PhD Progression: Leveraging Badges for Career Readiness in Graduate Education

PhD Progression is an online digital-badge tracking platform and dashboard that allows BU doctoral students to track their development of skills and their achievement of learning goals connected to identified core capacities.

PhD Progression: Leveraging Badges for Career Readiness in Graduate Education Presentation

Sasha Goldman (Moderator), Director of PHD Resources, Professional Development & Postdoctoral Affairs

Sasha B. Goldman is the Director for PhD Resources where she is responsible for overseeing the Core Capacities curriculum, the PhD Progression digital-badging platform for doctoral student professional development, and PhD Writing Support. She is the Co-PI of the NSF 创新s in Graduate Education project which is focused on bringing industry knowledge to the PhD Progression micro-credentials. Sasha develops and coordinates regular programming, workshops, and trainings for current doctoral students in areas of career planning and professional development, project management, writing and communication and teaching. Sasha also produces the Vitamin PhD podcast, a unique resource providing career and professional development advice and resources for doctoral students at BU and beyond.

Andrea Berlin, James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology, Professor of Archaeology and Religion, and Director of Graduate Studies & Admissions, College of Arts & Sciences

Andrea M. Berlin is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology at Boston University. She is an active field archaeologist who has been excavating in the eastern Mediterranean for over forty years, working on projects from Troy in Turkey to Coptos in southern Egypt to Paestum, in Italy. Her specialty is the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great through the Roman era, about which she has written/edited six books and over 70 articles. She is especially interested in studying the realities of daily life, and in exploring the intersection of political and cultural change in antiquity.

Sarah Phillips, Associate Professor of History, College of Arts & Sciences

Sarah T. Phillips, Associate Professor of History, specializes in United States environmental and natural resource policy. She is the author of This Land, This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal, and co-author of The Kitchen Debate and American Consumer Politics. She often serves as the Director of Graduate Studies for the History Department, and teaches courses in graduate methods and research.

Zeba Wunderlich, Associate Professor of Biology, College of Arts & Sciences

Zeba Wunderlich is an associate professor in the Department of Biology, a member of the Biology Design Center, and associate director of the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry (MCBB) graduate program. Her work explores how gene expression programs are encoded in the genome using a combination of imaging, high-throughput sequencing, genetics, and computational approaches. Using Drosophila fruit flies as model organisms, her research seeks to better understand how a gene regulatory network’s tasks influence its architecture, robustness, and evolvability. She currently teaches a professional development class for graduate students in the life sciences.