Professional Development Resources
The GSAS Dean's Office aims to offer opportunities for students’ professional development as well as provide space to engage with peers and faculty outside of their discipline and cohort.
What is Professional Development at GSAS?
Professional development at Tufts GSAS provides strategic guidance and programming that prepare graduate students to thrive as scholars and emerging professionals. We support research excellence, leadership growth, professional identity formation, and strategic career planning and development. Our goal is to help students translate their graduate training into meaningful, long-term impact across sectors.
Looking for guidance on your next professional step?
Meet with the GSAS Professional Development team for strategic support on career planning, managing graduate workload and work–life balance, summer experiences, alumni connections, and long-term professional growth.
Schedule an appointment with Benny Belvin or Nate Ward.
Nate Ward
Faculty Director for Professional Development
Associate Professor, Psychology
Benny Belvin
Director
Professional Development and Alumni Engagement
Julie DiCarlo
Professional Development Graduate Assistant
PhD Student in Psychology
Graduate Workshop Series
The GSAS Dean’s Office works closely with our campus partners to offer a broad range of professional development workshops to support you. These workshops are designed to help students acquire transferable skills which focus within six domains including inclusive excellence; scholarly expertise, leadership & collaboration; communications skills; career preparation; and personal development.
Some of the workshops planned include cultivating your mentorship network, resume and cover letter and networking skills, creating your professional website, time management, presentation skills, reading and note-taking skills, and so many more.
GSAS Signature Programs
Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT)
The Graduate Institute for Teaching (GIFT) prepares Tufts doctoral students for an academic career in teaching at the university level.
Graduate Research Excellence at Tufts (GREAT)
The Graduate Research Excellence at Tufts (GREAT) program is a summer program that spans two and a half weeks and aims to cultivate outstanding graduate researchers at Tufts.
Other Campus Resources
Career Center
AS&E and SMFA graduate students have access to career development opportunities and resources that will help establish career readiness and prepare students for career success.
Research Competition
The Graduate Student Research Competition (GSRC) supports the research of graduate students by providing funding for certain expenses.
GSAS Canvas Hub
A hub for GSAS student resources including funding and fellowships, career and job search tools, conference and presentation guidance, writing and productivity support, workshops, and more.