Get Your [Professional] Life Together With AI

Transform your administrative workload with intelligent AI assistance. Practical ways to streamline your professional tasks, from email management to research documentation.

Email Management

Tired of drowning in your inbox? AI can help you draft replies, summarize long email chains, and even prioritize messages. Tools like Google’s Gemini and Microsoft’s Copilot are integrated into their respective email clients, making it easy to get started.

• Draft professional and courteous replies to common student inquiries.
• Summarize lengthy email threads to quickly catch up on conversations.
• Organize your inbox by having AI categorize emails for you.

Syllabus & Course Material Creation

Spend less time on paperwork and more time on what matters: teaching. Generative AI can help you create a complete syllabus, generate lecture ideas, and even design engaging in-class activities.

• Generate a course syllabus based on your learning objectives and topics.
• Brainstorm ideas for lectures, presentations, and assignments.
• Create rubrics for grading assignments and projects.

Writing and Communication

Whether you’re writing a letter of recommendation or a grant proposal, AI can help you find the right words. Use it to brainstorm ideas, check your grammar, and even get feedback on your writing style.

• Draft letters of recommendation for students and colleagues.
• Get help writing and editing research papers, grant proposals, and other documents.
• Summarize meetings.
• Summarize articles and research papers to save time.
• Create newsletter content.

Scheduling and Organization

AI-powered tools can help you manage your calendar, schedule meetings, and stay on top of your to-do list. Many of these features are already built into the calendar and productivity apps you use every day.

• Find the best time for a meeting based on everyone’s availability.
• Get reminders for important deadlines and appointments.
• Create a to-do list and have AI help you prioritize tasks.

Research Assistance

Generative AI can be a powerful research assistant. Use it to find relevant articles, summarize research findings, and even get help with data analysis. This can free up valuable time for you to focus on the more creative aspects of your research.

• Get help with literature reviews by having AI find and summarize relevant articles.
• Analyze data and create visualizations to better understand your research.
• Brainstorm ideas for new research projects and collaborations.
• Design surveys.
• Create presentations.

Professional Development

Stay up-to-date in your field with the help of AI. Use it to find and summarize the latest research, get recommendations for conferences and workshops, and even get help preparing for presentations.

• Get personalized recommendations for articles, books, and other resources.
• Find out about upcoming conferences, workshops, and other professional development opportunities.
• Get help creating presentations and other materials for conferences and workshops.

Pro Tip:

Different tools or even the same tool may give different results as the prompts iterate. Try the same prompt in different tools (e.g. Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT). It might be that a synthesis of the outputs will provide the best result.