UCLA Biosciences BruinLearn Site
A self-directed training site for graduate and postdoctoral trainees.
UCLA Biosciences is launching a self-directed training site! Current offerings are designed for graduate and postdoctoral trainees. Faculty resources will be added at a later date. This BruinLearn site is a new resource that allows Bioscience community members to develop their skills at the moment of need and is designed to be complementary to our in-person workshops. Let us know if you have suggestions for topics to be added!
Current Offerings
Professional Skills & Tools
- Time Management
- Organizing Your Digital Research Data Files
- Artificial Intelligence Primer
Goal Setting
- Defining Success for You
- Individual Development Plan (IDP)
- for Postdocs
- for Graduate Students
- Creating a Personalized Professional Development Plan and Navigating UCLA Professional Development Resources
- Should I Do a Postdoc?
Mentorship & Teaching
- Questions To Ask When Interviewing Potential Postdoc Labs/Mentors
- Choosing a Postdoc Research Advisor
- Mentorship Compacts
How to Access the Site
- Go to https://bruinlearn.ucla.edu/enroll/NMCNRE
- Login with your UCLA login
- Access cool workshops!
Frequently Asked Questions
I can’t access the site. What do I do? Email bruinlearn-support@it.ucla.edu and let them know you need help accessing a BruinLearn collaboration site listed as “UCLA Biosciences”
I have suggestions! Email biosciencephd@mednet.ucla.edu with subject line “UCLA Biosciences BruinLearn Suggestions”
Who has access to this site? Any UCLA community member with access to BruinLearn should have access to this collaboration site. The content is currently designed for graduate students and postdocs in bioscience disciplines but some topics could be useful to other community members.
For some of the workshops I can submit some documents. Who has access to my submission? Will I be getting feedback on anything I submit? Staff from Graduate Programs in Bioscience and Bioscience Postdoctoral Affairs oversee the maintenance of the site and have access to all submissions. Submissions will not be reviewed, nor will feedback be provided. The submission option is for trainee benefit, it gives you the opportunity to save a document on the course site and come back to it at a later date. This is primarily used for the Individual Development Plans (IDPs) as those documents are generally reviewed once a year and can often be lost in a rarely visited computer folder.