS) is a group dedicated to exploring the art and science of effective communication. SwS aims to provide a medium for people to share their strategies in speaking with more confidence, and avails itself as a resource and platform for students to polish and perfect their presentation, pitching, and social communication skills. To learn more about joining this group please email sws.princeton@gmail.com.

Career Management

  • Center for Career Development

    Center for Career Development

    Princeton’s Center for Career Development assists graduate students in exploring and preparing for their careers. The Center offers one-on-one advising and programs for career development tactics such as self-assessments, networking, internship and job options and more.

  • National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!

Personal Well-Being & Effectiveness

  • National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity

    The National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity is an independent professional development, training, and mentoring community that supports and enriches you to be successful in the academe and beyond. We have an institutional membership: claim your account today!