Grad Success is offering a Winterim professional development for graduate students and postdocs, Improv-ing Your Communication Skills: Using Games to Build Research Communication Skills. Registration is open on a first-come, first-served basis (25 spots available), and location will be provided to selected applicants.

New to improv? Learn more about the benefits of improv training and join us to:

• Feel more confident and comfortable responding to questions
• Practice communicating your research and the significance of your work to broad audiences
• Use your improv theatre stills to engage and build connection
• Meet other graduate students in a fast paced and fun learning environment

Date: Thursday, Jan. 12 (9 a.m.–3 p.m., lunch provided) & Friday, Jan. 13 (9 a.m.–noon)

Instructors: Dr. Lisa Kelly, Associate Artistic Director of Theater Cedar Rapids and Assistant Director of Student Success & Development; Kristen Hartsgrove Mooers, Lecturer, Theater Arts; and Dr Samuel Tanner, Associate Professor, College of Education.

Students can contact grad-success@uiowa.edu with questions or to discuss accommodations.