The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) hopes this message reaches you and yours in good health. As we adapt to this new environment, OPA encourages postdocs to stay in contact with your mentor or advisor. As you may know, Zoom and Microsoft Teams are two university supported platforms for remote communication and are a convenient way to maintain connection.
While work in the lab may not be feasible, we hope you will explore other opportunities. There are a host of virtual professional development opportunities in April. It’s also a great time to create or revisit an Individual Development Plan (IDP) with your mentor. As you may recall, an IDP helps postdocs identify both professional development needs and career objectives and serves as an essential communication tool between postdocs and their mentors.
In case you missed it in the DocReport, there are ways you can possibly help with the COVID-19 crisis and the National Postdoctoral Association wants to hear how the virus has affected you as a postdoc.
CU Boulder is continuously updating its information and guidance on COVID-19 for the university community at colorado.edu/coronavirus. The Research & Innovation Office (RIO), where OPA is housed, also maintains a COVID-19 Resources webpage to communicate COVID-19 impacts on specialized activities within the CU Boulder research community. If you have a question that is not answered by the information on either page, please submit it using this form.